Usually means: Spoken with a soft exhalation.
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  1. breathily: Merriam-Webster
  2. breathily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breathily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. breathily: Wordnik
  5. breathily: Wiktionary
  6. breathily: Dictionary.com
  7. breathily: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a breathy manner.

Similar:
pursily, breathingly, underbreath, breezily, spiritally, bronchially, whisperingly, asthmatically, sighingly, airily, more...

Opposite:
staccato, sharply, crisply, abruptly

Types:
whisper, exhale, pant, sigh, more...

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Similar:
pursily, breathingly, underbreath, breezily, spiritally, bronchially, whisperingly, asthmatically, sighingly, airily, more...

Opposite:
staccato, sharply, crisply, abruptly

Types:
whisper, exhale, pant, sigh, more...



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