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adverbstonily (comparative more stonily, superlative most stonily)
comparative more stonily · superlative most stonily
- In a stony manner.
All their meagre breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes stared stonily up-hill.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 2051 more example
It was curious to remark the different mien and bearing of the other Federal prisoners who were taken yesterday […]. Some looked stonily and unconsciously forward […]
1862, “The Southern Confederacy”, in The Times
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