Definitions

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  • adverb In a moist manner.

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  • adverb in a damp manner

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Examples

  • Dog poop everywhere, over among the leaves, and several items on the main path, already stepped in and moistly squashed.

    Margaret Atwood | Underbrush Man 2011

  • Just as a sommelier proudly poured local Xinjiang wine for us to sample, a cleaning attendant started running a mop under the table and moistly over our shoes.

    Beijing’s Almost-Perfect Hotel 2009

  • Just as a sommelier proudly poured local Xinjiang wine for us to sample, a cleaning attendant started running a mop under the table and moistly over our shoes.

    Beijing’s Almost-Perfect Hotel 2009

  • That's because you don't see all the moistly glistening comments and links that I have in my refuse bin.

    9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing 2009

  • His fingers pushed the collar of her blouse away from her neck as his warm lips moistly nuzzled the pulsing cord.

    Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

  • His fingers pushed the collar of her blouse away from her neck as his warm lips moistly nuzzled the pulsing cord.

    Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

  • Just as a sommelier proudly poured local Xinjiang wine for us to sample, a cleaning attendant started running a mop under the table and moistly over our shoes.

    Beijing’s Almost-Perfect Hotel 2009

  •  Old man Ellison lost it, his last thought a simple “No!” as his mind, his heart and his bowels all slipped out of conscious control, and he sank moistly to the floor.

    Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession 2010

  • I followed you into the maze giant hedges, moistly haze  all I could see was your blue skirt round the corners, all too pert your teasing giggles filled the air

    labyrinthine pf 2010

  • Stoddard, who sometimes styled himself “Pip Pepperpod,” had just returned from the Sandwich Islands and Tahiti, where he had tried unsuccessfully to cure himself of his attraction to men by taking long bracing walks on the beach and meditating moistly under the palms.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

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  • You are forbidden from ever using this word in my presence!

    January 2, 2007

  • That one's even worse than "zestful." ;P

    January 2, 2007

  • used to mean 'drunkenly' in The Returne from Pernassus (presumably auth. unknown):

    "Swaggering full moistly on a tauernes bench"

    September 30, 2010

  • That is kind of awesome.

    September 30, 2010