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(nonstandard) Of or pertaining to a cloud or clouds; cloudlike; cloudy; nebulous..
Here the redoubtable Ramm contracted his brow, clasped up his mouth, till it wrinkled at each corner, and redoubled his smoking with such vehemence, that the cloudly volumes soon wreathed round his head, as the smoke envelopes the awful summit of Mount Etna.
In acidified acetone, the above mentioned skeletons yielded yellow or orange organic solutions which float above a colourless cloudly aqueous solution.
When the Shyr mutant was grown on this cloudly medium, there was a clear zone surrounding the colonies.
For a cloudly atmosphere (curves 2-6) with the growth of the optical thickness T of a cloudly layer the decrease of the contribution of the photons with the small lengthes^([sic]) of the run are observed in the receiving streams, […]
Use cloudly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cloudly means (nonstandard) Of or pertaining to a cloud or clouds; cloudlike; cloudy; nebulous..
Common synonyms include cloudish.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Here the redoubtable Ramm contracted his brow, clasped up his mouth, till it wrinkled at each corner, and redoubled his smoking with such vehemence, that the cloudly volumes soon wreathed round his head, as the smoke envelopes the awful summit of Mount Etna.
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