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rawly

rawly adverb: in a raw manner.

Adverb

rawly (comparative more rawly, superlative most rawly)

  1. In a raw manner.
    • She was pretty and her low-cut baju showed a delicious expanse of warm milky-brown neck. The boys teased her, guffawing rawly.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 443
    • Noche Flamenca, which returned to Theater 80 in the East Village last week for its summer season, does a pretty good job of all this even if its new program, “Aldaba,” is heavily weighted toward the rawly emotional side of flamenco, with mixed results.2007 June 9, Roslyn Sulcas, “Spanish Guitars, Fast Footwork, Everything but the Cafe”, in New York Times

Forms of rawly

comparativemore rawly
superlativemost rawly

Origin of rawly

From raw + -ly.

Questions about rawly

What does rawly mean?
Rawly means in a raw manner.
What part of speech is rawly?
Rawly is an adverb.

Words near rawly in the dictionary

  1. Rawls
  2. Rawlses
  3. Rawlsian
  4. Rawlsianism
  5. Rawlsians
  6. rawly
  7. Rawmarsh
  8. rawmix
  9. rawness
  10. rawnesses
  11. rawnie

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