wispily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "From some far seaward cisterns of the air billows of fog poured down over the city of San Francisco; rebounding like smoke from the summer-heated fronts of hills, they settled in shady hollows and caught wispily at rows of trees."
- "“Yes,” said Julia, vaguely and wispily. “Yes, dear, you have.”"
- "A man and his dog were going to materialize, were going to appear out of thin air—wispily at first, becoming, finally, as substantial as any man and dog alive."
- "He caught a last glimpse of Mitzi’s large breasts bulging out above her brassiere, wispily veiled by the negligee."
- "But the fat man remains, as does the cashier, who is wispily blond, with a bony hillbilly nose and translucent white skin."
Etymology
From wispy + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more wispily (comparative)
most wispily (superlative)