palely

comparative more palely · superlative most palely

1. In a pale manner; lightly.

   The people are palely prosperous. They lead monotonous lives.

   1907, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, A Fountain Sealed, Chapter

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   O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, / Alone and palely loitering? / The sedge has withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.

   1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci, stanza 1

   It was a warm dark night of faint clouds through which the moon shone palely as through a thin silk canopy.

   1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, Part Two