Definitions
Etymologies
- wan + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He leaned up against a wall and smiled kind of wanly and said, "This thing is going to go on for a while, isn't it?”
The Obama Campaign: What They’ll Remember - Swampland - TIME.com
“One wanly said that as teachers of the Word, they had failed.”
“The mood in Haiti today reminds one of the wanly flickering orange glow of the kerosine lamps that Haiti's market women - known as ti machann - use to illuminate their wares as they work late into the night.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer
“He asked me for news of New York City, a place he admired for its creative chaos -- and with his ever-present cigarette in hand smiled wanly and spoke in low tones of the Czech people's "moment," the one that he was helping to create.”
The Huffington Post: Todd Brewster: Remembering Vaclav Havel
“A little girl holding a flag, which droops wanly on her shoulder.”
“After reading this you can stroke your goatee and state gravely: Of course it all comes down to Polk County, which – if my memory serves me correctly smile wanly – accounts for upwards of 20% of the statewide caucus vote.”
“Women sit wanly before little pyramids of tomatoes, onions, and oranges.”
““Everything else,” Friedman wanly admits, “is less satisfying” than launching Cosmos 2 as originally planned, and maybe that self-evident fact will somehow keep the full mission alive.”
“As she camps out nightly on the living-room floor, Maggie wanly remarks "I have na been in a bed since I was in maternity with Marina.”
“Were Carnegie alive to read this grievous book, he would clutch his chest … smile wanly for a few minutes he didn't like to make others feel bad, then keel over into his cornflakes," wrote Dwight Garner.”
The Guardian: Dale Carnegie's self-help bible gets a new life for the digital age
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wanly’.
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beyond pale
Words meaning or invoking the different aspects of pale.
Not just colour, but also the ideas of impermanence, illness, weakness. (Just not the two noun forms – a thin strip of metal or woo...pale, pallid, wan, light, misty, ethereal, cream, dim, white, thin, waning, colourless and 62 more...
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Unfamiliar words from Cat's Cradle by...
conveyances, folly, anecdotes, parable, flue, dawdling, bough, spiraea, illustrious, unsung, enterprising, loafed and 116 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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jaden's Words
countermand, reconcile, pervasive, inherent, dichotomy, ancillary, tenuous, viable, potentate, gestalt, esoteric, ephemeral and 136 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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janusz_chorzepa's list
learning list
ruse, bull goose loney, quarter section, cantankerous, restful, shy, concede, shroud, ineffable, ostensible, flense, spurious and 71 more...
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