Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a faded manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a faded manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
faded manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Letters CARPETS are fadedly spelled onto brick-walled structures; now a painted sign reads St. Bernard Barbershop.
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He found him in a dull room, fadedly furnished, much as I had found him in his barrack – room but a little while before, except that he was not writing but was sitting with a book before him, from which his eyes and thoughts were far astray.
Bleak House 2007
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She certainly did not re-semble her mother, who was a small anemic woman, fadedly pretty, who talked in a thin melancholy voice of servant difficulties and her health.
The Moving Finger Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1942
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He found him in a dull room, fadedly furnished, much as I had found him in his barrack-room but a little while before, except that he was not writing but was sitting with a book before him, from which his eyes and thoughts were far astray.
Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853
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He found him in a dull room, fadedly furnished, much as I had found him in his barrack-room but a little while before, except that he was not writing but was sitting with a book before him, from which his eyes and thoughts were far astray.
Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841
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