glary

¹ American  

[glair-ee] / ˈglɛər i /

adjective

glarier, glariest

1. harshly brilliant; glaring.

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glary ² American  

[glair-ee] / ˈglɛər i /

adjective

glarier, glariest

1. smooth and slippery, as ice.

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Other Word Forms

• glariness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of glary¹

First recorded in 1625–35; glare ¹ + -y ¹

Origin of glary²

First recorded in 1560–70; glare ² + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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glary

But for much of the play, the flash and fury of her performance, with its surface swagger and glary stares, too often feel like decoys.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2022

Both “Small Mouth Sounds” and “Make Believe,” which are as suggestive and shadowy as “Grand Horizons” is obvious and glary, were on recent Top 10 lists of mine.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

At one afternoon-long meeting of the chiefs of the 21 largest cities, says San Francisco Chief Thom as Cahill, "we never mentioned bur glary, robbery, organized crime or any thing else but riots."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then welcome is yon cloud that onward fails, And all this glary shew in darkness veils.

From Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters by Baillie, Joanna

And hate to get up in the morning, too— To pull the coverlet from your frost-bit nose, And touch the glary matting with your toes!

From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean