Brushingly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 With a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly. not-comparable
"His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance."
Example
More examples"His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance."
Etymology
From brushing + -ly.
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