astrut

astrut (comparative more astrut, superlative most astrut)

more astrut (comparative)
most astrut (superlative)

From Middle English a-strout; equivalent to a- + strut.

inflated and astrut with self-conceit

1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:

(archaic) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling.

(archaic) In a strutting manner; with a strutting gait.


ingrately

en-adv

ingrately (comparative more ingrately, superlative most ingrately)

more ingrately (comparative)
most ingrately (superlative)


mediocrally

mediocrally (comparative more mediocrally, superlative most mediocrally)

more mediocrally (comparative)
most mediocrally (superlative)


innermostly

In or into the innermost place; most inwardly.


ordrely

ordrely (comparative more ordrely, superlative most ordrely)

more ordrely (comparative)
most ordrely (superlative)


taxably

The taxably wealthy gave up a fraction of their resources to alleviate a larger problem

1990, Peter Baldwin, The Politics of Social Solidarity:


mackly

mackly (comparative more mackly, superlative most mackly)

more mackly (comparative)
most mackly (superlative)

From Middle English makli, from make (“easy”, adj), from Old Norse makr (“easy”), from Proto-Germanic *makaz (“comfortable, suitable”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, press”), equivalent to make + -ly. Cognate with Old English macalīc (“convenient”), Scots makly, Middle Low German gemaclīch, Middle High German gemechlīche (“easily”) (German gemächlich (“gently”)), Dutch makkelijk (“easy”).


threatfully

en-adv

threatfully (comparative more threatfully, superlative most threatfully)

more threatfully (comparative)
most threatfully (superlative)


circumspectively

circumspectively (comparative more circumspectively, superlative most circumspectively)

more circumspectively (comparative)
most circumspectively (superlative)


railingly

railingly (comparative more railingly, superlative most railingly)

more railingly (comparative)
most railingly (superlative)


squishingly

squishingly (comparative more squishingly, superlative most squishingly)

more squishingly (comparative)
most squishingly (superlative)

In the late afternoon when the ground is squishingly soft and soggy and the grass can be peeled loose from the earth, along comes Mother's aunt, puffing down the road.

1995, Katherine Hanson, An everyday story: Norwegian women's fiction:


phobically

phobically (comparative more phobically, superlative most phobically)

more phobically (comparative)
most phobically (superlative)


eathlins

eathlins (comparative more eathlins, superlative most eathlins)

more eathlins (comparative)
most eathlins (superlative)


guessingly

I have a letter guessingly set down

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:

(rare) By way of conjecture; using guesswork.


eathly

eathly (comparative more eathly, superlative most eathly)

more eathly (comparative)
most eathly (superlative)

From Middle English eaðelice, eaþelic, eðeliche, eþeliche, from Old English ēaþelīce, ēþelīce, īeþelīce; equivalent to eath + -ly.

Herewith the golden book gan open fair,
And eathly! I might read their names, that next
Went to the King […]

1829, originally 1593, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Works of George Peele: The Honour of the Garter:

(UK dialectal) In an eath or easy manner; easily; readily.


fermionically

The topological charge of families of lattice gauge fields is defined fermionically via families index theory for the overlap Dirac operator.


rhomboidally

rhomboidally (comparative more rhomboidally, superlative most rhomboidally)

more rhomboidally (comparative)
most rhomboidally (superlative)


barehandedly

With one's bare hands; without any tool or weapon.


astarboard

(nautical, archaic) Over to the starboard side.


underwise

[…] next stuff the skin of the leg of mutton, sew it underwise, wrap the whole in a cloth, and braize it […]

1822, Louis Eustache Ude, The French cook:

In forming double volute springs, plates of sheet steel are employed. These are heated and are then introduced underwise, one at a time, beneath the mandrel B upon the support I, until the central part of the plate is beneath the mandrel.

1858, United States Congress, Congressional edition:

On or to the bottom or underside of; beneath; underneath.

Then as how to continue the quotations self-praise, and description of matters as hardly never occured^([sic]) or transpirated, follows underwise: […]

1866, “A New View of an Old Riot”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:

Unless underwise provided by this law, decisions shall be given by a majority of votes of the members present, other than the President.

1924, League of Nations, Official journal:

All other grants, gifts and devises, that have been, or may hereafter be, made to this state and not underwise appropriated by the terms of the grant, gift, or devise the interest arising from all the funds mentioned […]

1962, Columbia University. Legislative Drafting Research Fund, United States, Constitutions of the United States, national and State:


loiteringly

We advanced loiteringly along the street.


reiteratedly

reiteratedly (comparative more reiteratedly, superlative most reiteratedly)

more reiteratedly (comparative)
most reiteratedly (superlative)


edgelong

Alteration of edgeling, equivalent to edge + -long.

Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck edgelong into the ground.

1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:

In the one there was nothing but some ashes; the other was full of Medals, set edgelong as full as it could be thrust: […]

1914, William Holden Hutton, Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country, page 302:

(archaic) Towards the edge; along the edge.


odourously

odourously (comparative more odourously, superlative most odourously)

more odourously (comparative)
most odourously (superlative)


vapourously

vapourously (comparative more vapourously, superlative most vapourously)

more vapourously (comparative)
most vapourously (superlative)


tumourously

tumourously (comparative more tumourously, superlative most tumourously)

more tumourously (comparative)
most tumourously (superlative)


intellectively

intellectively (comparative more intellectively, superlative most intellectively)

more intellectively (comparative)
most intellectively (superlative)

intellectively cognized

Some moderne Poets with themselves be hardly inward so,
Not intellectively to write is learnedly, they trowe; […]


unperishably

unperishably (comparative more unperishably, superlative most unperishably)

more unperishably (comparative)
most unperishably (superlative)


thrombotically

In terms of, or by means of, thrombosis.


unerasably

unerasably (comparative more unerasably, superlative most unerasably)

more unerasably (comparative)
most unerasably (superlative)


whisperously

whisperously (comparative more whisperously, superlative most whisperously)

more whisperously (comparative)
most whisperously (superlative)

(archaic) whisperingly; in a whispering voice


festinately

festinately (comparative more festinately, superlative most festinately)

more festinately (comparative)
most festinately (superlative)

Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

(obsolete) In a festinate manner; hastily; hurriedly.


foremostly

Norfolk rides foremostly, his crest well known; God and Saint George this day fight on our side

In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.


auxiliarly

auxiliarly (comparative more auxiliarly, superlative most auxiliarly)

more auxiliarly (comparative)
most auxiliarly (superlative)

[E]very one of them as they ſavv moſt advantageous to them, took and left the Britiſh Lavves and Cuſtoms or ſome of them, and in ſo doing vvere but vviſe in their Generation, and both ſerved themſelves of, and ſecure themſelves by, the Providences God gave them auxiliarly to them, […]

1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter XVI, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 234:


Hebraistically

Hebraistically (comparative more Hebraistically, superlative most Hebraistically)

more Hebraistically (comparative)
most Hebraistically (superlative)

From Hebraistical + -ly or Hebraistic + -ally; equivalent to Hebra- + -istically.

1843-1845, John Kitto, Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature
[…] which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament.


guiltylike

guiltylike (comparative more guiltylike, superlative most guiltylike)

more guiltylike (comparative)
most guiltylike (superlative)

No, sure, I cannot think it, / That he would steal away so guiltylike, / Seeing you coming.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Guiltylike I wail my case, shame of sin doth sting my face, spare me, god, who beg for grace.

1851, Paul de Lagarde, Hymns of the Old Catholic Church of England, page 95:

So I stole away, guiltylike, an' went down an' stood beside the sea.

I could tell from the way Katie looked up, sort of guiltylike when I came in, that she and her folks had been talking about Katie's sister, Elsie, who lived in Paris

1957, Marrijane Hayes, Joseph Hayes, Bon Voyage!, page 42:

She'd fall into fits of brooding and then jump, guiltylike, when she was roused.

That was when Digger kinda hemmed and hawed and scratched his boot soles on the rough ground, and looked at me all guiltylike because he'd forgotten something, and then displayed the dozen cellular phones he'd stashed in his assault pack.

2012, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, Echo Platoon:

Mike glanced away, guiltylike. "I sold her. Lily left, and I just closed all the doors."

2013, Kathleen Eagle, One Less Lonely Cowboy, page 41:

"I'm fine," he said, and nodded like a marionette, but his eyse were shifting back and forth guiltylike.

2013, Chris Lynch, Shadow Boxer, page 89:


intermittingly

Mine, which intermittingly raged for ten years, was rheumatism in the face combined with toothache

1821 September–October, [Thomas De Quincey], “(please specify the page)”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: […] [J. Moyes] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1823, →OCLC:


prophanely

prophanely (comparative more prophanely, superlative most prophanely)

more prophanely (comparative)
most prophanely (superlative)

(hypercorrect) Obsolete form of profanely.


ineffaceably

ineffaceably (comparative more ineffaceably, superlative most ineffaceably)

more ineffaceably (comparative)
most ineffaceably (superlative)

My knowledge of my mother is very scanty, but very distinct. Her personal appearance and bearing are ineffaceably stamped upon my memory.

1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter III, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part I (Life as a Slave), page 52:

In an ineffaceable manner; in a manner that cannot be removed or erased.


in transitu

stoppage in transitu

(law, archaic) in transit; during transportation


right now

I'm not feeling very good right now.

May I see the studio? - Um, maybe another time? Right now I am busy.
Audio (US): (file)

2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

You'd better get out of here right now!


cravingly

cravingly (comparative more cravingly, superlative most cravingly)

more cravingly (comparative)
most cravingly (superlative)


fiducially

fiducially (comparative more fiducially, superlative most fiducially)

more fiducially (comparative)
most fiducially (superlative)

enables the Soul fiducially to close with and rest upon that Object

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:


goutily

goutily (comparative more goutily, superlative most goutily)

more goutily (comparative)
most goutily (superlative)

He hobbled goutily away.

the iron pins of the flagstaff creaked goutily and painfully; the flagstaffs themselves bent as though they were the masts of a fleet of houses moored in a roadstead of bricks.

1901, Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Small Souls, Chapter XXII:

In a gouty manner; as if affected with gout.


loweringly

loweringly (comparative more loweringly, superlative most loweringly)

more loweringly (comparative)
most loweringly (superlative)

Ahab stood apart; and every time the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun’s rays[…]

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

He shambled along with bowed head, his brain in a tumult of agony and despair. When he looked loweringly up, quivering at each sound, his eyes had the expression of those of a criminal who thinks his guilt and his punishment great, and knows that he can find no words.

1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

As he stood, loweringly phlegmatic as any caged hate, his peering eyes and snarling lip would occasionally lift themselves together, not towards the glittering lord of destinies on the dais, but towards his henchman, the Greek, who would answer the challenge with a stare of serene and opulent contempt.

1905, Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy, Chapter 4:

(dated) In a lowering manner; menacingly; with cloudiness or gloom.


uncurably

uncurably (comparative more uncurably, superlative most uncurably)

more uncurably (comparative)
most uncurably (superlative)

uncurably ill

In an uncurable manner; in a way that cannot be cured.


incorporally

incorporally (comparative more incorporally, superlative most incorporally)

more incorporally (comparative)
most incorporally (superlative)


neologically

neologically (comparative more neologically, superlative most neologically)

more neologically (comparative)
most neologically (superlative)


thievishly

thievishly (comparative more thievishly, superlative most thievishly)

more thievishly (comparative)
most thievishly (superlative)


lighty

That heart, she said, is lighty priz'd, / Which is too lighty won; / And long shall rue that easy maid / Who yields her love too soon.

1784, Thomas Percy, “The Hermit of Warkworth, a Northumberland Ballad”, in Thomas Evans, Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date, volume 3, page 23:

(obsolete) Alternative form of lightly; however, more often a misspelling of lightly.


contortedly

contortedly (comparative more contortedly, superlative most contortedly)

more contortedly (comparative)
most contortedly (superlative)


sigmoidally

sigmoidally (comparative more sigmoidally, superlative most sigmoidally)

more sigmoidally (comparative)
most sigmoidally (superlative)


deducibly

There was little free and breathable oxygen then in either the "air" or water, for deducibly it was all chemically bound up with hydrogen in H2O or in the solid crust of the planet

1999, Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life:


sheepily

sheepily (comparative more sheepily, superlative most sheepily)

more sheepily (comparative)
most sheepily (superlative)


fleeringly

fleeringly (comparative more fleeringly, superlative most fleeringly)

more fleeringly (comparative)
most fleeringly (superlative)

In a fleering manner; scornfully; with derision.


premeditately

May 11 1792 Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons
[…] premeditately betray him


agood

[…]And, at that time I made her weep a-good, / For I did play a lamentable part:

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

(obsolete) In earnest; heartily; in good earnest.


Latinly

You ſhall hardly finde a man amongſt them, which cannot make a shift to expresse himself in that language; nor one amongst a hundred that can do it Latinly

1656, John Heylyn, A survey of the estate of France:

Among them they have developed a repertoire of apparently endless variety, touching nearly every facet of the Spanish character, from the naively peasant to the Latinly sophisticated.

There England’s enemies are the pope and his priestly minions or the French, all of whom write or speak Latinly.

2010, Grace Tiffany, “Being English Through Speaking English: Shakespeare and Early Modern Anti-Gallicism”, in Beatrice Batson, editor, Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 35:

Return. Re-turn. With “re” being defined, loosely, linguistically, Latinly, as “again,” and “turn” as, probably, “back.” So, “again back.”

2013 January 12, Mike Bell, “When things we used to love boomerang back”, in Calgary Herald, page D1:

Brann takes the real in a (Latinly) literal sense, as meaning possessing ‘thinghood,’ “and material thinghood at that” (387).

2017, Dennis Sepper, “Foreword”, in Eva T. H. Brann, The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance, 25th anniversary edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxiv:

In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.


antiheroically

antiheroically (comparative more antiheroically, superlative most antiheroically)

more antiheroically (comparative)
most antiheroically (superlative)


likewize

The whole legiſlature likewize acts az a court for the trial of public delinquents.

1790, Noah Webster, A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings, pages 340–341:


vertuously

vertuously (comparative more vertuously, superlative most vertuously)

more vertuously (comparative)
most vertuously (superlative)


appar

[Appar from Fr lier, from L ligāre to bind]

2008, The Chambers Dictionary, page 926:

[abbrev of the place-name Kirriemuir, where appar they are common, + dumpling f the rounded shape]

1999, Mairi Robinson, Concise Scots dictionary, page 344:


paroxysmally

paroxysmally (comparative more paroxysmally, superlative most paroxysmally)

more paroxysmally (comparative)
most paroxysmally (superlative)


turbidly

turbidly (comparative more turbidly, superlative most turbidly)

more turbidly (comparative)
most turbidly (superlative)

In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion.

One of great merit turbidly resents them.

1728, Edward Young, A True Estimate of Human Life. in Which the Passions Are Considered in a New Light:


entitatively

entitatively (comparative more entitatively, superlative most entitatively)

more entitatively (comparative)
most entitatively (superlative)


spiritlessly

spiritlessly (comparative more spiritlessly, superlative most spiritlessly)

more spiritlessly (comparative)
most spiritlessly (superlative)


Anglocentrically

Anglocentrically (comparative more Anglocentrically, superlative most Anglocentrically)

more Anglocentrically (comparative)
most Anglocentrically (superlative)

In an Anglocentric manner; focused on England or the English.


infringingly

The defendant attempted to register an infringingly similar trademark.


admittingly

This with a small fraction of sulphur, which is of no materiality, is the combination made use of by the defendant, who thus admittingly infringe, if the patent is valid.

1912, The Metal Industry, volume 4, numbers 1-3:


lobately

lobately (comparative more lobately, superlative most lobately)

more lobately (comparative)
most lobately (superlative)

lobately projecting rectum

As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.


wythowt

wythowt (comparative more wythowt, superlative most wythowt)

more wythowt (comparative)
most wythowt (superlative)


woolward

From Middle English wolward; equivalent to wool + -ward.

(obsolete) In wool; with woollen clothing next to the skin.


lacteally

lacteally (comparative more lacteally, superlative most lacteally)

more lacteally (comparative)
most lacteally (superlative)

(rare, archaic) milkily; in the manner of milk, or relating to milk


wythowte

wythowte (comparative more wythowte, superlative most wythowte)

more wythowte (comparative)
most wythowte (superlative)


reinvigoratingly

reinvigoratingly (comparative more reinvigoratingly, superlative most reinvigoratingly)

more reinvigoratingly (comparative)
most reinvigoratingly (superlative)


incorporeally

incorporeally (comparative more incorporeally, superlative most incorporeally)

more incorporeally (comparative)
most incorporeally (superlative)

the sense of hearing striketh the spirits more immediately than the other senses , and more incorporeally than the smelling

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

I understand by "poetry" the version of things seen incorporeally; things spiritualized or with a halo around them; things as they exist in substance, in reality, back of their superficial or phenomenal presentation

1922, Earl Lind, edited by Alfred W. Herzog, The Female-Impersonators, Part 8:

In an incorporeal manner; without physical form.


multisensorily

multisensorily (comparative more multisensorily, superlative most multisensorily)

more multisensorily (comparative)
most multisensorily (superlative)


tyrannously

tyrannously (comparative more tyrannously, superlative most tyrannously)

more tyrannously (comparative)
most tyrannously (superlative)

1894, Arthur S. Way, Hecuba, lines 282–283, page 211 in The Tragedies of Euripides, Vol. I.
Not tyrannously the strong should use their strength,
Nor they which prosper think to prosper aye.


aswoon

'This is your daughter whom you so commended / As wife for me; the other on my oath / Shall be my heir as I have long intended, / They are the children of your body, both.' [...] / On hearing this Griselda fell aswoon / In piteous joy, but made recovery / And called her children to her.

1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 369:

Anyhow, he came right over, and I was near aswoon but breathed real deep and gripped hold of the cash tray and managed not to tumble to the floor-even if the quarters did a little dance in their bin with me tugging to stay up.

2003 Summer, Nicole Louise Reid, “Honeydew”, in The Southern Review, volume 39, number 3, page 596:


outerly

outerly (comparative more outerly, superlative most outerly)

more outerly (comparative)
most outerly (superlative)

In the lower Jaw, two Tusks, one on each side, like those of a Boar, standing outerly, an inch behind the Cuters

1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:

If in an harmonic range one point halve innerly the tract between two conjugates, the other (its conjugate) must halve the same tract outerly, i.e., must be at ∞.

1888, W. B. Smith, Elementary Co-ordinate Geometry, page 53:

(c) means securing the resulting innerly disposed hollow member within the resulting outerly disposed hollow member in the above-indicated positional relationship thereto;

1964, Harry W. Carpenter, “3146608: Cooling Device”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 83:

The class of minimal clauses is outerly sentineled by the negative example.

2012, Bruno Apolloni, Franz Kurfess, From Synapses to Rules, page 51:

But it is outerly imposed Confusion that one has to be aware of at all times and try to eradicate.

2019, Vasile Munteanu, The Karma of Self, page 64:

It comes to existence as "the rose" because we outerly label it that way, not the other way around.

2020, Vida Demarin, Mind and Brain: Bridging Neurology and Psychiatry, page 34:

(rare) Toward or on the outside; outwardly.


oscitantly

oscitantly (comparative more oscitantly, superlative most oscitantly)

more oscitantly (comparative)
most oscitantly (superlative)

In an oscitant manner; drowsily or yawningly


caudad

From Latin cauda (“tail”) + ad (“to”). By surface analysis, cauda + -ad.

(zoology) backwards; toward the tail or posterior part

(anatomy) towards the feet (only in humans); inferior.


anomalistically

anomalistically (comparative more anomalistically, superlative most anomalistically)

more anomalistically (comparative)
most anomalistically (superlative)

In an anomalistic manner; with irregularity.


moodishly

moodishly (comparative more moodishly, superlative most moodishly)

more moodishly (comparative)
most moodishly (superlative)


divisionally

In a divisional manner; in terms of divisions.


constauntly

constauntly (comparative more constauntly, superlative most constauntly)

more constauntly (comparative)
most constauntly (superlative)


pleasauntly

pleasauntly (comparative more pleasauntly, superlative most pleasauntly)

more pleasauntly (comparative)
most pleasauntly (superlative)


Socratically

Socratically (comparative more Socratically, superlative most Socratically)

more Socratically (comparative)
most Socratically (superlative)


concentratively

concentratively (comparative more concentratively, superlative most concentratively)

more concentratively (comparative)
most concentratively (superlative)


curably

curably (comparative more curably, superlative most curably)

more curably (comparative)
most curably (superlative)

curably sick


odiferously

odiferously (comparative more odiferously, superlative most odiferously)

more odiferously (comparative)
most odiferously (superlative)


hypodermically

how to inject quinine hypodermically


expeditely

expeditely (comparative more expeditely, superlative most expeditely)

more expeditely (comparative)
most expeditely (superlative)


alamort

From French à la mort (“to the death”). Compare amort.


vively

vively (comparative more vively, superlative most vively)

more vively (comparative)
most vively (superlative)

a thing vively represented on the stage

1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:


equiaxially

equiaxially recrystallized alloys


dietetically

dietetically (comparative more dietetically, superlative most dietetically)

more dietetically (comparative)
most dietetically (superlative)


Hebraically

Hebraically (comparative more Hebraically, superlative most Hebraically)

more Hebraically (comparative)
most Hebraically (superlative)

After the manner of the Hebrews or their language.


corpulently

corpulently (comparative more corpulently, superlative most corpulently)

more corpulently (comparative)
most corpulently (superlative)


sickishly

sickishly (comparative more sickishly, superlative most sickishly)

more sickishly (comparative)
most sickishly (superlative)


inculpably

inculpably (comparative more inculpably, superlative most inculpably)

more inculpably (comparative)
most inculpably (superlative)

[N]o Man ought in reaſon to be charged vvith the Remote far-fetched Conſequences of any Propoſition held by him; ſince he may in all Equity (if he diſclaims them) be ſuppoſed ignorant of them, and that inculpably too.

1693, [Robert South], “A Preface, or, Introduction to the Following Animadversions”, in Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock’s Book, Entituled A Vindication of the Holy and Ever-blessed Trinity, &c. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Randal Taylor, […], →OCLC, page xiii:


ravingly

ravingly (comparative more ravingly, superlative most ravingly)

more ravingly (comparative)
most ravingly (superlative)

The conjugal companion of Mr Verloc had suddenly become ravingly, murderingly insane.

2007, Geoffrey N. Leech, Mick Short, Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose:


grimily

grimily (comparative more grimily, superlative most grimily)

more grimily (comparative)
most grimily (superlative)


penitentially

penitentially (comparative more penitentially, superlative most penitentially)

more penitentially (comparative)
most penitentially (superlative)


so to say

Persons born in winter are, so to say, of a cold and frosty disposition.

1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 104:


assuagingly

assuagingly (comparative more assuagingly, superlative most assuagingly)

more assuagingly (comparative)
most assuagingly (superlative)


goldenly

goldenly (comparative more goldenly, superlative most goldenly)

more goldenly (comparative)
most goldenly (superlative)


leisurably

leisurably (comparative more leisurably, superlative most leisurably)

more leisurably (comparative)
most leisurably (superlative)

But here Men must follow the Shore; wind about leisurably; and insinuate their useful Alterations by soft and unperceivable Degrees.

1734, Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society of London, Chapter 6:

He appeared not to notice me, but pricked leisurably down the slope, and I soon saw that, as our paths ran and at the pace we were going, we should meet at the foot of the descent: which we presently did.

1891, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Noughts and Crosses, The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands:

Canal End Basin lay hard upon three-quarters of a mile up stream, and about half that distance beyond the bend of the Great Brewery—a malodorous pool packed with narrow barges or monkey-boats—a few loading leisurably, the rest moored in tiers awaiting their cargoes.

1909, A. T. Quiller-Couch, True Tilda, Chapter 5:

(archaic) At leisure; in a leisurely way.


nonjudicially

From non- + judicially or nonjudicial + -ly.

the establishment of new types of community agencies for dealing nonjudicially with delinquent youth

1972, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Hearings:


brawlingly

brawlingly rude and vulgar


hebdomadally

Behold the whole huge earth sent to me hebdomadally in a brownpaper wrapper!

1846-1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers:


inclemently

inclemently (comparative more inclemently, superlative most inclemently)

more inclemently (comparative)
most inclemently (superlative)


helpingly

helpingly (comparative more helpingly, superlative most helpingly)

more helpingly (comparative)
most helpingly (superlative)


dubitably

dubitably (comparative more dubitably, superlative most dubitably)

more dubitably (comparative)
most dubitably (superlative)

Even though a claim to know may be asserted dubitably and still be counted as a scientific claim, the imagined end of the enterprise of science remains (at least in its still predominant self-understanding) certain knowledge.

1989, Lawrence E. Hazelrigg, Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism, volume 2, page 123:


devicefully

devicefully (comparative more devicefully, superlative most devicefully)

more devicefully (comparative)
most devicefully (superlative)

I had not taught thee then the alphabet
Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set
And bound up, might with speechless secrecy
Deliver errands mutely and mutually.


corresponsively

corresponsively (comparative more corresponsively, superlative most corresponsively)

more corresponsively (comparative)
most corresponsively (superlative)


detractingly

detractingly (comparative more detractingly, superlative most detractingly)

more detractingly (comparative)
most detractingly (superlative)


appreciatorily

appreciatorily (comparative more appreciatorily, superlative most appreciatorily)

more appreciatorily (comparative)
most appreciatorily (superlative)

(obsolete, rare) With appreciation; appreciatively.


stealthfully

stealthfully (comparative more stealthfully, superlative most stealthfully)

more stealthfully (comparative)
most stealthfully (superlative)


oftentide

From Middle English oftentide; equivalent to
often + tide.


protrusively

protrusively (comparative more protrusively, superlative most protrusively)

more protrusively (comparative)
most protrusively (superlative)


emulatively

emulatively (comparative more emulatively, superlative most emulatively)

more emulatively (comparative)
most emulatively (superlative)


educatively

educatively (comparative more educatively, superlative most educatively)

more educatively (comparative)
most educatively (superlative)


preventatively

preventatively (comparative more preventatively, superlative most preventatively)

more preventatively (comparative)
most preventatively (superlative)


oratorially

oratorially (comparative more oratorially, superlative most oratorially)

more oratorially (comparative)
most oratorially (superlative)


drollingly

drollingly (comparative more drollingly, superlative most drollingly)

more drollingly (comparative)
most drollingly (superlative)

In a jesting manner; humorously; comically.


inextinguishably

inextinguishably (comparative more inextinguishably, superlative most inextinguishably)

more inextinguishably (comparative)
most inextinguishably (superlative)

In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.


like there is no tomorrow

as if there were no tomorrow
as if there were no tomorrow#English

(idiomatic, simile) Alternative form of as if there were no tomorrow


drudgingly

drudgingly (comparative more drudgingly, superlative most drudgingly)

more drudgingly (comparative)
most drudgingly (superlative)

[…] It is not ſo decorous in reſpect of God, that he ſhould αὐτουργεῖν ἅπαντα [autourgeîn hápanta], ſet his ovvn hand as it vvere to every vvork, and immediately do all the meaneſt and triflingſt things himſelf drudgingly, vvithout making uſe of any inferior or ſubordinate Miniſters.

1691, John Ray, “The Cartesian Hypothesis Considered and Censured”, in The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 39:


as if there were no tomorrow

Starting with the Pranksters, who were the first to take LSD out of the war labs and hospitals, hippies were mixing drugs as if there were no tomorrow.

1999, Carol Brightman, Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure, →ISBN, page 106:

(idiomatic) To an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.

som om det inte skulle finnas en morgondag


meromorphically

meromorphically (comparative more meromorphically, superlative most meromorphically)

more meromorphically (comparative)
most meromorphically (superlative)

In a meromorphic manner; by using meromorphic functions


infertilely

infertilely (comparative more infertilely, superlative most infertilely)

more infertilely (comparative)
most infertilely (superlative)

live unfertilely


tossily

tossily (comparative more tossily, superlative most tossily)

more tossily (comparative)
most tossily (superlative)


agreeingly

agreeingly (comparative more agreeingly, superlative most agreeingly)

more agreeingly (comparative)
most agreeingly (superlative)

In a manner that agrees or corresponds; in agreement.


abductively

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rimosely

rimosely (comparative more rimosely, superlative most rimosely)

more rimosely (comparative)
most rimosely (superlative)


floutingly

floutingly (comparative more floutingly, superlative most floutingly)

more floutingly (comparative)
most floutingly (superlative)

to treat a lover floutingly


postverbally

The word "never" rarely occurs postverbally.


preverbally

Before learning the ability to communicate by means of words.


fulgently

fulgently (comparative more fulgently, superlative most fulgently)

more fulgently (comparative)
most fulgently (superlative)

For genuine students the time to simply praise is past, the time to fitly appraise not yet come; for the morning he so fulgently heralded is still far from its noon, and the most prescient are still all-unsure what shall be the character of the evolution and completion of its day.

I was silent when the sun set fulgently over the far hills, and Kilderry blazed all red and gold in a flame that seemed a portent.

(dated) In a fulgent manner; dazzlingly; glitteringly


reticularly

reticularly (comparative more reticularly, superlative most reticularly)

more reticularly (comparative)
most reticularly (superlative)


pollutingly

pollutingly (comparative more pollutingly, superlative most pollutingly)

more pollutingly (comparative)
most pollutingly (superlative)

So as to pollute; in a polluting manner.


customably

customably (comparative more customably, superlative most customably)

more customably (comparative)
most customably (superlative)

lukewarmness and sloth , are not seldomer wont to cloak themselves under the affected name of moderation , than true and lively zeal is customably disparaged with the term of indiscretion , bitterness , and choler

1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:


pressly

pressly (comparative more pressly, superlative most pressly)

more pressly (comparative)
most pressly (superlative)


giantly

giantly (comparative more giantly, superlative most giantly)

more giantly (comparative)
most giantly (superlative)

Lexa dropped her book. “Okay, that was giantly huge!”

2012, Braden Bell, The Kindling: Middle School Magic – Page 5:

Why should I keep on playing a game that was so giantly stupid, named after people dead a million years, during which I was obliged to do giantly boring things like hold the end of the sheet while my sister wrap-twirled into a mummy?

2012, Leni Zumas, The Listeners – Page 200:

In a giant or gigantic manner; gigantically; enormously; immensely.


purposedly

purposedly (comparative more purposedly, superlative most purposedly)

more purposedly (comparative)
most purposedly (superlative)

a poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

According to purpose or design; purposely.


trustily

trustily (comparative more trustily, superlative most trustily)

more trustily (comparative)
most trustily (superlative)

From Middle English trustyly, trystily, equivalent to trusty + -ly.


sanctifyingly

sanctifyingly (comparative more sanctifyingly, superlative most sanctifyingly)

more sanctifyingly (comparative)
most sanctifyingly (superlative)


inheritably

our corruption led the inheritably descending naughs[…]

1586, Heinrich Bullinger, Fiftie Godlie and Learned Sermons, Divided Into Five Decades: Containing the Chiefe and Principall Points of Christian Religion, Written in Three Severall Tomes Or Sections. Whereunto are Addid Certaine Epistles of the Same Author Concerning the Apparell of Ministers and Other Indifferent Things. With a Triple Or Three-fold Table Verie Fruitful and Necessarie, page 495:


indignly

indignly (comparative more indignly, superlative most indignly)

more indignly (comparative)
most indignly (superlative)


protectingly

protectingly (comparative more protectingly, superlative most protectingly)

more protectingly (comparative)
most protectingly (superlative)


hydropically

hydropically (comparative more hydropically, superlative most hydropically)

more hydropically (comparative)
most hydropically (superlative)


shily

shily (comparative more shily, superlative most shily)

more shily (comparative)
most shily (superlative)

There are nations whose commodities are looked shily upon by merchants....

1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, vol. 1, p. 138:


reversedly

reversedly (comparative more reversedly, superlative most reversedly)

more reversedly (comparative)
most reversedly (superlative)


drawlingly

drawlingly (comparative more drawlingly, superlative most drawlingly)

more drawlingly (comparative)
most drawlingly (superlative)


pridingly

pridingly (comparative more pridingly, superlative most pridingly)

more pridingly (comparative)
most pridingly (superlative)


pleasedly

pleasedly (comparative more pleasedly, superlative most pleasedly)

more pleasedly (comparative)
most pleasedly (superlative)

In a pleased manner; with pleasure or satisfaction.


fascicularly

in very minute right angled quadrangular , or fascicularly accumulated tables

1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:


pronominally

nouns used pronominally

(linguistics) In a pronominal manner; as a pronoun.


logarithmetically

From logarithmetic + -ally? logarithmetical + -ly?


light-handed

light-handed (comparative more light-handed, superlative most light-handed)

more light-handed (comparative)
most light-handed (superlative)

From Middle English lyghte handyd, from light (adjective) + honded, participle of honden (“to seize, take charge of”), from the noun hond (“hand”). See more at hand.

'Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?' said Sir Robert. 'Zounds! if you are'

The true state of the case is, that manufactures, as a general thing, in view of the depressed condition of the trade, have been making calculations to do a light business, and got out their logs sooner than they expected, and will on the whole do rather more than they had anticipated, having gone into the woods lighthanded.

1860, William Peter Strickland, Old Mackinaw, or, The fortress of the Lakes and its surroundings, page 351:

Sometimes, on the contrary, they are so harassed by the Blackfoot, who surprise them in the night and carry off their horses, that they are forced to return light-handed, and then they have nothing to eat but roots all the winter.

1907, Société des Américanistes, Musée de l'Homme, Proceedings, page 43:

The trip was to be a short one this time, and he was going lighthanded, leaving behind him the necessities of life as represented by American articles of diet.

1909, Annie Laurie Adams Baird, Daybreak in Korea: A Tale of Transformation in the Far East, page 113:

Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose,all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, lighthanded, heavyhearted.

2013, Jack London, The Son of the Wolf, →ISBN:

Some who had sold their outfits at Skagway, and pushed on light-handed so as to get through, began to appropriate new outfits on the other side.

2014, William Haskell, Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields 1896-1898:

At first merely fidgety, and managed with the greatest delicacy by the English postilion, then ill-tempered and capricious, swerving from side to side, necessitating in self-defence the use of the whip—“ But only gently and light-handed, ..."

1876, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, Volume 17:

See; not a hair is, not an eyelash, not the least lash lost; every hair
Is, hair of the head, numbered.
Nay, what we had lighthanded left in surly the mere mould
Will have waked and have waxed and have walked in the wind what while we slept, […]

1882, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Golden Echo”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 57:

He must go lighthanded to whatever it was that impended.

1919, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, numbers 49-52, page 124:


dispositively

the generation of one thing is the corruption of another , although it be substantially true concerning the form and matter , is also dispositively verified in the efficient or producer

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, […] break all the ten commandments at once.

1695, Robert Boyle, A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing:

(obsolete) In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.


Germanically

Germanically (comparative more Germanically, superlative most Germanically)

more Germanically (comparative)
most Germanically (superlative)


mazily

mazily (comparative more mazily, superlative most mazily)

more mazily (comparative)
most mazily (superlative)

mazily connected rooms


duopolistically

duopolistically (comparative more duopolistically, superlative most duopolistically)

more duopolistically (comparative)
most duopolistically (superlative)


stoopingly

stoopingly (comparative more stoopingly, superlative most stoopingly)

more stoopingly (comparative)
most stoopingly (superlative)


inconvincibly

inconvincibly (comparative more inconvincibly, superlative most inconvincibly)

more inconvincibly (comparative)
most inconvincibly (superlative)


inexpediently

inexpediently (comparative more inexpediently, superlative most inexpediently)

more inexpediently (comparative)
most inexpediently (superlative)


extrasensorily

In an extrasensory manner; beyond the usual physical senses.


mediævally

mediævally (comparative more mediævally, superlative most mediævally)

more mediævally (comparative)
most mediævally (superlative)

(archaic or archaizing) Alternative form of medievally


frontlessly

frontlessly (comparative more frontlessly, superlative most frontlessly)

more frontlessly (comparative)
most frontlessly (superlative)


encyclopædically

encyclopædically (comparative more encyclopædically, superlative most encyclopædically)

more encyclopædically (comparative)
most encyclopædically (superlative)


restily

restily (comparative more restily, superlative most restily)

more restily (comparative)
most restily (superlative)


anæmically

anæmically (comparative more anæmically, superlative most anæmically)

more anæmically (comparative)
most anæmically (superlative)

Otherwise he most certainly would have lived anæmically in an office in the City, and have amassed money that he did not in the least want.

1918, Edward Frederic Benson, Up and Down, page 12:


haemorrhagically

haemorrhagically (comparative more haemorrhagically, superlative most haemorrhagically)

more haemorrhagically (comparative)
most haemorrhagically (superlative)


hæmorrhagically

hæmorrhagically (comparative more hæmorrhagically, superlative most hæmorrhagically)

more hæmorrhagically (comparative)
most hæmorrhagically (superlative)

The organic changes are most marked in the fourth stomach, whose mucosa is to a greater or less extent œdematous and hæmorrhagically infiltrated.

1902, D. J. Hamilton, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, page 328:


consumingly

consumingly (comparative more consumingly, superlative most consumingly)

more consumingly (comparative)
most consumingly (superlative)

In a consuming manner; so as to consume.


treatably

treatably (comparative more treatably, superlative most treatably)

more treatably (comparative)
most treatably (superlative)


compellably

with maternal sanction compellably empanelled at quarter sessions

1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:


disasterly

disasterly (comparative more disasterly, superlative most disasterly)

more disasterly (comparative)
most disasterly (superlative)

Thy noble breast disasterly possesse

1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, published 1613:


distemperately

distemperately (comparative more distemperately, superlative most distemperately)

more distemperately (comparative)
most distemperately (superlative)


polygraphically

Thirteen healthy infants with a median age of 8 weeks (range 7–18 weeks) were recorded polygraphically during a morning nap and an afternoon nap in a sleep laboratory.

2009, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Night Noise Guidelines for Europe, page 156:


aheap

[…] When some fresh bruit
Startled me all aheap! — and soon I saw
The horridest shape that ever raised my awe.

