shily
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
shily (comparative more shily, superlative most shily)
- Archaic form of shyly.
- 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, vol. 1, p. 138:
- There are nations whose commodities are looked shily upon by merchants....
References[edit]
- “shily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.