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brushingly

brushingly adverb: with a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.

Adverb

brushingly (not comparable)

  1. With a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.
    • His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance.1958, The Bedside "Guardian"

Origin of brushingly

From brushing + -ly.

Questions about brushingly

What does brushingly mean?
Brushingly means with a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.
What part of speech is brushingly?
Brushingly is an adverb.

Words near brushingly in the dictionary

  1. brushing past
  2. brushing something under the carpet
  3. brushing something under the rug
  4. brushing up
  5. brushing up to
  6. brushingly
  7. brushings
  8. brushite
  9. brushland
  10. brushland tinamou
  11. brushland tinamous

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