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Meaning of brushingly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

With a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.

not-comparable

Examples

“His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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