coaxingly; by hook or by crook; carefully nursing along
Describes doing something while repeatedly coaxing, tricking, or carefully managing a difficult situation, person, or object to keep it going. Often used with verbs like 使う, 動かす, 走らせる, 説得する.
I'm nursing my old car along, coaxing it to keep running.
He coaxed and cajoled his boss into approving the budget.
Kanji spelling; less frequent than kana.
Reduplication of the continuative form (連用形) of the verb だます (to deceive, to trick), literally 'deceiving-deceiving', used adverbially to mean 'while repeatedly coaxing or tricking'.