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Mistily

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mist·y  (mst)
adj. mist·i·er, mist·i·est
1. Consisting of or marked by mist: a misty rain; a misty night.
2. Obscured or clouded by or as if by mist: far-off, misty mountains.
3.
a. Vague; hazy: a misty recollection of a dream.
b. Full of tender emotion; sentimental: a love story that left us feeling misty and sad.

misti·ly adv.
misti·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.Mistily - in a misty mannermistily - in a misty manner; "the summits of the mountains were mistily purple"
2.mistily - in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily"


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Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope.
A great deal of blood was taken before the captain opened his eyes and looked mistily about him.
He possessed a dim, vague, imperative knowingness that it was not merely not good, but supremely disastrous, leading to the mistily glimpsed sense of utter endingness for a dog, for any dog, to go into the water where slipped and slid and noiselessly paddled, sometimes on top, sometimes emerging from the depths, great scaly monsters, huge-jawed and horribly-toothed, that snapped down and engulfed a dog in an instant just as the fowls of Mister Haggin snapped and engulfed grains of corn.
 
 
 
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