Definitions

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  • adverb In a pasty manner.

Etymologies

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pasty +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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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