Meanings
comparative more glintily · superlative most glintily
- In a glinty manner.
The flowers, their roots glintily netted with spider-webs, nodded serenely over his long hands.
1921, Walter de la Mare, chapter 26, in Memoirs of a Midget, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, “Wanderslore” section, page 1752 more examples
In fact, Angela Lansbury’s bawdy, chattering, equivocal Granny—a super opportunity glintily grasped—is as likely to entertain young Rosaleen […]
1984 September 21, John Coleman, “Films”, in New Statesman, volume 108, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 3Indolently bobbing, here came a boat: the one cap-and-fag bloke’s slow oarsplat, the other’s trailed line jigging glintily—[…]
2014, Christopher Jessop, chapter 4, in A Summer Break: A Novel, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire: Springboard Press, →ISBN, page 39
Origin
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