"wetly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1846, Leigh Hunt, “The Journey Through Hell”, in Stories from the Italian Poets, volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, page 134",
          "text": "They lay on one another in heaps, or attempted to crawl about—some itching madly with leprosies—some swollen and gasping with dropsies—some wetly reeking, like hands washed in winter-time.",
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          "text": "1916, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Red Cross Barge, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Part III, Chapter 2, p. 113,\nOn a rickety low cart, drawn by a decrepit pony, was a large wooden packing-case on which some well-meaning hand had drawn, in black paint which still gleamed wetly in the sun, a rude cross."
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          "ref": "1961, Muriel Spark, chapter 4, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, London: Macmillan",
          "text": "She looked back just as closely through her little eyes, with the near-blackmailing insolence of her knowledge. Whereupon he kissed her long and wetly.",
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        "In a wet manner."
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          "ref": "2008 October 29, Michael Billington, “Independent Means”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Rupert Frazer reveals the hollowness behind the elder Forsyth's tyrannical bluster, while Geoff Breton does all that is possible to reconcile us to his wetly conventional son.",
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          "ref": "2012 August 27, Terence Blacker, “Fifty years after the satire boom, the country needs it more than ever”, in The Independent",
          "text": "Hypocrisy is all around us: in supermarkets with their fake green credentials, in a wetly liberal BBC, in publishers now falling over themselves to promote pornography, in a Government that wrings its hands about social problems—sport for children, the erosion of the countryside, gambling, greed—while at the same time busily exploiting and exacerbating them.",
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        "Ineffectually, feebly, showing no strength of character."
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        "(UK, informal) Ineffectually, feebly, showing no strength of character."
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