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Webster 1913 Edition
Soily
Soil′y
,Adj.
Dirty; soiled.
[Obs.]
Fuller.
Definition 2024
soily
soily
English
Adjective
soily (comparative more soily, superlative most soily)
- (obsolete) Apt to stain.
- Dirty (now chiefly with soil).
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1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 9:
- A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.
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1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 9: