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dustily

adv

Etymology

From dusty + -ly.

  1. inherited from dūstiġ
  2. inherited from dusty
  3. suffixed as dustily — “dusty + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a dusty way.

    • He switched on, put the groaning vehicle into gear, turned it round skilfully and sped dustily townwards.
    • But some of the gathered skirts, with an extra tire of fabric around the middle, looked dustily Yamamoto, with pious allusions to women in bonnets and rustic stoles.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA