Dictionary

yellowly en · ADV

Etymology

From yellow + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a yellow manner; with yellow colour.
   • The light of the bicycle lamp sheered yellowly across the dark, catching a glint of raindrops, a mist of darkness, shadow of leaves and strokes of long grass. 1930, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Love among the Haystacks. Chapter IV.”, in The Short Novels, volume I, London: William Heinemann, published 1956, →OCLC, page 25:
   • She had a black cat. It regarded me yellowly through the window screen when I rang her doorbell. 1958, Alfred Hayes, chapter 6, in My Face for the World to See, New York Review of Books, published 2013, page 19:
   • He showed his tartar-coated teeth in a fatherly smile. […] when he crossed the room, yellowly smiling, he might have been about to kiss the bride. 1938, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in Brighton Rock, London: Vintage, published 2002:
   • 1864, Henry T. Spicer, “Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy: Another Past Lodger Relates What Lot He Drew at Glumper House”, in All the Year Round, Extra Christmas Number, 1 December, 1864, Part 4, p. 28, After rice appeared the much-dreaded pie, glaring yellowly, with its coarse pretentious outside—prototype of many a living humbug—veiling one knows not what of false and vile.

Forms

Translations (1)

eo flave (yellowly)