tinily

English

Etymology

tiny +‎ -ly

Adverb

tinily (comparative more tinily, superlative most tinily)

  1. In a tiny way.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 472:
      Robert Loo indeed sat as though trying to weave silence round himself, two tufts of cotton wool ineffectual valves, for the noise dwindled from a lion to ants as it met the soft obstacles, but, marching tinily rather than leaping with spread claws, still entered.
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