like whiteheads

like whiteheads (comparative more like whiteheads, superlative most like whiteheads)

more like whiteheads (comparative)
most like whiteheads (superlative)

So many things of interest have happened since you people heard from us we hardly know where to “begin to commence at," but really, we're here and working like whiteheads.

1920, Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, The Monitor, page 34:

Edward Blamey and some of his friends had stuffed a toy cannon with powder and wadded newspapers, and they touched it off right in the middle of Judge J. T. Day's speech, and then they ran like whiteheads when they saw the constable coming . ran long and lightly and youthfully with their pockets filled with torpedoes and Chinese crackers and squibs . . . three cheers for the Red, White and Blue!

1976, MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville, page 226:

Don't piffle to the children, Al. Those hens ran like whiteheads.

(colloquial) With all of one's energy; vigorously.


tooth and tong

en-adv

tooth and tong (comparative more tooth and tong, superlative most tooth and tong)

more tooth and tong (comparative)
most tooth and tong (superlative)

Blend of tooth and nail + hammer and tongs

blend

In 1935, I think it was, when a number of Senators and Congressmen introduced grain alcohol bills similar to the one Senator Mundt and I have introduced—but we are told those bills were fought tooth and tong by the oil interests, hence never became law.

1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Agricultural Situation and Farm Programs:

Mrs. Meier, wife of the under sheriff at the jail, turned against me. And Duane West is one of my bitterest enemies. And they were sort of working tooth and tong.

1973, Denis Brian, Murderers and Other Friendly People:

The old guard is fighting his economic reforms tooth and tong.

1991, Richard Herman, Firebreak, page 71:

Presenting a vigorous and unified opposition.


postconstitutionally

After the adoption or decline of a political constitution.


semifactually

In a manner that is only partly factual.


cherishably

en-adv

cherishably (comparative more cherishably, superlative most cherishably)

more cherishably (comparative)
most cherishably (superlative)


verbalistically

We all accept that ideal verbalistically, but what proportion of the school children of this country have even the simple minimum service of an annual health and dental examination?

1940, American Association of University Women, AAUW Journal, page 214:

Had Boyarin left matters at this level, one might think that, for all the concern with culture as providing tools for our understanding, the commitment to intertextuality in literary studies would engender a hermetic, verbalistically regimented manner of reading.

2012, Eugene B. Borowitz, Talmud's Theological Language-Game, The: A Philosophical Discourse Analysis, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 165:

Disrespect for the vapidly complicated, verbalistically derived truths has always been present in intellectual history, but you are not likely to see it in your local scientific reporter or college teacher:

2018, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, Random House, →ISBN, page 28:


daddishly

daddishly (comparative more daddishly, superlative most daddishly)

more daddishly (comparative)
most daddishly (superlative)

'I don't believe I've met this young man,' he said, daddishly.

2007, Mardi McConnochie, Melissa, Queen of Evil, page 157:

You can usually tell an undercover cop by their woefully inadequate attempts to do party behaviour', i.e. standing in the corner with a Corona bopping daddishly to the Wu-Tang Clan, and randomly sticking both hands in the air and shouting, 'Woo, yeah, great pardeee!'

2012, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Fresh Meat: The Essential Guide for New Undergraduatesthe Future Unemployed:

You scanned the party daddishly, as if everyone in the room bore some responsibility.

2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN:


mommishly

mommishly (comparative more mommishly, superlative most mommishly)

more mommishly (comparative)
most mommishly (superlative)

Mostly. “Just don't go sneaking into my desk anymore,” she added mommishly before walking away.

2011, Karla Oceanak, Dumbstruck, page 134:

Harris lightly steals the show at the end, when her all-forgiving mompride has her dancing exceptionally mommishly to Rodrick’s heavy-metal band.

2011 March 25, Kyle Smith, “Sweet, sick tween”, in New York Post:

As a side note, I know this is the most mommishly mommy thing ever, but I HATE glass-topped tables.

2013, Rachel Devenish Ford, A Home as Wide as the Earth:


all as one

Lying belly down, staying in one place, begin to experience gentle side-to-side rolling, with your head, torso and lower body moving all as one.

2004, Roger S. Gottlieb, This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, →ISBN, page 555:

They act on command with precision and power, flawlessly executing, aware of the thud of their boots on the ground as they march and the crack of their rifles against their palms as they execute the manual of arms: It is the sublime thunder of eighty sets of boots and eighty rifles moving all as one.

2010, Edgar D. Johnson III, What About Us?: Standards-Based Education and the Dilemma of Student Subjectivity, →ISBN, page 79:

The bridge to allow access to such a gift is the lens of unity consciousness or seeing “all as one.”

2011, Hope Ives Mauran, Be the Second Coming, →ISBN:


nondiagonally

In a manner or orientation that is not diagonal.


substance-wise

substance-wise (comparative more substance-wise, superlative most substance-wise)

more substance-wise (comparative)
most substance-wise (superlative)


eupeptically

eupeptically (comparative more eupeptically, superlative most eupeptically)

more eupeptically (comparative)
most eupeptically (superlative)

Vorpal, eupeptically bubbling greetings, bathed a sausage in a swimming plate of sauce.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 22:

In a eupeptic or cheerful manner; cheerfully.


imperatorially

imperatorially (comparative more imperatorially, superlative most imperatorially)

more imperatorially (comparative)
most imperatorially (superlative)


togetherwise

en-adverb

togetherwise (comparative more togetherwise, superlative most togetherwise)

more togetherwise (comparative)
most togetherwise (superlative)

[…] & besides necessity & an impossibility of liuing togetherwise allwayes attending it wᵗʰ, & to thanke heauen for it you cannot pleade.

1971, original 1646, Sir John Suckling, Thomas Clayton, Lester A. Beaurline, The Works of Sir John Suckling, page 131:

First, it makes practical efforts to help people who have to buy their houses because, togetherwise, they cannot get anywhere to live and have not enough money to pay the deposit formerly required, and it makes a practical effort to help them […]

Ho, ho! It feels like Christmas,
not only weather-wise
but in spirit;
it feels together-wise.

2014, Alfred Colo, Candlewood Chronicles, page ?:

(rare, nonstandard) In a manner involving or depicting togetherness, togetherly.


diffractometrically

By means of or in terms of diffractometry.


derivatographically

By means of or in terms of derivatography.


thermoanalytically

In terms of or by means of thermal analysis.


liquescently

en-adv

liquescently (comparative more liquescently, superlative most liquescently)

more liquescently (comparative)
most liquescently (superlative)


every where

Clo[wne]. Foolery ſir, does walke about the Orbe like the Sun, it ſhines euery where.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 265, column 1:

We have been told that our Struggle has loosened the bands of Government every where.

