orientally
- a word derived from oriental.
Example Sentences
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When an especially handsome guest entered his orientally furnished, book-lined labyrinth in the old Greek quarter of Alexandria, Cavafy would light an extra candle in silent tribute.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kuniyoshi made his reputation in the 1920s with relatively cheerful designs featuring plump ladies in swimming, cows, babies and trapeze artists fitted together in orientally flat, bird's-eye perspectives.
From Time Magazine Archive
The charming hostess, in a Japanese kimono receives him somewhat orientally, offering him the divan, which he occupies alone for a spell.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
From The Younger Set by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
I can hardly think of it without taking off my boots and prostrating myself orientally.
From Marge Askinforit by Pain, Barry
