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greyly

  • a word derived from grey.
    grey
    adjective
    a variant of gray.

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The urban "masses" lived on greyly in the crumbling cities, without even cigarettes to solace their degradation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now 58, looking more greyly senatorial than his senatorial brother, Dick Byrd will have technical control of the Navy's trident expedition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks.

From Time Magazine Archive

About one o'clock the amber sunshine faded out altogether, a veil of clouds thickened and became greyly ominous, and a little after two the first flakes of a snowstorm fell hissing into the fire.

From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The light fell away greyly, the cold descended on the ruin, and it became very strange and mysterious.

From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

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