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leggily

leggily adverb: in a leggy manner.

Adverb

leggily (comparative more leggily, superlative most leggily)

  1. In a leggy manner.
    • MAYBE, just maybe, if Carrie Bradshaw, the dynamo at the center of the phenomenally successful television series “Sex and the City,” were still in her 20s and just starting her ascent into New York life in 2008, maybe, just maybe, she would be like Julia Allison, who this evening is sitting leggily...2008 March 30, Leslie Kaufman, “Channeling Carrie”, in New York Times

Forms of leggily

comparativemore leggily
superlativemost leggily

Origin of leggily

From leggy + -ly.

Questions about leggily

What does leggily mean?
Leggily means in a leggy manner.
What part of speech is leggily?
Leggily is an adverb.

Words near leggily in the dictionary

  1. leggie
  2. leggier
  3. leggiero
  4. leggies
  5. leggiest
  6. leggily
  7. leggin
  8. leggined
  9. legginess
  10. legging
  11. legging around

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