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cloudily

  • a word derived from cloudy.
    cloudy
    adjective
    full of or overcast by clouds.

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Only the final curtain brings light to his cloudily creased forehead.

From Time Magazine Archive

It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even ideas about what constitutes comedy are cloudily divisive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, by means of astronomical History, we ascertain, cloudily, that some such phænomena have occurred.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar A. Poe

Being cloudily conscious of never having heard of the Zimmernes in his life, he could only remark, stolidly: "Well, one can't be a Little Englander."

From The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton