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dustily en · ADV

Etymology

From dusty + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a dusty way.
   • 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. 2008 February 27, Cathy Horyn, “Not Everyone Spins Their Wheels”, in New York Times:
   • He switched on, put the groaning vehicle into gear, turned it round skilfully and sped dustily townwards. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 600:

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