cloudily

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Agatha was rather hurt that his aspect should change so cloudily, and that he should thus quench her little reminiscences of courtship-days, so dear to every happy wife, and gradually becoming dearer even to herself.

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  1. In a cloudy manner; with clouds; darkly; obscurely; not perspicuously. Plato … talks too metaphysically and cloudily about it [the highest good]. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 205.

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  • The title, cover painting, and lyrics only come together cloudily in my head, but that ` s perfectly legal in pop music. —  The Student Operated Press
  • Agatha was rather hurt that his aspect should change so cloudily, and that he should thus quench her little reminiscences of courtship-days, so dear to every happy wife, and gradually becoming dearer even to herself. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
  • Vaguely, cloudily, the scene passed before her. —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • At its centre the trail is brightest;--towards either edge it pales off cloudily,--curling like smoke of phosphorus. —  Two Years in the French West Indies
  • I was, I must confess, always in a faintly cloudily-emotional way aware of that collection of for the most part round-shouldered femininity, but presently one of the girls detached herself from the others and got a real hold upon my attention. —  Tono Bungay
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