"serpently" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From serpent + -ly.",
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      "form": "more serpently",
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      "form": "most serpently",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2005, Trudy Dittmar, Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky: Brushes with Nature's Wisdom, page 103:",
          "text": "[…] the having of “boyfriends” was a kind of protective self-aggrandizement, a little like the trick of the puff adder, bloating itself almost double to blind you to the serpently disgrace of its vulnerable venomlessness.",
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        "snakelike"
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          "snakelike",
          "snakelike"
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        "(rare) snakelike"
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        "rare"
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  "word": "serpently"
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    {
      "form": "more serpently",
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      "form": "most serpently",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "snakelike"
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        "(rare) snakelike"
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