Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Necessarily.
- Urgently.
- Relating to or resembling a needle or needles: as, a needly thorn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Necessarily; of necessity.
- adjective Like a needle or needles
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like a
needle or needles. - adverb archaic
Necessarily ; ofnecessity . - adverb archaic
Urgently . - adverb archaic
Zealously ;carefully ;earnestly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In one case, a child walking along the beach stepped on a needly oursin.
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They are helping the most needly, and arent we all judged one day by the good and bad, arent nations judged by how they treat their mosty needy?
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In one case, a child walking along the beach stepped on a needly oursin.
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In one case, a child walking along the beach stepped on a needly oursin.
Smokey 2010
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In one case, a child walking along the beach stepped on a needly oursin.
Smokey 2010
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In one case, a child walking along the beach stepped on a needly oursin.
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Herbivorous mammals like horses, cattle and elephants have great millstone-like teeth for grinding cellulose, quite different from the shearing teeth of carnivores and the needly teeth of insectivores.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Herbivorous mammals like horses, cattle and elephants have great millstone-like teeth for grinding cellulose, quite different from the shearing teeth of carnivores and the needly teeth of insectivores.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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In one case, a child walking along the beach stepped on a needly oursin.
Remedies 2009
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Dem hollowy needly hares make dem so warm dat dey hab da truble koolin off eben way up in da usedtobefrozen Nort.
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