wanly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She has the faded look of a St. James's Street illumination, as it may be seen of an early morning, when half the lamps are out, and the others are blinking wanly, as if they were about to vanish like ghosts before the dawn."
- "Having turned about, he kept his horse to a walk, and at this gait the sleighbells tinkled but intermittently. Gleaming wanly through the whitish vapour that kept rising from the trotter’s body and flanks, they were like tiny fog-bells, and made the only sounds in a great winter silence."
- "[…] [he] spent a lot of time wanly imagining how warm and secure marriage must make men feel […]"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more wanly (comparative)
most wanly (superlative)