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yellowly

yellowly adverb: in a yellow manner; with yellow colour.

Adverb

yellowly (comparative more yellowly, superlative most yellowly)

  1. In a yellow manner; with yellow colour.
    • After rice appeared the much-dreaded pie, glaring yellowly, with its coarse pretentious outside—prototype of many a living humbug—veiling one knows not what of false and vile.1864, Henry T. Spicer, “Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy: Another Past Lodger Relates What Lot He Drew at Glumper House”, in All the Year Round, Extra Christmas Number, 1 December, 1864, Part 4, p. 28
    • The light of the bicycle lamp sheered yellowly across the dark, catching a glint of raindrops, a mist of darkness, shadow of leaves and strokes of long grass.1930, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Love among the Haystacks. Chapter IV.”, in The Short Novels, volume I, London: William Heinemann, published 1956, →OCLC, page 25

Examples of yellowly in a sentence

  • He showed his tartar-coated teeth in a fatherly smile. […] when he crossed the room, yellowly smiling, he might have been about to kiss the bride.1938, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in Brighton Rock, London: Vintage, published 2002:
  • It regarded me yellowly through the window screen when I rang her doorbell.1958, Alfred Hayes, chapter 6, in My Face for the World to See, New York Review of Books, published 2013, page 19:

Forms of yellowly

comparativemore yellowly
superlativemost yellowly

Origin of yellowly

From yellow + -ly.

Questions about yellowly

What does yellowly mean?
Yellowly means in a yellow manner; with yellow colour.
How do you use yellowly in a sentence?
He showed his tartar-coated teeth in a fatherly smile. […] when he crossed the room, yellowly smiling, he might have been about to kiss the bride.
What part of speech is yellowly?
Yellowly is an adverb.

Words near yellowly in the dictionary

  1. yellowline arrow crab
  2. yellowline arrow crabs
  3. yellowlined
  4. yellowlines
  5. yellowlining
  6. yellowly
  7. yellowman
  8. yellowmargin triggerfish
  9. yellowmargin triggerfishes
  10. yellowmen
  11. yellowmouth

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