Definition of "wetly" in English

adverb

1. In a wet manner.

   • 1916, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Red Cross Barge, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Part III, Chapter 2, p. 113, On 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.

2. (UK, informal) Ineffectually, feebly, showing no strength of character.