Smokily

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a smoky manner.

    "The soggy wood burned smokily."

Example

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"The darkness here was made visible by an oil-lamp, in shape resembling a tin coffee-pot with a wick in the spout, which burnt black and smokily."

Etymology

From smoky + -ly.

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