arrowily

English

Etymology

arrowy + -ly

Adverb

arrowily (comparative more arrowily, superlative most arrowily)

  1. In an arrowy manner; like an arrow.
    • 1897, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Representative Nonconformists, page 159:
      Now how all too often is the sermon huddled up without any attempt to individualize or to send arrowily home to each hearer what has been spoken.
    • 1924, D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush:
      But now, he would have love in his own way, haughtily, passionately, and darkly, with dark, arrowy desire, and a strange, arrowily-submissive woman.
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