1827, Thomas Hood, The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies:


tristfully

tristfully (comparative more tristfully, superlative most tristfully)

more tristfully (comparative)
most tristfully (superlative)


bloomingly

bloomingly (comparative more bloomingly, superlative most bloomingly)

more bloomingly (comparative)
most bloomingly (superlative)


gnomonically

According to the principles of the gnomonic projection.


mind-bogglingly

mind-bogglingly (comparative more mind-bogglingly, superlative most mind-bogglingly)

more mind-bogglingly (comparative)
most mind-bogglingly (superlative)

To assist in this mind-bogglingly complex endeavour, Switzerland has developed sophisticated software tools that allow infrastructure managers (IMs), operators and local/national authorities to co-ordinate civil engineering projects with planned service enhancements, demand forecasts, pathing requirements, nationwide timetables, and asset utilisation up to 15 years ahead.

2022 December 14, Ben Jones, “Switzerland: a template for Northern Powerhouse Rail?”, in RAIL, number 972, page 29:


indesinently

indesinently (comparative more indesinently, superlative most indesinently)

more indesinently (comparative)
most indesinently (superlative)

The hotter Animals , which require abundance of Spirits for their various Motions and Exercises, are provided with Lungs, which indesinently draw in and expell the Air alternately without Intermission

1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:


dialogically

dialogically (comparative more dialogically, superlative most dialogically)

more dialogically (comparative)
most dialogically (superlative)

are you for managing it analogically , or dialogically?

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:


not really

I’m not really hungry now, so let’s have dinner later.

I asked him if it had been a hard fight.
"Not really," he said.

2022 September 13, 2:54 from the start, in See what Russians left behind after being run out of city, CNN:

To a low degree, not particularly, not especially.

You’re not really going to marry him, are you?

Not actually (a hypothetical will not, in fact, come to pass), often rhetorical.


overwell

overwell (comparative more overwell, superlative most overwell)

more overwell (comparative)
most overwell (superlative)

I remember my father saying that a wise man should always mistrust a girl who kisses overwell.

1899, Samuel Rutherford Crockett ·, The Black Douglas, page 127:

In my own case, as I was saying, I not only pay the fare of my clerk and his family from Colorado, but I have had an assistant with him constantly since I have been here, and a great deal of the time I have had a third assistant, and yet I have not felt myself overwell served, though I have the most efficient clerk in Congress; nor do I believe there is a Member of this House that believes he is overwell served by services he has from one clerk.

1911, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 418:

Boadicea seemed to be hesitating for a moment, whilst Sir Baldwin remained coldly neutral, determined not to interfere again in women's affairs; his interference not having succeeded overwell hitherto.

1912, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Meadowsweet, page 304:


uncunningly

uncunningly (comparative more uncunningly, superlative most uncunningly)

more uncunningly (comparative)
most uncunningly (superlative)


menstrually

menstrually associated migraine

a woman who is menstrually unclean

It cannot, I think, be denied that, in chlorotic women the blood becomes poisoned from the retention of the discharge; (menstrually) and if that be so, and it can be proved I think, the following cases will show that chlorasis had any thing to do with the production of these cases.

1856 September 5, Wm. Cowan, “Rheumatism”, in Henry Goadby, editor, The Medical Independent: A Monthly Review of Medicine and Surgery, volume 2, number 1, page 78:

School girls who are kept on a scanty diet are apt to lapse menstrually, and should be put on a more nutritive dietary regimen.

1884, The Eclectic Medical Journal, volume 44, page 398:

in addition to those occurring at menses, the diagnosis of menstrually related migraine (A1.1.2) is used.

2015, Seymour Diamond, Headache and Migraine Biology and Management, page 125:

In a menstrual manner; in terms of the menses.


recoilingly

recoilingly (comparative more recoilingly, superlative most recoilingly)

more recoilingly (comparative)
most recoilingly (superlative)

1865, Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn), Old Without Years
That gangrene in the register of ill / From which men shrink with undisguised disgust, / According to the sternness of their hearts, / And from which women turn recoilingly […]


heathenly

heathenly (comparative more heathenly, superlative most heathenly)

more heathenly (comparative)
most heathenly (superlative)

From Middle English hethenli; equivalent to heathen + -ly.


inexpugnably

inexpugnably (comparative more inexpugnably, superlative most inexpugnably)

more inexpugnably (comparative)
most inexpugnably (superlative)

Incommensurability that is inexpugnably lodged up in the perverse and unreclaimable Hyle?

1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala:


conversably

conversably (comparative more conversably, superlative most conversably)

more conversably (comparative)
most conversably (superlative)


thrivingly

thrivingly (comparative more thrivingly, superlative most thrivingly)

more thrivingly (comparative)
most thrivingly (superlative)

From Middle English thrivingli, thryvandly, þryvandely, equivalent to thriving + -ly.

In a thriving manner, or so as to thrive.


heliacally

Ceylon has this one disadvantage for purposes of theatrical effect; she is like a star rising heliacally, and hidden in the blaze of the sun: any island, however magnificent, becomes lost in the blaze of India.

1843 November, Thomas De Quincey, “Ceylon”, in Speculations Literary and Philosophic: With German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XII), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 37:


dinkily

dinkily (comparative more dinkily, superlative most dinkily)

more dinkily (comparative)
most dinkily (superlative)


neoterically

neoterically (comparative more neoterically, superlative most neoterically)

more neoterically (comparative)
most neoterically (superlative)


operosely

operosely (comparative more operosely, superlative most operosely)

more operosely (comparative)
most operosely (superlative)


immitigably

immitigably (comparative more immitigably, superlative most immitigably)

more immitigably (comparative)
most immitigably (superlative)


off the grid

Imagine a future in which millions of families live off the grid, powering their homes and vehicles with dirt-cheap portable fuel cells.

2010 March 11, Reihan Salam, “The Dropout Economy”, in Time:

Those city properties did not go completely off the grid, but they sharply reduced the amount of power they drew from it, he said.

2011 July 22, Patrick McGeehan, “Energy Use Soars in City Under Grip of Scorcher”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-12-06:

In or into a situation or place in which electricity from the public electricity system is not used.

If you're annoying folks, you'll essentially cease to exist, as those you annoy drop you off the grid.

2007 August 23, Lev Grossman, “Nerd World: Why Facebook Is the Future”, in Time:

[T]he government of a country with 80 million people and a modernizing economy cut off nearly all access to the network and shut down cellphone service. . . . Egypt, to an unprecedented extent, pulled itself off the grid.

2011 January 28, Matt Richtel, “Egypt Cuts Off Most Internet and Cell Service”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-12-06:

(idiomatic) In or into a clandestine or isolated situation or place, especially one in which public communication is curtailed.

“You have to have an awful lot of energy and passion to make films with no funding and no prospect of having them seen in public in your home country except under the radar and off the grid,” said Sally Berger, the curator of the festival, who visited China last fall.

2011 February 17, Larry Rohter, “Indie Films From a Land Short on Independence”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-12-06:

(idiomatic) Secretly; in a clandestine manner.


wizely

wizely (comparative more wizely, superlative most wizely)

more wizely (comparative)
most wizely (superlative)


fonly

fonly (comparative more fonly, superlative most fonly)

more fonly (comparative)
most fonly (superlative)

All were it of my foe, then fonly pitied

1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:


savingly

savingly (comparative more savingly, superlative most savingly)

more savingly (comparative)
most savingly (superlative)

So as to save; with frugality or parsimony.

But this Itch in spite of Morals will be catching, and the beginning natural pleasure will often urge the smartful end, especially in the precipitant Youth, who scarcely sufficiently dread the Fire till they have been savingly burnt.

1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discurse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, page 112:

savingly born of water and the Spirit

1738, Daniel Waterland, The Christian sacrifice explained:

(religion) So as to be finally saved from eternal death.


wontly

wontly (comparative wontlier or more wontly, superlative wontliest or most wontly)

wontlier (comparative)
more wontly (comparative)
wontliest (superlative)
most wontly (superlative)

But third persons, merely for the purpose of laying a wager, shall not thus wontly expose others to ridicule, and libel them under the form of an action.

1807, Samuel Comyn, A treatise of the law relative to contracts and agreements not under Seal:

That words were vain which would reveal His workings of amaze and zeal; But, when again his breast the tone Assumed which wontly seemed its own, […]

1929, George (vicar of Huttoft) Bryan, The dying Christian, a poem:

[…] rights violations against the Governor, Adjutant General of the National Guard, guard officials and enlisted members, and the university president for "intentionally, recklessly, willfully and wontly" causing the students' death.

1974, Kansas Bar Association, The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association:


aggravatedly

aggravatedly (comparative more aggravatedly, superlative most aggravatedly)

more aggravatedly (comparative)
most aggravatedly (superlative)


BDC

(dance) Initialism of backing diagonally to the center.


actionably

actionably (comparative more actionably, superlative most actionably)

more actionably (comparative)
most actionably (superlative)


frustrately

frustrately (comparative more frustrately, superlative most frustrately)

more frustrately (comparative)
most frustrately (superlative)

Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately.

1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil:


asyndetically

From asyndetic + -ally. Equivalent to a- + syndetically or to asyndesis or asyndeton + -ical + -ly.

When the temporal clause precedes the main clause, the main clause can be connected asyndetically or by ወ- wa-.

2021, Joseph Tropper, Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee, Classical Ethiopic: A Grammar of Gəˁəz § 6.5.5

(grammar, rhetoric) Expressed without conjunctions or with conjunctions purposefully omitted.

