Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a smoky manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a smoky manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
smoky manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Smoky voiced Kendra Chantelle is up - sings Alicia Keys's "Falling in and Out of Love" smokily.
'American Idol' 2011: Top 24 survive the Trail of Tears 2011
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There, gaslights smoldered smokily on distant corners, lending an eerie yellow glow to the fog that was beginning to roll in to clog the streets, but everywhere else the gutters and streets were so dark as to make it impossible to discern the identity of anyone.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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I wondered what was coming, and caught my breath when, at a signal from Sahib Khan, a servant brought in a tray on which were four articles - a little bowl containing salt, another in which an ember of wood burned smokily, a small square of earth with a shred of rank grass attaching to it, and a plain, wave-bladed Persian dagger with the snake-and-hare design on its blade.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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There, gaslights smoldered smokily on distant corners, lending an eerie yellow glow to the fog that was beginning to roll in to clog the streets, but everywhere else the gutters and streets were so dark as to make it impossible to discern the identity of anyone.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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The car had been driven into the temple premises and the fellow above was busy smokily blessing it.
Archive 2009-07-01 Michael Turton 2009
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Bratwurst and weisswurst sizzled smokily on grilles, providing a sensory counterpoint to the oom-pa-pa tunes.
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The air was stagnant and the walls were wet with sticky nameless fluids, torches guttered smokily, it was damp and cold and filthy in every imaginable way.
From The Valley Of Lost Projects: Princess Lucinda And The Missing Moon Sean Craven 2009
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The car had been driven into the temple premises and the fellow above was busy smokily blessing it.
Daily Links, July 6, 2009 Michael Turton 2009
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McVeigh admits he didn't notice the day-care center located right above the spot where he parked his bomb-laden truck, the fuses already burning smokily.
Mcveigh's Death Wish 2007
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The clean silver of the gun has darkened, smokily, around the chamber.
Holly Oakley Holly 2006
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