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diesely

diesely adjective: characteristic of dieseling.

Adjective

diesely (comparative more diesely, superlative most diesely)

  1. Characteristic of dieseling.
    • As the car drew closer the sound of the engine became a deep diesely rumble and I realised that it wasn't a car at all – it was a truck.2007, Mardi McConnochie, Melissa, Queen of Evil, →ISBN
    • He throttles down, and the engines' roar quiets to a diesely growl.2010, Carl Safina, Song for the Blue Ocean, →ISBN
  2. Pertaining to, typical of, or filled with diesel fuel.
    • My apartment, and the garden, are just a block away from the busy intersection of Bathurst and Dupont, with its diesely bus lanes and truck traffic, but, barring an emergency-vehicle siren or an atypical outbreak of energy from the body-shop workers across the alley, the garden is calm, even...1999, Mark Kingwell, Marginalia: A Cultural Reader, →ISBN, page 32
    • Let me tell you, under twenty feet of diesely mud-water, the flowing robes of the Order of St. Benedict don't flow — and rosaries on a belt can get tangled up to beat hell in corkscrewy windscreen wipers.2004, Sonny Brewer, Stories from the Blue Moon Café III, →ISBN, page 16

Examples of diesely in a sentence

  • Yes, it sounds a bit coarse and diesely when you fire it up, but thereafter, it's sewing-machine smooth, nicely zingy and almost unbelievably economical.2011, Jeremy Clarkson, Round the Bend, →ISBN:
  • Coll swung his big leather bag onto the diesely floor beside the driver's seat.2015, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, →ISBN, page 141:
  • It feels and smells dankish and diesely.2015, Winona Kent, Cold Play, →ISBN:

Forms of diesely

comparativemore diesely
superlativemost diesely

Origin of diesely

From diesel + -y.

Questions about diesely

What does diesely mean?
Diesely means characteristic of dieseling.
How do you use diesely in a sentence?
Yes, it sounds a bit coarse and diesely when you fire it up, but thereafter, it's sewing-machine smooth, nicely zingy and almost unbelievably economical.
What part of speech is diesely?
Diesely is an adjective.

Words near diesely in the dictionary

  1. dieselizing
  2. dieselled
  3. dieselling
  4. dieselpunk
  5. diesels
  6. diesely
  7. dieses
  8. diesinker
  9. diesinkers
  10. diesinking
  11. diesis

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