arrowily

English

Etymology

From arrowy +‎ -ly.

Adverb

arrowily (comparative more arrowily, superlative most arrowily)

1. In an arrowy manner; like an arrow.
   • 1897, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Representative Nonconformists, page 159:

     Now how all too often is the sermon huddled up without any attempt to individualize or to send arrowily home to each hearer what has been spoken.

   • 1924, D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush:

     But now, he would have love in his own way, haughtily, passionately, and darkly, with dark, arrowy desire, and a strange, arrowily-submissive woman.