Definitions

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  • adverb With a hissing sound.

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  • adverb While hissing; in a hissing fashion

Etymologies

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hissing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The gods, of course, get pissed; the top god, Zeus (Liam Neeson), lets himself get talked into punishing the humans by his brother, Voldemort -- oops, I mean, Hades (hey, they're both played hissingly by Ralph Fiennes), who has his own plan for toppling Zeus from the hit parade of gods.

    Movie Review: Clash of the Titans -- Barely 2D 2010

  • The sound of “sessile eye of the isopod” is so hissingly sussurant.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » The Sessile Eye of the Isopod: Getting Ideas 2010

  • The gods, of course, get pissed; the top god, Zeus (Liam Neeson), lets himself get talked into punishing the humans by his brother, Voldemort -- oops, I mean, Hades (hey, they're both played hissingly by Ralph Fiennes), who has his own plan for toppling Zeus from the hit parade of gods.

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Clash of the Titans -- Barely 2D 2010

  • Somewhere the first energy weapons discharged hissingly.

    Blazing Sun Ernsting, Walter 1975

  • The energy ray of his hand weapon hit guard three in the head and drilled its way hissingly into the positronic brain.

    Spaceship of Ancestors Ernsting, Walter 1975

  • W.T. expelled a breath hissingly through his teeth.

    The White Cottage Mystery Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1975

  • The green ready light glowed as air pumped hissingly into the vacuum of the box.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • Ootah raised his harpoon -- it hissingly cut the air.

    The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��

  • It struck hissingly the nearby structures, but it did not touch the central area at all.

    Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • At first he could see nothing in the blackness below, but a new flurry of rain came, and the drops striking the water hissingly made it slightly luminous, outlining a dark, formless mass close to the side of the schooner.

    Isle o' Dreams Frederick Ferdinand Moore 1930

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