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  • adverb In a frizzy manner.

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frizzy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • She curled her hair frizzily, burning it here and there, with a slate-pencil heated over a lamp chimney, and she placed above one ear three or four large artificial roses, taken from an old hat of her mother's, which she had found in a trunk in the store-room.

    The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

  • She curled her hair frizzily, burning it here and there, with a slate-pencil heated over a lamp-chimney, and she placed above one ear three or four large artificial roses, taken from an old hat of her mother's, which she had found in a trunk in the store-room.

    The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907

  • She curled her hair frizzily, burning it here and there, with a slate-pencil heated over a lamp chimney, and she placed above one ear three or four large artificial roses, taken from an old hat of her mother's, which she had found in a trunk in the store-room.

    The Conquest of Canaan 1905

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