Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a comfortless manner.

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  • adverb In a comfortless manner

Etymologies

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comfortless +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The man sat comfortlessly on the broken shard of a boulder, leaning forward, his wedge-shaped trapezius muscles hanging limply from his neck.

    REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008

  • The man sat comfortlessly on the broken shard of a boulder, leaning forward, his wedge-shaped trapezius muscles hanging limply from his neck.

    REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008

  • It was comfortlessly little to take into the angered Fleet.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • Polson's jacket and his neck, and dribbled comfortlessly down his back, colder than any charity he had known of: lately-frozen earth, half thawed, with wet snow on the top of it, and a sulky boom behind to add a threat to its cold sting.

    VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

  • At intervals, the heavens shook out fierce, sudden showers of rain, that scattered the surging masses, and sent them flying impotently hither and thither for shelter where no shelter was, only to gather again, and move aimlessly and comfortlessly to and fro, like a lost child.

    Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878

  • He comfortlessly took up a newspaper again, and she rose with a sigh, and went to her room to pack some things for the morrow's journey.

    The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878

  • A gray wall quadrangularly vaulted to a large north light; casts of feet, hands, faces hung to nails about; prints, sketches in oil and water-color stuck here and there lower down; a rickety table, with paint and palettes and bottles of varnish and siccative tossed comfortlessly on it; an easel, with a strip of some faded mediaeval silk trailing from it;

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

  • A gray wall quadrangularly vaulted to a large north light; casts of feet, hands, faces hung to nails about; prints, sketches in oil and water-color stuck here and there lower down; a rickety table, with paint and palettes and bottles of varnish and siccative tossed comfortlessly on it; an easel, with a strip of some faded mediaeval silk trailing from it;

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • Her face was quite disfigured already; the afflicted eye was bloodshot, and the whole cheek was red with tears and rubbing; she could only follow blindly along, her handkerchief up, and, half groping into the seat offered her, begin comfortlessly to help herself to some soup with her left hand.

    A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. 1865

  • We all breakfasted together; the meal was hurried over comfortlessly and silently.

    Basil Wilkie Collins 1856

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