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spryly

spryly adverb: in a spry manner.

Adverb

spryly (comparative more spryly, superlative most spryly)

  1. In a spry manner.
    • But now an express had rolled up and the old man was disappearing quite spryly inside one of its doors.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 579

Forms of spryly

comparativemore spryly
superlativemost spryly

Origin of spryly

From spry + -ly.

Questions about spryly

What does spryly mean?
Spryly means in a spry manner.
What part of speech is spryly?
Spryly is an adverb.

Words near spryly in the dictionary

  1. sprunts
  2. sprunts up
  3. spry
  4. spryer
  5. spryest
  6. spryly
  7. spryness
  8. Sprys
  9. spryte
  10. sprytes
  11. SPS

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