Wetly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Wetly is an adverb meaning In a wet manner.
Meaning
In a wet manner.
More Meanings
- (UK, informal) Ineffectually, feebly, showing no strength of character.
Example Sentences
She looked back just as closely through her little eyes, with the near-blackmailing insolence of her knowledge. Whereupon he kissed her long and wetly.
Rupert Frazer reveals the hollowness behind the elder Forsyth's tyrannical bluster, while Geoff Breton does all that is possible to reconcile us to his wetly conventional son.
They lay on one another in heaps, or attempted to crawl about—some itching madly with leprosies—some swollen and gasping with dropsies—some wetly reeking, like hands washed in winter-time.
On a rickety low cart, drawn by a decrepit pony, was a large wooden packing-case on which some well-meaning hand had drawn, in black paint which still gleamed wetly in the sun, a rude cross.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include moistly, waterily, damply, waterishly, humidly, dewily.
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