silkily

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adverb

In a silky manner.

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Meanings

adverbsilkily (comparative more silkily, superlative most silkily)

comparative more silkily · superlative most silkily

  1. In a silky manner.

    Gerty's were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and dark expressive brows. Time was when those brows were not so silkily seductive

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Origin

From silky + -ly.

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Translations

Polish jedwabiście
  • jedwabiściein a silky manner
Cite this entry
APA

silkily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/silkily

MLA

“silkily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/silkily. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “silkily,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/silkily.

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