They're maistly a guid size, an' no a feow o' them lairge.
But his first words were not very comforting: "I must say, that it is maistly your own fault, Joris.
They weremaistly a' auld standbys, auld married men that ought to have had mair sense.
It was that brocht them first thegither, and it's maistly that has keepit them thegither ever since, nearly thirty year.
Gien ye requere no more than's fair frae man or beast, ye'll maistly aye get it.
At length the snaw gaed maistly away, and the weather turned fine, and I gaed out ane o' the days wi' my father to look for the body.
I maistly think I am weel; but whiles I misdoot it.
That may be; but sic talk maistly sits too snug to fit weel.
They took Bessy and me round to the soft bed as they keeps maistly at the back of a stable, and they loosened the straps and gave a push, and cried 'Away.
He wad be haill eighteen then, maistly a man; and ye wad have thought his heart would burst.
When maistly a' the weel-aff Gleska folk had got their photygraphs done and then de'ed, the penters had to start the landscape brench o' the business.
Folks like to think it is, but it is maistly the stomach that goes wrang.
That may be; but when there is naething to be said, there's maistly something to be hid.
She maistly just says naething and gaes by as gin she didna see ye," said the weaver's wife.
Now my money was maistly gi'en me, I can mair easily risk it.
That is maistly what people wear fine claes of all kinds for.
The sixth, seventh and eighth belong to the criminal class, and ye'll allow its maistly made up o' bad men.
As to the fifth, Scots are maistly ready to tak' care o' their ain folk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maistly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
