Deathly
['deθlɪ] or ['dɛθli]
Definition
(a.) Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
(adv.) Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
Inputed by Eunice
Examples
- Trenor's eye had the haggard look of the sleep-walker waked on a deathly ledge. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- What you are is a foul, deathly thing, obscene, that's what you are, obscene and perverse. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But it seemed so mysterious, with its white and deathly smile. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You belong to that old, deathly way of living--then go back to it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She saw him, how he was motionless and ageless, like some crouching idol, some image of a deathly religion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A thick, sulphurous smoke was spread around, and in this the two men were struggling, locked in a deathly grip. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Already the gay dance vanished, the green sward was strewn with corpses, the blue air above became fetid with deathly exhalations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I WAS wrong to go on all those years with Hermione--it was a deathly process. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr. Bulstrode's usual paleness had in fact taken an almost deathly hue. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You WANT US to be deathly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A strange, deathly yearning carried him along with her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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