dustily

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dusty +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

dustily (comparative more dustily, superlative most dustily)

  1. In a dusty way.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 600:
      He switched on, put the groaning vehicle into gear, turned it round skilfully and sped dustily townwards.
    • 2008 February 27, Cathy Horyn, “Not Everyone Spins Their Wheels”, in New York Times[1]:
      But some of the gathered skirts, with an extra tire of fabric around the middle, looked dustily Yamamoto, with pious allusions to women in bonnets and rustic stoles.