This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it.
Source: wiktionary
Silkenly
Synonyms for "silkenly"
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved.
Source: wiktionary
[…] there was a rush of warm wind and I felt it on my face, felt it moving silkenly across my face […]
Source: wiktionary
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.