meaningly
With an implied meaning; with significance; meaningfully.
Adverb
- With an implied meaning; with significance; meaningfully.
- Fascinated, she stood shaken ungovernably by its horrible suggestiveness, while above and about her the trees shivered meaningly. - 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable...
- Ada opened the album at one of its maroon markers meaningly inserted here and there, glanced once, reclicked the clasp, handed the grinning blackmailer a thousand-dollar note that she happened to have in her bag,...
Origin
From Middle English meningli, menyngli, equivalent to meaning + -ly.