souly

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souly (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Soulful; characteristic of soul music.
    • 1997, Robert Stone, A Hall of Mirrors, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 190:
      He's bending over givin' it hell, singing souly music, dig, but he can't break that thing, man, because he ain't equipped.
    • 1999, E. Breitinger, “Heroes of South African History as Operatic Heroes”, in South African Theatre Journal, Taylor & Francis:
      To my liking however, the souly parts seemed artificial, the citation of the African-American musical style sounded rather forced and arty, because it diverted from the main message of []
    • 2009 November 11, Mike Evans, Ray Charles: Birth of Soul, Omnibus Press, →ISBN:
      Larkin continued: “The band is sparked off by a Fender bass and plenty of souly Lat-Am percussion, and has jetting spirited trumpet and matching saxes. 'I Remember Clifford', 'Pas-Se-O-Ne Blues' and 'Sidewinder' are the most satisfying []
    • 2013, A Jones, G Martin, “A psychedelic band who could" create fucking havoc", fronted by a bovver boy in a kaftan...”, in Uncut:
      We had a kind of music going on that no-one else was doing, … and put together a few sort of souly riffs and this, that and the []
    • 1976, Harīśa Trivedī, Uttarākhaṇḍa prakr̥ti thī prabhu --:
      [] in Greenwich Connecticut, to present to us an afternoon of "souly" spiritual music! Black and white together, we all sang to the glory of one God.