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moonily

adv. in a dreamy manner; "`She would look beautiful in the new dress,' Tommy said dreamily" [syn: dreamily, dreamfully]

Usage examples of "moonily".

Drink of faith in the brains a full draught Before the oration: beware Lest rhetoric moonily waft Whither horrid activities snare.

The tables about the floor were full and twenty couples moved moonily now to a foxtrot.

As the ladies pressed closer, touching, tittering, and gazing moonily up at him from big dewy eyes, he decided, on the basis of some of the touching, that he was far from deceased.

It sported a computer, a phone and a half-full mug of coffee, showing a cartoon boy and girl leaning against each other with moonily romantic expressions.

She turned her attention to Fanny Whitcombe, who, ensconced in the corner of the opposite divan, was staring moonily at a painting of a Madonna and Child hanging on the wall.