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ˈstalely, adv.
[f. stale a.1 + -ly2.]
In a stale, commonplace or hackneyed manner.
1598–9B. Jonson Case Altered ii. iii, I will not sue stally to be your seruant, But a new tearme, will you be my refuge? 1611― Catiline ii. iii, Tut, all your promis'd Mountaines, And Seas, I am so stalely acquainted with. 1920[see class-jealousy s.v. class n. 9]. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock vii. i. 279 She smelt faintly, stalely, of Californian Poppy. 1957‘M. M. Kaye’ Shadow of Moon xxi. 326 The drawing-room smelt stalely of cigar smoke. |