Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
cloud or clouds;cloudlike ;cloudy ;nebulous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not only is it cloudy (I keep typing "cloudly" when I mean to type "cloudy", which makes me think of "studly".
megfowler.com 2010
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The weather was sunny and clear over on the Lahaina side of the island, but cloudly and cold on the Hana side.
Cheech & Chong Tommy Chong 2008
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Now this is one that I like — the farmland with the cloudly sky.
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The weather was sunny and clear over on the Lahaina side of the island, but cloudly and cold on the Hana side.
Cheech & Chong Tommy Chong 2008
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I hope one of the silver linings in this cloudly time is women and men working together to solve problems and worry less about who has the greater stress levels.
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It was dark and partly cloudly every once and a while the full moon would break through the clouds and light up the path.
Good Friday Hike justin_bolivia 2005
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The rest stood fairly quietly in the calm, partly cloudly night waiting for the oranje, blanje, blaauw (orange, white and blue) flag of the old South Africa to be lowered in a brief ceremony attended by the three premier candidates for the Western Cape and members of the Provincial Executive Committee.
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Joanna laughed, her breath a cloudly puff of silver in the cold.
The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988
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The stream of the world has changed its course, And with the stream my thoughts have run Into some cloudly, thunderous spring
Collected Essays 1900
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They're in a cloudly theme park now with all the free corndogs you can eat.
CNN.com 2011
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