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dustily

dustily

6.0
In a way that is covered with dust
  • adverb
  • /ˈdʌstɪli/
translation icon : cubierto de polvo
  • She wiped the dusted coated bookshelves before the guests arrived.

Examples

  • The room was dusted filled with old furniture covered in sheets.

  • A little light seeps in dustily between cracks in the boards, secondhand from a cobwebbed window somewhere across the cellar.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Sunlight streamed dusted through the neglected attic windows.

Synonyms

dirtily
vsdustily
1 1.8

In a way that is not clean, fair, or polite

is about being covered by fine dry particles rather than general grime

How Dusty

powdery
4 3.0
dustily
6.0
grubbily
5.7

Surface Forms

dustily positive

Morphology

dustily = dusty (transparent) = dust + ily

The meaning is directly derived from 'dusty' to 'dustily' in a literal sense.

Etymology

Dustily comes from dust, which means 'fine, dry particles'. So dustily can also mean 'covered with or like dust', as when sunlight shows dust floating in the air.