little by little

Everything else has gone from me, little by little, but I have kept this.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter LIX, in Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

Little by little his head cleared, and he began once more to take a personal interest in the battle.

1905, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 13, in The Head of Kay's:

Cos little by little / We gave you everything / You ever dreamed of. / Little by little / The wheels of your life / Have slowly fallen off.

2002, “Little by Little”, in Heathen Chemistry, performed by Oasis:

Iraq's government has been removing blast walls little by little since late 2008, trying to restore a semblance of normalcy to this bunker city.

2011 March 6, Jack Healy, “Baghdad Neighborhood Celebrates as a Wall Is Taken Away”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-11-22:

What came instead over the following years were many of the same projects delivered individually to little-by-little add capacity.

2021 December 15, Philip Haigh, “Remaining ECML upgrades in the 'really difficult' category”, in RAIL, number 946, page 52:


lyingly

en-adv

lyingly (comparative more lyingly, superlative most lyingly)

more lyingly (comparative)
most lyingly (superlative)

And now is there a third derivative
From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late
The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed,
A spurious portrait to a faithless life,
And bearing lyingly the libelled name
Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt.

1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham:

He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Bosnia.

2001 September 24, Christopher Hitchens, “Of Sin, the Left, and Islamic Fascism”, in The Nation:

In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.


parenthetically

parenthetically (comparative more parenthetically, superlative most parenthetically)

more parenthetically (comparative)
most parenthetically (superlative)

/ˈpæɹənˌθɛtɪkli/

«Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further thing, Sal, but now I am parenthetically continuing with a new thought and by the time we reach the next I’ll return to the original subject, agreed?»

1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:


painstakingly

painstakingly (comparative more painstakingly, superlative most painstakingly)

more painstakingly (comparative)
most painstakingly (superlative)

I wish he had had a dog, just so we could see how painstakingly he would have divided that dog among the family, in his careful business way.

1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 314:

In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.

méticuleusement

in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully


needlessly

needlessly (comparative more needlessly, superlative most needlessly)

more needlessly (comparative)
most needlessly (superlative)

He was always needlessly anxious about his dog.

to a degree or extent beyond what is needed

He worried needlessly about his dog.


bit by bit

From bit + by + bit. Compare West Frisian bytsje by bytsje (“bit by bit”), Dutch beetje bij beetje (“bit by bit”).


efficiently

en-adv

efficiently (comparative more efficiently, superlative most efficiently)

more efficiently (comparative)
most efficiently (superlative)

The second half was a less open affair, in which West Brom grew increasingly and efficiently conservative.

2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:


functionally

functionally (comparative more functionally, superlative most functionally)

more functionally (comparative)
most functionally (superlative)


cohesively

cohesively (comparative more cohesively, superlative most cohesively)

more cohesively (comparative)
most cohesively (superlative)


destructively

destructively (comparative more destructively, superlative most destructively)

more destructively (comparative)
most destructively (superlative)

in a destructive manner: in a way that causes destruction


musically

musically (comparative more musically, superlative most musically)

more musically (comparative)
most musically (superlative)

From Middle English musicallye, musikili; equivalent to musical + -ly.

The wind chimes tinkled musically in the breeze.

Something might alſo be ſaid of the choice of Words, in our refined Engliſh Tongue; which are to be liked and approved according to their tone, and the ſweetneſs of their cadence, that is, as they run muſically in the Ear.

1656, T[homas] B[lount], Glossographia: Or a Dictionary, Interpreting all ſuch Hard Words, Whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spaniſh, French, Teutonick, Belgick, Britiſh or Saxon, as are now uſed in our refined Engliſh Tongue. […] , To the Reader:

[…] with accents muſically ſweet
A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd.

1737, R[ichard] Glover, “Book VI”, in Leonidas. A Poem., page 152:

A gentle breeze fills the huge sail of our dhow, and draws us through the water that ripples musically against her sides.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

Prill laughed musically[.]

The film looked good, but was musically lacking.

He's alſo muſically given, and ſo light of Heel, that there are few People can out-walk him.

1734, The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ by a Turkiſh Spy who Liv'd Five and Forty Years Undiſcover'd at Paris: […] , page 232:

Each sings the tune and words independently of his predecessor and follower, and their blending, though a collision of three sets of words and three sets of notes, is musically coherent.

1893 November 5, Owen Wister, “Catholicity in Musical Taste”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume LXXII, number CCCCXXXIII:


selectively

selectively (comparative more selectively, superlative most selectively)

more selectively (comparative)
most selectively (superlative)

Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.

2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128:

In a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.


tartly

tartly (comparative more tartly, superlative most tartly)

more tartly (comparative)
most tartly (superlative)

The next day, the deputy chancellor, Robert Habeck, a Green, said tartly, “I’m pleased that France is thinking about how to increase its support for Ukraine, but if I could give it a word of advice — supply more weapons.”

2024 March 9, Steven Erlanger, Roger Cohen, Erika Solomon, “Macron and Scholz, Never Close, Spar Over Policy Toward Ukraine and Russia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


anywho

You know—well, I don't know if you do know—but anywho even if you don't I don't reckon it's like it's top-secret.

2006, Scott Philip Stewart, The Calling of Jujubee Forthright:


cutely

cutely (comparative more cutely, superlative most cutely)

more cutely (comparative)
most cutely (superlative)


creditably

creditably (comparative more creditably, superlative most creditably)

more creditably (comparative)
most creditably (superlative)

In a creditable manner; reputably, without disgrace.


cornily

cornily (comparative more cornily, superlative most cornily)

more cornily (comparative)
most cornily (superlative)


compellingly

compellingly (comparative more compellingly, superlative most compellingly)

more compellingly (comparative)
most compellingly (superlative)


forasmuch

/fɒɹəzˈmʌtʃ/

From Middle English for-as-moche, vor asemoche, for as miche, equivalent to for + as + much.

Foraſmuch as many haue taken in hande to ſet foorth in order a declaration of thoſe things which are moſt ſurely beleeued among vs[…]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1, column 1:

Forasmuch as belongs to that eating, we are neither defrauded of any good by not eating, nor enriched with any good by the eating of the sanctified bread, which, forasmuch as it hath of materials, goes into the belly.

1651, George Digby, Letters Concerning Religion:

(obsolete) So far as; with regard to so much as.


crookedly

crookedly (comparative more crookedly, superlative most crookedly)

more crookedly (comparative)
most crookedly (superlative)


credulously

credulously (comparative more credulously, superlative most credulously)

more credulously (comparative)
most credulously (superlative)


complicatedly

complicatedly (comparative more complicatedly, superlative most complicatedly)

more complicatedly (comparative)
most complicatedly (superlative)


cosmically

cosmically (comparative more cosmically, superlative most cosmically)

more cosmically (comparative)
most cosmically (superlative)


competitively

competitively (comparative more competitively, superlative most competitively)

more competitively (comparative)
most competitively (superlative)


corporeally

corporeally (comparative more corporeally, superlative most corporeally)

more corporeally (comparative)
most corporeally (superlative)

Corporeally, he stood between Robert and Millie, a parent of dark menace.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 128:

In a corporeal manner; bodily; physically.


compassionately

compassionately (comparative more compassionately, superlative most compassionately)

more compassionately (comparative)
most compassionately (superlative)


corruptly

corruptly (comparative more corruptly, superlative most corruptly)

more corruptly (comparative)
most corruptly (superlative)


comprehensibly

comprehensibly (comparative more comprehensibly, superlative most comprehensibly)

more comprehensibly (comparative)
most comprehensibly (superlative)


composedly

composedly (comparative more composedly, superlative most composedly)

more composedly (comparative)
most composedly (superlative)

So far the letter had run composedly enough; but here, with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose.

1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

"You have this down to a fine art?" I said. "A girl needs to," she said composedly.

1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 63:


believably

believably (comparative more believably, superlative most believably)

more believably (comparative)
most believably (superlative)

He acted the part believably.

Believably, Mikey said John pushed him first.

Used to express the speaker's assessment of the credibility of a reported statement.


cosmetically

Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication.

2008, Mary E. Klingensmith, The Washington Manual of Surgery, page 327:

Agreement has been reached with operator Freightliner for it to be moved, to be cosmetically restored.

2023 October 18, “Network News: Crewe's final '90' rescued for Heritage Centre”, in RAIL, number 994, page 19:

In cosmetic terms; regarding appearance.


no longer

Maybe it no longer matters who the emperor is.

Thirty-five years ago, many journeys around London meant having to pass through the centre of the capital. That's no longer the case, which takes real pressure off the city's termini as well as underground routes such as the Circle Line.

2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 49:


insincerely

insincerely (comparative more insincerely, superlative most insincerely)

more insincerely (comparative)
most insincerely (superlative)


condescendingly

condescendingly (comparative more condescendingly, superlative most condescendingly)

more condescendingly (comparative)
most condescendingly (superlative)

He wore his strange and colourful clothes as if for inspection by a lesser being: condescendingly, casually.

1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 10:

"What seems to be the trouble my child? Ah, the pains of youth," he nodded condescendingly.

1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83:


mercilessly

mercilessly (comparative more mercilessly, superlative most mercilessly)

more mercilessly (comparative)
most mercilessly (superlative)

She mercilessly read off the list of his wrongs in front of their friends.

Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck[.]

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198:


credibly

credibly (comparative more credibly, superlative most credibly)

more credibly (comparative)
most credibly (superlative)

A suitor can credibly signal his love for a woman by offering her an expensive and extravagant gift.

He waa in a position to commit to a credibly conservative monetary policy.

He [Mayor Koch] says he better understands the limits of government; less credibly, he says he has mellowed.

1989, The New York Times Magazine, page 38:

His deep-set eyes and expression of general despair lend him a look of utter dissolution—very credibly, he is dying from sexual desire.

Perhaps less credibly she assumes that, as a necessary consequence of this move from the public space of the theatre to the private space of the closet, 'the emphasis shifted to subjective interpretation'

2003, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey, number 51, page 132:

In his eyes, if he allowed things to continue as before, he would be little better than a male prostitute. All too credibly, he could imagine himself aging into the superannuated gigolo of ]uvenal's satire.

2009, Anthony Everitt, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, page 289:

Perhaps, and more credibly, he meant that, had he been at the department, he would have ensured that the president expressly cleared that instruction.

2013, Frank W. Brecher, American Diplomacy and the Israeli War of Independence, page 171:

Used to report the speaker's assessment of the credibility of a reported statement


compactly

compactly (comparative more compactly, superlative most compactly)

more compactly (comparative)
most compactly (superlative)


compositely

compositely (comparative more compositely, superlative most compositely)

more compositely (comparative)
most compositely (superlative)


compatibly

compatibly (comparative more compatibly, superlative most compatibly)

more compatibly (comparative)
most compatibly (superlative)


comfortingly

comfortingly (comparative more comfortingly, superlative most comfortingly)

more comfortingly (comparative)
most comfortingly (superlative)


colossally

colossally (comparative more colossally, superlative most colossally)

more colossally (comparative)
most colossally (superlative)

Primitive people, colossally ignorant of the cause of disease and of curative processes, attributed to supernatural agencies any causes and effects for which their simple minds could give no natural explanations.

1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253:

In a colossal manner, or to a colossal extent.


concertedly

concertedly (comparative more concertedly, superlative most concertedly)

more concertedly (comparative)
most concertedly (superlative)


concentrically

concentrically (comparative more concentrically, superlative most concentrically)

more concentrically (comparative)
most concentrically (superlative)


hotelward

After a day at the beach, we made our way hotelward for dinner.


comically

comically (comparative more comically, superlative most comically)

more comically (comparative)
most comically (superlative)

Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be taken seriously, and wanted to stay a step ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write in almost comically dense medicalese.

2009 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Out of the Bedroom, Into the Clinic”, in The New York Times:


confusingly

confusingly (comparative more confusingly, superlative most confusingly)

more confusingly (comparative)
most confusingly (superlative)


congruently

congruently (comparative more congruently, superlative most congruently)

more congruently (comparative)
most congruently (superlative)


congenially

congenially (comparative more congenially, superlative most congenially)

more congenially (comparative)
most congenially (superlative)


comparably

comparably (comparative more comparably, superlative most comparably)

more comparably (comparative)
most comparably (superlative)


compulsively

compulsively (comparative more compulsively, superlative most compulsively)

more compulsively (comparative)
most compulsively (superlative)


shopward

As the morning sun was exposing his countenance for about the thousandth time since Elnathan Yardstick had left the employment of his old master, and set up in the 'dry goods-line' for himself, the said Elnathan was seen to issue from his father's mansion and wend his way shopward, with a strap-encircled bundle of account books under one arm, a small leather brass-nailed trunk in his opposite hand, and the iron key to his repository, of earthly goods and chattels, peeping from the aperture of his coat pocket.

1836, “Elnathan Yardstick”, in Atkinson's Casket, volume 11, page 262:


conically

conically (comparative more conically, superlative most conically)

more conically (comparative)
most conically (superlative)


commendably

commendably (comparative more commendably, superlative most commendably)

more commendably (comparative)
most commendably (superlative)

From late Middle English commendably; equivalent to commendable + -ly.

Condoleezza Rice pops up on Fox to be told by the anchor: “When you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime.” With a solemn nod, the former secretary of state to George Bush replies: “It is certainly against every principle of international law and international order.” She maintains a commendably straight face.

2022 March 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Western values? They enthroned the monster who is shelling Ukrainians today”, in The Guardian:


concavely

concavely (comparative more concavely, superlative most concavely)

more concavely (comparative)
most concavely (superlative)


conceptually

conceptually (comparative more conceptually, superlative most conceptually)

more conceptually (comparative)
most conceptually (superlative)

The end of the 20th century and the start of the new millennium have bore witness to a remarkable revolution in the way parasite/host biological interactions can be conceptually designed and experimentally studied.

2006 February 10, Karl F. Hoffman, Jennifer M. Fitzpatrick, “The Application of DNA Microarrays in the Functional Study of Schisostome/Host Biology”, in W. Evan Secor, Daniel G. Colley, editors, Schistosomiasis, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 101:


cemented

cemented (comparative more cemented, superlative most cemented)

more cemented (comparative)
most cemented (superlative)

Bonded by cement or a similar substance.


socking

At the time of this photo, Royal Marine Gunner Bryan Gasson is pretty much dead center in this photo, and yes, that means HE IS LITERALLY INSIDE THAT SOCKING GREAT FIREBALL as the magazines detonate.

2021 March 14, Drachinifel, 1:05:17 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 137, archived from the original on 2022-11-08:


comradely

comradely (comparative more comradely, superlative most comradely)

more comradely (comparative)
most comradely (superlative)

He smiled at her as he had before they were lovers; the breasts and thighs and backsides, knees, feet and arms comradely crowded together on the truck seemed to deny the reality of the physical presence he had lent her in a hotel room in Dar.

1980, Nadine Gordimer, “A Hunting Accident”, in A Soldier's Embrace, Penguin, published 1982, page 59:


chairward

in the day of long skirts, a woman leaped chairward at the cry of “mouse!”

Guy expels a hard, tight-lipped sigh and lets gravity pull him chairward

1989, Jack Stephens, Triangulation: A Novel:

she was in mid-sit, her bottom irretrievably moving chairward


heavenward

From Middle English hevenward, heveneward, hefneward, equivalent to heaven + -ward.


demonstrably

demonstrably (comparative more demonstrably, superlative most demonstrably)

more demonstrably (comparative)
most demonstrably (superlative)

In such a manner that is capable of being demonstrated, shown, or proved.

bevislig

in such a manner as to be capable of being demonstrated


glamorously

glamorously (comparative more glamorously, superlative most glamorously)

more glamorously (comparative)
most glamorously (superlative)


begrudgingly

begrudgingly (comparative more begrudgingly, superlative most begrudgingly)

more begrudgingly (comparative)
most begrudgingly (superlative)

In a begrudging manner; in a manner that is envious or reluctant.


beauteously

beauteously (comparative more beauteously, superlative most beauteously)

more beauteously (comparative)
most beauteously (superlative)


barbarically

barbarically (comparative more barbarically, superlative most barbarically)

more barbarically (comparative)
most barbarically (superlative)


becomingly

becomingly (comparative more becomingly, superlative most becomingly)

more becomingly (comparative)
most becomingly (superlative)

Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves "Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century."

1885 July 9, The Hamilton Spectator, page 4:

The pleated skirts she liked were becomingly short.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 44:


bullishly

bullishly (comparative more bullishly, superlative most bullishly)

more bullishly (comparative)
most bullishly (superlative)


lakeward

Lakeward, partly hidden by a fringe of trees, was a green little meadow through which a creek ran, and in it were two tents.

1925, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 16, in The Ancient Highway:

The puma sat there for several minutes in the oblique honeyed light, tautly upright, looking like a Lalique ornament as it gazed lakeward into the rising sun.

2013 August 9, “Chile: on the trail of the elusive puma”, in The Daily Telegraph:


bashfully

bashfully (comparative more bashfully, superlative most bashfully)

more bashfully (comparative)
most bashfully (superlative)

[T]he thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:

The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant.

1944, Emily Carr, “Bachelors”, in The House of All Sorts:


culturally

culturally (comparative more culturally, superlative most culturally)

more culturally (comparative)
most culturally (superlative)


bearishly

bearishly (comparative more bearishly, superlative most bearishly)

more bearishly (comparative)
most bearishly (superlative)


delightsomely

delightsomely (comparative more delightsomely, superlative most delightsomely)

more delightsomely (comparative)
most delightsomely (superlative)


beatifically

beatifically (comparative more beatifically, superlative most beatifically)

more beatifically (comparative)
most beatifically (superlative)

Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen.

1945, George Orwell, chapter 8, in Animal Farm:

Throughout the negotiations, Makarios would nod sagely as if agreeing with every point Ball raised. Then he would beatifically repeat that the Cyprus problem should go to the U.N.

1964 February 21, “Irrationality in Flower”, in Time:

Watch a YouTube video of each man in his prime, and while Little Richard is wild-eyed and manic, it's a joyous energy that lifts off the screen, not unlike an enraptured Baptist minister at his most beatifically overwhelmed.

2010 February 26, Ray Robertson, “Goodness gracious!”, in The Globe and Mail:


balefully

balefully (comparative more balefully, superlative most balefully)

more balefully (comparative)
most balefully (superlative)

From Middle English balfulli; equivalent to baleful + -ly.

The toad stared balefully at his reflection and puffed himself up to show that he wasn't really frightened.

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 22:


moonward

1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Limbo” in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume I, “Sibylline Leaves,” p. 272,
An old man with a steady look sublime,
That stops his earthly task to watch the skies;
But he is blind—a statue hath such eyes;—
Yet having moonward turn’d his face by chance,
Gazes the orb with moon-like countenance,

Down the hill toward Malory he sauntered, looking sometimes moonward, sometimes on the dark woods, and feeling as five weeks since he could not have believed himself capable of feeling, and so he arrived at the very gate of Malory.

1867, Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 18, in The Tenants of Malory, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 204:

The moon rode high in the blue eternity; it was a very triumph of glorious night; the river ran babble-murmuring in deep soft syllables; the fountain kept rushing moonward, and blossoming momently to a great silvery flower, whose petals were for ever falling like snow, but with a continuous musical clash, into the bed of its exhaustion beneath […]

1882, George MacDonald, “The History of Photogen and Nycteris”, in The Gifts of the Child Christ, and Other Tales, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, pages 152–3:

An opal spume obscures the bay
Where the distracted breakers crowd;
The very dunes are whirled away,
Spun moonward in a flamelike cloud.

1942, Robert Nichols, “Epic Wind”, in Such Was My Singing, London: Collins, page 99:


barbarously

barbarously (comparative more barbarously, superlative most barbarously)

more barbarously (comparative)
most barbarously (superlative)

However, he comforted himself by giving very particular accounts of how his mistress had been barbarously murdered by banditti; and the good city talked incessantly of the murder, till set right next day by the greater marvel of the escape.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54:


over and over

The children loved the slide, and they went on it over and over until it got dark outside.

Repeatedly; again and again; many times.


sho

“I sho am glad. You sho you all right? I thought sho you was dead this time.”

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 97:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sure.

(childish) Pronunciation spelling of so.


pertinently

pertinently (comparative more pertinently, superlative most pertinently)

more pertinently (comparative)
most pertinently (superlative)


confessedly

confessedly (comparative more confessedly, superlative most confessedly)

more confessedly (comparative)
most confessedly (superlative)

Confessedly, he is the handsomest man in his house.

This attempt to confound the seven Epistles mentioned by Eusebius with the other confessedly spurious Epistles, as if they presented themselves to us with the same credentials, ignores all the important facts bearing on the question.

1889, Joseph Lightfoot, Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion":

(archaic) In a way that is generally acknowledged.


consecutively

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-consecutively.wav

They considered only proteins in the paranome (the set of all duplicate genes in the genome) and numbered them consecutively according to their positions on the chromosomes.

In a consecutive manner; without interruption.


rushedly

rushedly (comparative more rushedly, superlative most rushedly)

more rushedly (comparative)
most rushedly (superlative)

In a rushed manner; hurriedly, with haste.


underhanded

underhanded (comparative more underhanded, superlative most underhanded)

more underhanded (comparative)
most underhanded (superlative)

Bonino required each of us to shoot our free throws underhanded.

2009, Patrick M. Sheridan, How Come Nothing Ever Kills Granddad?, →ISBN:

The 3fz one-hand-only shooting mechanism allows players to shoot the basketball up-handed by pronating palm (down) and uplifting the arm, as well as underhanded by supinating palm (up) and low-hand Unishots.

2011, Xiaoxing Chen, Three-Finger Zen: A Basketball Revolution, →ISBN, page 54:


humanely

humanely (comparative more humanely, superlative most humanely)

more humanely (comparative)
most humanely (superlative)

From Middle English humanly; equivalent to humane + -ly.


fluorescently

fluorescently (comparative more fluorescently, superlative most fluorescently)

more fluorescently (comparative)
most fluorescently (superlative)

Fully air-conditioned and fluorescently lit, it is strikingly decorated and there is a magnificent outlook through the wide windows.

1960 December, “Modern lightweight coaches of the Swiss Federal Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 745, photo caption:

In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.


conjugally

conjugally (comparative more conjugally, superlative most conjugally)

more conjugally (comparative)
most conjugally (superlative)

In a conjugal manner; as husband and wife


conjointly

conjointly (comparative more conjointly, superlative most conjointly)

more conjointly (comparative)
most conjointly (superlative)

In a conjoint manner; jointly or together


consonantly

consonantly (comparative more consonantly, superlative most consonantly)

more consonantly (comparative)
most consonantly (superlative)


consolingly

consolingly (comparative more consolingly, superlative most consolingly)

more consolingly (comparative)
most consolingly (superlative)


considerately

considerately (comparative more considerately, superlative most considerately)

more considerately (comparative)
most considerately (superlative)

He treated them considerately, letting them each work their own way.


contagiously

contagiously (comparative more contagiously, superlative most contagiously)

more contagiously (comparative)
most contagiously (superlative)


constructively

constructively (comparative more constructively, superlative most constructively)

more constructively (comparative)
most constructively (superlative)


conservatively

conservatively (comparative more conservatively, superlative most conservatively)

more conservatively (comparative)
most conservatively (superlative)

The entire tense, compact play takes place inside a subway car where an exchange between a flamboyantly loose blonde of about 30, Lula (Jennifer Mudge), and a conservatively dressed young black man, Clay (Dulé Hill ), escalates from surreally unsuppressed flirtation to violence and tragedy as all of Clay’s efforts toward assimilation are shown to be for naught.

2007 January 24, Ginia Bellafante, “’60s Prejudice and Capitalism as a Big Blond Metaphor”, in New York Times:


rhythmlessly

rhythmlessly (comparative more rhythmlessly, superlative most rhythmlessly)

more rhythmlessly (comparative)
most rhythmlessly (superlative)


conspiratorially

conspiratorially (comparative more conspiratorially, superlative most conspiratorially)

more conspiratorially (comparative)
most conspiratorially (superlative)

Instead he smiled conspiratorially.

2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 5:


glassily

glassily (comparative more glassily, superlative most glassily)

more glassily (comparative)
most glassily (superlative)

Kidd deadpanned it, stared glassily back at Maitland.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 496:


constitutionally

constitutionally (comparative more constitutionally, superlative most constitutionally)

more constitutionally (comparative)
most constitutionally (superlative)

These children are constitutionally sad. Other children, like Luke, develop depressive feelings out of the blue or in response to some mild stressor.

1997, Edward M. Hallowell, When You Worry About the Child You Love, page 162:

The astonishing progress of science had made God quite irrelevant; it had caused human beings to focus so intently on the physical world that they would soon be constitutionally unable to take God seriously.

2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 246:

Pertaining to one's bodily constitution; physically, physiologically.

In accordance with a political constitution.

constitucionalment

in accordance with a political constitution


homebound

homebound (comparative more homebound, superlative most homebound)

more homebound (comparative)
most homebound (superlative)


unrealistically

unrealistically (comparative more unrealistically, superlative most unrealistically)

more unrealistically (comparative)
most unrealistically (superlative)


communistically

communistically (comparative more communistically, superlative most communistically)

more communistically (comparative)
most communistically (superlative)


consummately

consummately (comparative more consummately, superlative most consummately)

more consummately (comparative)
most consummately (superlative)

It is most certain that was her Soul as beautiful as is her Body, nothing under the Heavens wou'd be more consummately perfect.

1729, Samuel Croxall, A Select Collection of Novels and Histories, Volume 3, Richard Phillips, page 331:

Iassert, Sir, that he is ignorant, that he has from the beginning been consummately ignorant of the principles, temper, disposition and force of the colonies.

1775, The Pennsylvania Magazine: Or, American Monthly Museum MDCCLXXV, Volume I, R. Aitken, page 376:

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die: let us crown ourselves with rose-buds; let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness;" would then be the language of reason and truth. — But eternity before us — consummately blessed, or consummately wretched — and death every moment shaking his dart triumphantly over us, preparing to strike once, and strike no more ; — can it be possible that any rational being should remain unsolicitous, and neglect to prepare for the important realities of eternity, while chasing, with unremitted ardour, the fugitive vanities of time and sense?

1806, George Wright, William Dodd, Reflections on Death, R. Johnson, page 229:

The two first branches of the argument, it is acknowledged, are the strongest, it cannot — because all things are so consummately perfect, as to deny any addition or subtraction. It shall—that shews power, and what more great than — sic volo — on which account, not much need of the last. It ought not — for several under causes and reasons.

1809, A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts, On the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects:, T. Cadell, W. Davies, page 448:

With the personal irregularities of individuals we disdain to interfere; but, in the next place, it is clear that a consummately correct and decorous style of conduct before the public, is essential to both public respect, and to that subordination within the walls necessary among the giddy multitude that make the company and servants of a great theatre. The most acknowledged ability will not compensate for the absence of this exactness.

1826, Benjamin Franklin Collection, Richard Phillips, The Monthly Magazine, Richard Phillips, pages 89-90:

As an example of the utmost splendour, combined with due subservience of decoration, we would refer to the elaborate and consummately beautiful King John (of France) cup, of the fourteenth century — the palmy time with Gothic art.

