Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a misty manner; dimly; obscurely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With mist; darkly; obscurely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
misty manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a misty manner
- adverb in a vague way
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Examples
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He lay on his back, staring straight up at one single star that rocked mistily through a thinning of cloud-stuff overhead.
CHAPTER V 2010
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Also present are oak sawfly larvae, many-legged and like milky translucent sausages: their green diet is mistily visible, and their skin armed with black, curved spines.
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"She said to me: 'Am I barred?'" recalled Joe mistily.
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All dim and vague it was, a sensation, an emotion, a feeling, an instinct, an intuition, name it mistily as one will in the misty nomenclature of speech wherein words cheat with the impression of definiteness and lie to the brain an understanding which the brain does not possess.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Probably at “mistily metaphysical,” which she never, never was.
‘The inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude’ 2009
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Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward—her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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Charming on one level, disturbing on another, given the mistily ambiguous allusions to rape.
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Ellen smiled mistily, and said, “But if,” then corrected herself, “when I leave, what about this house?”
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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“Beware, mortal,” a thunderous voice rumbled through the clouds, which instantly parted to reveal, mistily seen, what appeared to be a gray-bearded man reclining on a golden dais.
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A character is caught, mistily lit, in silhouette under a leafy arch, as if passing on to some other realm.
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