Adjective: chisley
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more chisley |
| Superlative | most chisley |
Sample Sentences
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No. II. was a coarse unkind piece of land, of a soil neither clayey nor gravelly, but something between both, and which my men called chisley. [1792, (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
Adjectives inflected like chisley
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old English ceosel (“gravel or sand”). Compare chessom.