cakily

adv

cakily

adv

Etymology From caky + -ly.

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In a caky way.

  • From what I remember now of those girls, all with their hair rolled on top of their heads, their lips darkly painted, their cheeks cakily powdered […]1956, The Tamarack Review:
  • He had been sleeping on top of the coverlet it seemed, and he still had on his swamp-stained pants, which had dried cakily along his legs.1993, Madison Smartt Bell, Save Me, Joe Louis:

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