Antonyms for thirstily

Grammar : Adv

Spell : thur-stee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈθɜr sti

Definition of thirstily

Origin : Old English þurstig; see thirst (n.) + -y (2).

As in eagerly : adv anxiously

Example sentences :

And she had just thirstily drained a huge glass of barley water.
Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum

She held out the dripping cup and Blue Bonnet drank from it thirstily.
Extract from : « Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party » by C. E. Jacobs

At short intervals, he replenished the cup and quaffed it thirstily.
Extract from : « Heart of the Blue Ridge » by Waldron Baily

The tub of curdled milk was on the table, and we ate it thirstily.
Extract from : « Through Arctic Lapland » by Cutcliffe Hyne

She had a pitcher of water by her, and drank continually, thirstily, like a sick dog.
Extract from : « Folle-Farine » by Ouida

And so he waited, thirstily quaffing the champagne and wishing he had a biscuit.
Extract from : « Mr. Claghorn's Daughter » by Hilary Trent

I lay drinking it in as thirstily as water after a day on the desert.
Extract from : « The Killer » by Stewart Edward White

Yet he had been longing so thirstily for just that permission, and she had been yearning so to give it!
Extract from : « Harriet and the Piper » by Kathleen Norris

She's sleeping now as if she could never have enough,—just thirstily drinking up sleep.
Extract from : « Jane Journeys On » by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

Up would come an unsuspecting cow, which thirstily would drink the contents.
Extract from : « Norway » by Beatrix Jungman

Synonyms for thirstily

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