Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With high wind; in a way that betokens wind.

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  • adverb In a windy manner or fashion.

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  • adverb in a verbose manner

Etymologies

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windy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • You have talked windily about the royal races and the heritage of the earth, and we can only reply that that remains to be seen.

    THE UNPARALLELED INVASION 2010

  • Howard Marshall II, Anna Nicole's octogenarian billionaire husband, sung by Alan Oke with an appropriate wiry toughness; the four buxom lap dancers who, when Anna Nicole starts working in a sex club, instruct her in the rudiments of their art; or Doctor Yes, the plastic surgeon who created Smith's rack windily sung by Andrew Rees.

    Royal Opera's 'Anna Nicole' misses the inner beauty 2011

  • I thought that was more or less what I was trying to say, albeit a bit more windily.

    Summoning a Hobgoblin 2008

  • Cole cares only about making money; Chambers is a self-taught intellectual, windily lecturing his pal on the history of wherever they happen to alight.

    Tessa DeCarlo: Ebony and Ivory 2008

  • "What do you mean?" asked the midshipman right before his head dropped heavily to the table, his last breath pressing windily out of his lungs.

    Archive 2005-05-15 2005

  • "What do you mean?" asked the midshipman right before his head dropped heavily to the table, his last breath pressing windily out of his lungs.

    Here Comes The Son 2005

  • Sorry sha'el, most of what you write is at least mildly if windily and self-indulgently amusing, but in regards to

    Words Fail Me Miss Snark 2006

  • From Merriam-Webster: blo·vi·ate: To speak or write verbosely and windily.

    Bloviation Without Representation 2006

  • They argued windily with him, and he was cocky, and enjoyed the spectacle of his interesting martyrdom.

    Babbit 2004

  • I felt his harsh beard brush my ear as he whispered to me windily, ‘Beware of Abd el Kader’.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

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