thickly

Definition

In a thick manner.

Etymology

From Middle English thikly; equivalent to thick + -ly.

Example Sentences

• "In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat."
• "These he held aside, ushering her into a dark sanctuary resinously scented and thickly carpeted with pine needles."
• "Through the thickly wooded and precipitous slopes on either side of the line there are one or two short rock tunnels."