1850, Edwin Paxton Hood, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Samuel Greatheed, Josiah Conder, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, William Hendry Stowell, The Eclectic Review, Richard Phillips, page 91:

Small things, inessential details, bulk as largely as before, and only time can clear them away; tragedy is at first bewilderment, hardly more than a sense of disquiet. It is this moment which is seized with such wonderful insight in the poem 'Departure/ a picture of grief which does not yet perceive that it is grief. 'The Azalea,' with its desolating contrast of perfumed warmth and chill solitude, touches even more consummately the actual reality of suffering. No mystic vision, no intangible abstraction, here lifts the mood into an air too rare for human sympathy and understanding.

1908, The Quarterly Review, John Murray, pages 375-376:


overfamiliarly

overfamiliarly (comparative more overfamiliarly, superlative most overfamiliarly)

more overfamiliarly (comparative)
most overfamiliarly (superlative)


illicitly

illicitly (comparative more illicitly, superlative most illicitly)

more illicitly (comparative)
most illicitly (superlative)

In an illicit manner; illegally, immorally or inappropriately.


medically

medically (comparative more medically, superlative most medically)

more medically (comparative)
most medically (superlative)

This drug should be used medically rather than recreationally.

medically speaking


immorally

immorally (comparative more immorally, superlative most immorally)

more immorally (comparative)
most immorally (superlative)

He was reluctant to behave immorally.

In an immoral manner, not morally, wrongly.


realistically

realistically (comparative more realistically, superlative most realistically)

more realistically (comparative)
most realistically (superlative)


contently

contently (comparative more contently, superlative most contently)

more contently (comparative)
most contently (superlative)


contingently

contingently (comparative more contingently, superlative most contingently)

more contingently (comparative)
most contingently (superlative)

In a contingent manner; without foresight


contrapuntally

contrapuntally (comparative more contrapuntally, superlative most contrapuntally)

more contrapuntally (comparative)
most contrapuntally (superlative)


covetously

covetously (comparative more covetously, superlative most covetously)

more covetously (comparative)
most covetously (superlative)


contextually

contextually (comparative more contextually, superlative most contextually)

more contextually (comparative)
most contextually (superlative)

In a contextual manner; with reference to context


conversationally

conversationally (comparative more conversationally, superlative most conversationally)

more conversationally (comparative)
most conversationally (superlative)

gesprächsweise

in the manner (or form) of a conversation


contiguously

contiguously (comparative more contiguously, superlative most contiguously)

more contiguously (comparative)
most contiguously (superlative)

The most important result of Mr. Mercer's work was the rediscovery of the tunnel, which had been buried, although still accessible through the partly blocked southern portal of the second and larger tunnel, built contiguously to the old one, about 1840.

1951 May, “Notes and News: The Penydarran Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:


convexly

convexly (comparative more convexly, superlative most convexly)

more convexly (comparative)
most convexly (superlative)


contentedly

contentedly (comparative more contentedly, superlative most contentedly)

more contentedly (comparative)
most contentedly (superlative)

Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202:

“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:


contentiously

contentiously (comparative more contentiously, superlative most contentiously)

more contentiously (comparative)
most contentiously (superlative)

The etymology of the term Japlish is disputed and contentiously so.

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 13:


controversially

controversially (comparative more controversially, superlative most controversially)

more controversially (comparative)
most controversially (superlative)

West Brom came from behind to snatch their first league win at Villa Park since 1979 after Aston Villa's Chris Herd was controversially sent off.

2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:

Chirk station closed to goods traffic in 1964 and became unstaffed in the 1970s, before a final blow was dealt in 1987 when the original station building was controversially demolished by the local council.

2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 48:


conterminously

conterminously (comparative more conterminously, superlative most conterminously)

more conterminously (comparative)
most conterminously (superlative)


convivially

convivially (comparative more convivially, superlative most convivially)

more convivially (comparative)
most convivially (superlative)


incandescently

incandescently (comparative more incandescently, superlative most incandescently)

more incandescently (comparative)
most incandescently (superlative)

Every day was as incandescently hot as the last.

2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 428:

In an incandescent manner; using incandescence.


pronouncedly

pronouncedly (comparative more pronouncedly, superlative most pronouncedly)

more pronouncedly (comparative)
most pronouncedly (superlative)

His political views had always been pronouncedly liberal.

1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 24:

In a pronounced manner; markedly, distinctively.


distinctively

distinctively (comparative more distinctively, superlative most distinctively)

more distinctively (comparative)
most distinctively (superlative)

In a distinctive manner; in a way that is notable for its difference.


contrarily

contrarily (comparative more contrarily, superlative most contrarily)

more contrarily (comparative)
most contrarily (superlative)

In a contrary manner; in opposite ways or directions.


coyly

coyly (comparative more coyly, superlative most coyly)

more coyly (comparative)
most coyly (superlative)


corporately

Management teams must act locally with nimbility and corporately with strength, to greater effect than people working individually.

2004, Clive Reading, Strategic Business Planning:

There is a great tendency to keep property corporately controlled.


markedly

markedly (comparative more markedly, superlative most markedly)

more markedly (comparative)
most markedly (superlative)

Being markedly different as a teenager can get you taunted; as an adult it can make you famous.

Nearer the coast, the land becomes markedly more marshy, with long, winding channels striking inland from the sea, making access to some of the waterside villages rather difficult.

1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 838:

In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously.


extraneously

extraneously (comparative more extraneously, superlative most extraneously)

more extraneously (comparative)
most extraneously (superlative)


coquettishly

coquettishly (comparative more coquettishly, superlative most coquettishly)

more coquettishly (comparative)
most coquettishly (superlative)


cozily

cozily (comparative more cozily, superlative most cozily)

more cozily (comparative)
most cozily (superlative)


crabbily

crabbily (comparative more crabbily, superlative most crabbily)

more crabbily (comparative)
most crabbily (superlative)


creakily

creakily (comparative more creakily, superlative most creakily)

more creakily (comparative)
most creakily (superlative)


crassly

crassly (comparative more crassly, superlative most crassly)

more crassly (comparative)
most crassly (superlative)


creamily

creamily (comparative more creamily, superlative most creamily)

more creamily (comparative)
most creamily (superlative)


cuttingly

cuttingly (comparative more cuttingly, superlative most cuttingly)

more cuttingly (comparative)
most cuttingly (superlative)


cryptically

cryptically (comparative more cryptically, superlative most cryptically)

more cryptically (comparative)
most cryptically (superlative)


crankily

crankily (comparative more crankily, superlative most crankily)

more crankily (comparative)
most crankily (superlative)


culpably

culpably (comparative more culpably, superlative most culpably)

more culpably (comparative)
most culpably (superlative)


crustily

crustily (comparative more crustily, superlative most crustily)

more crustily (comparative)
most crustily (superlative)


cumulatively

cumulatively (comparative more cumulatively, superlative most cumulatively)

more cumulatively (comparative)
most cumulatively (superlative)

Rather, the object is to consider them cumulatively in order to obtain an overall picture of the lexicography of Indian English.

2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 296:


creepily

creepily (comparative more creepily, superlative most creepily)

more creepily (comparative)
most creepily (superlative)

I returned quietly, creepily, to the tent, first taking another exhaustive look round and—yes, I confess it—making a few measurements.


creatively

creatively (comparative more creatively, superlative most creatively)

more creatively (comparative)
most creatively (superlative)


crucially

crucially (comparative more crucially, superlative most crucially)

more crucially (comparative)
most crucially (superlative)

England were again thankful for the brilliance of Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who has yet to concede a goal in the tournament and saved crucially from Timo Werner and Kai Havertz in each half, while Thomas Muller missed a glorious chance to equalise before Kane struck.

2021 June 29, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Germany”, in BBC Sport:


criminally

criminally (comparative more criminally, superlative most criminally)

more criminally (comparative)
most criminally (superlative)

The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island.

2019 December 13, Annie Correal, “Why Workers Fear Moving 50 Criminally Insane Patients”, in The New York Times:


à contrecœur

/ˌæ ˌkɒn.tɹəˈkɜː/

/ˌɑ ˌkɑn.tɹəˈkɚ/

Borrowed from French à contrecœur, à contre-cœur, from Old French avoir a contrecuer, avoir contrecœur (“to dislike”), from à (“for, with”) + contre-cœur (“aversion, dislike”) (contre (“against”) + cœur (“heart”)); compare Old French estre contre coer a (“to be adverse to”).

cog

Xtien was young at the time and had met him after her father's death, didn't know then what she knows now, and when the man died there she was alone with her child – forsaken, without a penny. À contrecœur went on the streets, became ill, was taken to hospital, in all sorts of trouble …

1882 May 14, Vincent van Gogh, “Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh”, in Masters of Art – Vincent van Gogh, Hastings, East Sussex: Delphi Classics, published 2014:

Œdipe is another matter: he can't simply be ejected from the plot. So Dircé in the end has to take back everything she had said earlier about Œdipe's tyrannical behaviour and claims that she had said it à contrecœur anyway.

1988, Terence Cave, Recognitions: A Study in Poetics, Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 319:

This is not to say, of course, that countries would be prevented from adopting common initiatives in these areas. But no longer would sceptical states be dragged à contrecœur into policies that their people disliked. The more federally minded governments would be free to use EU structures and institutions to amalgamate to their hearts’ content, with no pressure on the more reluctant nations to join them.

