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Snugly

Snugly \Snug"ly\, adv. In a snug manner; closely; safely.

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snugly

adv. tightly, with limited space to move, in a snug manner.

WordNet
snugly
  1. adv. fitting closely; "the vest fit snugly"

  2. safely protected; "concealed snugly in his hideout"

  3. warmly and comfortably sheltered; "sittly snugly by the fireside while the storm raged"

Usage examples of "snugly".

Grandmother had swathed Alise snugly in a blanket, folding it around her and tucking in the ends as a mother swaddles a newborn babe.

Have we not shivered with cold, all the glowering, gloomy month of May, because, the august front-parlor having undergone the spring cleaning, the andirons were snugly tied up in tissue-paper, and an elegant frill of the same material was trembling before the mouth of the once glowing fireplace?

Pavoniaso that the terrible Captain Argal passed on totally unsuspicious that a sturdy little Dutch settlement lay snugly couched in the mud, under cover of all this pestilent vapor.

When Avis was stretched atop him with his organ snugly captured, he chuckled.

They were the usual wireless fitments, bakelite knobs fitting snugly to the steel shafts that projected from the front panel.

Its bright black flue pipe fits snugly into the smudged old fireplace of ugly fieldstones.

He leaned, twisting to reach for Jamie, who lifted him gently from my arms and cradled him against a shoulder, pulling the woolly cap down snugly over his ears.

Qasaman snorted, but otherwise ignored everyone except his mojo as Kreel wrapped the red ribbon snugly around his neck and sealed the ends together.

The two days between the first tackies and the snugly fitting ones I now wore were the beginning of the end of my small childhood, a bridge of time that would shape my life to come.

Jahna was startled to see the tangling infant she had returned to the nursery packed snugly into the bottom of the basket.

The doctor implanted an ultramicroscopic device, a sort of converter shaped to let the sperm enter at one end, pass easily through the cell wall, and sail through to the other end, snapped snugly over the egg nucleus.

Below all that, on the deepest level of all, is the zygote bank, ten thousand fertilized ova tucked away snugly in permafreeze spansules, and enough additional sperm and unfertilized ova to maintain significant genetic diversity as the succeeding generations of the colony unfold.

With each step she took, the slit sides in the overdress gave tantalizing glimpses of her voluptuous figure, so snugly encased in the undergown.

Much to the relief of my wounded essence, the towering demon shrank and shimmered and adjusted itself down to fit the pentacle more snugly.

The white linen slacks that fitted her body snugly, her stomach was rounded, not plump but firm flesh like a peach, there was a scent as of ripe, overripe, fruit about her, perfumy perspiration, talcumy deodorant, the halter sweater was low-cut, like no sweater any woman of her age would wear in Willowsville, it had ridden up at her waist to reveal the soft pale of her midriff.