The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mistily \Mist"i*ly\, adv. With mist; darkly; obscurely.
Wiktionary
adv. In a misty manner.
WordNet
adv. in a misty manner; "the summits of the mountains were mistily purple"
in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily" [syn: vaguely]
Usage examples of "mistily".
Mistily, wintrily, the group of buildings that comprised the federal parliament, the Bundeshaus, and the residences of the Chancellor and the President appeared white and isolated in their parkland on the far bank.
All dim and vague it was, a sensation, an emotion, a feeling, an instinct, an intuition, name it mistily as one will in the misty nomenclature of speech wherein words cheat with the impression of definiteness and lie to the brain an understanding which the brain does not possess.
He glimpsed the gibbous Earth, huge and mistily brilliant, so near that he felt he could almost touch the ragged white patch that was a cyclonic storm over Europe.
The party lying down would moan a good deal in their sleep, and I would often notice a man--not always the same man, it is to be understood, but nearly all of them at one time or other--sitting moaning at his oar, or in his place, as he looked mistily over the sea.
Mignureal pepped up, blinking mistily and showing him the best smile she could muster.
He could leave Ridgeley and finally go back to the mistily remembered place that had been his home as a small boy.