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Meaning of "lankily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LANKILY

lankily  [ˈlæŋkɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LANKILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lankily 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 LANKILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lankily in the English dictionary

The definition of lankily in the dictionary is awkwardly; in a lanky way.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LANKILY


cheekily
ˈtʃiːkɪlɪ
chunkily
ˈtʃʌŋkɪlɪ
cockily
kɒkɪlɪ
crankily
ˈkræŋkɪlɪ
funkily
ˈfʌŋkɪlɪ
huskily
ˈhʌskɪlɪ
jerkily
ˈdʒɜːkɪlɪ
kinkily
ˈkɪŋkɪlɪ
luckily
ˈlʌkɪlɪ
quirkily
ˈkwɜːkɪlɪ
shakily
ˈʃeɪkɪlɪ
skilly
ˈskɪlɪ
slinkily
ˈslɪŋkɪlɪ
smokily
ˈsməʊkɪlɪ
sneakily
ˈsniːkɪlɪ
spookily
ˈspuːkɪlɪ
spunkily
ˈspʌŋkɪlɪ
sulkily
ˈsʌlkɪlɪ
swankily
ˈswæŋkɪlɪ
unluckily
ʌnˈlʌkɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LANKILY

laniard
laniaries
laniary
laniferous
lanigerous
lanital
lank
Lankester
lankier
lankiest
lankiness
lankly
lankness
lanky
lanner
lanneret
lanolated
lanolin
lanoline
lanose

WORDS THAT END LIKE LANKILY

flakily
flukily
friskily
gawkily
murkily
pawkily
perkily
peskily
pluckily
pockily
pokily
riskily
rockily
silkily
snakily
snarkily
spikily
stickily
streakily
trickily

Synonyms and antonyms of lankily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lankily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LANKILY

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

Translator English - Chinese

lankily
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lankily
570 millions of speakers

English

lankily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

lankily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

lankily
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

lankily
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lankily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

lankily
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lankily
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lankily
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

lankily
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

lankily
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

lankily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lankily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lankily
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

lankily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Lankily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lankily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lankily
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lankily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

lankily
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lankily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

lankily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lankily
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lankily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lankily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lankily

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LANKILY»

The term «lankily» is normally little used and occupies the 136.100 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LANKILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lankily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lankily» 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 lankily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LANKILY»

Discover the use of lankily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lankily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Keepsake
The traveller approached, hanging his head on one side, his thin fair hair blowing lankily in the breeze; and, peering up at Simon with a pair of large light blue eyes, he exclaimed— “ Wale, my goot sair, air you de possesseur of de peectures I ...
Frederic Mansel Reynolds, 1840
2
The Pyrenees: West and East
Their faces, countenances rather, were expressive of contentment, and so perfectly were they at their ease that the very muscles of their tails relaxed, and the usual spiral terminations hung lankily in the water. For full half an hour is each pig ...
Charles Richard Weld, 1859
3
Redemption Kills
Koso nodded his consent and followed the tall and lankily built Feodor into his home. The door opened into the plane's cavernous cargo area, which could easily hold a hundred and twenty tons. There was a crate of Stolichnaya Vodka just ...
L. W. Wedgwood, 2012
4
All's well that end well, by M.M.S.
as a most kindly looking old man, with snow-white hair, which hung somewhat lankily on his neck, and that he was apparently very feeble, and leant heavily on a strong oaken stick. She had also, she said, one day when leaning over the gate  ...
M M. S, 1870
5
Great Writers, Great Loves: The Reinvention of Love in the ...
totally uninspired, unmanageably and lankily tall' and 'wouldn't have anything to do with [her] kind'. Her mother, the eccentric Lady Victoria Sackville, used to audibly lament her daughter's great ugliness. But by the age of seventeen, Vita had ...
Ann-Marie Priest, 2006
6
Heading South
His skin glowed. I could hardly take my eyes off him. I drank him in, trying not to be too obvious about it. It didn't take long for my husband to notice the state I was in, though, and when Legba got up to walk lankily down towards the water, my ...
Danny Laferrière, 2009
7
Thunderbird Falls (Luna) (The Walker Papers - Book 3)
I shot to my feet, clutching my nose more cautiously, and stared accusingly at Coyote. “This is the realm of the dead, Joanne,” he said with a shrug. He was back in coyote form, his narrow shoulders twitching lankily. “It's not a place for healing.
C.E. Murphy, 2011
8
Romance: Easyread Large Bold Edition
The second mate was lankily stalking the deck, his hands in his pockets. As he paused in his walk to spit into the sea beside me, Carlos said: “And you, my Juan, what will you do in this Jamaica?” The sense that we were approaching land was  ...
Joseph Conrad, 2009
9
Mindless Emotions
I had met him at the church and had a similar philosophy to life and we even ended up in the same development groups and circles, which is where he found out about my need for lodgings and offered me his home. His tall frame lankily ...
Douglas Page, 2011
10
Angels Ten!
The first time I set eyes on this tall, lankily built young man with his shock of unruly hair and a perpetually shy quizzical expression, was on the platform at Exeter station in the Spring of 1940. I was on my way south to Babbacombe Reception ...
Richard Gilman, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LANKILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lankily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How The Hamptons Rocked To George Plimpton's July 4th …
Plimpton, who was tall, but lankily unthreatening, had made his reputation with a series of books in which he took part in various professional ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
2
Peter Watson: exquisite taste in art, if not in men
Lankily elegant, dressed in exquisitely cut double-breasted suits, and with the face 'of a frog just as he is turning into a prince', Watson wafts in ... «Spectator.co.uk, May 15»
3
Review: Nick Cave, Hall One, Sage Gateshead
Cave points in his face, lankily malevolent and I think he might turn him to stone. Most albums get a look in, with a host from his latest, Push The ... «The Journal, Apr 15»
4
Henry Hudson: the artist remodelling Hogarth's work from plasticine
A lankily affable figure in a beaten-in trilby, with a somewhat languid manner that conceals considerable energy and determination, Hudson ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
5
Late Late Toy Show kids steal the show from Tubridy
... Jack-in-the-box and a tweedy inventor and lankily dances himself to breathlessness. Having a bit of competition from TV3's Toy Show is good ... «Irish Times, Nov 14»
6
'The Blue Room' is an art film wannabe
Amalric plays Julien, a married tractor salesman who has a series of hotel trysts with the lankily sensual, enigmatic Esther (Stéphanie Cléau, ... «Christian Science Monitor, Oct 14»
7
Jimmy Page reflects on Led Zeppelin
... finger-picked chord progression on Stairway to Heaven, then sprawls lankily on a red velvet couch. "Led Zeppelin only went there once. «Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 14»
8
Excerpt From "Here's Your Chance, Do Your Dance: A Space Jam …
Blanko lankily looks down at Jordan on the Space Jam court — which, again, corresponds to the realities that NBA fans witnessed when ... «Hardwood Paroxysm, Aug 14»
9
Snoop Dogg @ Upstate Concert Hall, 7/11/14
They had been since shortly after 9 p.m., more than two hours before a sunglassed Snoop lankily meandered onstage. Despite the venue's ... «Albany Times Union, Jul 14»
10
Oh Texas, My Texas
As gun-loving and macho as he is, I am 100 percent sure Kilgore would never saunter lankily into a Chipotle with an assault rifle. He would not ... «The Epoch Times, Jun 14»

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