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Definition of Drearily
1. Adverb. In a cheerless manner. "In August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future"
Definition of Drearily
1. adv. Gloomily; dismally.
Definition of Drearily
1. Adverb. In a dreary manner ¹
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Definition of Drearily
1. dreary [adv] - See also: dreary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drearily
Literary usage of Drearily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"HOW EERILY, HOW drearily. How eerily, how drearily, how wearily to pine, When my
love's in a foreign land, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"THE rain comes plashing in my face ; The whispering wind blows by grimace ; The
clouds reel on with quickening pace, ' As the rain sobs drearily. ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"imaginative, fancy pictures, on which humanity starves and cannot live; not a
mesa of that manna I drearily eulogized a while ago, which indeed at first ..."
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