Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a cloudy manner; with clouds; darkly; obscurely; not perspicuously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
cloudy way.
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Examples
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The blue eyes seemed more cloudily blue than usual, and the crisp, sandy hair hinted more than ever of the pale straw-gold that was not there.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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Alfric was surly, blaming me cloudily for the theft of the armor, though the wine and the blow on the head had made him hazy as to what happened that fateful night.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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Friday, Feb. 15, until late that night I felt I might have needed a Tagamet; my stomach quibbled with me, warmly gurgling and cloudily rolling, but not threatening a storm.
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Friday, Feb. 15, until late that night I felt I might have needed a Tagamet; my stomach quibbled with me, warmly gurgling and cloudily rolling, but not threatening a storm.
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Friday, Feb. 15, until late that night I felt I might have needed a Tagamet; my stomach quibbled with me, warmly gurgling and cloudily rolling, but not threatening a storm.
The Content of My Life Has No Appendix (Part 1) « Exile on Ninth Street 2008
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Of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud uplifted wave
The Day with a White Mark Arevanye 2007
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Of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud uplifted wave
Archive 2007-03-01 Arevanye 2007
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Thereto his heart thick-sown with blindness cloudily dark'ning,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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The leading ideas of the Conference were cloudily true, but the disintegrative forces of personal, party and national egotism were too strong for them.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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Thereto his heart thick-sown with blindness cloudily dark'ning,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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