(psychology) Demonstrating asyndesis, expressed with a seeming inability or diminished capacity to connect ideas.


perceivably

perceivably (comparative more perceivably, superlative most perceivably)

more perceivably (comparative)
most perceivably (superlative)


relievingly

relievingly (comparative more relievingly, superlative most relievingly)

more relievingly (comparative)
most relievingly (superlative)


overhighly

overhighly (comparative more overhighly, superlative most overhighly)

more overhighly (comparative)
most overhighly (superlative)


adorningly

adorningly (comparative more adorningly, superlative most adorningly)

more adorningly (comparative)
most adorningly (superlative)


endermically

applied endermically


decussately

decussately (comparative more decussately, superlative most decussately)

more decussately (comparative)
most decussately (superlative)


shiftingly

shiftingly (comparative more shiftingly, superlative most shiftingly)

more shiftingly (comparative)
most shiftingly (superlative)


repiningly

"Once only since my abode in this convent has my heart gone back to the things of its former life; but tenderly—not repiningly.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 201–202:


irremovably

irremovably (comparative more irremovably, superlative most irremovably)

more irremovably (comparative)
most irremovably (superlative)

Those whom he once had taken to were irremovably lodged for ever in his affections


decurrently

decurrently (comparative more decurrently, superlative most decurrently)

more decurrently (comparative)
most decurrently (superlative)


inefficaciously

inefficaciously (comparative more inefficaciously, superlative most inefficaciously)

more inefficaciously (comparative)
most inefficaciously (superlative)


precipitantly

precipitantly (comparative more precipitantly, superlative most precipitantly)

more precipitantly (comparative)
most precipitantly (superlative)

Us if he ſhall hear now, how much leſs will he hear when we cry hereafter, who once deliver'd by him from a King, and not without wondrous Acts of his Providence, inſenſible and unworthy of thoſe high Mercies, are returning precipitantly, if he withold us not, back to the Captivity from whence he freed us.

1660 February, John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, Compar’d with the Inconveniencies and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 793:

In a precipitant or headlong manner; with foolish or rash haste.


frolicly

frolicly (comparative more frolicly, superlative most frolicly)

more frolicly (comparative)
most frolicly (superlative)

Comming to ſee you, I was ſet upon, / I and my men, as we were ſinging frolickly, / Not dreaming of an ambuſh of baſe rogues, / Set on ith' forreſt, [...]

c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 74, column 2:

After some dys frolicly spent at Bath, he returned to his former temper

1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

But, from a banquet that the Gods have blest
In men whose spirits are frolicly inclin'd,
Perform those rights that propagate thy kind.

1858, Richard Hooper (translator), Homer (original), Batrachomyomachia:

(obsolete) In a frolicsome manner; gaily or joyfully.


artly

artly (comparative more artly, superlative most artly)

more artly (comparative)
most artly (superlative)


annularly

annularly (comparative more annularly, superlative most annularly)

more annularly (comparative)
most annularly (superlative)


ranklingly

ranklingly (comparative more ranklingly, superlative most ranklingly)

more ranklingly (comparative)
most ranklingly (superlative)


insatiately

insatiately (comparative more insatiately, superlative most insatiately)

more insatiately (comparative)
most insatiately (superlative)

[…]he therefore thought fit to allow carnal liberty, the better to excuſe himſelf who was ſo inſatiately libidinous that he is not aſhamed to become a preſident[…]

1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. […], 4th edition, London: […] R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell, →OCLC, page 321:


imprescriptibly

imprescriptibly (comparative more imprescriptibly, superlative most imprescriptibly)

more imprescriptibly (comparative)
most imprescriptibly (superlative)

In an imprescriptible manner; obviously or uncontrollably


prayingly

prayingly (comparative more prayingly, superlative most prayingly)

more prayingly (comparative)
most prayingly (superlative)


wavily

wavily (comparative more wavily, superlative most wavily)

more wavily (comparative)
most wavily (superlative)

crookedly, twistingly, in a curved and winding manner


disfiguringly

disfiguringly (comparative more disfiguringly, superlative most disfiguringly)

more disfiguringly (comparative)
most disfiguringly (superlative)


snatchingly

snatchingly (comparative more snatchingly, superlative most snatchingly)

more snatchingly (comparative)
most snatchingly (superlative)


dextrad

From Latin dextra (“the right hand”) + ad (“to”).

(anatomy, archaic) Toward the right side; dextrally.


disdainously

disdainously (comparative more disdainously, superlative most disdainously)

more disdainously (comparative)
most disdainously (superlative)

haue they disdainously laugh

1546, John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaries:


fightingly

fightingly (comparative more fightingly, superlative most fightingly)

more fightingly (comparative)
most fightingly (superlative)

He was only a vague old man who had made a muddle of life, but firmly and fightingly he was sure of that.

So as to fight, like a fight; ferociously


tighteningly

tighteningly (comparative more tighteningly, superlative most tighteningly)

more tighteningly (comparative)
most tighteningly (superlative)


pushingly

pushingly (comparative more pushingly, superlative most pushingly)

more pushingly (comparative)
most pushingly (superlative)


inclinedly

inclinedly (comparative more inclinedly, superlative most inclinedly)

more inclinedly (comparative)
most inclinedly (superlative)


verminly

verminly (comparative more verminly, superlative most verminly)

more verminly (comparative)
most verminly (superlative)


acrook

C. Custance. Wife, why cal ye me wife?
Sim Sure. Wife? this gear goth acrook.

c. 1553, Nicholas Udall, edited by Edward Arber, Roister Doister, Birmingham, published 1869, Act IV, Scene 3, p. 62:

Loe, is not there the draught of some gold-sandy brooke
That on this azure ground glydes (as it were) acrooke?

1625, “The Pillars, or fourth Booke of Noe”, in William L’Isle, transl., Part of Du Barts English and French, London: John Haviland, page 158:

[…] our spirits immersed / In wilfulness, our steps run all acrook.

1881, Christina Rossetti, “Behold the Man!”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 177:

And night ten years, o’er rough and smooth,
And up and down, and acrook and across,
I lead my pupils by the nose,

1905, Albert G. Latham, transl., Goethe’s Faust, London: J.M. Dent, published 1908, Part 1, p. 25:

(archaic) In an oblique or crooked direction.


ingenerably

ingenerably (comparative more ingenerably, superlative most ingenerably)

more ingenerably (comparative)
most ingenerably (superlative)

For as for that conceit of Anaxagoras, of pre and post-existent atoms, endued with all those several forms and qualities of bodies ingenerably and incorruptibly, it was nothing but an adulteration of the genuine Atomical philosophy […]

1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:


disguisedly

disguisedly (comparative more disguisedly, superlative most disguisedly)

more disguisedly (comparative)
most disguisedly (superlative)


dissidently

dissidently (comparative more dissidently, superlative most dissidently)

more dissidently (comparative)
most dissidently (superlative)


healthward

healthward (comparative more healthward, superlative most healthward)

more healthward (comparative)
most healthward (superlative)


postpositionally

postpositionally (comparative more postpositionally, superlative most postpositionally)

more postpositionally (comparative)
most postpositionally (superlative)


impunibly

impunibly (comparative more impunibly, superlative most impunibly)

more impunibly (comparative)
most impunibly (superlative)

no Man impunibly violates a Law established

1747, John Ellis, The Knowledge of Divine Things from revelation:

(obsolete) In an impunible manner; without punishment.


thruout

(US, Canada) Nonstandard spelling of throughout.


subobscurely

from thy second book, the book of nature, where, though subobscurely and in shadows, thou hast expressed thine own image

1624, John Donne, Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, edited by John Sparrow, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, →OCLC:


radiately

In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a centre.


drummingly

drummingly (comparative more drummingly, superlative most drummingly)

more drummingly (comparative)
most drummingly (superlative)

With a drumming sound; with rhythmic insistence.


irrecuperably

irrecuperably (comparative more irrecuperably, superlative most irrecuperably)

more irrecuperably (comparative)
most irrecuperably (superlative)

irrecuperably lost


aukwardly

aukwardly (comparative more aukwardly, superlative most aukwardly)

more aukwardly (comparative)
most aukwardly (superlative)


unpopularly

unpopularly (comparative more unpopularly, superlative most unpopularly)

more unpopularly (comparative)
most unpopularly (superlative)


extemporally

extemporally (comparative more extemporally, superlative most extemporally)

more extemporally (comparative)
most extemporally (superlative)


sapiently

sapiently (comparative more sapiently, superlative most sapiently)

more sapiently (comparative)
most sapiently (superlative)


remonstrantly

remonstrantly (comparative more remonstrantly, superlative most remonstrantly)

more remonstrantly (comparative)
most remonstrantly (superlative)


barways

barways (comparative more barways, superlative most barways)

more barways (comparative)
most barways (superlative)


monitorially

monitorially (comparative more monitorially, superlative most monitorially)

more monitorially (comparative)
most monitorially (superlative)


minglingly

minglingly (comparative more minglingly, superlative most minglingly)

more minglingly (comparative)
most minglingly (superlative)


brainsickly

brainsickly (comparative more brainsickly, superlative most brainsickly)

more brainsickly (comparative)
most brainsickly (superlative)

LADY MACBETH. […] You do unbend your noble strength, to think
So brainsickly of things.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:


tortiously

tortiously (comparative more tortiously, superlative most tortiously)

more tortiously (comparative)
most tortiously (superlative)

tortiously injured

tortiously possessed himself of goods

tortiously interfered


brutely

brutely (comparative more brutely, superlative most brutely)

more brutely (comparative)
most brutely (superlative)

McDowell's paradigm for such a coercive relationship of world to mind is any account in which the world's impact upon us is brutely causal and that brute causal relationship is taken to have epistemic significance.

