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Meanings of fishily in English

In a questionably unusual manner.

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        Examples for "queerly"
        Examples for "queerly"
        1
        Henry strides forward, unnerved and yet at the same time queerly reckless.
        The crimson petal and the white
        2
        The queerly stunted trees dotted the sloping sides of this great desert.
        The talisman
        3
        She has been acting queerly of late; but leave it to me.
        The Net
        4
        They looked at each other, queerly, in the light of the lamp.
        Night and Day
        5
        I am half mad to-night; that is why I write so queerly.
        The Wings of Icarus: Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher
        Usage of fishily in English
        1
        But-desinit in piscem-itends fishily; and we find, after saturnine fashion, in cauda venenum.
        The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16
        2
        For the majority, the entire story was fishily preposterous.
        Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days
        3
        At this point the thought-waves abruptly ceased, and the pale eyes of the dreamer-orcan I say dead man?-commencedto glaze fishily.
        The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
        4
        Hidden from sunlight all these years, the skin around her bad eye was fishily paler, and Henry thought the eyelashes were a little more sparse.
        The irresistible henry house
        Fishily through the time