smally

English

Etymology

small +‎ -ly

Adverb

smally (comparative more smally, superlative most smally)

1. (rare) In a small way.
   • 1890, HM Factory Inspectorate, Annual report of the chief inspector of factories and workshops:

     The name of Worstead, a village some ten miles distant from the city, was, indeed, as its name may testify, the birthplace of an important branch of the trade in England; now it is a smally populated, little known spot...

   • 2007 October 28, Richard Ford, “The Noise Is Killing Me”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself.

Anagrams

• Mallys, Myalls, myalls