Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Misty; drizzly.
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Examples
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George and I waited long minutes in the mizzly darkness, and finally Sandra reappeared, alone, slogging back up the trail.
Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1 Richard Bangs 2010
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George and I waited long minutes in the mizzly darkness, and finally Sandra reappeared, alone, slogging back up the trail.
Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1 Richard Bangs 2010
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We had nothing to regret in starting so late, for it was darker, colder, and more mizzly than ever.
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They had been floating about the dock in that mizzly cold rain for nearly an hour.
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Louie's face, or hot and rough like Auntie Emmeline's, or wet and mizzly like Auntie Edie's.
The Tree of Heaven May Sinclair 1904
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They had been floating about the dock in that mizzly cold rain for nearly an hour.
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We had nothing to regret in starting so late, for it was darker, colder, and more mizzly than ever.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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They had been floating about the dock in that mizzly cold rain for nearly an hour.
Youth, a Narrative Joseph Conrad 1890
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The scene is obscured by the storm; the thick driving flakes throw a brownish mizzly shade over all things, air, trees, hills, and every avenue the eye has been wont to traverse.
Margaret 1851
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