weedily

English

Etymology

weedy +‎ -ly

Adverb

weedily (comparative more weedily, superlative most weedily)

1. In a weedy manner; feebly.
   • 2013 September 9, Paul MacInnes, “Can a Song Save Your Life?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Or to put it another way: could a song end your life? Could just one number, performed weedily by Keira Knightley at the beginning of this romcom, cause your body to self-combust at the prospect of enduring 90-odd minutes of a movie obsessed with authenticity but as phoney as a Miley Cyrus dance routine?

2. In a weedy state; full of weeds.
   • 1873, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 46, page 562:

     The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]