CRISPLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crisply mean? 

• CRISPLY (adverb)
  The adverb CRISPLY has 1 sense:

1. in a well delineated manner

  Familiarity information: CRISPLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRISPLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a well delineated manner

Synonyms:

crisply; sharply

Context example:

the new style of Minoan pottery was sharply defined

Pertainym:

crisp ((of something seen or heard) clearly defined)

 Context examples 

The full moon was shining brightly, and the air was crisply cold.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our footfalls rang out crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors’ quarter, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into Oxford Street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If she were heading south-west as Johnson had said, the wind, then, I calculated, was blowing nearly from the south. The fog was gone, and in its place the sun sparkled crisply on the surface of the water, I turned to the east, where I knew California must lie, but could see nothing save low-lying fog-banks—the same fog, doubtless, that had brought about the disaster to the Martinez and placed me in my present situation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)