2002, William P. Alston, Realism and antirealism:


brenningly

brenningly (comparative more brenningly, superlative most brenningly)

more brenningly (comparative)
most brenningly (superlative)

Yielding most large thanks to the high goodness of God, that so worthily doth to thee, so benignly visiteth thee, so brenningly stirreth thee, and so mightily beareth thee up, that through tine own burden thou fall not down to earthly things.

1556, Father Richard Whytford, The Following of Christ:

This was Thy Father's Business, which would Thee, O Tender Jesus, draw so brenningly: Here are the souls which, from eternity, As first-fruits of Thy Mission Thou didst see, And yearned to lead with God-like cords to Thee.

1904, Emily Mary Shapcote, Mary: the Perfect Woman, page 81:


uncongenially

uncongenially (comparative more uncongenially, superlative most uncongenially)

more uncongenially (comparative)
most uncongenially (superlative)


costively

costively (comparative more costively, superlative most costively)

more costively (comparative)
most costively (superlative)


pryingly

pryingly (comparative more pryingly, superlative most pryingly)

more pryingly (comparative)
most pryingly (superlative)


scribblingly

scribblingly (comparative more scribblingly, superlative most scribblingly)

more scribblingly (comparative)
most scribblingly (superlative)

Mr. Hooker's sermons […] were so scribblingly written that nobody could read three words together in them.

1867, The American journal of education: Volume 17, page 316:


defamingly

defamingly (comparative more defamingly, superlative most defamingly)

more defamingly (comparative)
most defamingly (superlative)


anniversarily

1617-1618, Joseph Hall, Letter to Mr. William Struthers
[…] a day was appointed by public authority, next before Mardokee's feast, to be kept anniversarily sacred unto the memory of that deliverance and victory […]

I might have gone farther back than that fatal seventh ; which , for the future , I will never see anniversarily revolve but in sables

1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:


prelusively

A tradition, or whatever it was, that had flowered prelusively in the Princess herself—well, Amerigo's very discretions were his way of taking account of it.


taintlessly

taintlessly (comparative more taintlessly, superlative most taintlessly)

more taintlessly (comparative)
most taintlessly (superlative)


oftensith

oftensith (comparative more oftensith, superlative most oftensith)

more oftensith (comparative)
most oftensith (superlative)

For whome I sighed have so often syth


proteanly

proteanly (comparative more proteanly, superlative most proteanly)

more proteanly (comparative)
most proteanly (superlative)

Which matter of the universe is always substantially the same , and neither more nor less , but only Proteanly transformed into different shapes


startingly

startingly (comparative more startingly, superlative most startingly)

more startingly (comparative)
most startingly (superlative)

VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 57:

By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.


preventingly

preventingly (comparative more preventingly, superlative most preventingly)

more preventingly (comparative)
most preventingly (superlative)


affrontedly

affrontedly (comparative more affrontedly, superlative most affrontedly)

more affrontedly (comparative)
most affrontedly (superlative)

his Majesty had observed that ever since his coming to the crown , the popular sort of lawyers have been the men that most affrontedly in all Parliaments have trodden upon his prerogative

1616, Francis Bacon, Act of Council on Commendam Case:


haggishly

haggishly (comparative more haggishly, superlative most haggishly)

more haggishly (comparative)
most haggishly (superlative)


untutoredly

untutoredly (comparative more untutoredly, superlative most untutoredly)

more untutoredly (comparative)
most untutoredly (superlative)


peccantly

peccantly (comparative more peccantly, superlative most peccantly)

more peccantly (comparative)
most peccantly (superlative)


priorly

this single name, whencesoever it be derived, or whensoever it were given, cannot stand as a proof that the name Jehovah was known priorly to Moſes, against so positive a testimony as that of the passage in Exodus[…]

1800, Alexander Geddes, Critical Remarks on the Hebrew Scriptures: Remarks on the Pentateuch:


sthenically

sthenically (comparative more sthenically, superlative most sthenically)

more sthenically (comparative)
most sthenically (superlative)


atwirl

She set his heart atwirl.


twirlingly

twirlingly (comparative more twirlingly, superlative most twirlingly)

more twirlingly (comparative)
most twirlingly (superlative)

We signalled to the nearest dancer, who came twirlingly over to us.


dreadingly

dreadingly (comparative more dreadingly, superlative most dreadingly)

more dreadingly (comparative)
most dreadingly (superlative)

Miſtruſtfully he truſteth, and he dreadingly did dare, / And fortie paſſions in a trice in him conſort and ſquare.

1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XXXIII.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 162:


dependingly

dependingly (comparative more dependingly, superlative most dependingly)

more dependingly (comparative)
most dependingly (superlative)

1676, Matthew Hale, Contemplations moral and divine, by a person of great learning and judgment, ed. by E. Stephens [1699].
Give therefore, I pray thee, Bread for this day, and when to morrow comes, I will beg Bread of thee for to morrow; and if thou givest me this day supplies beyond the expence of this day, I will use it thankfully, and nevertheless dependingly for I will renew my Petition for my daily Bread, still.


atwist

That ys child atwiste ys poverte, that hadde al is god

c. 1280, Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle:


paramountly

Saint Teresa, paradoxical as such a judgment may sound, was a typical shrew, in this sense of the term. […] Her voluble egotism; her sense, not of radical bad being, as the really contrite have it, but of her 'faults' and 'imperfections' in the plural; her stereotyped humility and return upon herself, as covered with 'confusion' at each new manifestation of God's singular partiality for a person so unworthy, are typical of shrewdom: a paramountly feeling nature would be objectively lost in gratitude, and silent.

2018, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature:


sympathizingly

sympathizingly (comparative more sympathizingly, superlative most sympathizingly)

more sympathizingly (comparative)
most sympathizingly (superlative)


aswing

And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms
Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,

1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden”, in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, page 177:

[…] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow,

1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 170:

The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.

1921, Mary Grant Bruce, chapter 8, in Back to Billabong:

[…] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing.

1945, Maurice Walsh, chapter 12, in Nine Strings to Your Bow, Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie:

Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud.

1994, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8:


sympathisingly

sympathisingly (comparative more sympathisingly, superlative most sympathisingly)

more sympathisingly (comparative)
most sympathisingly (superlative)

Had the reproaches been more biting, or the taunts more keen, Buckingham might have been amused by them; but, such as they were, they proved exceedingly tiresome; and weariness took the form of pity for Francesca. "He will certainly talk the poor girl to death," thought he; and he looked sympathisingly on her pale and melancholy countenance.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 323:


vengeancely

vengeancely (comparative more vengeancely, superlative most vengeancely)

more vengeancely (comparative)
most vengeancely (superlative)

He loves that vengeancely.

1622 May 24 (licensing date), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Prophetesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:

(obsolete, nonce word) extremely; excessively.


allanerly

(Scotland, archaic) Alternative form of allenarly


impoliticly

impoliticly (comparative more impoliticly, superlative most impoliticly)

more impoliticly (comparative)
most impoliticly (superlative)


issuably

to plead issuably

(law, archaic) In an issuable manner; by way of issue.


glossarially

glossarially (comparative more glossarially, superlative most glossarially)

more glossarially (comparative)
most glossarially (superlative)


temporizingly

temporizingly (comparative more temporizingly, superlative most temporizingly)

more temporizingly (comparative)
most temporizingly (superlative)


stanchly

stanchly (comparative more stanchly, superlative most stanchly)

more stanchly (comparative)
most stanchly (superlative)


botchedly

botchedly (comparative more botchedly, superlative most botchedly)

more botchedly (comparative)
most botchedly (superlative)


wishly

wishly (comparative more wishly, superlative most wishly)

more wishly (comparative)
most wishly (superlative)

To die seemeth unto him a naturall and indifferent accident: thereon he wishly [translating justement] fixeth his sight, and thereon he resolveth without looking elsewhere.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.4:

(obsolete, dialect) Steadfastly; intently.


overthwartly

overthwartly (comparative more overthwartly, superlative most overthwartly)

more overthwartly (comparative)
most overthwartly (superlative)

From Middle English overthwertly; equivalent to overthwart + -ly.

(obsolete) In an overthwart manner; going across.

distant, or disagreeing to the purpose, or returne into the cause overthwartly.

1577, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence:


contestingly

contestingly (comparative more contestingly, superlative most contestingly)

more contestingly (comparative)
most contestingly (superlative)


ascertainably

ascertainably (comparative more ascertainably, superlative most ascertainably)

more ascertainably (comparative)
most ascertainably (superlative)

an ascertainably false statement


copulatively

stand copulatively

take a verb copulatively

copulatively analytical


inerrably

inerrably (comparative more inerrably, superlative most inerrably)

more inerrably (comparative)
most inerrably (superlative)

Without making errors; infallibly; unerringly.


ineloquently

ineloquently (comparative more ineloquently, superlative most ineloquently)

more ineloquently (comparative)
most ineloquently (superlative)


sentiently

sentiently (comparative more sentiently, superlative most sentiently)

more sentiently (comparative)
most sentiently (superlative)


rantingly

rantingly (comparative more rantingly, superlative most rantingly)

more rantingly (comparative)
most rantingly (superlative)

In short, these are only two different Species of Distraction: The Enthusiast is deeply and sullenly out of his Wits, and the Atheist is merrily and rantingly mad, and both are owing to the same general Cause[…]

1738, Thomas Morgan, The Moral Philosopher:

With ranting; speaking loudly and angrily.


missingly

missingly (comparative more missingly, superlative most missingly)

more missingly (comparative)
most missingly (superlative)

Sir, it is three dayes since I saw the Prince: what
his happier affayres may be, are to me vnknowne: but I
haue (missingly) noted, he is of late much retyred from
Court, and is lesse frequent to his Princely exercises then
formerly he hath appeared.

