spryly

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English

Etymology

From spry +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

spryly (comparative more spryly, superlative most spryly)

  1. In a spry manner.
    • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 579:
      But now an express had rolled up and the old man was disappearing quite spryly inside one of its doors.