yellowly
advEtymology From yellow + -ly.
1
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.
- 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.1930, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Love among the Haystacks. Chapter IV.”, in The Short Novels, volume I, London: William Heinemann, published 1956, →OCLC, page 25:
2 more examples
- 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.1938, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in Brighton Rock, London: Vintage, published 2002:
- She had a black cat. It regarded me yellowly through the window screen when I rang her doorbell.1958, Alfred Hayes, chapter 6, in My Face for the World to See, New York Review of Books, published 2013, page 19: