cakily

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English

Etymology

From caky +‎ -ly.

Adverb

cakily (comparative more cakily, superlative most cakily)

  1. In a caky way.
    • 1956, The Tamarack Review:
      From what I remember now of those girls, all with their hair rolled on top of their heads, their lips darkly painted, their cheeks cakily powdered []
    • 1993, Madison Smartt Bell, Save Me, Joe Louis:
      He had been sleeping on top of the coverlet it seemed, and he still had on his swamp-stained pants, which had dried cakily along his legs.