Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Dazzlingly bright; glaring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a brilliant, dazzling luster.
- Covered with a glare of ice; icy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a
dazzling lustre ; glaring;bright ; shining.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shining intensely
Etymologies
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Examples
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And the old man looked, stared, somewhat glary-eyed, look intently at Muse as if he was a religious man of some kind, you know a convinced assurance this was not the end of this tribulation, almost a remorseless gleam in his eyes, something strange to me, I continued however to keep a careful distance away from this occurrence.
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You sit there thinking that the serial murder has found its medium, or vice versa—an act of shadow technology, of compressed time and repeated images, stark and glary and unremarkable.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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You sit there thinking that the serial murder has found its medium, or vice versa—an act of shadow technology, of compressed time and repeated images, stark and glary and unremarkable.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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But the movie in fact was powerfully open, it was glary and artless and completely steeped in being what it was, in being film.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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You sit there thinking that the serial murder has found its medium, or vice versa—an act of shadow technology, of compressed time and repeated images, stark and glary and unremarkable.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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But the movie in fact was powerfully open, it was glary and artless and completely steeped in being what it was, in being film.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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But the movie in fact was powerfully open, it was glary and artless and completely steeped in being what it was, in being film.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The sky was a glary white, as if the storms had leached all color from it, and as we drove a cacophony of insects swelled up in chorus to greet us.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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The sky was a glary white, as if the storms had leached all color from it, and as we drove a cacophony of insects swelled up in chorus to greet us.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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Aside from the illumination of a few white candles near a spirit table. the available light is northern, glary, and coming through dirty windows.
the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995
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