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souly

US/ˈsoʊl.i/

souly adjective: soulful; characteristic of soul music.

Adjective

souly (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Soulful; characteristic of soul music.
    • He's bending over givin' it hell, singing souly music, dig, but he can't break that thing, man, because he ain't equipped.1997, Robert Stone, A Hall of Mirrors, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 190
    • To my liking however, the souly parts seemed artificial, the citation of the African-American musical style sounded rather forced and arty, because it diverted from the main message of […]1999, E. Breitinger, “Heroes of South African History as Operatic Heroes”, in South African Theatre Journal, Taylor & Francis

Examples of souly in a sentence

  • Larkin continued: “The band is sparked off by a Fender bass and plenty of souly Lat-Am percussion, and has jetting spirited trumpet and matching saxes.2009 November 11, Mike Evans, Ray Charles: Birth of Soul, Omnibus Press, →ISBN:
  • We had a kind of music going on that no-one else was doing, … and put together a few sort of souly riffs and this, that and the […]2013, A Jones, G Martin, “A psychedelic band who could" create fucking havoc", fronted by a bovver boy in a kaftan...”, in Uncut:
  • […] in Greenwich Connecticut, to present to us an afternoon of "souly" spiritual music!1976, Harīśa Trivedī, Uttarākhaṇḍa prakr̥ti thī prabhu --:

Words that rhyme with souly

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Questions about souly

What does souly mean?
Souly means soulful; characteristic of soul music.
How do you use souly in a sentence?
Larkin continued: “The band is sparked off by a Fender bass and plenty of souly Lat-Am percussion, and has jetting spirited trumpet and matching saxes.
What part of speech is souly?
Souly is an adjective.
How do you pronounce souly?
Souly is pronounced /ˈsoʊl.i/ (US).

Words near souly in the dictionary

  1. soulular
  2. soulward
  3. soulwinner
  4. soulwinners
  5. soulwinning
  6. souly
  7. soum
  8. soumac
  9. Soumagne's owl
  10. soumak
  11. soumakh

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