miserlily
miserlily adverb: in a miserly manner.
Adverb
miserlily (comparative more miserlily, superlative most miserlily)
- In a miserly manner.
- I would be seated so cozily by your side, with Molly (kiss her for me, won’t you ?) on my knee, while we would chat, and laugh, and miserlily count over our hoards of pleasant memories.1851, Gregory Seaworthy [pseudonym; George H. Throop], “The Fishery”, in Bertie: or, Life in the Old Field. A Humorous Novel., Philadelphia, Pa.: A. Hart, late Carey and Hart, page 86
- At Leigh. Alone with them. Angel in France. It rained most of the time. It bores me terribly, being with them. The absolute empty dryness of such an existence. We seize on the little felicities – M’s cooking, F’s sporadic culture and old man’s endearingness. But the deadness at the heart of things....1961 April 1–3, John Fowles, “Childlessness”, in Charles Drazin, editor, The Journals, volumes I (1949–1965), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 2005, →ISBN, page 459
Examples of miserlily in a sentence
- They shuffle through life now, subsisting mainly on television and gossip; gossip gone over and over again, miserlily.1961 April 1–3, John Fowles, “Childlessness”, in Charles Drazin, editor, The Journals, volumes I (1949–1965), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A....
- We serve but miserlily our environment nowadays, and the whole country goes on like that.1962, Joges Chandra Ghose, Whither Bound are We?, Satya Charan Sarkar, page 318:
- They were short, incisive, novel contributions to learning, and, when graduate students began having to buy them, he became moderately and miserlily wealthy.1968, Howard C[harles] Brashers, “Character and Characterization: II”, in Creative Writing: Fiction, Drama, Poetry and the Essay, D. Van...
- It was her fault (he had an itch now too) for the godawful diet she was miserlily insisting on; but she laughed and said he should learn to see the funny side of things.1990, Tim Parks, Juggling the Stars, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1993, page 89:
Forms of miserlily
| comparative | more miserlily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most miserlily |
Origin of miserlily
From miserly + -ly.
Questions about miserlily
- What does miserlily mean?
- Miserlily means in a miserly manner.
- How do you use miserlily in a sentence?
- They shuffle through life now, subsisting mainly on television and gossip; gossip gone over and over again, miserlily.
- What part of speech is miserlily?
- Miserlily is an adverb.
Words near miserlily in the dictionary
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