Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a diffused manner; with wide dispersion.
- Confusedly; irregularly; negligently (as to dress).
- In zoology, in a spreading manner; so as to fade into the surrounding parts: as, a mark diffusedly paler on one side.
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Examples
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Remedy can be provided by an appropriate arrangement of the lighting fitting, whenever possible, objects of work should be mat (diffusedly reflecting) and not bright on the surface in order to avoid high lights.
4. Electrical Energy 1991
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Rather, the smell of the place urges me indeterminately, diffusedly, to truantry.
Journeys to Bagdad 1906
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It was necessary to explain things at great length, diffusedly and tiresomely, to the superintendent, a coarse and insolent man, who bore himself to all the tenants in the house as toward a conquered city; and feared only the students slightly, because they gave him a severe rebuff at times.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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He felt the scene of his entrance beforehand: the joy beaming diffusedly in the blind face like the light in a semi-transparent lamp; the transient pink flush on
Romola George Eliot 1849
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