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UK
/dɹˈiːmɪli/
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ADVERB
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in a dreamy manner
`She would look beautiful in the new dress,' Tommy said dreamily
How To Use dreamily In A Sentence
- Hours of all the chanceful fortunes of a soldier's life, in hill-wars and desert raids, passed in memory through his thoughts now where he was stretched; looking dreamily through the film of his smoke at the city of tents, and the reclining forms of camels, and the tall, white slowly moving shapes of the lawless marauders of the sand plains. Under Two Flags
- On this morning she was softly and shyly radiant. Her eyes were dreamily bright, her cheeks genuine peachblow, her expression a happy one, tinged with reminiscence.
- A spaced-out teen gazes dreamily into the camera, slowly blinking her eyes.
- A demitasse of Turkish coffee, so dreamily dense I feel its gently sandy texture on my lips, chaperones a cube of pale golden Turkish delight.
- She quietly and dreamily lowered herself into his arms, and he methodically marched off with her.
- This was all too easy, he thought, as he gathered her up in his arms, her feet over one and her neck drooping dreamily downwards over the other.
- And withal, as he lounged in the fire-light, dreamily turning his love-letter, he had a sort of superphysical beauty, reflected of the glow that many waters cannot quench. Judith of the Plains
- Now, how sorry we feel for those other globe trotters on the launch, birring along behind a hot, bubbling, puffing, steam kettle -- and so crowded, and in this heat too, whilst we extend at our ease in a white and sky-blue boat, with pink cushions, and dreamily listen to the silky frou frou of the southern sea. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
- Fenwick went on to the ending of the cigar, dreamily wondering, evidently "bustled" like the Baron. Somehow Good
- Her eyes were dreamily bright, her cheeks genuine peachblow, her expression The Four Million