cakily

cakily

English

Etymology

    From caky + -ly.

    Adverb

    cakily (comparative more cakily, superlative most cakily)

    1. In a caky way.
      • 1956, The Tamarack Review:
        From what I remember now of those girls, all with their hair rolled on top of their heads, their lips darkly painted, their cheeks cakily powdered []
      • 1993, Madison Smartt Bell, Save Me, Joe Louis:
        He had been sleeping on top of the coverlet it seemed, and he still had on his swamp-stained pants, which had dried cakily along his legs.