arrowily

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adverb

In an arrowy manner; like an arrow.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adverbarrowily (comparative more arrowily, superlative most arrowily)

comparative more arrowily · superlative most arrowily

  1. In an arrowy manner; like an arrow.

    Now how all too often is the sermon huddled up without any attempt to individualize or to send arrowily home to each hearer what has been spoken.

    1897, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Representative Nonconformists, page 159
    1 more example

    But now, he would have love in his own way, haughtily, passionately, and darkly, with dark, arrowy desire, and a strange, arrowily-submissive woman.

    1924, D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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