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Definition of Muggily
1. in a muggy manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muggily
Literary usage of Muggily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prejudices: Fifth Series by Henry Louis Mencken (1919)
"... of bold and forthright thinking, of the unafraid statement of ideas, he stated
his own so warily and so muggily that they were ratified on the one hand ..."
2. About Ceylon and Borneo: Being an Account of Two Visits to Ceylon, One to by Walter J. Clutterbuck (1892)
"The climate at Mount Lavinia is so muggily hot, I would say if it were English
so damply hot, that although I fancy the thermometer never goes beyond 86° ..."
3. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor by Thomas L. Masson (1903)
""Where do you want to go?" said the ticket clerk, somewhat pointedly. There was
a pause, while the inebriated one muggily reflected, and then he blandly and ..."
4. Letters of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904)
"It has rained almost every day and moreover been muggily sultry. Every dog has
chosen this June to have his day in, impatient of his star's delay. ..."
5. Mrs. Private Peat, by Herself by Louisa Watson Peat (1918)
"The day was muggily warm. There was a steady, drizzling down-pour of fine rain;
gloom and murk of weather seemed the only stage setting to a pageant of ..."
6. Prejudices: Fifth Series by Henry Louis Mencken (1919)
"... of bold and forthright thinking, of the unafraid statement of ideas, he stated
his own so warily and so muggily that they were ratified on the one hand ..."
7. About Ceylon and Borneo: Being an Account of Two Visits to Ceylon, One to by Walter J. Clutterbuck (1892)
"The climate at Mount Lavinia is so muggily hot, I would say if it were English
so damply hot, that although I fancy the thermometer never goes beyond 86° ..."
8. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor by Thomas L. Masson (1903)
""Where do you want to go?" said the ticket clerk, somewhat pointedly. There was
a pause, while the inebriated one muggily reflected, and then he blandly and ..."
9. Letters of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904)
"It has rained almost every day and moreover been muggily sultry. Every dog has
chosen this June to have his day in, impatient of his star's delay. ..."
10. Mrs. Private Peat, by Herself by Louisa Watson Peat (1918)
"The day was muggily warm. There was a steady, drizzling down-pour of fine rain;
gloom and murk of weather seemed the only stage setting to a pageant of ..."
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