yellowly
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 8
Definition of yellowly
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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In a yellow manner; with yellow colour.
“1864, Henry T. Spicer, “Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy: Another Past Lodger Relates What Lot He Drew at Glumper House”, in All the Year Round, Extra Christmas Number, 1 December, 1864, Part 4, p. 28, After rice appeared the much-dreaded pie, glaring yellowly, with its coarse pretentious outside—prototype of many a living humbug—veiling one knows not what of false and vile.”
“The light of the bicycle lamp sheered yellowly across the dark, catching a glint of raindrops, a mist of darkness, shadow of leaves and strokes of long grass.”
“He showed his tartar-coated teeth in a fatherly smile. […] when he crossed the room, yellowly smiling, he might have been about to kiss the bride.”
“She had a black cat. It regarded me yellowly through the window screen when I rang her doorbell.”
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Etymology
From yellow + -ly.
Words you can make from yellowly
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