2004 June 26, Daniel Hannan, “The way ahead for Europe”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 2006-05-19:

Following the award of the Nobel Prize, [Samuel] Beckett was pressured to make a new work available for publication. Finally, and almost à contrecoeur, he turned over to Les Editions de Minuit a story—"Premier Amour"—which he had written in 1946 but had withheld from publication.

2006, “The Nobel Prize”, in Fathoms from Anywhere – A Samuel Beckett Centenary Exhibition, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, archived from the original on 2015-12-20:


iteratively

In an iterative manner; using iteration.


cursedly

en-adv

cursedly (comparative more cursedly, superlative most cursedly)

more cursedly (comparative)
most cursedly (superlative)

From Middle English cursedly, cursidli, curstely, corsedlich, equivalent to cursed + -ly.


crudely

crudely (comparative more crudely, superlative most crudely)

more crudely (comparative)
most crudely (superlative)

Her features had been crudely handsome, too, like Millie's, but booze had splodged their outlines.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 159:

Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

Mr Netanyahu also called Mr Shapiro’s observations “unacceptable”. The ambassador too was accused of demonstrating a “double standard” and was crudely dismissed by a former Mr Netanyahu aide as a “little Jew boy” courting favour.

2016 February 6, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National, retrieved 2016-02-08:


cursively

cursively (comparative more cursively, superlative most cursively)

more cursively (comparative)
most cursively (superlative)

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crossways

I stared and stared again - he was perfectly right - the torches that were to light our entertainment were human mummies from the caves! On rushed the bearers of the flaming corpses, and, meeting at a spot about twenty paces in front of us, built their ghastly burdens crossways into a huge bonfire.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:


crisply

crisply (comparative more crisply, superlative most crisply)

more crisply (comparative)
most crisply (superlative)

'It was quite abominable,' said the girl crisply.

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 11, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 152:

`Off you go then,' she said crisply.

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 81:

I can smell the smells and see the sights in crisply focused detail.

1983 December 24, Nancy Walker, “Pachyderms: A Delightful Regression”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 14:


barefacedly

barefacedly (comparative more barefacedly, superlative most barefacedly)

more barefacedly (comparative)
most barefacedly (superlative)


basely

basely (comparative more basely, superlative most basely)

more basely (comparative)
most basely (superlative)


befittingly

befittingly (comparative more befittingly, superlative most befittingly)

more befittingly (comparative)
most befittingly (superlative)


beguilingly

beguilingly (comparative more beguilingly, superlative most beguilingly)

more beguilingly (comparative)
most beguilingly (superlative)


beneficently

beneficently (comparative more beneficently, superlative most beneficently)

more beneficently (comparative)
most beneficently (superlative)


bemusedly

bemusedly (comparative more bemusedly, superlative most bemusedly)

more bemusedly (comparative)
most bemusedly (superlative)


barometrically

barometrically (comparative more barometrically, superlative most barometrically)

more barometrically (comparative)
most barometrically (superlative)


beneficially

beneficially (comparative more beneficially, superlative most beneficially)

more beneficially (comparative)
most beneficially (superlative)


behaviorally

behaviorally (comparative more behaviorally, superlative most behaviorally)

more behaviorally (comparative)
most behaviorally (superlative)


bewitchingly

bewitchingly (comparative more bewitchingly, superlative most bewitchingly)

more bewitchingly (comparative)
most bewitchingly (superlative)


baggily

baggily (comparative more baggily, superlative most baggily)

more baggily (comparative)
most baggily (superlative)


basally

basally (comparative more basally, superlative most basally)

more basally (comparative)
most basally (superlative)


bitingly

bitingly (comparative more bitingly, superlative most bitingly)

more bitingly (comparative)
most bitingly (superlative)

The wind was bitingly cold.

She is known to be bitingly sarcastic without provocation.


bisexually

bisexually (comparative more bisexually, superlative most bisexually)

more bisexually (comparative)
most bisexually (superlative)


bilingually

Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.

2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 147:

In a bilingual manner; using two languages.


banteringly

banteringly (comparative more banteringly, superlative most banteringly)

more banteringly (comparative)
most banteringly (superlative)

'What? Have you found your treasure-trove, Ursula?' he asked banteringly, but looking with envious interest at the instinctive maternity of her sheltering arms.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 269:

'Now I shall have to dine by myself,' he continued, no longer banteringly.

1954, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin, translated into English by Rosemary Edmonds


benightedly

benightedly (comparative more benightedly, superlative most benightedly)

more benightedly (comparative)
most benightedly (superlative)

"That young girl," he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 138:


bitchily

bitchily (comparative more bitchily, superlative most bitchily)

more bitchily (comparative)
most bitchily (superlative)

The play's opening scene could be happening anywhere. A gay male couple argues bitchily over the drunken behavior of one of them the previous evening. Max, in his stupor, brought home a handsome, blond soldier, much to the chagrin of his whining, slightly effeminate love, Rudy. The banter, the accusations, the reconciliation — the whole thing could have happened this morning.

1979 December 22, Andy Beck, “BENT: To Remind, To Instruct, To Warn”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 11:


flirtatiously

flirtatiously (comparative more flirtatiously, superlative most flirtatiously)

more flirtatiously (comparative)
most flirtatiously (superlative)


bewilderingly

bewilderingly (comparative more bewilderingly, superlative most bewilderingly)

more bewilderingly (comparative)
most bewilderingly (superlative)

‘Yes,’ said Slartibartfast, ‘staggeringly dull. Bewilderingly so.[…]’

1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 111:

Believe me, there are few more bewilderingly birdless places than a New England woodland in early fall.

2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 141:

In a bewildering manner, or to a bewildering extent.


beseechingly

beseechingly (comparative more beseechingly, superlative most beseechingly)

more beseechingly (comparative)
most beseechingly (superlative)

Such heavy days, such long, long nights, such aching hearts and imploring prayers, when those who loved her best were forced to see the thin hands stretched out to them beseechingly, to hear the bitter cry, "Help me, help me!"

1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 40, in Little Women:

Now she opened the window and called beseechingly.

1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 58:


bilaterally

bilaterally (comparative more bilaterally, superlative most bilaterally)

more bilaterally (comparative)
most bilaterally (superlative)


benevolently

benevolently (comparative more benevolently, superlative most benevolently)

more benevolently (comparative)
most benevolently (superlative)


bestially

bestially (comparative more bestially, superlative most bestially)

more bestially (comparative)
most bestially (superlative)

From late Middle English bestially; equivalent to bestial + -ly.


bizarrely

bizarrely (comparative more bizarrely, superlative most bizarrely)

more bizarrely (comparative)
most bizarrely (superlative)


belligerently

belligerently (comparative more belligerently, superlative most belligerently)

more belligerently (comparative)
most belligerently (superlative)

They swaggered unsteadily but belligerently toward the bar and looked at Pete with bleared and blinking eyes.

1896, Stephen Crane, chapter 11, in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, New York: Appleton, pages 88–89:

“How’d you get a job like this?” she asked.
“A fella got to eat,” he began; and then, belligerently, “A fella got a right to eat.”

1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 26, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1962, page 512:

In truth, Mrs. Lish’s charge of anti-Semitism had backfired with a number of the faculty, who were quite belligerently anti-Semitic themselves.

1989, John Irving, chapter 7, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 338:

In a belligerent manner; with aggressive hostility.


belatedly

belatedly (comparative more belatedly, superlative most belatedly)

more belatedly (comparative)
most belatedly (superlative)

Bennett was belatedly sent off for a second yellow card after fouling Brahim Diaz in added time but there was no shame in Cardiff losing to a City side who have enjoyed similar dominance over far superior teams this season.

2018 January 28, Dafydd Pritchard, “Cardiff City 1 - 1 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:

However, the Japanese battleships and cruisers now come to Chikumas aid, and, within ten minutes, the Roberts is knocked out of action, as the Japanese ships firing at her also belatedly' switch to high explosive, and, within minutes of this change, several massive holes are blasted into her side and she begins to sink.

2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 30:32 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:

Storm Charlie had raged throught [sic] the night and was unleashing further gusts on the morning that RAIL was due to inspect a vegetation management project in Kent. Bit by bit, the train timetable unravelled. A trip beginning at Bradford-on-Avon belatedly reached Bath, but that turned out to be journey's end.

2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in Rail, page 58:


long since

I don't know why he asked me to do that, when I had long since finished it.

The building has long since been demolished.

Reluctantly Raj used his fingernail to prise away the bogie he had long since sneezed up there and popped it in his mouth.

