fleetingly


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fleet·ing

 (flē′tĭng)
adj.
Passing quickly; ephemeral: a fleeting glimpse; a fleeting interest in the campaign.

fleet′ing·ly adv.
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Translations

fleetingly

[ˈfliːtɪŋlɪ] ADV [smile, see, think, recall] → fugazmente
he wondered fleetingly if she knewse preguntó por un instante si ella lo sabía
the joy they shared so fleetinglyesa alegría tan efímera que compartieron
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fleetingly

[ˈfliːtɪŋli] adv (= briefly) → fugitivement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

fleetingly

adv wonder, smile, think, seeflüchtig; visibleganz kurz; they were fleetingly heresie waren ganz kurz hier
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fleetingly

[ˈfliːtɪŋlɪ] advfugacemente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
He remembered, too, that he had not protested against the expression "of notorious behaviour." All this passed vaguely and fleetingly through his brain, but looking at her more intently, he saw that the humiliated creature was so humiliated that he felt suddenly sorry for her.
A BBC producer signals a fivesecond countdown and we are away - to a community so richly populated with characters that at times over the following two hours you might fleetingly (only fleetingly, mind) see the appeal of a dormitory estate occupied by commuter clones.
I held on to you, Fleetingly it all came back of a rush.
Midway through "Things to Come," Isabelle Huppert's protagonist has a disconcerting encounter in a cinema, distracting her from Juliette Binoche's own on-screen emotional uncertainty in Abbas Kiarostami's 2010 jewel, "Certified Copy." It's a cheeky move to so fleetingly cameo that level of perfection in one's own work, but Mia Hansen-Love's fifth --and possibly best--feature pulls it off with warmth and grace to spare.
These are ads that never appear on a consumer's screen, or show up too fleetingly to register, but advertisers still pay for them.
He has played fleetingly in the Premier League before loan spells at Carlisle United, St Mirren, Fleetwood, Hartlepool and Gateshead.
All six will reemerge, alongside thirty-two studies from 1961-62 and with the benefit of some conservation magic: The Harvard Art Museums and MIT Media Lab developed software that creates "compensation images" for projection over the canvases to virtually (and fleetingly) restore their original color.
LETTER FROM THE PAST encompass (albeit fleetingly) another struggling club?
I knew him intimately but fleetingly. I understood from the outset how lucky I was to have landed the project, yet I never got over the sheer oddity of spending time in his presence.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "This image was shown fleetingly within a comedy promotional video for Barbershopera, a humorous barbershop group, who were appearing later on in the programme.
Molly wonders, fleetingly, if her mother suspects about her secret mermaid life?