stilly
Americanadverb
adjective
adverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of stilly
before 1000; Middle English (adv.); Old English stillīce. See still 1, -ly
Example Sentences
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That has been a theme for me over the past year and a half, trying to power through under my own steam and realizing that that is stilly.
From Time • Aug. 18, 2013
Oft in the stilly nights of the 1970s, the earth's peace will be torn by a thunderous crash as a sleek, supersonic airliner passes high overhead.
From Time Magazine Archive
It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass, stick on stick, fist on palm.
From Time Magazine Archive
But late in the book he quotes a description of the Great Smokies written in 1926, and sure enough it is just awful: "From their highest elevation bannered a stilly chrome wash of startled light."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was as if nothing wrong could happen in a world where things balanced so stilly.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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