thickly

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In the same way, others are thickly dear to themselves.

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Quick take

spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue; "after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly"

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adverb

spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue; "after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly"

adverb

in a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built"; "a thickly populated area"

adverb

with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for thickly.

adverb

spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue; "after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly"

adverb

in a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built"; "a thickly populated area"

adverb

with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick"

adverb

with thickness; in a thick manner; "spread 1/4 lb softened margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the surface"; "we were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt"

adverb

in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick"

Example sentences

In the same way, others are thickly dear to themselves.

Unless it is thickly sliced you might not even need to heat it up in the oven/toaster.

At what point is the satire become so thickly veiled that it's not actually satire?

People in this space live in a thickly-lined bubble if they think something like Evernote is changing the world.

You'd get naked, put on your helmet and enter the spray-chamber that will coat your body thickly and evenly.

It will not work on your driveway, on a sidewalk, etc.. you need a thickly skinned surface of copper or aluminum for it to work at all.

I refer to ad blogging, or "promotional" blogging, where people write articles that are sometimes quite thickly-veiled adds, puts a bunch of banners around it and make people read it.

Typical Cringley "take this little fact, coat thickly with histrionics and invective to drive clicks, and declare yourself a genius insider when the little fact turns out to be true".

That article did indeed "cover" their digital-first strategy, but it was thickly laden with sarcasm, their heavy-handed ideal of gender politics, and plain old lack of clarity.

Wrenches, screwdrivers, old parts, old motorcycles, new parts, new motorcycles, sales literature, inner tubes, all scattered so thickly and clutteredly you cant even see the workbenches under them.

A similar method that springs to mind is Android's native build system ndk-build, which is a thickly-veiled GNU make where you basically include targets that do something with a lot of variables you set beforehand.

I'm talking about a place so thickly populated by low-income Mexican migrant workers that there are actually more hispanic markets than normal American supermarkets.

The pashalik of Jerusalem is already twice as thickly populated as the United States, having fifty-two souls to the square mile, and not 25% of them Jews ..... [We] must be prepared either to drive out by the sword the [Arab] tribes in possession as our forefathers did or to grapple with the problem of a large alien population, mostly Mohammedan and accustomed for centuries to despise us.