NAKEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nakedly mean? 

• NAKEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb NAKEDLY has 2 senses:

1. in an exposed manner; without protection or defense

2. without clothing

  Familiarity information: NAKEDLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAKEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an exposed manner; without protection or defense

Context example:

they were attacked as they huddled nakedly on the bare hill

Pertainym:

naked (having no protecting or concealing cover)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without clothing

Context example:

Henriette saw the weaving figure of an Apache warrior reel nakedly on a pony and rush by with a rifle raised

Pertainym:

naked (completely unclothed)

 Context examples 

They were eyes that masked the soul with a thousand guises, and that sometimes opened, at rare moments, and allowed it to rush up as though it were about to fare forth nakedly into the world on some wonderful adventure,—eyes that could brood with the hopeless sombreness of leaden skies; that could snap and crackle points of fire like those which sparkle from a whirling sword; that could grow chill as an arctic landscape, and yet again, that could warm and soften and be all a-dance with love-lights, intense and masculine, luring and compelling, which at the same time fascinate and dominate women till they surrender in a gladness of joy and of relief and sacrifice.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)