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rustfully en · ADV

Etymology

From rustful + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a rustful manner.
    • Load bearing Chrome butterflies that wreathe rustfully around my breast. 2013 Authumn, A Vickery, “Roadside; Contagious feeling”, in Island, number 132:
    • He turned his slat chair, property of the house, squealing rustfully in the joints, so that he could not see the kitchen window. 2013, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin: A Novel, →ISBN:
    • Her sister, the Nevada, is reposing “rustfully” in the Alexandra Dock, Liverpool. 1893, The Japan Daily Mail - Volume 20, page 533:

Forms

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most rustfully Degree=Sup lexicographic
more rustfully Degree=Cmp lexicographic