silkily

English

Etymology

From silky +‎ -ly.

Adverb

silkily (comparative more silkily, superlative most silkily)

  1. In a silky manner.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
      Gerty's were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and dark expressive brows. Time was when those brows were not so silkily seductive
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