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

(idiomatic) Long ago; in the (distant) past.


barelegged

From Middle English barelegyde, barlegged, from the phrase bare legs, equivalent to bare + legged.


barehanded

(by extension) Without using a tool or weapon.


onomatopoetically

onomatopoetically (comparative more onomatopoetically, superlative most onomatopoetically)

more onomatopoetically (comparative)
most onomatopoetically (superlative)


insolubly

insolubly (comparative more insolubly, superlative most insolubly)

more insolubly (comparative)
most insolubly (superlative)

In an insoluble manner; irresolubly, irresolvably.


colorimetrically

(analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.


hugger-mugger

hugger-mugger (comparative more hugger-mugger, superlative most hugger-mugger)

more hugger-mugger (comparative)
most hugger-mugger (superlative)

/ˈhʌɡ.əˌmʌɡ.ə/

/ˌhʌɡ.əˈmʌɡ.ə/

/ˈhʌɡ.ɚˌmʌɡ.ɚ/

Unknown; perhaps from Anglo-Irish cuggermugger (“a whispering, a low-voiced gossiping”), from Irish cogair (“whisper”). Compare also Swedish mjugg.


bucolically

bucolically (comparative more bucolically, superlative most bucolically)

more bucolically (comparative)
most bucolically (superlative)


brutishly

brutishly (comparative more brutishly, superlative most brutishly)

more brutishly (comparative)
most brutishly (superlative)


blandly

blandly (comparative more blandly, superlative most blandly)

more blandly (comparative)
most blandly (superlative)


buoyantly

buoyantly (comparative more buoyantly, superlative most buoyantly)

more buoyantly (comparative)
most buoyantly (superlative)

He's the FBI agent antagonist in Catch Me if You Can (2002) opposite a buoyantly charming young Leonardo DiCaprio as con artist Frank Abagnale, but his character is more of a determined cat to Leo's mouse than a real foil; he's simply a prim Eisenhower-era man with a job to do.

2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:


blisteringly

blisteringly (comparative more blisteringly, superlative most blisteringly)

more blisteringly (comparative)
most blisteringly (superlative)

blisteringly hot weather

a blisteringly fast pace


brusquely

brusquely (comparative more brusquely, superlative most brusquely)

more brusquely (comparative)
most brusquely (superlative)

Hanks shepherds the young girl to safety – first brusquely, and then with a sudden outburst of affection made all the more poignant for the way it is reserved previously. He once again reminds us, quite literally, that he is in many ways the ultimate dad.


bouncily

bouncily (comparative more bouncily, superlative most bouncily)

more bouncily (comparative)
most bouncily (superlative)


brassily

brassily (comparative more brassily, superlative most brassily)

more brassily (comparative)
most brassily (superlative)


bloodlessly

bloodlessly (comparative more bloodlessly, superlative most bloodlessly)

more bloodlessly (comparative)
most bloodlessly (superlative)


per capita

Borrowed from Latin per capita (“per head”).


brokenheartedly

brokenheartedly (comparative more brokenheartedly, superlative most brokenheartedly)

more brokenheartedly (comparative)
most brokenheartedly (superlative)


bombastically

bombastically (comparative more bombastically, superlative most bombastically)

more bombastically (comparative)
most bombastically (superlative)


boisterously

boisterously (comparative more boisterously, superlative most boisterously)

more boisterously (comparative)
most boisterously (superlative)


bureaucratically

bureaucratically (comparative more bureaucratically, superlative most bureaucratically)

more bureaucratically (comparative)
most bureaucratically (superlative)


bounteously

bounteously (comparative more bounteously, superlative most bounteously)

more bounteously (comparative)
most bounteously (superlative)

From Middle English bounteously, equivalent to bounteous + -ly.


bountifully

bountifully (comparative more bountifully, superlative most bountifully)

more bountifully (comparative)
most bountifully (superlative)

And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 5:


bossily

bossily (comparative more bossily, superlative most bossily)

more bossily (comparative)
most bossily (superlative)

She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]

1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 26:


broad-mindedly

broad-mindedly (comparative more broad-mindedly, superlative most broad-mindedly)

more broad-mindedly (comparative)
most broad-mindedly (superlative)


boundlessly

boundlessly (comparative more boundlessly, superlative most boundlessly)

more boundlessly (comparative)
most boundlessly (superlative)


blearily

blearily (comparative more blearily, superlative most blearily)

more blearily (comparative)
most blearily (superlative)

Crabbe looked up blearily. On the bedside table were a bottle of gin, a jug of water, and a glass.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 381:

"He looked at me a little blearily, as though he could not believe his eyes."

1964, James Holledge, Sex and the Australian Teenager, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 29:


boyishly

boyishly (comparative more boyishly, superlative most boyishly)

more boyishly (comparative)
most boyishly (superlative)

A shock of white hair fell boyishly across the side of his face, a face as wrinkled as an elephant hide.

1981 April 15, Ira Berkow, “DRAMA IN 'STENGELESE: YOU CAN LOOK IT UP”, in The New York Times:


blindingly

blindingly (comparative more blindingly, superlative most blindingly)

more blindingly (comparative)
most blindingly (superlative)

It is blindingly obvious that we need more money.

And finally, Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies – or Gypsy Sun and Rainbows – play their first-ever show, for two hours, and it is blindingly great.

2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:


breathtakingly

breathtakingly (comparative more breathtakingly, superlative most breathtakingly)

more breathtakingly (comparative)
most breathtakingly (superlative)

The view was breathtakingly beautiful.

It was a breathtakingly foolish thing to say in public.

To a degree that causes shock or awe; shockingly.


brazenly

brazenly (comparative more brazenly, superlative most brazenly)

more brazenly (comparative)
most brazenly (superlative)

In a brazen (shamelessly shocking and offensive) manner.


brashly

brashly (comparative more brashly, superlative most brashly)

more brashly (comparative)
most brashly (superlative)


stock still

Paul stood stock still; then came a strong impulse to turn and run back.

1897, Sam T. Clover, Paul Travers' Adventures:


honest-to-goodness

honest to goodness
honest to goodness#English


draftily

draftily (comparative more draftily, superlative most draftily)

more draftily (comparative)
most draftily (superlative)


exultantly

exultantly (comparative more exultantly, superlative most exultantly)

more exultantly (comparative)
most exultantly (superlative)


educationally

educationally (comparative more educationally, superlative most educationally)

more educationally (comparative)
most educationally (superlative)


decadently

decadently (comparative more decadently, superlative most decadently)

more decadently (comparative)
most decadently (superlative)


demonstratively

demonstratively (comparative more demonstratively, superlative most demonstratively)

more demonstratively (comparative)
most demonstratively (superlative)


elaborately

elaborately (comparative more elaborately, superlative most elaborately)

more elaborately (comparative)
most elaborately (superlative)


deplorably

deplorably (comparative more deplorably, superlative most deplorably)

more deplorably (comparative)
most deplorably (superlative)


decoratively

decoratively (comparative more decoratively, superlative most decoratively)

more decoratively (comparative)
most decoratively (superlative)


misanthropically

misanthropically (comparative more misanthropically, superlative most misanthropically)

more misanthropically (comparative)
most misanthropically (superlative)


melodramatically

melodramatically (comparative more melodramatically, superlative most melodramatically)

more melodramatically (comparative)
most melodramatically (superlative)


monogamously

monogamously (comparative more monogamously, superlative most monogamously)

more monogamously (comparative)
most monogamously (superlative)

Their closest living relatives, deer mice, dwell in forests instead of open spaces, she learned, and they live promiscuously instead of monogamously.

2017 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Why Are Some Mice (and People) Monogamous? A Study Points to Genes”, in The New York Times:


roofward

As I opened the champagne bottle, the cork was propelled roofward.


nightlong

From Middle English nihtlonge, nihtlonges, from Old English nihtlanges (“for the night”), equivalent to night + -long.


majestically

en-adv

majestically (comparative more majestically, superlative most majestically)

more majestically (comparative)
most majestically (superlative)

When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.

1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:


daylong

I feel myself to be a man disgraced, walking nightlong and daylong beyond the Paling of a Garden lush with fountains and flowers, waiting In vain for the....

1988, Takēs Papatsōnēs, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

...silent house with its bare rooms and bone-white walls on which the southern windows cast slanted plaques of light that slide, daylong, towards the...

1986, J. R. Salamanca, (Please provide the book title or journal name):


groundlessly

groundlessly (comparative more groundlessly, superlative most groundlessly)

more groundlessly (comparative)
most groundlessly (superlative)

Shame, disappointment, and discomfiture gnawed at his heart; a constant apprehension of being overtaken, or met—for he was groundlessly afraid even of travellers, who came towards him by the way he was going—oppressed him heavily.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

In a groundless manner; without justification.


everloving

everloving (comparative more everloving, superlative most everloving)

more everloving (comparative)
most everloving (superlative)

Didn't have time yesterday, you run off so everloving early. - Rilla Askew, 1997


even as we speak

By the way, Sam Gumple, the town beau, hates Ned Holland with a deadly hatred, which logically proves him jealous; and, even as we speak, behold the cause!

1872 April 1, Julian Hawthorne, “The Mullenville Mystery”, in Scribner’s Monthly, volume 3, number 6, page 687:

At 11 p.m. the man checking names at the door of the Village Vanguard, the New York City jazz club where Miles played, where Monk played, says Jesus hasn’t arrived but his plane “is touching down even as we speak.”

1998 June 22, Christopher Farley et al., “Viva La Musica Cubana!”, in Time:

“There is no doubt in my mind that the introduction of bag searches—even though it’s random, even though it’s not 100 percent—dramatically improves the security posture of this huge, sprawling subway system, which I believe is a top-tier target of Al Qaeda right now, even as we speak,” said the police official, Michael A. Sheehan.

