wispily

adv

1. In a wispy manner.

   “From some far seaward cisterns of the air billows of fog poured down over the city of San Francisco; rebounding like smoke from the summer-heated fronts of hills, they settled in shady hollows and caught wispily at rows of trees.”

   ““Yes,” said Julia, vaguely and wispily. “Yes, dear, you have.””

   “A man and his dog were going to materialize, were going to appear out of thin air—wispily at first, becoming, finally, as substantial as any man and dog alive.”

   “He caught a last glimpse of Mitzi’s large breasts bulging out above her brassiere, wispily veiled by the negligee.”

   “But the fat man remains, as does the cashier, who is wispily blond, with a bony hillbilly nose and translucent white skin.”