tinily
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tinily (comparative more tinily, superlative most tinily)
- In a tiny way.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 472:
- Robert Loo indeed sat as though trying to weave silence round himself, two tufts of cotton wool ineffectual valves, for the noise dwindled from a lion to ants as it met the soft obstacles, but, marching tinily rather than leaping with spread claws, still entered.