murkily

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English

Etymology

From murky +‎ -ly.

Adverb

murkily (comparative more murkily, superlative most murkily)

  1. In a murky way.
    • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 16:
      That quivering wail from the billabong lying murkily mystic towards the East was only the cry of the fearing curlew.