Liquidly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a liquid way.

    "Since Naipaul, and before him, we have had Earl Lovelace, the Commonwealth Writers Prize best-book winner; Lawrence Scott, winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book in Canada and the Caribbean; Sam Selvon, writer of the most liquidly gorgeous sentences in the Trinidadian canon."

Example

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"Since Naipaul, and before him, we have had Earl Lovelace, the Commonwealth Writers Prize best-book winner; Lawrence Scott, winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book in Canada and the Caribbean; Sam Selvon, writer of the most liquidly gorgeous sentences in the Trinidadian canon."

Etymology

From liquid + -ly.

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