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:


rusticly

rusticly (comparative more rusticly, superlative most rusticly)

more rusticly (comparative)
most rusticly (superlative)

“To you it seems so,” rusticly Ajax Oïleus said, “Your words are suited to your eyes.[…]"

[1611?], Homer, “Book XXIII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:


dilatedly

dilatedly (comparative more dilatedly, superlative most dilatedly)

more dilatedly (comparative)
most dilatedly (superlative)

he hath dilatedly tumbled himselfe

1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:


luciferously

luciferously (comparative more luciferously, superlative most luciferously)

more luciferously (comparative)
most luciferously (superlative)


intermixedly

intermixedly (comparative more intermixedly, superlative most intermixedly)

more intermixedly (comparative)
most intermixedly (superlative)


mingledly

mingledly (comparative more mingledly, superlative most mingledly)

more mingledly (comparative)
most mingledly (superlative)

(obsolete) In a mixed or muddled manner; confusedly.


mesiad

Ancient Greek for "middle" + Latin ad to.

(anatomy) Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane.


misguidingly

misguidingly (comparative more misguidingly, superlative most misguidingly)

more misguidingly (comparative)
most misguidingly (superlative)

From there, everything I had so misguidingly been looking to achieve began to unfold for me

2018, Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t:

The misguidingly named 'New Bridge', has linked the western end of Île de la Cité with both riverbanks since 1607


flatlong

From alternation of the original flatling, by assimilating to long. More at flatling.

Antonio: What a blow was there given!
Sebastian: An it had not fall'n flat-long.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Yet the pittiless sword had such pity of so precious an object, that at first it did but hit flatlong

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

(obsolete) With the flat side downward; not edgewise.


changefully

changefully (comparative more changefully, superlative most changefully)

more changefully (comparative)
most changefully (superlative)


torturingly

torturingly (comparative more torturingly, superlative most torturingly)

more torturingly (comparative)
most torturingly (superlative)

The ground soon becomes torturingly hard, and she is bitten all over by insects. The worst thing is the cold. It creeps in upon her, and she cringes into a ball to escape from it.

2015, Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life:

An host of furies Could not have baited me more torturingly , More rudely , or more most unnaturally!

c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lawes of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:


coercibly

coercibly (comparative more coercibly, superlative most coercibly)

more coercibly (comparative)
most coercibly (superlative)

As an instrument of economic warfare, then, the "oil weapon" can be defined as the ability credibly to threaten to withhold the supply of oil from certain oil-importing nations in order coercibly to effect a change in their political stance.

1980, The Middle East and the United States: Perceptions and Policies, →ISBN:

I would sooner consider that a cult since my taxes are coercibly taken from me, while my contributions to the ICC are voluntary.

1997 May 12, Roger Poehlmann (name), "Roger/Michelle Poehlmann" (username), "Re: Roger's earth-shattering rebuttal of Lifton's criteria", in alt.religion.christian.boston-church, Usenet

[…] the vast and heavy communitarianism that seems to have regulated the immobile mechanics of oriental empires, or hordes, or Aztecs, not to mention Stalin, no doubt, with his “oriental” communist despotism enforcing commonality coercibly.

2013, Denis Guénoun, About Europe: Philosophical Hypotheses, →ISBN, page 218:

(uncommon, possibly erroneous) Coercively; in a way that is coercive; by coercion.

Industry will meet this obligation either voluntarily or coercibly through taxes.

1960, The National Underwriter, volume 64, page 161:

Had the Persians, however, not transported those Paionians farther east, we must consider that hundreds of other Skudrians had also entered Asia and traveled to Parsa, either freely or coercibly.

1995, Jack Martin Balcer, The Persian Conquest of the Greeks, 545-450 B.C., page 152:

(rare, possibly erroneous) As a result of coercion; having been coerced; in a coerced manner.


blates

Clipping of blatantly + -s (hypocoristic suffix). Compare obvs (“obviously”).

LOST IS WELL CRAP. GO WATCH RAVEN ON BBC1 FOR PROP ENTERTAINMENT.blates.xx.

2006, daniel.g.read@googlemail.com, “LOST IS 4 LOSERS!”, in alt.tv.lost (Usenet):

>There have been far more abominations than great games based on popular
>films, but what are your 5 favourites?
5) Er.
4) Um.
3) Erm.
2) Batman the Movie (Spectrum)
1) Goldeneye (N64). Blates, innit.

2008, deKay, “Tuesday Top 5: Movie Licences”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):

(UK, slang) Blatantly; certainly, obviously.


allenarly

From all + Scots anerly (“singly”), from ane (“one”).

I grant thereto, she shall be well answered thereof; not allenarly of the same, but the double thereof, and make your memorial of all your desires, number and valour thereof, and ye shall not have alone the single, but the double thereof.

1728, Robert Lindsay, The History of Scotland from 1436 to 1565, page 198:

[…] is not habilis modus to establish a Right in the Person of the Assigny, but allenarly so long as the Cedent remains Heritor of the Lands […]

1734, Sir Thomas Hope, “Title XV”, in Practical Observations Upon Divers Titles of the Law of Scotland, Commonly called Hope's Minor Praticks:

[…] he orders the assembly to sit at the city of Glasgow allenarly, and no where else, because of the known loyalty and disposition of the town to his service […]

1830, John M'Ure, A View of the City of Glasgow, Or, An Account of Its Origin, Rise and Progress, with a More Particular Description Thereof Than Has Hitherto Been Known, page 84:


interjectively

interjectively (comparative more interjectively, superlative most interjectively)

more interjectively (comparative)
most interjectively (superlative)

Yet these attempts to shift both footing and topic are overlapped, somewhat interjectively and thus in overriding fashion, as S begins (*3——>) with what is bearable as fake laughter.

1996, Wayne A. Beach, Conversations about illness: family preoccupations with bulimia, page 94:


intempestively

intempestively (comparative more intempestively, superlative most intempestively)

more intempestively (comparative)
most intempestively (superlative)

intempestively rayl at

1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

(obsolete) unseasonably; at the wrong time


lifeward

As all the forces of sin press downward and deathward, so all the forces of virtue press upward and lifeward.

1874 December 5, The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, volume 2, page 443:

In this condition of the system, the internal forces of organs are so perfectly balanced, that a trifling incident may start them lifeward, or deathward.

1894, The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit-world, page 292:

The Egotist Becomes a Personage "A fathom deep in sleep I lie With old desires, restrained before, To clamor lifeward with a cry, As dark flies out the greying door; And so in quest of creeds to share I seek assertive day again...

1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise:


anighst

anighst (comparative more anighst, superlative most anighst)

more anighst (comparative)
most anighst (superlative)


acrosst

Emily steps back behind a rope that a couple of hands stretches acrosst the stage; and then a couple more hands shoves a wooden runaway acrosst the orchestra rail …

1923, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, From Place to Place, →ISBN:

Up and down them hills and hollers and out acrosst that Injun country, like the devil was after 'em.

2003, September Black, Run Naked in the Wind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 110:


unannouncedly

unannouncedly (comparative more unannouncedly, superlative most unannouncedly)

more unannouncedly (comparative)
most unannouncedly (superlative)


announcedly

announcedly (comparative more announcedly, superlative most announcedly)

more announcedly (comparative)
most announcedly (superlative)


nonrepetitively

From non- + repetitively or nonrepetitive + -ly.

Without repetition; in a nonrepetitive manner


supinely

supinely (comparative more supinely, superlative most supinely)

more supinely (comparative)
most supinely (superlative)

Giddy and intoxicated as I was with such satiating draughts of pleasure, I still lay on the couch, supinely stretched out, in a delicious languor diffus'd over all my limbs

1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

in a supine way, with the head facing up


foreright

foreright (comparative more foreright, superlative most foreright)

more foreright (comparative)
most foreright (superlative)

[H]alf of them […] look'd upward, and side-ways, or foreright, and backward, which variety I have not found in any other small Fly.

1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXIX:

my hips being borne up, and my thighs at their utmost extension, the gleamy warmth that shot from it made him feel that he was at the mouth of the indraught, and driving foreright, the powerfully divided lips of that pleasure-thirsty channel receiv'd him.

(obsolete) Directly forwards, straight ahead.


neuroanatomically

In terms of or by means of neuroanatomy.


epicutaneously

In an epicutaneous manner; directly upon the skin


extrathymically

In an extrathymic manner; outside of the thymus


physicochemically

In a physicochemical manner; with regard to physical chemistry


straight as an arrow

(simile) Very straight; travelling in a very straight trajectory.

droit comme un cierge

very straight; travelling in a very straight trajectory

(simile, by extension) Having no homosexual desires or thoughts; completely heterosexual.


in from the cold

1963 John le Carré - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Lennon chose to bring Thomas Rogne in from the cold and place him at the heart of his defence – a move which allowed him to deploy Victor Wanyama in central midfield.

2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:

come in from the cold
come in from the cold#English

Back to one's home or to a position of acceptance, from having been literally or figuratively in enemy territory. (See come in from the cold.)


exegetically

exegetically (comparative more exegetically, superlative most exegetically)

more exegetically (comparative)
most exegetically (superlative)

Critically more trustworthy, and exegetically very valuable, is Bernhard Weiss, Das Leben Jesu (3d ed. 1889, 2 vols.), translated from the first ed., The Life of Christ (1883, 3 vols.)

1902, Rush Rhees, The Life of Jesus of Nazareth:

And, if exegetically handled, it must mean that Walker, junr., is to continue spinning and spelling, as also once a week reading the Town and Country Magazine, all the days of his life.

1893, Thomas De Quincey, The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols):

It was a favorite passage this, and he often threatened to treat it exegetically; laughing heartily when I said, in that case, he would not have great trouble with the context, which in others cost him a good deal.