Shewy

Quick meaning: Shewy is an adjective meaning Obsolete spelling of showy.

Meaning

Obsolete spelling of showy.

Example Sentences

Yet he is not likely to win her affections, if younger and shewier persons were placed before her.

I ſaw you were taken with her, which I ſhould not have expected; for after all, it is but a little uncultivated ruſtic, and ſurely rather ſhewy than handſome.

The latter, I think, are far superior to the shewier meteors which bewilder us one moment with their overpowering radiance, and the next, leave us in utter darkness.

If you have no servant of your own (which I think it is ten to one you have not), contrive to kidnap some other person’s, when you have an opportunity—of course, the shewier his livery, the better for you—[…]

Word Forms

• shewier
• shewiest

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