1776 April 14, John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams

You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments every where, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; […]

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:

Mary had a little lamb, / Its fleece was white as snow, / And every where that Mary went / The lamb was sure to go ;

1830, Sarah J. Hale, “Mary's Lamb”, in Poems for Our Children, Marsh, Capen & Lyon, pages 6–7:


bad comes to worst

bad comes to worst (comparative more bad comes to worst, superlative most bad comes to worst)

more bad comes to worst (comparative)
most bad comes to worst (superlative)

worst comes to worst
worst comes to worst#English

Alternative form of worst comes to worst


bad comes to worse

bad comes to worse (comparative more bad comes to worse, superlative most bad comes to worse)

more bad comes to worse (comparative)
most bad comes to worse (superlative)


sparringly

sparringly (comparative more sparringly, superlative most sparringly)

more sparringly (comparative)
most sparringly (superlative)

There was a tense, angry silence as they faced each other sparringly in Abbey's dimly lit lounge, then Dalene hissed accusingly, 'You just don't care, do you?'

1982, Yvonne Whittal, Bitter-Sweet Waters, page 144:

Woolf makes subjective even her statement that human affairs are subjective; Russell sparringly equates mathematics with divinity.

2015, Megan Quigley, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language:


unpiteously

unpiteously (comparative more unpiteously, superlative most unpiteously)

more unpiteously (comparative)
most unpiteously (superlative)


unsplendidly

unsplendidly (comparative more unsplendidly, superlative most unsplendidly)

more unsplendidly (comparative)
most unsplendidly (superlative)


unremuneratively

unremuneratively (comparative more unremuneratively, superlative most unremuneratively)

more unremuneratively (comparative)
most unremuneratively (superlative)


unspatially

unspatially (comparative more unspatially, superlative most unspatially)

more unspatially (comparative)
most unspatially (superlative)


Russianly

Some few thankless foreigners may be as you say sadly Russian, but as to me I am Russianly sad. ...”

1852, Joseph de Maistre, Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, page 162:

To Americans, who, as I have pointed out, are as much concerned in the Censorship as the English are, the drama being practically international, this state of things may seem so Russianly subversive of fundamental western rights as to stand condemned by the mere statement of it.

1899, G. Bernard Shaw, The North American Review, page 256:

L’Histoire du Soldat is still a piece that excites me Russianly and makes me think of the devil.

1973, Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood, page 11:

WHAT LINKS the very disparate chapters that follow is the constant, implicit theme that has been the explicit subject of these introductory essays: that of defining Russia musically, along with its converse, defining music Russianly.

2000, Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 105:


commonlie

commonlie (comparative more commonlie, superlative most commonlie)

more commonlie (comparative)
most commonlie (superlative)

But commonlie, the fairest bodies, ar bestowed on the foulest purposes.


thyrdly

...thyrdly how much my sayd husband was many wayes bound vnto you, and how gladly and comfortably he vsed in hys lyfe to recognise and report your goodnesse toward hym, leauyng with me then hys poore widow and a great sort of orphanes a good comfort in the hope of your good continuance...

1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:


dutiefully

dutiefully (comparative more dutiefully, superlative most dutiefully)

more dutiefully (comparative)
most dutiefully (superlative)

...and that the world should owe thanke therof to you, to whom my husband the authour of it was for good receyued of you, most dutiefully bounden.


multiethnically

multiethnically (comparative more multiethnically, superlative most multiethnically)

more multiethnically (comparative)
most multiethnically (superlative)


bainly

bainly (comparative more bainly, superlative most bainly)

more bainly (comparative)
most bainly (superlative)

From Middle English bainly, baynly, baynely, equivalent to bain (“ready, willing”) + -ly.


elastostatically

From this elastostatically computed energy, Griffith was able to derive conditions for the propagation of the crack.

1958 March 1, Leon Knopoff, “Energy Release in Earthquakes”, in Geophysical Journal International, volume 1, number 1, page 44:


lavatorially

lavatorially (comparative more lavatorially, superlative most lavatorially)

more lavatorially (comparative)
most lavatorially (superlative)


neurocritically

The neurocritically ill patient population is a unique patient group whose disease processes are a common reason for intensive care unit (ICU) admission.

2014, Nicole P. Juffermans, Timothy S. Walsh, Transfusion in the Intensive Care Unit, page 45:


unduteously

unduteously (comparative more unduteously, superlative most unduteously)

more unduteously (comparative)
most unduteously (superlative)


stereoradiographically

In terms of or by means of stereoradiography.


highest off the hog

high off the hog
high off the hog#English

superlative form of high off the hog: most high off the hog


highest on the hog

superlative form of high on the hog: most high on the hog


higher off the hog

comparative form of high off the hog: more high off the hog


higher on the hog

comparative form of high on the hog: more high on the hog


old-womanishly

old-womanishly (comparative more old-womanishly, superlative most old-womanishly)

more old-womanishly (comparative)
most old-womanishly (superlative)

He was excessively careful, old-womanishly apprehensive.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 112:


uplevels

They had done a spec on it uplevels and found it was a registration plate for a ship; it must have massed six, eight kilos.

1987, Michael Reaves, Steve Perry, Dome, page 144:

A message was sent uplevels.

1990, David Wingrove, Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom, page 555:

Polian's father had taken him uplevels, to Sky-ceiling, where they rented an open skimmer, filter masks, and waders.

A half hour after Polian had left Orion Parker in the detention block interrogation Kube, he sat shivering in the blessed coolness of the first-class car that bore him back uplevels.

From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.


Nordically

Nordically (comparative more Nordically, superlative most Nordically)

more Nordically (comparative)
most Nordically (superlative)

[S]he was, with her pale high cheekbones and Nordically cold blue eyes, strikingly handsome rather than beautiful.

1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren:


liverishly

liverishly (comparative more liverishly, superlative most liverishly)

more liverishly (comparative)
most liverishly (superlative)

He dozed liverishly. In his dream he was drinking in Bombay, paying for rounds with ample rupees.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 136:


biophotonically

By means or, or in terms of, biophotonics.


lovesickly

lovesickly (comparative more lovesickly, superlative most lovesickly)

more lovesickly (comparative)
most lovesickly (superlative)

...and, most of all, a romantic figure like Errol Flynn to captain the Sea Hawks, to be loyal to the Queen, to gaze lovesickly into the big, beautiful, cowy, Spanish eyes of Brenda Marshall, to lead his stalwart men (Alan Hale, J. M. Kerrigan, William Lundigan and all the others including an interesting newcomer, David Bruce) into Panama to rob the Spanish, to stand by them and help them escape when they are captured, and finally to slash his way in duel after duel through guard and intriguing lords to his Queen with the plans of the ARMADA.

1940, Michael Williams, Commonweal - Volume 32, page 371:

Not to phone or meet her or hang around lovesickly.

1968, Glendon Fred Swarthout, Loveland, page 160:

Not because Costello wasn't technically qualified to serve as Deputy Mayor, but because the designation of Costello under the embarrassing circumstances of his enthusiastic rejection by the voters on Election Day clearly suggested that here was a duty-appointment—done in brazen defiance of the democratic canons about which, during the campaign, Lindsay had spoken so lovesickly.

