sallowly

English

Etymology

sallow +‎ -ly

Adverb

sallowly (comparative more sallowly, superlative most sallowly)

  1. In a sallow manner.
    • 1914, Thomas Hardy, 'At a Watering-Place' in Satires of Circumstance, Macmillan, page 63:
      Where the far chalk cliffs, to the left displayed,
      Smile sallowly in the decline of day.
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