2005 November 2, Sewell Chan, “Testimony Completed in Suit Over Searches in Subways”, in New York Times, retrieved 2009-07-22:

Right at the moment, right now, contemporaneously.


theretoward

Toward there (toward the destination under discussion)


goalward

goalward (comparative more goalward, superlative most goalward)

more goalward (comparative)
most goalward (superlative)


nebulously

nebulously (comparative more nebulously, superlative most nebulously)

more nebulously (comparative)
most nebulously (superlative)

The vapour drifted nebulously into the hall.

In a manner like that of a cloud or haze.

in a manner like that of a cloud or haze

He waved his hand nebulously in the direction he intended to go.

'I see, nebulously as yet, a certain explanation that would cover the facts as we know them.'

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 218:

Vaguely, without clear purpose or specific intention.


derogatorily

derogatorily (comparative more derogatorily, superlative most derogatorily)

more derogatorily (comparative)
most derogatorily (superlative)


wallward

Their difference was observed in the sequence of ejections and interactions wallward.


delinquently

delinquently (comparative more delinquently, superlative most delinquently)

more delinquently (comparative)
most delinquently (superlative)


deathlessly

deathlessly (comparative more deathlessly, superlative most deathlessly)

more deathlessly (comparative)
most deathlessly (superlative)


dependably

dependably (comparative more dependably, superlative most dependably)

more dependably (comparative)
most dependably (superlative)


demographically

demographically (comparative more demographically, superlative most demographically)

more demographically (comparative)
most demographically (superlative)


despairingly

despairingly (comparative more despairingly, superlative most despairingly)

more despairingly (comparative)
most despairingly (superlative)

It was raining. She was over there, crouched despairingly beneath the awning of that shop. She wanted to be elsewhere, but the moisture lay in wait to damage her hat.

1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter IV, in Leave It to Psmith:


dauntlessly

dauntlessly (comparative more dauntlessly, superlative most dauntlessly)

more dauntlessly (comparative)
most dauntlessly (superlative)


dankly

dankly (comparative more dankly, superlative most dankly)

more dankly (comparative)
most dankly (superlative)


defectively

defectively (comparative more defectively, superlative most defectively)

more defectively (comparative)
most defectively (superlative)


daftly

daftly (comparative more daftly, superlative most daftly)

more daftly (comparative)
most daftly (superlative)


deceivingly

deceivingly (comparative more deceivingly, superlative most deceivingly)

more deceivingly (comparative)
most deceivingly (superlative)


depressingly

depressingly (comparative more depressingly, superlative most depressingly)

more depressingly (comparative)
most depressingly (superlative)

The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.

1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:


dauntingly

dauntingly (comparative more dauntingly, superlative most dauntingly)

more dauntingly (comparative)
most dauntingly (superlative)


deafeningly

deafeningly (comparative more deafeningly, superlative most deafeningly)

more deafeningly (comparative)
most deafeningly (superlative)


damply

damply (comparative more damply, superlative most damply)

more damply (comparative)
most damply (superlative)


dishearteningly

dishearteningly (comparative more dishearteningly, superlative most dishearteningly)

more dishearteningly (comparative)
most dishearteningly (superlative)


disputatiously

disputatiously (comparative more disputatiously, superlative most disputatiously)

more disputatiously (comparative)
most disputatiously (superlative)


deliriously

deliriously (comparative more deliriously, superlative most deliriously)

more deliriously (comparative)
most deliriously (superlative)

We were deliriously happy.

Excitedly their madness grind, aroused by vile ambition / At the sickly sweet promise of decomposition / Deliriously ingesting. Liquefied ruin absorbed / Innocence devoured by the elated horde

2012, Meshuggah (lyrics and music), “Swarm”:

In a delirious manner, or to the point of delirium.


dishonorably

dishonorably (comparative more dishonorably, superlative most dishonorably)

more dishonorably (comparative)
most dishonorably (superlative)


disputably

disputably (comparative more disputably, superlative most disputably)

more disputably (comparative)
most disputably (superlative)

From disputable + -ly, equivalent to dispute + -ably.


deferentially

deferentially (comparative more deferentially, superlative most deferentially)

more deferentially (comparative)
most deferentially (superlative)

/ˌdɛfəˈɹənʃəli/


delectably

delectably (comparative more delectably, superlative most delectably)

more delectably (comparative)
most delectably (superlative)

From delectable + -ly (suffix forming an adverb).

suffix

Podson had dug out an Edgar Wallace from those sixpenny novels thrown aside by Bradly and was now spread out on the verandah on the bed pillows, very delectably at ease.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 76:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:delectably.


defenselessly

en-adv

defenselessly (comparative more defenselessly, superlative most defenselessly)

more defenselessly (comparative)
most defenselessly (superlative)


deliciously

deliciously (comparative more deliciously, superlative most deliciously)

more deliciously (comparative)
most deliciously (superlative)


despondently

despondently (comparative more despondently, superlative most despondently)

more despondently (comparative)
most despondently (superlative)

Behind this raw matter one of the reclaimed, the product of the new forces at work, strolled despondently, carrying a rifle by its middle.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205:


dependently

dependently (comparative more dependently, superlative most dependently)

more dependently (comparative)
most dependently (superlative)


defensively

defensively (comparative more defensively, superlative most defensively)

more defensively (comparative)
most defensively (superlative)


drably

drably (comparative more drably, superlative most drably)

more drably (comparative)
most drably (superlative)

The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of the compartments and buffet car interior, which are drably institutional in their effect on the eye; [...].

1959 June, “Southern Newsreel: Four-car express units for the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, page 305:


debonairly

debonairly (comparative more debonairly, superlative most debonairly)

more debonairly (comparative)
most debonairly (superlative)


dazedly

dazedly (comparative more dazedly, superlative most dazedly)

more dazedly (comparative)
most dazedly (superlative)

Digging her hands excitedly down into the pockets of her dress Ardita stared at him, speechless with astonishment. […] “Well, I’ll be a son of a gun!” she said dazedly.

1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 11:


beggarly

beggarly (comparative more beggarly, superlative most beggarly)

more beggarly (comparative)
most beggarly (superlative)

From beggar + -ly; adverb via Middle English beggarly, beggerly.

In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.


ajog

Whilst jogging; with a jogging motion; with agitation.


defensibly

defensibly (comparative more defensibly, superlative most defensibly)

more defensibly (comparative)
most defensibly (superlative)


uncharacteristically

uncharacteristically (comparative more uncharacteristically, superlative most uncharacteristically)

more uncharacteristically (comparative)
most uncharacteristically (superlative)

This newfound infatuation renders Bart uncharacteristically vulnerable. He suddenly has something to care about beyond causing trouble and makes a dramatic transformation from hell-raiser to gentleman about town.

2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:


disgustedly

disgustedly (comparative more disgustedly, superlative most disgustedly)

more disgustedly (comparative)
most disgustedly (superlative)


deservedly

deservedly (comparative more deservedly, superlative most deservedly)

more deservedly (comparative)
most deservedly (superlative)

1847-48, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 2008, Digireads.com Publishing, page 437,
Emmy, he remembered, was at one time cruelly and deservedly jealous of Rebecca, […] .

THE Jesuits have been condemned, and deservedly condemned, by the unanimous consent of the whole of Christendom.

1859, James Maden Holt, The Jesuits: A Lecture Delivered in St. Saviour's School, near Bacup, May 16th 1859, page 1:

1986, Facts on File, Editorials on File, Volume 17, Part 2, Infobase Publishing, page 949,
The vote for Scalia was unanimous, and deservedly so.

Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.

2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:

(degree, manner) In a way or to a degree that is deserved or merited.


slimly

slimly (comparative more slimly, superlative most slimly)

more slimly (comparative)
most slimly (superlative)

We were slimly staffed yesterday.


disgustingly

disgustingly (comparative more disgustingly, superlative most disgustingly)

more disgustingly (comparative)
most disgustingly (superlative)

She ate disgustingly, dropping bits of food from her open mouth.

Top-ranking footballers are disgustingly rich.


dementedly

dementedly (comparative more dementedly, superlative most dementedly)

more dementedly (comparative)
most dementedly (superlative)

She snatched up a stick and hit Cora across the rump with it. The stick was rotten and broke, without having caused Cora to budge an inch. Exasperated at an image of obduracy, the old woman scrabbled up another stick and began whacking at Cora with it, screeching dementedly, "Be off out of it and do as you're bid, ye witch."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 132:


decisively

decisively (comparative more decisively, superlative most decisively)

more decisively (comparative)
most decisively (superlative)

'In short,' concluded the parson, decisively smacking his leg with his switch, 'there's hardly such another family in England.'

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 6:

The visitors rallied again though and struck decisively 16 minutes from time when Yaya Toure headed in the winner.

2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:


delightedly

delightedly (comparative more delightedly, superlative most delightedly)

more delightedly (comparative)
most delightedly (superlative)

Delightedly dwells he ’mong fays and talismans,
And spirits; and delightedly believes
Divinities, being himself divine.

