wispilyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

wispily (comparative more wispily, superlative most wispily)

1. In a wispy manner.
   • 1908, Mary Hunter Austin, Santa Lucia, New York: Harper, Chapter 22, p. 282,^[1]

     From some far seaward cisterns of the air billows of fog poured down over the city of San Francisco; rebounding like smoke from the summer-heated fronts of hills, they settled in shady hollows and caught wispily at rows of trees.

   • 1922, D. H. Lawrence, Aaron’s Rod, London: Martin Secker, Chapter 6, p. 64,^[2]

     “Yes,” said Julia, vaguely and wispily. “Yes, dear, you have.”

   • 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, 2006, Chapter 1, p. 2,^[3]

     A man and his dog were going to materialize, were going to appear out of thin air—wispily at first, becoming, finally, as substantial as any man and dog alive.

   • 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 196,^[4]

     He caught a last glimpse of Mitzi’s large breasts bulging out above her brassiere, wispily veiled by the negligee.

   • 1991, Douglas Coupland, Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, OCLC 22510632, page 64:

     But the fat man remains, as does the cashier, who is wispily blond, with a bony hillbilly nose and translucent white skin.