stonily
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]stonily (comparative more stonily, superlative most stonily)
- In a stony manner.
- 1862, “The Southern Confederacy”, in The Times:
- It was curious to remark the different mien and bearing of the other Federal prisoners who were taken yesterday […] . Some looked stonily and unconsciously forward […]
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205:
- All their meagre breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes stared stonily up-hill.