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English
Etymology
From yellow + -ly.
Adverb
yellowly (comparative more yellowly, superlative most yellowly)
- In a yellow manner; with yellow colour.
- 1864, Henry T. Spicer, “Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy: Another Past Lodger Relates What Lot He Drew at Glumper House”, in All the Year Round, Extra Christmas Number, 1 December, 1864, Part 4, p. 28,
- After rice appeared the much-dreaded pie, glaring yellowly, with its coarse pretentious outside—prototype of many a living humbug—veiling one knows not what of false and vile.
1930, D H Lawrence, “Love among the Haystacks. Chapter IV.”, in The Short Novels, volume I, London: William Heinemann, published 1956, →OCLC, page 25:The light of the bicycle lamp sheered yellowly across the dark, catching a glint of raindrops, a mist of darkness, shadow of leaves and strokes of long grass.
1938, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in Brighton Rock, London: Vintage, published 2002:He showed his tartar-coated teeth in a fatherly smile. […] when he crossed the room, yellowly smiling, he might have been about to kiss the bride.
1958, Alfred Hayes, chapter 6, in My Face for the World to See, New York Review of Books, published 2013, page 19:She had a black cat. It regarded me yellowly through the window screen when I rang her doorbell.
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