2015, William F. Buckley Jr., The Unmaking of a Mayor, page 390:


round and round

The whole economy of this dance consists in turning round and round the room in a certain measured step ; and it is truly astonishing that this continued revolution does not set all their heads swimming like a top ; but I have been positively assured that it only occasions a gentle sensation which is marvellously agreeable.

1807, Washington Irving, William Irving and James Kirke Paulding, “From the Mill of Pindar Cockloft, Esq. (Notes, by William Wizard, Esq.: Waltz)”, in Salmagundi, number VII:

Instances were known of people who, being asked to dine at Todgers’s, had travelled round and round for a weary time, with its very chimney–pots in view ; and finding it, at last, impossible of attainment, had gone home again with a gentle melancholy on their spirits, tranquil and uncomplaining.

1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 9 (“Town and Todgers’s”)”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

(figurative) Following the same course repeatedly in vain.

herum

(fig.) following the same course repeatedly in vain


seamily

seamily (comparative more seamily, superlative most seamily)

more seamily (comparative)
most seamily (superlative)


unstartlingly

unstartlingly (comparative more unstartlingly, superlative most unstartlingly)

more unstartlingly (comparative)
most unstartlingly (superlative)


nfd

(demographics) Abbreviation of not further defined.


Asiatically

Asiatically (comparative more Asiatically, superlative most Asiatically)

more Asiatically (comparative)
most Asiatically (superlative)

[…] to the Importance of your Mightiness, Prostrate at the Threshold of your Munificence, Do I Asiatically bow my Head;

1743, George Alexander Stevens, The Dramatic History of Master Edward, London: T. Waller, dedicatory epistle, page 186:

1843, Charlotte Brontë, letter to Emily Brontë dated 2 September, 1843, in Muriel Spark (ed.), The Letters of the Brontës, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954, p. 106,
The weather has been exceedingly fine during the last fortnight, and yet not so Asiatically hot as it was last year at this time.

[…] the iconoclast sovereigns, strong in the support of an Asiatically recruited army, had added much to the glory of the Empire,

1929, Robert Byron, The Byzantine Achievement, Routledge, published 2012, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 175:

The books in his waiting room inclined Asiatically, as did the knickknacks in his lavatory.

2011, David Guterson, chapter 6, in Ed King, New York: Knopf, page 133:

(dated) In a (typically) Asian manner; from, in or toward Asia.


head to foot

From Middle English (fro) hived to þe fot, (fro) þe hed vnto þe feet, (fra) þe hefd vnto þe fote.


semi-daily

The documents say the 17-year-old told police he had been carrying the gun to school semi-daily since the beginning of the school year, …

2018 December 3, “Threats shut down 15 Lord Selkirk School Division schools on Monday”, in CBC News:


dysphemistically

dysphemistically (comparative more dysphemistically, superlative most dysphemistically)

more dysphemistically (comparative)
most dysphemistically (superlative)

They then give some twenty slang expressions used dysphemistically as a designation for a house or place of residence.

1933, Gerrit Albertus van Dongen, Amelioratives in English, volume 1, page 12:


anticulturally

anticulturally (comparative more anticulturally, superlative most anticulturally)

more anticulturally (comparative)
most anticulturally (superlative)


unterrifiedly

unterrifiedly (comparative more unterrifiedly, superlative most unterrifiedly)

more unterrifiedly (comparative)
most unterrifiedly (superlative)

If both must be taken or rejected together, an alternative which we emphatically deny, what sincere and earnest thinker now, whose will is unterrifiedly consecrated to truth, can be expected to hesitate long?

1871, William Rounseville Alger, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, page 547:

For he who wants to be the right kind of preacher, and faithfully perform his duty, must retain and assert his liberty unterrifiedly to tell the truth, without respect of persons, and rebuking if necessary great and small, rich, poor, powerful, friend and foe.

1892, Martin Luther, Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, page 348:

He embraced unterrifiedly a foreign policy "which recognizes the principle of compromise and rejects the compromise of principle."

1969, Bert Cochran, Adlai Stevenson: Patrician Among the Politicians, page 155:


downwell

downwell (comparative more downwell, superlative most downwell)

more downwell (comparative)
most downwell (superlative)

These identification plaques will serve as one aspect of continuing control and are intended to be a long-term indication of a sealed radioactive source downwell.

1979, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Annual Report, page 216:

One of the principal techniques available for estimating the distribution of cracks in HDR reservoirs is by the analysis of acoustic events recorded downwell on three-component geophones during hydraulic fracturing.

1984, The Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, page 12:

A careful analysis of Fig, 19B (and other similar photographs) indicates some of the long exposure particle streaks "downwell" near the topography.

1990, Journal of Physical Oceanography - Volume 20, page 1438:


allwhither

Trees grew out of mud, arched upon lean and high roots, and many muddy waterways ran allwhither into darkness under the trees.

1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:

There was a flash of lights, the sound of a frenzied, wordless struggle, the gleam of Mr. Fox's pocket electric lamp, the beating of shod feet on bare boards, and a thousand echoes running allwhither into the heart of the deserted factory — the weird cries of rudely awakened wild-fowl in the darkness without, and—silence.

1920, F. St. Mars, Off the Beaten Track, page 242:

Then from his cavernous armpit drew and gave The singing leaves, not such as erst I knew, But strange, disjointed, where the unmeasured feet Staggered allwhither in pursuit of rhyme, And could not find it; assonance instead, Cases and verbs misplaced—remediable those — Broad-shouldered coarseness, fondly meant for wit.

1955, Edmund Wilson, The shock of recognition, page 381:

For all England was his fief, held in vassalage to God and to no man alive, his heart now sang; allwhither his empire spread, opulent in grain and metal and every revenue of the earth, and in stalwart men (his chattels), and in strong orderly cities, where the windows would be adorned with scarlet hangings, and women (with golden hair and red lax lips) would presently admire as King Edward rode slowly by at the head of a resplendent retinue.

2012, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry, page 138:


hyperemotionally

hyperemotionally (comparative more hyperemotionally, superlative most hyperemotionally)

more hyperemotionally (comparative)
most hyperemotionally (superlative)


next time

(Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In the future.


light-headedly

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

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

From light-headed (adjective) (any sense) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).

affix

In a light-headed manner; with a light head.


someplace else

(US) Alternative form of somewhere else.


courtlily

en-adv

courtlily (comparative more courtlily, superlative most courtlily)

more courtlily (comparative)
most courtlily (superlative)

[…] Captain Travis was courtlily gracious, and in civil terms enough welcomed his unwelcome visiter [sic].

1855, William Gilmore Simms, chapter 28, in The Forayers, New York: Redfield, page 332:

[…] he motioned courtlily that she should enter.

1974, Anthony Burgess, chapter 9, in The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby’s End, New York: McGraw-Hill, published 1984, page 130:

In a manner befitting of a royal court; in a courtly manner.


boatside

boatside (comparative more boatside, superlative most boatside)

more boatside (comparative)
most boatside (superlative)

When he of the men hooked a cobia, the level of their voices picked up and soon—too soon—they had it boatside.

