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rustfully

rustfully adverb: in a rustful manner.

Adverb

rustfully (comparative more rustfully, superlative most rustfully)

  1. In a rustful manner.
    • Her sister, the Nevada, is reposing “rustfully” in the Alexandra Dock, Liverpool.1893, The Japan Daily Mail - Volume 20, page 533
    • Load bearing Chrome butterflies that wreathe rustfully around my breast.2013 Authumn, A Vickery, “Roadside; Contagious feeling”, in Island, number 132

Forms of rustfully

comparativemore rustfully
superlativemost rustfully

Origin of rustfully

From rustful + -ly.

Questions about rustfully

What does rustfully mean?
Rustfully means in a rustful manner.
What part of speech is rustfully?
Rustfully is an adverb.

Words near rustfully in the dictionary

  1. rusted out
  2. rusted through
  3. rusted-out
  4. rustenburgite
  5. rustful
  6. rustfully
  7. rustgill
  8. rustgills
  9. Rusthall
  10. rustic
  11. rustic bunting

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