shapelily
shapelily adverb: in a shapely manner.
Adverb
shapelily (comparative more shapelily, superlative most shapelily)
- In a shapely manner.
- […]in 1593, Sir Hugh Platt, of Lincolne’s Inne, Gentleman, produced his “Dyvers Soyles for manuring Pasture and Arable Land;” in 1594, his “Jewel-house of Art and Nature, containing divers rare and profitable Instructions, together with sundry new Experiments in the Art of Husbandry, distillation...1594?, preface; quoted in “Garden Literature”, in The Bookseller: A Handbook of British and Foreign Literature, with Which Is Incorporated Bent’s Literary Advertiser, Established in the Year 1802...
- Ulysses meets in the mansion of Hades, not Hercules, who has been promoted to Olympus, and to “Hebe shapelily ankled,” but a phantom exactly resembling him.1861 December 14, “Buti’s Commentary on Dante”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 320, number 12, London, page 614
Examples of shapelily in a sentence
- The stump-rooted carrots carrots must be grown, and an intermediate (half-long) parsnip; but a long beetroot will grow shapelily, the roots of this vegetable growing upwards as well as downwards.1920 December 18, “Our Garden Circle. Allotment and Kitchen Gardens. Preparing the Plot.”, in The Hamilton Advertiser, 65th year, number...
- The beet of medium length (an intermediate variety) will grow shapelily in shallowly-dug or stony ground.1925 April 15, “Food Paragraphs”, in Derby Daily Telegraph, volume LXXV, number 14,153, page 6:
- She was dressed, for he had never made any attempt to Westernize her, in a short blue silk jacket that fell shapelily over a gold and scarlet sinn;1928, Alec Waugh, The Last Chukka: Stories of East and West, page 278:
- Do not plant the bulbs of the onion family so that they are covered with more than an inch of soil, or the bulbs will not grow shapelily.1944 March 24, “In Your Garden: Odd Onions”, in The Lichfield Mercury, volume 76, number 5619, page 8:
Forms of shapelily
| comparative | more shapelily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most shapelily |
Origin of shapelily
From shapely + -ly.
Questions about shapelily
- What does shapelily mean?
- Shapelily means in a shapely manner.
- How do you use shapelily in a sentence?
- The stump-rooted carrots carrots must be grown, and an intermediate (half-long) parsnip; but a long beetroot will grow shapelily, the roots of this vegetable growing upwards as well as downwards.
- What part of speech is shapelily?
- Shapelily is an adverb.
Words near shapelily in the dictionary
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