1983, Wildlife in North Carolina - Volume 47, page 17:

In many catch-and-release muskellunge tournaments, musky length is measured boatside by a witness.

2006, Wisconsin Natural Resources - Volumes 30-31, page 14:

The exhausted fish came boatside and was aptly secured in the net.

2017, C.L. Marshall, Hunting & Fishing the Chesapeake:


reductivistically

reductivistically (comparative more reductivistically, superlative most reductivistically)

more reductivistically (comparative)
most reductivistically (superlative)


reductionistically

reductionistically (comparative more reductionistically, superlative most reductionistically)

more reductionistically (comparative)
most reductionistically (superlative)


headlings

From Middle English hedlinges, hedlynges, equivalent to headling + -s. Cognate with Scots heidlingis (“headlong”).

Alternative form of headling (“headlong; precipitately”).


some day

The baby will likely be born some day in December.


immunotherapeutically

(immunology, medicine) In an immunotherapeutic manner


confusedlie

confusedlie (comparative more confusedlie, superlative most confusedlie)

more confusedlie (comparative)
most confusedlie (superlative)

Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson] they say 's turned Epigrammatist, / Soe think not I, believe it they that list. / Peruse his booke, thou shalt not find a dram / Of witt befitting a true Epigram. / Perhaps some scraps of play-bookes thou maist see, / Collected heer & there confusedlie, / Which piece his broken stuffe; if thou but note, / Iust like soe many patches on a cote.

1614–1616, R. C., “Scribimus indocti doctique epigrammata passim”, in J[oseph] M[eadows] Cowper, editor, The Times’ Whistle: Or A Newe Daunce of Seven Satires, and Other Poems: … Now First Edited from MS. Y. 8. 3. in the Library of Canterbury Cathedral; […], London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1871, →OCLC, part II (Certaine Poems, Comprising Things Naturall, Morrall, & Theologicall), page 132, lines 1–7:

Now ye have the Kingis letter and this ſupplicatioun both coppeit; read and conſidder both the ane and the uther, with the Counſallis anſuer ſent to the ſaid ſupplicatioun, quhilk is ſo ſtrangelie and confuſedlie ſet down that I can not wnderſtand the ſamen perfectlie weill.

1642, John Spalding, edited by James Skene, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland and England, from M.DC.XXIV. to M.DC.XLV. … In Two Volumes (Publications; no. 25), volume II, printed at Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club; printed by Ballantyne and Co., published 1829, page 51:

After the prayer, Mr. Byfield the ſcribe, reads the propoſition and the Scriptures, whereupon the Aſſemblie debates in a moſt grave and orderlie way. No man is called up to ſpeak; bot who ſtands up of his own accord, he ſpeaks ſo long as he will without interruption. If two or three ſtand up at once, then the divines confuſedlie calls on his name whom they deſyre to hear firſt: On whom the loudeſt and manieſt voices calls, he ſpeaks.

1643 December 17, R. Baylie [i.e., Robert Baillie], “[Letter to Mr. William Spang, 7 December 1643 [Julian calendar]]”, in The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie, A.M. Principal of the University of Glasgow. M.DC.XXXVII.–M.DC.LXII. In Three Volumes (Publications; no. 73), volume II, Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club; [printed by Alexander Lawrie & Co. […]], published 1841, →OCLC, pages 108–109:

(chiefly Scotland) Obsolete spelling of confusedly.


polychromatically

polychromatically (comparative more polychromatically, superlative most polychromatically)

more polychromatically (comparative)
most polychromatically (superlative)


non-committally

non-committally (comparative more non-committally, superlative most non-committally)

more non-committally (comparative)
most non-committally (superlative)


Anglicanly

Anglicanly (comparative more Anglicanly, superlative most Anglicanly)

more Anglicanly (comparative)
most Anglicanly (superlative)

He saw Mr. Lim from Penang, Anglicanly elegant, climbing into the Hillman that the firm used on this side of the peninsula, a Malay driver closing the door smartly after him.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 597:

In an Anglican manner; befitting an Anglican.


faggishly

faggishly (comparative more faggishly, superlative most faggishly)

more faggishly (comparative)
most faggishly (superlative)


whenceforward

The lease expired in 1890, whenceforward the property reverted to its original owner.

(formal or literary) From which point onwards (in time or space).


Godwilling

...so, on the other pairt, it wes to me no small confort that I sould now liue and, Godwilling, end my dayes in the tyme of a most gratious Pharao, who bothe knowes and will not forgett his evir deutisull and devoited Joseph.

1838, Publications - Issue 13, Edinburgh: Abbotsford Club, page 223:

By vertue whereof, they do hereby Declare and Publish, That they intend (Godwilling) in convenient time, to alter and abolish all such Lawes in the same, as shall be found inconsistent with the Government of the Common-wealth of England, or the Union and Incorporation of England and Scotland, and to frame and make others in their room.

1895, Scottish History Society, Publications - Volume 18, page 44:

I am about to hit a button at the base of the back of the vest, Godwilling, that will arm it.

2016, Yusuf Toropov, Jihadi: A Love Story:


upface

upface (comparative more upface, superlative most upface)

more upface (comparative)
most upface (superlative)

He is like Ratnasambhava: yellow, r.h. holds a jewel marked with a vajra with the middle finger as he enacts the varada mudrā, l.h. likes upface in the lap.

1999, Lokesh Chandra, Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, page 1165:

As he edged into old age he let his sideburns grow into chops and the chops curved upface to form a moustache, about as distinctive a set of hirsute decorations to be seen in all Middle Europe.

1963, Saturday Review - Volume 46, Part 3, page 50:

This development is opposite of 'lateral flattening' seen in Heterohelix glabrans (Cushman) in which chambers flatten rapidly and aperture is reduced to a narrow slit extending upface.

1980, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India - Volume 25, page 61:

Start in a broken area of the wall and continue upface in a series of steps and chimneys.

1987, Fred W. Beckey, Cascade Alpine Guide: Columbia River to Stevens Pass, page 76:

Corresponds to condition of concrete, (except for a thin portion upface), in dam during early stages of flow as long as water is saturated with lime.

1936, American Concrete Institute, Proceedings - Volume 32, page 231:

Your work camp is upface from our facility.

1986, John Wood Campbell, Analog Science Fiction/science Fact - Volume 106, page 14:

On one hand, their presence will give rise to considerable advance of beaches which are upface with respect to prevailing longshore currents; on the other hand, equally evident retreat will follow to the lee of beaches following the barriers.

2003, Italian Habitats: Sand dunes and beaches:


semisweetly

semisweetly (comparative more semisweetly, superlative most semisweetly)

more semisweetly (comparative)
most semisweetly (superlative)

"Let's not and say we did," she said semisweetly— I didn't know her well enough to read her level of sarcasm.

2007, Jim Ray Daniels, Mr. Pleasant, page 57:

Kinsey smiled semisweetly.

