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silkily en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English silky Middle English -ly English -ly English silkily From silky + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a silky manner.
    • Gerty's were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and dark expressive brows. Time was when those brows were not so silkily seductive 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:

Forms

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most silkily Degree=Sup lexicographic
more silkily Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Translations (1)

pl jedwabiście (in a silky manner)