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glintily

glintily adverb: in a glinty manner.

Adverb

glintily (comparative more glintily, superlative most glintily)

  1. In a glinty manner.
    • The flowers, their roots glintily netted with spider-webs, nodded serenely over his long hands.1921, Walter de la Mare, chapter 26, in Memoirs of a Midget, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, “Wanderslore” section, page 175
    • In fact, Angela Lansbury’s bawdy, chattering, equivocal Granny—a super opportunity glintily grasped—is as likely to entertain young Rosaleen […]1984 September 21, John Coleman, “Films”, in New Statesman, volume 108, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 3

Forms of glintily

comparativemore glintily
superlativemost glintily

Origin of glintily

From glinty + -ly.

Questions about glintily

What does glintily mean?
Glintily means in a glinty manner.
What part of speech is glintily?
Glintily is an adverb.

Words near glintily in the dictionary

  1. glint in the milkman's eye
  2. glinted
  3. glinteth
  4. glintier
  5. glintiest
  6. glintily
  7. glinting
  8. glintingly
  9. glintings
  10. Glinton
  11. glints

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