cakily

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1. In a caky way.

   He had been sleeping on top of the coverlet it seemed, and he still had on his swamp-stained pants, which had dried cakily along his legs.

   1993, Madison Smartt Bell, Save Me, Joe Louis

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   From what I remember now of those girls, all with their hair rolled on top of their heads, their lips darkly painted, their cheeks cakily powdered […]

   1956, The Tamarack Review