ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hungerly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Hungerly is an adverb meaning (obsolete) Hungrily.

Meaning

(obsolete) Hungrily.

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Wanting food; starved.

Example Sentences

his beard grew thin and hungerly
Croesus passing alongst the citie of Sardis found certaine thickets, wherein were great store of snakes and serpents, on which his horses fed very hungerly, which thing, as Herodotus saith, was an ill-boding prodigy unto his affaires.

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