thicklythick‧ly /ˈθɪkli/ adverb - A slattern brought his own meal, a thickly spiced bowl of soup.
- He was a stout man with a bald crown round which a ruff of brown hair grew thickly.
- He was in a blue uniform coat that was thickly encrusted with gold loops and edged with black astrakhan fur.
- It has a thickly soft, two-beat thud, like the sound of a heavy door being repeatedly opened and shut.
- Peel off the skins and thickly slice the potatoes.
- The snow was driving down so thickly that the windscreen-wiper couldn't keep the glass free of it.
► thickly populated/wooded etc- Its thickly wooded shores, pastoral rivers and mercurial weather draw naturalists and artists.
- Most of northern Calabria is mountainous and thickly wooded with pine, silver fir and maple.
- Of all the nearby hills, its pinnacle was closest to their mountain, and it was the most thickly wooded.
- Take the footpath beside the Esk, here thickly wooded with birch and ash, for a hundred yards or so upstream.
- The land over the hill was thickly wooded.
- The spacious stone house had originally been one of three sharing the same hilly and thickly wooded parcel of land.
- We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area.
- When the air became more thickly populated, such extravagant forms disappeared.
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