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Definition of Oozily
1. oozy [adv] - See also: oozy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oozily
Literary usage of Oozily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley (1922)
"The melody wallowed oozily along, like a ship moving forward over a sleek and
oily swell. The four-legged creature, more graceful, more harmonious in its ..."
2. The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755: Under Major by Winthrop Sargent, Robert Orme, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1855)
"... whose current it so far guides, trickle oozily down through a swampy bed.
Great trees grew within and along this chasm, arid the usual smaller growth ..."
3. 14,000 Miles Through the Air by Ross Macpherson Smith (1922)
"The waters of the Shatt-el-Arab, heavily impregnated with mud, resemble the
outflow from a mud geyser, swirling and boiling; they move oozily forward as ..."
4. Life in Spain: Past and Present by Walter Thornbury (1860)
"... recalling to me in a dream that night one of those unctuous London eating-
houses, where a greasy steam trickles ever oozily down the window-glass, ..."
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