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weedily

weedily adverb: in a weedy manner; feebly.

Adverb

weedily (comparative more weedily, superlative most weedily)

  1. In a weedy manner; feebly.
    • Or to put it another way: could a song end your life? Could just one number, performed weedily by Keira Knightley at the beginning of this romcom, cause your body to self-combust at the prospect of enduring 90-odd minutes of a movie obsessed with authenticity but as phoney as a Miley Cyrus dance...2013 September 9, Paul MacInnes, “Can a Song Save Your Life?”, in The Guardian
  2. In a weedy state; full of weeds.
    • The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]1873, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 46, page 562

Forms of weedily

comparativemore weedily
superlativemost weedily

Origin of weedily

From weedy + -ly.

Questions about weedily

What does weedily mean?
Weedily means in a weedy manner; feebly.
What part of speech is weedily?
Weedily is an adverb.

Words near weedily in the dictionary

  1. weedhooks
  2. weedicide
  3. weedicides
  4. weedier
  5. weediest
  6. weedily
  7. weediness
  8. weeding
  9. weeding out
  10. weedings
  11. weediquette

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