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Definition of Oilily
1. in an oily manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oilily
Literary usage of Oilily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Minimum Course in Rhetoric by Henry Copp Edgar (1922)
"Gareth loosed the stone From off his neck, then in the mere beside Tumbled it;
oilily bubbled up the mere. Pronounce aloud the words oilily bubbled ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Mr. Ruin was a Dig fat man, who spoke oilily. His clean-shaven face was never
without the remnants of a smile—a smile, though, which was not remarkable for ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1876)
"... as we had the pleasure of seeing him slip silently off the bank of the stream,
and dive oilily into the water, leaving a trail of bubbles behind him. ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1904)
"... oilily; the triumphant, almost audible roll inward of wandering fog-walls that
had been stalking us for two hours, and — welt upon welt, ..."
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