FRESHLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freshly mean? 

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

1. very recently

2. in an impudent or impertinent manner

  Familiarity information: FRESHLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRESHLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very recently

Synonyms:

fresh; freshly; new; newly

Context example:

we are fresh out of tomatoes

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an impudent or impertinent manner

Synonyms:

freshly; impertinently; impudently; pertly; saucily

Context example:

a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently

Pertainym:

fresh (improperly forward or bold)

 Context examples 

The air too smelt more freshly than down beside the marsh.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The study covered relatively few patients by scientific standards, and David Albertini of the Center for Human Reproduction in New York has suggested the cells may not actually be freshly grown.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)

The tears rose freshly in her eyes, but she turned away and went to Martha.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My blue housedress looks so well, turned and freshly trimmed, that I feel as if I'd got a new one.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On emptying this, Miss Cushing was horrified to find two human ears, apparently quite freshly severed.

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

The wind blew freshly from the east, with a very keen edge to it; and the great sail bellied roundly out, laying the vessel over until the water hissed beneath her lee bulwarks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We did sight one, in the afternoon, when the north-west breeze had sprung up freshly once more.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At the end of this he threw open a heavy door, and I rejoiced to see within a well-lit room in which a table was spread for supper, and on whose mighty hearth a great fire of logs, freshly replenished, flamed and flared.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Fancy me yielding and melting, as I am doing: human love rising like a freshly opened fountain in my mind and overflowing with sweet inundation all the field I have so carefully and with such labour prepared—so assiduously sown with the seeds of good intentions, of self-denying plans.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Even on Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest; and with its freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)