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- adverb In a
waxy way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Deathly pale and grinning waxily - that disembodied smile robbed, it almost seems, from another discarded dummy - he is moving and talking with sort of desperate swagger.
Archive 2009-06-01 Mark Reckons 2009
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Deathly pale and grinning waxily - that disembodied smile robbed, it almost seems, from another discarded dummy - he is moving and talking with sort of desperate swagger.
Matthew Parris is spot on comme d'habitude Mark Reckons 2009
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Her face was waxily lit by a streetlamp half a block away; they sometimes parked in a hidden place he knew from his childhood walks, at the back of the Dairy Queen lot on Cedar Top.
The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006
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Her face was waxily lit by a streetlamp half a block away; they sometimes parked in a hidden place he knew from his childhood walks, at the back of the Dairy Queen lot on Cedar Top.
The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006
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Deathly pale and grinning waxily, he is moving and talking with a sort of desperate swagger.
nst online 2009
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