Definitions
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- adverb In a
pasty manner.
Etymologies
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pasty + -ly
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Examples
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In the narrow entrance he brushed against a man on the way out, a man with a hangdog look and short bristling hair and the pastily-pallid skin that comes from living long away from the sunlight.
The Fortune Hunter 1906
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In the narrow entrance he brushed against a man on the way out, a man with a hangdog look and short bristling hair and the pastily-pallid skin that comes from living long away from the sunlight.
The Fortune Hunter David Graham Phillips 1889
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