greyly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]greyly (comparative more greyly, superlative most greyly)
- In a grey way; in partial light.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 198:
- The interior of the kitchen we now saw grayly for the first time.
- With a dreary or gloomy countenance.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 292:
- I got a compartment to myself, and sat with folded arms, looking grayly at the sunlit devastation that flowed past the windows