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English
Etymology
From stony + -ly.
Adverb
stonily (comparative more stonily, superlative most stonily)
- In a stony manner.
1862, “The Southern Confederacy”, in The Times:It was curious to remark the different mien and bearing of the other Federal prisoners who were taken yesterday […] . Some looked stonily and unconsciously forward […]
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 205:All their meagre breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes stared stonily up-hill.
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