SLEEPILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sleepily mean? 

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

1. in a sleepy manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLEEPILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sleepy manner

Context example:

the two children who were snuggled sleepily in the back of the car

Pertainym:

sleepy (ready to fall asleep)

 Context examples 

Once, and twice, he sleepily brushed his nose with his paw.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Mr. Mugridge was sleepily spluttering that he was a gentleman’s son.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey side.

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

The carrier had a way of keeping his head down, like his horse, and of drooping sleepily forward as he drove, with one of his arms on each of his knees.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So sleepily helpless was I that she was compelled to hold me in my chair to prevent my being flung to the floor by the violent pitching of the schooner.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Bill began to eat sleepily.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“What now?” she asked sleepily, and, withal, curiously.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)