diesely

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1. Characteristic of dieseling.

   He throttles down, and the engines' roar quiets to a diesely growl.

   2010, Carl Safina, Song for the Blue Ocean, →ISBN

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   As the car drew closer the sound of the engine became a deep diesely rumble and I realised that it wasn't a car at all – it was a truck.

   2007, Mardi McConnochie, Melissa, Queen of Evil, →ISBN

   Yes, it sounds a bit coarse and diesely when you fire it up, but thereafter, it's sewing-machine smooth, nicely zingy and almost unbelievably economical.

   2011, Jeremy Clarkson, Round the Bend, →ISBN

2. Pertaining to, typical of, or filled with diesel fuel.

   It feels and smells dankish and diesely.

   2015, Winona Kent, Cold Play, →ISBN

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   My apartment, and the garden, are just a block away from the busy intersection of Bathurst and Dupont, with its diesely bus lanes and truck traffic, but, barring an emergency-vehicle siren or an atypical outbreak of energy from the body-shop workers across the alley, the garden is calm, even meditative.

   1999, Mark Kingwell, Marginalia: A Cultural Reader, →ISBN, page 32

   Let me tell you, under twenty feet of diesely mud-water, the flowing robes of the Order of St. Benedict don't flow — and rosaries on a belt can get tangled up to beat hell in corkscrewy windscreen wipers.

   2004, Sonny Brewer, Stories from the Blue Moon Café III, →ISBN, page 16

   Coll swung his big leather bag onto the diesely floor beside the driver's seat.

   2015, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, →ISBN, page 141