1800, Friedrich Schiller, The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman & Rees, Act II, Scene IV, p. 82, For fable is Love’s world, his home, his birth-place

Reappearing, tape-measure in hand, he went into the bedroom and took slow and accurate measurements, whistling delightedly to find that his pre-mortem theoretical calculations and post-mortem practical measurements hardly varied.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 126:

[…] cards were exchanged, and social visits that were never going to happen were delightedly agreed on.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 15, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:


dishonestly

dishonestly (comparative more dishonestly, superlative most dishonestly)

more dishonestly (comparative)
most dishonestly (superlative)

From Middle English dishonestly (“disgracefully”); equivalent to dishonest + -ly.


dashingly

en-adv

dashingly (comparative more dashingly, superlative most dashingly)

more dashingly (comparative)
most dashingly (superlative)

[…] Sir Benjamin was compelled to put her into the possession of the solid sum of twenty thousand pounds; with one part of which her debts were paid to liberate Block from prison, and with the remainder he dashingly resolved to cut his employers, who had refused his drafts, and set up in trade for himself […]

1807, Francis Lathom, chapter 16, in Human Beings, volume 3, London: B. Crosby, pages 281–282:

[…] what could be more dashingly brilliant in naval warfare than Drake’s raids on San Domingo, Carthagena, Cadiz, and other ports and cities of old and new Spain […]

1919, Walter Runciman, chapter 1, in Drake, Nelson and Napoleon, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 32:

Life must be lived dashingly, daringly, with perpetual display, even if the display was extremely expensive […]

1933, Virginia Woolf, “Dr. Burney’s Evening Party”, in W. Somerset Maugham, editor, Traveller’s Library, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, page 525:

[…] Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone, dashingly disobeying the King’s Regulations, rescue the colonel’s son from his Pathan torturers […]

1978, Jan Morris, chapter 17, in Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, page 367:

In a dashing manner.
In a bold, spirited manner.

1816, Henry Koster, Travels in Brazil, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Chapter 10, p. 188,
The sedan chairs, in which the ladies go to church, and pay visits to their friends, had now put on a much smarter appearance, and the men who carried them were dressed more dashingly.

Now, at twenty, she was to be married to Harry McKee, […] a man of thirty-four who wore his clothes and his slang dashingly.

1929, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 3, in Dodsworth, New York: Harcourt, Brace:

He dressed by preference in checked overcoats and curly brimmed bowler hats that were at once dashingly smart and four decades out of date.

1935, George Orwell, chapter 4, in A Clergyman’s Daughter, New York: Avon, published 1970, page 144:

When a dashingly-clad officer addresses such a frumpishly dressed bum, he scolds him, as an officer in any army must.

1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 166:

In a dashing manner.
In a boldly chic, fashionable manner.


despotically

despotically (comparative more despotically, superlative most despotically)

more despotically (comparative)
most despotically (superlative)


descriptively

descriptively (comparative more descriptively, superlative most descriptively)

more descriptively (comparative)
most descriptively (superlative)

He snapped his fingers descriptively.

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 5:

Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.

2004 October 14, Don Ringe, “Old English maþelian, mæþlan, mǣlan”, in J. H. W. Penney, editor, Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 427:


demurely

demurely (comparative more demurely, superlative most demurely)

more demurely (comparative)
most demurely (superlative)

From Middle English demurely; equivalent to demure + -ly.

they spy'd a Cat upon a Shelf; that lay and look'd so Demurely, as if there had been neither Life nor Soul in her.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

When the coffee was drunk, and the cup was put away with many thanks and blessings, she went demurely to the hearth, and pulled out a snuff-horn.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 302:

`I am a hairdresser, but I was advertising as a model,' said Miss A demurely.

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 102:


inspiringly

inspiringly (comparative more inspiringly, superlative most inspiringly)

more inspiringly (comparative)
most inspiringly (superlative)

That line was most beautifully written, and inspiringly put.


damnably

damnably (comparative more damnably, superlative most damnably)

more damnably (comparative)
most damnably (superlative)

From Middle English dampnablely; equivalent to damnable + -ly.

I haue miſ-vs'd the Kings Preſſe damnably.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 67:

The people were in hopes he had killed the lawyers, and were damnably disappointed when they found he had only broke the leg o' the one, and the back of the other.

1759, Charles Macklin, Love a la Mode, act II:

But I am blabbing damnably; come, tell me one little bit of the story, and I shall tell you the rest.

1826, Allan Cunningham, chapter V, in Paul Jones, volume II, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, page 145:

By the way: my dressing-gown smells most damnably of benzine.

1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 132:

The young man was so damnably full of his experiences, so eager to compare one thing with another, so insistent upon foreign places and changes in England and what we'd all got to do about it.

1918, Hugh Walpole, The Green Mirror, New York: George H. Doran, Book I, Chapter VI, p. 109:

And in his male spirit he felt himself hating her: hating her deeply, damnably.

1918–1921 (date written), D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XVIII, in Aaron’s Rod, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, published April 1922, →OCLC:

They had just got me on to the stretcher when my paralysed right arm came to life and began hurting damnably.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:


squirrellike

squirrellike (comparative more squirrellike, superlative most squirrellike)

more squirrellike (comparative)
most squirrellike (superlative)

to pull a face squirrellike

(postpositive) In the manner of a squirrel.


ratlike

ratlike (comparative more ratlike, superlative most ratlike)

more ratlike (comparative)
most ratlike (superlative)


ducklike

ducklike (comparative more ducklike, superlative most ducklike)

more ducklike (comparative)
most ducklike (superlative)

(usually postpositive) in the manner of a duck; as, to walk ducklike


chickenlike

chickenlike (comparative more chickenlike, superlative most chickenlike)

more chickenlike (comparative)
most chickenlike (superlative)


doglike

doglike (comparative more doglike, superlative most doglike)

more doglike (comparative)
most doglike (superlative)

She treated me doglike.


deathly

deathly (comparative more deathly, superlative most deathly)

more deathly (comparative)
most deathly (superlative)

From Middle English dethlich, from Old English dēaþlīċ, equivalent to death + -ly.

He was deathly pale.

The water was deathly cold.

He was deathly afraid of crocodiles.


detailedly

detailedly (comparative more detailedly, superlative most detailedly)

more detailedly (comparative)
most detailedly (superlative)

Then we introduce the scale projection conjecture and the general mathematical features of its implementation, anticipating some common features of the microscopical (kinetic) models we analyze later more detailedly.

2020, Ladislaus Alexander Banyai, Lectures on the Non-Equilibrium Theory of Condensed Matter (Second Edition), page 77:

(non-native speakers' English) In a detailed manner; with attention to detail.


mouselike

mouselike (comparative more mouselike, superlative most mouselike)

more mouselike (comparative)
most mouselike (superlative)

Coordinate term: ratlike


unhealthily

unhealthily (comparative more unhealthily, superlative most unhealthily)

more unhealthily (comparative)
most unhealthily (superlative)

Full disclosure: I’m white, and I’ve been intrigued, unhealthily or not, for decades by the whitelessness of Georgetown basketball.

2010 January 27, Dave McKenna, “Cheap Seats Daily: Hoyas Women’s Basketball Has a Feeling of Whitelessness?”, in Washington City Paper:


birdlike

birdlike (comparative more birdlike, superlative most birdlike)

more birdlike (comparative)
most birdlike (superlative)

(postpositive) In the manner of a bird; as, to fly.


prolifically

prolifically (comparative more prolifically, superlative most prolifically)

more prolifically (comparative)
most prolifically (superlative)

In a prolific manner, or to a prolific extent; abundantly


integrally

integrally (comparative more integrally, superlative most integrally)

more integrally (comparative)
most integrally (superlative)


inauspiciously

inauspiciously (comparative more inauspiciously, superlative most inauspiciously)

more inauspiciously (comparative)
most inauspiciously (superlative)


diaphanously

diaphanously (comparative more diaphanously, superlative most diaphanously)

more diaphanously (comparative)
most diaphanously (superlative)

The nightclubs generally provide liquor (at a price), pretty girls who are clad diaphanously but extremely effectively, a tiny space in which to dance [...] and food[.]

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 89:


unfavorably

unfavorably (comparative more unfavorably, superlative most unfavorably)

more unfavorably (comparative)
most unfavorably (superlative)

(American spelling) In an unfavorable manner.


primly

primly (comparative more primly, superlative most primly)

more primly (comparative)
most primly (superlative)

She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]

1949, Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister:


unfavourably

unfavourably (comparative more unfavourably, superlative most unfavourably)

more unfavourably (comparative)
most unfavourably (superlative)

Neither the Type 2 nor the Type 3 locomotives have so far reached a satisfactory standard of performance. [...] The number of miles per failure is still too low and therefore compares unfavourably with steam engine performance.

1962 June, Rupert Shervington, “The planning and execution of the Kent coast electrification”, in Modern Railways, page 390:

(British spelling) In an unfavourable manner.


uninterruptedly

They adopted the singular, though in their case probably advantageous, decision to continue each to have a separate place of abode, in order that each might work uninterruptedly, […]

1890, Lucy Madox Rossetti, chapter 1, in Mrs. Shelley, pages 19–20:

Speed downhill was not allowed to exceed 77½ m.p.h., then, after a 63 m.p.h. slowing through Creil, the more gradual rise to Gannes was climbed at between 75 and 79 m.p.h. uninterruptedly.

1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 804:

Save for the three brief ¼-mile descents, before Bakewell, Monsal Dale and Miller's Dale, the line is climbing uninterruptedly at round about 1 in 100 for 9 miles from Rowsley almost to Miller's Dale, [...].

1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 177: