ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Brushingly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Brushingly is an adverb meaning With a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.

Meaning

With a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glancingly, brushily, brushwise, thinly, lightly, cursorily.

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