Deadly (Adverb)
Meaning 1
As if dead.
Examples
- She lay deadly still, pretending not to have heard the footsteps outside her room.
- The doll hung deadly from the attic ceiling, a macabre decoration for the old mansion.
- The city was deadly quiet after the midnight curfew, people were too scared to go outside.
- The bird's wings hung deadly against its sides as it perched in the cage, an eerie reminder of its lost freedom.
- The actors rehearsed their lines, their bodies held deadly still as they re-enacted the famous painting.