misty
The lights at the docks twinkled mistily.
"Isn't it beautiful?" cried Peter as the village materialised mistily below us.
"It was very enjoyable," he says, mistily.
The captain opened his eyes and looked mistily about him.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Precipitation: clouds, dew, fog & steam
billow
brume
chemtrail
cirrus
cloudily
cloudlessly
cumulonimbus
haze
haze over
lowering
misty
moisture
nimbus
overcast
pall
Scotch mist
steamily
sub-visible
vapour trail
vog

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Uncertainty

Examples of mistily

mistily
He flung a curse at the minarets and towers and domes looming mistily in the moonlight.
From Project Gutenberg
The people were coming out of the court-house, the lowering gray clouds were settling mistily.
From Project Gutenberg
The one sunbeam struggled mistily through, and could but imperfectly define the image of the cracked and dusty window pane on the opposite wall.
From Project Gutenberg
Out of the mistily luminous distances, three abreast and filling the corridor from side to side, raced upon us a company of the great spheres!
From Project Gutenberg
Overhead was flawless blue, and there was a dreamy violet where it merged mistily with the skyline ridges.
From Project Gutenberg
There was a pause, while a little breeze stirred the starry, perfume-laden branches about them, shimmering mistily in the moon's haze.
From Project Gutenberg
We looked, and saw a light gleaming mistily, but distinct and unmistakable, across the water on the other track.
From Project Gutenberg
And, with a gesture of divine humility, she put her hand in his, and looked down, with the smile brightening mistily in her eyes.
From Project Gutenberg
Her eyes shone mistily and her heart sang.
From Project Gutenberg
From this window and that, lights shone mistily through the scraped-and-dried deer-skin that served for glass.
From Project Gutenberg
The room came into being, mistily, tremblingly, while my head ached with the effort.
From Project Gutenberg
They were half closed, and behind her thick, long lashes they gleamed mistily like silver.
From Project Gutenberg
There came a day when the metallic brilliancy went out of the sky, and it became softly, mistily blue.
From Project Gutenberg
I saw the old field mistily, the distant trees and the white lime roads.
From Project Gutenberg
The one sunbeam struggled mistily through, and could but imperfectly define the image of the cracked and dusty window-pane on the opposite wall.
From Project Gutenberg
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.