Gamely vs Gamey - What's the difference?
gamely | gamey |
Sportive; lively; joyful.
*2004 , David Unger, Life in the damn tropics: a novel :
*2004 , Jose Luis Caivano, editor, AIC 2004 Color and Paints, Proceedings :
*2005 , Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose :
*2009 , Jillian Hunter, A Wicked Lord at the Wedding :
*2011 , Amor Towles, Rules of Civility :
Of or pertaining to game.
*1893 , William Sweetzer Heywood, History of Westminster, Massachusetts :
(obsolete) Gaily; joyfully.
In a or plucky manner; in a willing and spirited fashion.
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, year=2010
, date=December 28
, author=Marc Vesty
, title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham
, work=BBC
*2011 , Harry Grigsby, Key Largo Adventures :
Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat).
Plucky, spirited or gritty
Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive
As adjectives the difference between gamely and gamey
is that gamely is sportive; lively; joyful while gamey is having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat).As an adverb gamely
is (obsolete) gaily; joyfully.gamely
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- That's what I wanted: a challenging race, a gamely fight.
- This confirmed the penetration of the theoretical knowledge of color when it is taught using a gamely practice where the act of working come to be a pleasure.
- "A worthy prospect, I must say." Sterling nodded. "I'll introduce you to Mr. Flynn, once we reach Orleans." Jack gasped like a man stabbed. "Would by chance your friend be a pale looking sort with a gamely laugh?" Sterling drew his head back.
- Costumed as Whittington's beloved cat, in a knee-length black cloak that swirled around tight broadcloth trousers and jack boots, she trod the floor with a gamely dignity that cast all the requisite princesses and pretty shepherdesses in a pale light.
- Here was a sober young Harlemite in a gamely tilted bowler with a little French mustache.
- The black bass was strongly recommended as a gamely creature and as excellent for the table, and it was put into Meeting-house Pond.
Adverb
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- Many of the other boats cut in, with their radios, to cheer Dick on, while he gamely' fought the huge fish. The monster was continually stripping line off the reel, as Dick fought ' gamely ; reeling for all he was worth!