2010, Alison Kent, Wicked Games, page 122:

In this connection, a student of mine once described Catullus as like a lucid drunk: drunk just enough to tell it like it is but semisweetly, maybe bitterly, indeed a bit salty.

2013, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Silence in Catullus, page 80:

In a somewhat sweet manner, but with an element of asperity.


infuriatedly

infuriatedly (comparative more infuriatedly, superlative most infuriatedly)

more infuriatedly (comparative)
most infuriatedly (superlative)


cheek to jowl

cheek to jowl (comparative more cheek to jowl, superlative most cheek to jowl)

more cheek to jowl (comparative)
most cheek to jowl (superlative)

These beach side developments continued for miles and—as we entered the city—were replaced by large hotels, sitting cheek to jowl, just across the highway from the beach which fronted on the gulf.

2008, David Laursen, Going to (And With) the Dogs, page 161:

Blessed with fine, loving parents, the subject of this book lived out a childhood in which all of this reconstructed mindset rested unquestioned, cheek to jowl, alongside the radical proposition continually repeated within his pious family that, as someone said, we should love our enemies.

2013, T. J. King, Something To Stand The Rain, page 3:

For instance, after Steed says she and a Russian spy will be working “cheek to jowl,” Mrs. Peel, with a twinkle in her eye, responds that “his cheek will come nowhere near my jowl.”

2015, Tom Soter, Investigating Couples, page 89:


cheek-to-jowl

cheek-to-jowl (comparative more cheek-to-jowl, superlative most cheek-to-jowl)

more cheek-to-jowl (comparative)
most cheek-to-jowl (superlative)

No matter whether a society operates at arm's length or cheek-to-jowl, the women look at each other more and stand a bit closer than do the men.

2005, Peter S. Gardner, New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking, page 21:

Previous to the above process, when the flight deck is packed cheek-to-jowl with aircraft, the deckedge and the forward elevators were used to bring aircraft from the hangar deck to the flight deck, up forward.

2011, Edward Atkins, Flight Deck, Part 1, page 236:

By the time Jenny McCallum played “Rock of Ages,” the pews were packed cheek-to-jowl, little children were sitting on their mothers' laps, and young men were slouching against the wall the way they always do.

2013, George Shaffner, The Widows of Eden:


cheek-by-jowl

cheek-by-jowl (comparative more cheek-by-jowl, superlative most cheek-by-jowl)

more cheek-by-jowl (comparative)
most cheek-by-jowl (superlative)

El-Amarna's crowded houses were separated not by wide streets, but by narrow, winding alleyways through piles of domestic garbage, in urban communities where everyone lived cheek-by-jowl.

1995, Brian M. Fagan, Snapshots of the Past, page 64:

Allusions to primitive art, whether directly drawn from reference works or freely improvised in the artist's own dainty scenarios) nestle cheek-by-jowl with automatic doodles which in turn lead into approximations of highly abstract compositions.

1998, Henry Moore, David Mitchinson, Celebrating Moore, page 161:

Obscure manuscripts and well-known texts reside cheek-by-jowl; so too, polished literary works and oral narratives.

2004, Howard Schwartz, Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism, page xxxv:

In "The Dunwich Horror" the other-dimensional creatures are thwarted by the proper incantations, while witchcraft and the new Einsteinian universe appear cheek-by-jowl in "Dreams in the Witch House."

2012, Darrell Schweitzer, Discovering H.P. Lovecraft, page 9:

LNER express trains old and new stand cheek-by-jowl at King's Cross during the evening rush hour on October 14.

2022 November 2, Nick Brodrick, “Network News: 'Scotsman' the star attraction for KX's 170th birthday”, in RAIL, number 969, page 20, photo caption:


altogethers

altogethers (comparative more altogethers, superlative most altogethers)

more altogethers (comparative)
most altogethers (superlative)

Give her this letter, for it is a 'oman that is altogethers acquaintance with Mistress Anne Page, and the letter is to desire and require her to solicit your master's desires to Mistress Anne Page.

1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor:

Accordingly we find, that while no regulations, that ever were invented or applied, could stop the operations of the great distillers, the middling ones, in consequence of strićt watching, have been obliged to give up business altogethers.

1791, Andrew Hamilton, An Enquiry Into the Principles of Taxation, page 287:

For as towching his exchanges, me ought to consider with whome he had to do, specially with suche a prince as woulde not be brydeled, nor be againste-said in any of his requeste, oneles men wolde danger altogethers.

1859, John Gough Nichols, Narratives of the Days of the Reformation, page 266:

(obsolete) Alternative form of altogether

We have, everich of us, severally, and also altogethers, communed with hym, and used all such Motions as we thought mighte moste further that Purpose ;

1718, An History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies:

These words she hath said to them altogethers, and to eche of theym apart divers and sondry types.

1822, John Strype, Ecclesiastical memorials, page 463:

...and lastly, I might have felt inclined to say a word on that commemorative column, which the reformers directed Messrs. Green to erect and Mr. Baily to surmount with the statue of their patron saint, in Portland stone well oiled, but which column has been left shorn of some of its fair proportions, through the slackening of the primitive fervour of the worshippers, who at last could not muster more than 2350l. for the architect, the sculptor, and the builder of the monument altogethers"

1841, Augustus Bozzi Granville, The Spas of England and Principal Sea-bathing Places:

(obsolete) Alternative form of all together


meechingly

meechingly (comparative more meechingly, superlative most meechingly)

more meechingly (comparative)
most meechingly (superlative)

Their “diplomatic little resolution—so tactfully, so politely, so meechingly worded,” as Hicks wrote, provoked a near riot when it was presented […]

2010, Barry Werth, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal, page 40:

At the opening of the session I meechingly advance to the bulletin where the lists of pedagogic authorities are posted, and read with watering eyes the names glittering with D.D.'s, LL.D.'s, X.Y.Z.'s, E.T.C.'s.

1922 February 23, Celina H. Lewis, “Hunting a Degree”, in A.E. Winship, editor, Journal of Education, volume 95, number 8, Boston University, School of Education, page 210:

[…] he carried her into the house while the hounds followed meechingly behind.

1921, Dane Coolidge, chapter XI, in The Man-killers, page 95:


carcerally

In terms of or by means of imprisonment.


preceptorially

preceptorially (comparative more preceptorially, superlative most preceptorially)

more preceptorially (comparative)
most preceptorially (superlative)


aloose

The reason she got to him quicker than I did is because Mooring did not turn me aloose as quick as Cox turned her aloose.

1922, John Preston White, The Texas Criminal Reports:

There's nothing but young girls live over there, work around the . . . Capitol buildings, State buildings . . . they were screaming that they had called the police, to turn me aloose. He turned my left hand aloose and started — he dropped it down on my leg.

1968, North Carolina reports - Volume 273, page 511:

Dey wuz constant a-gwine on data a-way, en ef I wa'n't gittin' so mighty weak-kneed in de membunce I'd bust aloose yer en I'd fair wake you up wid de gwines on er dem ar creeturs.

