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  • adverb In a skinny way.

Etymologies

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skinny +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • It was therefore not the choicest moment for Fooaltiye to slink skinnily into view.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • It was therefore not the choicest moment for Fooaltiye to slink skinnily into view.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • It was therefore not the choicest moment for Fooaltiye to slink skinnily into view.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Polycarp Jenks came in, eyed Val and Manley from under one lifted, eyebrow, smiled skinnily, and pulled out a chair with a rasping noise, and sat down facing them.

    Lonesome Land B. M. Bower 1905

  • For the stranger was obviously an Eskimo, being flat and fat-visaged, black-and-straight haired, and seal-skinnily clad.

    Red Rooney The Last of the Crew 1859

  • As Barry Bonds, then skinnily stalking left field in Pittsburgh, fielded the ball, he must have been surprised to look up and see Sid

    Maize n Brew 2010

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