Definitions

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  • adverb In a gusty manner; in gusts.

Etymologies

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gusty +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The words came gustily from the creek down the slope:

    The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

  • As Halloween rolls gustily around the corner, some of us might wax nostalgic for the hallowed eves of yore -- when we ate our weight in sugary sweets, dressed up in uncomfortable costumes and listened to stories that we knew would give us nightmares.

    13 Haunted Campuses (PHOTOS) Danielle Wiener-Bronner 2010

  • Her intuitive sensitivity to the range of human emotions was especially overt the day she spontaneously postponed boarding a luxurious yacht to instead join a village festival with gustily celebrating peasants, an episode almost universally excised from her public narrative.

    Carl Sferrazza Anthony: On Tour with Jackie Kennedy: Versailles to Vietnam Policy, Part I Carl Sferrazza Anthony 2011

  • Her intuitive sensitivity to the range of human emotions was especially overt the day she spontaneously postponed boarding a luxurious yacht to instead join a village festival with gustily celebrating peasants, an episode almost universally excised from her public narrative.

    Carl Sferrazza Anthony: On Tour with Jackie Kennedy: Versailles to Vietnam Policy, Part I Carl Sferrazza Anthony 2011

  • This theme is reiterated gustily by Dame Lorna Muirhead, former president of the Royal College of Midwives.

    Why we can't get enough of childbirth on TV 2012

  • As Halloween rolls gustily around the corner, some of us might wax nostalgic for the hallowed eves of yore -- when we ate our weight in sugary sweets, dressed up in uncomfortable costumes and listened to stories that we knew would give us nightmares.

    13 Haunted Campuses (PHOTOS) Danielle Wiener-Bronner 2010

  • As Halloween rolls gustily around the corner, some of us might wax nostalgic for the hallowed eves of yore -- when we ate our weight ...

    13 Haunted Campuses (PHOTOS) Danielle Wiener-Bronner 2010

  • As Halloween rolls gustily around the corner, some of us might wax nostalgic for the hallowed eves of yore -- when we ate our weight in sugary sweets, dressed up in uncomfortable costumes and listened to stories that we knew would give us nightmares.

    13 Haunted Campuses (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • As Halloween rolls gustily around the corner, some of us might wax nostalgic for the hallowed eves of yore -- when we ate our weight ...

    13 Haunted Campuses (PHOTOS) Danielle Wiener-Bronner 2010

  • We briefly enter the "warm sector" this morning, but the cold front may whip up showers or thundershowers that gustily march through by midday.

    Forecast: Potential thunder, then mega wind 2011

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