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dustily

dustily adverb: in a dusty way.

Adverb

dustily (comparative more dustily, superlative most dustily)

  1. In a dusty way.
    • He switched on, put the groaning vehicle into gear, turned it round skilfully and sped dustily townwards.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 600
    • 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.2008 February 27, Cathy Horyn, “Not Everyone Spins Their Wheels”, in New York Times

Forms of dustily

comparativemore dustily
superlativemost dustily

Origin of dustily

From dusty + -ly.

Questions about dustily

What does dustily mean?
Dustily means in a dusty way.
What part of speech is dustily?
Dustily is an adverb.

Words near dustily in the dictionary

  1. dustifications
  2. dustified
  3. dustifies
  4. dustify
  5. dustifying
  6. dustily
  7. Dustin
  8. Dustin Acres
  9. dustin'
  10. dustiness
  11. dusting

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