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arrowily

arrowily adverb: in an arrowy manner; like an arrow.

Adverb

arrowily (comparative more arrowily, superlative most arrowily)

  1. In an arrowy manner; like an arrow.
    • Now how all too often is the sermon huddled up without any attempt to individualize or to send arrowily home to each hearer what has been spoken.1897, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Representative Nonconformists, page 159
    • But now, he would have love in his own way, haughtily, passionately, and darkly, with dark, arrowy desire, and a strange, arrowily-submissive woman.1924, D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush

Forms of arrowily

comparativemore arrowily
superlativemost arrowily

Origin of arrowily

From arrowy + -ly.

Questions about arrowily

What does arrowily mean?
Arrowily means in an arrowy manner; like an arrow.
What part of speech is arrowily?
Arrowily is an adverb.

Words near arrowily in the dictionary

  1. arrowgrasses
  2. arrowhead
  3. arrowheaded
  4. arrowheads
  5. Arrowian
  6. arrowily
  7. arrowing
  8. arrowleaf
  9. arrowleaf groundsel
  10. arrowless
  11. arrowlessness

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