rustfully
English
Etymology
rustful + -ly
Adverb
rustfully (comparative more rustfully, superlative most rustfully)
- In a rustful manner.
- 1893, The Japan Daily Mail - Volume 20, page 533:
- Her sister, the Nevada, is reposing “rustfully” in the Alexandra Dock, Liverpool.
- 2013 Authumn, A Vickery, “Roadside; Contagious feeling”, in Island, number 132:
- Load bearing Chrome butterflies that wreathe rustfully around my breast.
- 2013, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin: A Novel, →ISBN:
- He turned his slat chair, property of the house, squealing rustfully in the joints, so that he could not see the kitchen window.
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