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Meaning of "fishily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FISHILY

fishily  [ˈfɪʃɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FISHILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fishily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES FISHILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of fishily in the English dictionary

The definition of fishily in the dictionary is in a suspicious or doubtful way.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FISHILY


botchily
ˈbɒtʃɪlɪ
bunchily
ˈbʌntʃɪlɪ
bushily
ˈbʊʃɪlɪ
chile
ˈtʃɪlɪ
chili
ˈtʃɪlɪ
chilli
ˈtʃɪlɪ
chilly
ˈtʃɪlɪ
flashily
ˈflæʃɪlɪ
grouchily
ˈɡraʊtʃɪlɪ
gushily
ˈɡʌʃɪlɪ
mushily
ˈmʌʃɪlɪ
patchily
ˈpætʃɪlɪ
preachily
ˈpriːtʃɪlɪ
punchily
ˈpʌntʃɪlɪ
raunchily
ˈrɔːntʃɪlɪ
sketchily
ˈskɛtʃɪlɪ
starchily
ˈstɑːtʃɪlɪ
touchily
ˈtʌtʃɪlɪ
trashily
ˈtræʃɪlɪ
twitchily
ˈtwɪtʃɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FISHILY

fishgig
Fishguard
fishier
fishiest
fishify
fishiness
fishing
fishing boat
fishing expedition
fishing fleet
fishing ground
fishing harbour
fishing industry
fishing line
fishing net
fishing permit
fishing port
fishing rod
fishing tackle
fishing village

WORDS THAT END LIKE FISHILY

breathily
cushily
fleshily
healthily
lengthily
pithily
plushily
praiseworthily
scripophily
shily
splashily
squashily
stealthily
techily
toothily
unhealthily
unworthily
washily
wishy-washily
worthily

Synonyms and antonyms of fishily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fishily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FISHILY

Find out the translation of fishily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fishily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fishily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

有鬼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fishily
570 millions of speakers

English

fishily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

fishily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

fishily
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подозрительно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fishily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সন্দিহানভাবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fishily
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengan bersungguh-sungguh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fishily
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

fishily
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

fishily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing wayah bengi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính không minh bạch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

fishily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मादक द्रव्ये
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fishily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fishily
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fishily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підозріло
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fishily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

fishily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verdacht
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fishily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fishily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fishily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FISHILY»

The term «fishily» is used very little and occupies the 181.207 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FISHILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fishily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fishily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fishily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FISHILY»

Discover the use of fishily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fishily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sailloons and Fliptackers: The Limits to High-speed Sailing
lie. fishily. Mated. and. HUM. sail. operated well enough at small angles of attack to give the desired performance when beating to windward at high speed. Inclined to windward at about 30° the fixed sail produced true lift and cancelled listing ...
Bernard Smith, 1989
2
Gray Wolf
The wolf cubs will feed on their mother's milk for at least five weeks The pack stays nearby to protect the female and her cubs. Ift. -fishily. affair. V. All the wolves help dig a den in which the female gives birth. This is usually a hole in ...
Jill Bailey, 2004
3
Democracy
Jessie had put down the menu and stared at him, he imagined fishily, from under the straw tennis visor she had worn to dinner. Jessie had stared at him fishily from under her tennis visor and Adlai had wanted the New York stripper medium  ...
Joan Didion, 2011
4
The Imperial edition [of the works of C. Dickens
I went on with my breakfast, and Mr. Pumblechook continued to stand over me, staring fishily and breathing noisily, as he always did. " Little more than skin and bone!" mused Mr. Pumblechook aloud. " And yet when he went away from here (I  ...
Charles Dickens, 1903
5
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a ...
I communicated to Benttie what you naid of his book in your last letter to me. He writes to me thus : ' You judge very fishily in sup posing that Dr. Johnson's favourable opinion of my book must give me great delight. Indeed it is impossible foi me ...
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, John Wilson Croker, 1859
6
The Bookman
... and genteel look ; the windows, all but a very few, had glass in every lozen, every shutter had a hole to let in the morning light, and each door had its little ford of stones running across the gutter that sped down the street, smelling fishily a bit , ...
7
Great Expectations and Hard Times
I went on with my breakfast, and Mr. Pumblechook continued to stand over me, staring fishily and breathing noisily, as he always did. " Little more than skin and bone ! " mused Mr. Pumblechook, aloud. " And yet when he went away from here (I ...
Charles Dickens, 1869
8
Modern Italian poets: essays and versions
Seated there in the sun, with his eye on the work of the painter Fishily fixed, while the master blasphemed behind his mustaches. "Much have I envied your Art, who vouchsafeth to those who adore her Visions of heavenly splendor denied to ...
William Dean Howells, 1885
9
Glub!
Penny Little. Lucky didn't much like being in the sink. He looked at Jim fishily. ' Don't worry,' said Jim, 'your bowl will be sparkling clean soon.' 'Glub,' glubbed Lucky. Jim was drying the clean bowl when Dad went to.
Penny Little, 2010
10
Born Confused
His slight frame swam in overalls and a muscle tank, gold-toned arms raying from it, skin aglow as if torchlit from the inside. His deep-red-purple hair scuffed out in chunks as if he'd been sleeping on it wrong and his eyes wisped fishily ...
Tanuja Desai Hidier, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FISHILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fishily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Flaunting fashions on the Kings Road
Or the foreigners. For there they are, hordes of them, all walking solemnly up and down, all gawping fishily at the King's Road stately Moslems ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
The Stacks: Jack Kerouac Was the Winston Churchill of the Beats
... “and are highly respected by the university intellectuals whereas Kerouac is regarded very fishily as a simpleminded athletic type run amok. «Daily Beast, Jun 15»
3
Exclusive 1st Look at Disneyland's 60th Anniversary Celebrations
No one knows that better than rob fishily who's worked at the park for more than 40 years and was there opening day when this photo was ... «ABC News, May 15»
4
How Tom Hardy Became Hollywoods Biggest Badass
... “and are highly respected by the university intellectuals whereas Kerouac is regarded very fishily as a simpleminded athletic type run amok. «Daily Beast, May 15»
5
Do Scots Want to Be Their Own Country or Not?
Part of the difference may be Nicola Sturgeon, who replaced the similarly fishily named Alex Salmond as party leader after the referendum last ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
6
How the solar eclipse and vernal equinox have cast shadows across …
Fishily, Rider Haggard had used a similar plot device four years earlier in King Solomon's Mines, but both authors were drawing on a story told ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
7
The Thomas Lord, restaurant review: This cheerleader for …
Among the starters, Portland crab stood out, the white crabmeat served with fishily dense brown crab custard, and the contrasting bite of ... «The Independent, Jan 15»
8
Foxcatcher and Into the Woods
But I could have told you that from the moment he fishily greets Schultz and says “I am an ornithologist”, then hands the illiterate wrestler one of ... «The Sunday Times, Jan 15»
9
Recounting 10 top foods of 2014
Fishily! ST_Nranola. Sweltering heat, jangled pedestrians and the lone me searching for the complete chilled ice blended coffee. Till date the ... «The News on Sunday, Jan 15»
10
Hanukkah's Real (And Imagined) History
But the rabbis later on said no, no, no, no - there's something fishily human about Hanukkah. And it's not mentioned in the Torah or in the Bible, ... «NPR, Dec 14»

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