thickly
/ˈθɪkli
/adverb
1In a way that creates a wide piece of something: the meat was too thickly cut and impossible to chew thickly sliced bread...
- The wood has to be cut thickly and is prone to warping and damage by woodworm.
- It's a thickly knit and roughly textured 13-by-13-foot disk.
- Four works consist of thickly built up parchments of handmade paper imprinted with sections of maps.
1.1In a way that covers or fills something with a deep layer: the paint has been applied thickly a field thickly coated with snow a thickly carpeted floor thickly padded gloves...
- Thinly applied paint dries in a matter of minutes, thickly applied paint in hours - much quicker than oils.
- The paint is thickly poured on the plywood, then polished down to 1/16 of an inch.
- Colors and flesh tones were all natural and bright with blacks being thickly solid.
2In a closely compacted or crowded manner: a thickly populated area thickly forested hillsides...
- The author doles out the technical details, sometimes too thickly, along the way.
- One stream ran under the concrete bridge by the sycamore where sweet primroses were spreading thickly.
- The formula conventions are troweled on pretty thickly.
3 informal In a stupid manner: "Isn’t he a politician?" I say rather thickly...
- "Eh?" he said, thickly.
- "You took the money?" "To buy you a present," he said. Thickly. Indignantly. "Great. Great. How did you know I wanted a monster truck?"
4With a hoarse or husky voice; indistinctly: "You woke me up," he said thickly...
- In his thickly stentorian voice, he replied: "That, I think, would just be too much."
- "There used to be six men," said Morgan thickly.
- "She was at my house," she said thickly, choking back tears.
4.1(With reference to an accent) in a way that is very marked and difficult to understand: the actors speak in thickly accented English...
- The song details the duo's love for their fair city, creating imagery with their thickly accented drawls over some lovely reed whistles.
- Using a series of masks, the actor plays four characters, including the thickly accented "Bulgonian" filmmaker turned custodian.
- The woman translating in our earphones was sthickly Russian-accented.