1974, Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus; Tales, page 167:

It took the undertaker and that big old strappin' teenage boy of his quite a while to pull him aloose.


insalubriously

insalubriously (comparative more insalubriously, superlative most insalubriously)

more insalubriously (comparative)
most insalubriously (superlative)


apuff

apuff (comparative more apuff, superlative most apuff)

more apuff (comparative)
most apuff (superlative)

She asked Charles to sign our names and address in the curly-backed notebook as Eth limped up the stairs apuff with all the luggage.

1937, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 101, page 52:


drunkly

drunkly (comparative more drunkly, superlative most drunkly)

more drunkly (comparative)
most drunkly (superlative)


rly

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of really.


uncontritely

uncontritely (comparative more uncontritely, superlative most uncontritely)

more uncontritely (comparative)
most uncontritely (superlative)


cocreatively

cocreatively (comparative more cocreatively, superlative most cocreatively)

more cocreatively (comparative)
most cocreatively (superlative)


psychodiagnostically

Psychodiagnostically, this patient would appear to be a case of alcoholism in association with a personality disorder.

1974, Richard S. Lazarus, The Riddle of Man: An Introduction to Psychology, page 494:

In terms of, or by means of, psychodiagnosis.


self-sufficiently

self-sufficiently (comparative more self-sufficiently, superlative most self-sufficiently)

more self-sufficiently (comparative)
most self-sufficiently (superlative)

For if what is decided now does not evolve a railway able to compete self-sufficiently in the transport world of the late 1960s, then we may as well resign ourselves to the lingering death of B.R., protracted only to the extent that it can maintain its services on a make-do-and-mend basis.

1963 January, “A second chance on brakes”, in Modern Railways, page 1:


undivertedly

undivertedly (comparative more undivertedly, superlative most undivertedly)

more undivertedly (comparative)
most undivertedly (superlative)

"It isn't a question of course however," she undivertedly went on, "of their behaving beautifully apart. It's a question of their doing as they should when together—which is another matter."


high-key

high-key (comparative more high-key, superlative most high-key)

more high-key (comparative)
most high-key (superlative)

High key no longer wanna tell anyone anything that’s going on with me.

2022 January 31, BIG XO (@Raveyxoxo_), Twitter:


otherwards

For in this Arch too, leading, as we humbly presume, far otherwards than that grand primeval one, the materials are to be fished-up from the weltering deep, and down from the simmering air, here one mass, there another, ...

1902, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: A Fully Annotated Edition with an Introductory Essay on Thomas Carlyle, page 172:

"Embodiment" suggests the thing directly before us, while "expression" has the unfortunate tendency . . . to direct our thoughts otherwards to feelings or ideas which are expressed.

1998, Margaret Chatterjee, Contemporary Indian Philosophy, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe, →ISBN, page 195:


otherwhen

In the contrasting phenomenological approach — because elsewhere presences here and otherwhen presences now — elsewhere and otherwhen also are present to one another, each in its own way.

2008, Steven M. Rosen, The Self-evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-diversity, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 57:

(rare) Elsewhen, sometime or somewhen else, another time.


otherwhither

For quotations using this term, see Citations:otherwhither.


otherwhereas

For quotations using this term, see Citations:otherwhereas.


unopportunistically

unopportunistically (comparative more unopportunistically, superlative most unopportunistically)

more unopportunistically (comparative)
most unopportunistically (superlative)


now that you mention it

now you mention it
now you mention it#English


little did one know

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-little did one know.wav

I was speaking ill of Fred; little did I know that he was right behind me, listening in.

Little did we know, we would be stuck in traffic for hours before finally making it back home.

Knight said Castro told her, "You're only going to be here as a friend, that's it. And I'll let you go on Christmas." Little did she know she would be held captive in his Cleveland home for more than ten years.

2013 November 6, Stephanie Slifer, “Michelle Knight, Cleveland kidnapping survivor, details horrific circumstances inside Ariel Castro's home”, in CBS News:

But as United saw the game out, little did they know that, having looked likely to win their 13th Premier League title, it was City who turned the table to snatch glory from their arch-rivals’ grasp.

2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:

Used to show a relevant fact that is unknown to a person, or that the result or sequence of events differs greatly from what one had expected with the little knowledge he or she had about the situation beforehand.


matrifocally

matrifocally (comparative more matrifocally, superlative most matrifocally)

more matrifocally (comparative)
most matrifocally (superlative)


patrifocally

patrifocally (comparative more patrifocally, superlative most patrifocally)

more patrifocally (comparative)
most patrifocally (superlative)


micromorphometrically

In terms of, or by means of, micromorphometrics.


hypertrophically

hypertrophically (comparative more hypertrophically, superlative most hypertrophically)

more hypertrophically (comparative)
most hypertrophically (superlative)


whenabout

In the first place, I wish to congratulate the Premier upon the spirit which has inspired him to bring about the change from “colony” to “dominion": and the only defect in the spirit I can really find is that he is premature to the extent of whenabout fifty years.

1907, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 139, page 376:

Having expected the Rector of Faringdon for some time at my house, I could not so well say whenabout we should endeavour to get to Town ;

1877, Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, page 147:

yet the results are only approximate; and in the dates given below no painful accuracy is attempted; it being enough for our purpose to know when or whenabout any drama was produced.

1913, James Stalker, How to Read Shakespeare: A Guide for the General Reader, page 221:


dead-pan

dead-pan (comparative more dead-pan, superlative most dead-pan)

more dead-pan (comparative)
most dead-pan (superlative)

There was his left-hand head talking and sort of yapping that silly laugh of his, dead-pan, while the right-hand head was all creased up with giggle lines.

Dead-pan, he took down Matthew's broken explanations, shook his hand warmly, refused a drink and a plaster for his leg, and ran for the first public call-box as hard as he could go.

2012, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Night and Silence, Who is Here?:

"Why would you think that?" asked Daisy, dead-pan.


dead pan

dead pan (comparative more dead pan, superlative most dead pan)

more dead pan (comparative)
most dead pan (superlative)

Here a young man, perhaps sixteen, is sitting with his back to the rock among some ferns playing a guitar, dead pan.

1995, William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowan, Paterson:

He had a long hang-dog sort of face and a cropped hair style that he claimed, dead pan, was a relic of his days at West Point.

2012, Jessica Stirling, The Blue Evening Gone:

'I thought it was to drink. It wasn't until I sobered up and returned that I realized why I belong here. Umm . . . what were you going to do? I mean if I took even longer to return?' 'Become professors,' she said dead pan.


whenabouts

Let it be required to find the Situation of Jupiter among the Fixed Stars in the Heavens, and also whenabouts it rises and sets, and comes to the Meridian on the 19th of May, 1757, N. S. at London.

1757, John Harris, The description and Use of the Globes, page 149:

I want to know whenabouts. I told you that.

1895, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division- First Department:

And whenabouts did he start from here, do you know ? ”

1917, Madge Mears, The Candid Courtship, page 162:


against someone's will

Due to being forced rather than by choice.

vastoin tahtoaan (using possessive forms)

tahtomatta (+ genitive and/or possessive suffix)


apheliotropically

apheliotropically (comparative more apheliotropically, superlative most apheliotropically)

more apheliotropically (comparative)
most apheliotropically (superlative)

In the case of the radicles of Sinapis alba, sensitiveness to light also resides in the tip, which, when laterally illuminated, causes the adjoining part of the root to bend apheliotropically.

1880, Charles Darwin, The Power of Movement in Plants:

It has been empirically found that the reflection ratio when apheliotropically (looking downsun) is ...

1982, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, page 901:

Where the red moon, inches above our heads, Will exclude us from its light, apheliotropically, in the end.

1994, Thomas Avena, Life sentences: writers, artists, and AIDS, page 111:

In an apheliotropic way; away from the sun.


if possible

Contingent upon the possibility or convenience of the request.


pernicketily

pernicketily (comparative more pernicketily, superlative most pernicketily)

more pernicketily (comparative)
most pernicketily (superlative)

He spent little on himself: his income must have been enormous, but he was pernicketily honest, he didn't use any half-legitimate devices for sliding away from taxes, and he had not made an impressive fortune.

1964, Charles Percy Snow, Corridors of Power, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 294:

The hall was brilliantly lit, pernicketily tidy, the hall of a childless couple. No voice greeted me. I went quickly inside the drawing-room. Here also the lights attacked me, as in the dazzle I saw my wife. Saw her quiet, composed, preoccupied.

2010, Charles Percy Snow, Homecomings, House of Stratus, →ISBN:

British English standard form of persnicketily.


innovatingly

innovatingly (comparative more innovatingly, superlative most innovatingly)

more innovatingly (comparative)
most innovatingly (superlative)

A large figure of Budh, with his attendants, is carved, innovatingly it is said, in front of the shrine.

1862, Mrs. John B. Speid, Our Last Years in India, page 187:

This apotropaic or prophylactic device, which is mentioned neither by Aischylos nor by Sophokles, is innovatingly borrowed by Euripides: the usurpers, instead of forcing Elektra to remain single, marry her off to a free peasant.

1976, George Devereux, Dreams in Greek Tragedy: An Ethno-psycho-analytical Study, page 223:

The theses reflected Pico's wide-ranging familiarity with all the major traditions of learned speculation in philosophy, theology and science, including the 'ancient wisdom' and, most innovatingly, the Jewish kabbalah.

2013, Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed:


elsethread

(Internet) Elsewhere within a thread of discussion (on a mailing list, newsgroup, or forum).


like a cow pissing on a flat rock

like a cow pissing on a flat rock (not comparable)

Compare piss down, piss it down, and French pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse (“rain like a pissing cow”).

m+

It poured like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Summer thunderstorm in a Catskill cattle pasture with 350,000 Mud People standing in it. Aerosmith was supposed to play at midnight, but midnight came and went.

1994, Albert Watson, Woodstock '94: the book, St Martins Pr, →ISBN:

We hadn't gone a mile before it started to rain, light tentative drops at first, like unsure messengers. Then the lightning started and rent open the clouds. It came down like a cow pissing on a flat rock. We had no slickers and were soon soaked.

2004, James Corwin, A Grizzly Way to Die, →ISBN:

Rita's car was an old Plymouth Fury that, despite the meticulous attention given to its lubrication system, leaked oil like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Nel and Danny got into the pickup truck and followed the trail of black ooze, all the way down ...

2014, Barbara Hall, Close to Home: A Novel, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

It was pouring like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Would he show? She didn't know if he would or not, but the cows still had to be fed. Heaving herself out of bed, she threw on her rattiest jeans and a baggy tee and trudged out to the rain-soaked pastures, […]

2016, Victoria Vane, Beauty and the Bull Rider, Lyrical Shine, →ISBN:

(US, of rain or other liquid falling, vulgar) Heavily; copiously (and often loudly).

comme vache qui pisse

heavily — see also rain cats and dogs, piss it down


nonsensely

en-adv

nonsensely (comparative more nonsensely, superlative most nonsensely)

more nonsensely (comparative)
most nonsensely (superlative)

Likewise some will speak well as it were by chance ; others in one discourse speak mixtly, now rational, then nonsensely, at least weakly or obstructedly.

1667, Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, Charles Harding, The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle:

But I must not miss a mail in order to make clear this mysterious sentence which is perhaps non-sense. |nonsensely yours in gᵗ haste | A. Marshall

a. 1924, Alfred Marshall, John K. Whitaker, The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist, published 1996, page 174:

Another absurdity regarding the false religions is the fact that instead of teaching us how to really practice what is said in the Bible (in other words, instead of teaching us how to love each other as described in this holy book), drug dealers are rather encouraging us to traumatize our own sisters and brothers by accusing them blindly and nonsensely of being sorcerersl

2004, Mfumukanda Masembo, To Change The Mentalities, page 169:


no-nonsensely

no-nonsensely (comparative more no-nonsensely, superlative most no-nonsensely)

more no-nonsensely (comparative)
most no-nonsensely (superlative)

The work was illustrated by the author and no-nonsensely entitled Pictures Cast by the Projector of the Human Heart (Jinshin-kyo no utsushi-e).

2002, Timon Screech, The Lens Within the Heart: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan, page 115:

"Doesn't she look nice?" was the refrain of the day, wherever we went, wherever the shiny ducktails would bob no-nonsensely past.

2006, Jean Godfrey-June, Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup:

But as the steady-eyed Canteen worker checked the time and briskly beckoned the next in line, he pressed no-nonsensely forward: "Two sausage rolls, please."

2020, Steven Sater, Alice By Heart, page 261:

In a no-nonsense manner; practically or seriously.


onomatopoietically

onomatopoietically (comparative more onomatopoietically, superlative most onomatopoietically)

more onomatopoietically (comparative)
most onomatopoietically (superlative)

He goes right on to prove it onomatopoietically by letting the strong- voiced or-sound appear five times in this one distich!

1985, Hans-Peter Stahl, Propertius: "love" and "war", page 184:

The sound image series, however, may also function nonverbally, and, for instance, onomatopoietically, if the sibilants in 'Sun passes' are a snake's (temptation).

1994, Terry Olivi, János S. Petöfi, Approaches to Poetry, page 204:

With Dumque dolet, Ovid makes a transition from the direct speech to the description of the gesture of mourning: the ripping of the robe as well as the beating of the breast, which is onomatopoietically underlined through the alliteration percussit pectora palmis.

2003, Susanne Gippert, Joseph Addison's Ovid:


onomotopoetically

onomotopoetically (comparative more onomotopoetically, superlative most onomotopoetically)

more onomotopoetically (comparative)
most onomotopoetically (superlative)

The “musical sign,” on the other hand, suggests cultural signals that function onomatopoetically by calling to mind “natural” sounds, or sounds “naturally” associated with common human situations.

2000, Winston Napier, African American Literary Theory: A Reader, page 233:

Just as the word “buzz” onomatopoetically “sounds like” buzzing, so too do words such as “noocytes,” "positronic," and "ansible"" onomatopoetically "sound like" science.

2010, Seo-Young Chu, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?, page 49:

Camels walk with a lurching gait, onomatopoetically called jonjoo in Mongolian (“jon-joo jon-joo jon-joo”), which English might render, less onomatopoetically, as “clump, clump, clump.”

2010, Theodore Levin, Where Rivers and Mountains Sing:


astrochemically

We present new results for some astrochemically relevant reaction processes using reflectron velocity map ion imaging and Megapixel ion imaging techniques developed in our labratory recently.

2006, Ralf Kaiser, Astrochemistry: from laboratory studies to astronomical observations, Honolulu, Hawaii (USA), 18-20 December 2005, Amer Inst of Physics, →ISBN, page 31:

This study aims to determine the UV photodesorption yields and to constrain the photodesorption mechanisms of three astrochemically relevant ices: CO, N₂ and CO₂.

2009, Astronomy & Astrophysics, volume 496, page 277:

From other reactions, it was not possible to obtain any pathway leading to formamide, but some useful insights on how this reaction could be responsible to the formation of other astrochemically relevant molecules.

2018, Pierre Pontarotti, Origin and Evolution of Biodiversity, Springer, →ISBN, page 286:


uninhabitably

uninhabitably (comparative more uninhabitably, superlative most uninhabitably)

more uninhabitably (comparative)
most uninhabitably (superlative)

It is feared that climate change could make large parts of the earth uninhabitably hot.

In sheer horror of his own uninhabitably solitary house, he rang for his hat and umbrella, and resolved to take refuge in the major’s cottage.

1866, Wilkie Collins, chapter 13, in Armadale, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 303:

We live in a housing project. It hasn’t been up long. A few days after it was up it seemed uninhabitably new, now, of course, it’s already rundown.

1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Arnold Adoff, editor, Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans, New York: Macmillan, published 1970, pages 10–11:

In an uninhabitable way; to an uninhabitable degree.


scoundrelously

scoundrelously (comparative more scoundrelously, superlative most scoundrelously)

more scoundrelously (comparative)
most scoundrelously (superlative)

Thou handiest the matter, ... so scoundrelously, and so far below the Rules of alt Logick and Morality.

1681(?), Hickeringill, Dial. Philautus & Timothy, quoted in 1914, Philological Society (Great Britain), A new English dictionary on historical principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society, page 252

Hardworking as he seemed to be, his energies seemed to be scoundrelously dissipated in pursuing perceived enemies, and grafting himself sturdily in the polity. His attempt to amend the constitution to get a third term in office was one of such ...

2012, J. Isawa Elaigwu, Topical issues in Nigeria's political development, Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 73:


pervicaciously

pervicaciously (comparative more pervicaciously, superlative most pervicaciously)

more pervicaciously (comparative)
most pervicaciously (superlative)


winterward

winterward (comparative more winterward, superlative most winterward)

more winterward (comparative)
most winterward (superlative)

After the sunny week, when Nellie Crane had her custard pies, the weather turned a sharp corner — back winterward.

1876, Ella Farman Pratt, The Cooking Club of Tu-Whit Hollow, page 133:

You may believe I went into November and looked winterward with a load off my soul, when now the General's health was come back; and with it his temper to wrangle and clash with me.

1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Peggy O'Neal, page 289:

Fall is simply a direction, like west; fall is when things move winterward.

2002, Anne Ursu, Spilling Clarence: A Novel, page 75:

Before they do, though, this time I want one of them to tell me who was in charge of tracking my brother's swift progress sleepward and ever more winterward, footprints suddenly come to an end, like an unfinished sentence in the diary of an elderly teenager working the night shift alone, held up at gunpoint and abruptly deceased, halfway across a black snowfield.

2013, Franz Wright, Kindertotenwald, page 48:


winterwards

winterwards (comparative more winterwards, superlative most winterwards)

more winterwards (comparative)
most winterwards (superlative)

That last sentence, I fancy, does not ring badly, but, as we are creeping winterwards, it bears a somewhat chilly construction, and will, I doubt not, incline the reader to contemplate with satisfaction the promise of his or her snug bed.

1870 October 22, “Out of Doors”, in All the Year Round, number 99, page 487:

At eight that evening we looked our last on the pleasures of our voyage, the brightness of Corfu, and the glorious Albanian hills ; said, " Grood-bye summer," and sailed winterwards all that night, arriving at Brindisi at 8 a.m. on the 24th, a miserable, lowering, tempestuous day, with a lurid, stormy sky, and a heavy, tossing sea.

1882, Mrs. Stanley Clarke, From the Deck of a Yacht, page 129:

Though damp, though leafless, though devoid of song, As winterwards earth runs.

1957, David Harbord Bone, The Bees of Swanland: a poem, page 17:

Was it a question of imploring the Sun to turn around, and stop going ever more 'winterwards'?


dissentiently

dissentiently (comparative more dissentiently, superlative most dissentiently)

more dissentiently (comparative)
most dissentiently (superlative)


unrestorably

Only recently, it has been accepted that unbalanced tourism development might unrestorably damage the urban environment.

2012, Helen Briassoulis, Jan van der Straaten, Tourism and the Environment:


transmodiolarly

From trans- + modiolarly or transmodiolar + -ly.


viniculturally

a viniculturally valuable grape variety


unfancifully

unfancifully (comparative more unfancifully, superlative most unfancifully)

more unfancifully (comparative)
most unfancifully (superlative)


unfanatically

unfanatically (comparative more unfanatically, superlative most unfanatically)

more unfanatically (comparative)
most unfanatically (superlative)


whithertofore

(formal) Up which to the present time; until which thereabouts date and time; from the beginning to which point or position.


hereagainst

(rare, archaic) In opposition to this or that; contrary on this or that; against this;


full pelt

From full + pelt (“act of moving quickly, rush”).

It's a good day off us anyhow, and they're all going south-west by south full pelt as hard as they can go.

1907, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Battle of the North Atlantic”, in The War in the Air: […], London: George Bell and Sons, published 1908, →OCLC, § 1, page 146:


whenceward

(formal, rare) By other means; from otherwhere

(formal, rare) From which time; up to which event or time.


polycentrically

polycentrically (comparative more polycentrically, superlative most polycentrically)

more polycentrically (comparative)
most polycentrically (superlative)


cats and dogs

(heavy rain): Probably derived from rain cats and dogs.

rain cats and dogs, come down cats and dogs, pour cats and dogs, storm cats and dogs

We're lost, no gas, Dmitri is drunk, it's totally dark, and the rain is falling cats and dogs. There's nothing to cover ourselves with and we're getting colder and wetter by the minute. We had a couple of flares on the boat but […]

2003, Joseph Sutton, The Immortal Mouth and Other Stories, Joseph Sutton, →ISBN:

Well, it was hailing cats and dogs as far as Rafe was concerned. Before he'd left for the bank, two of his best steers had escaped. Finally he'd received a call from the sheriff's department that his most prized animal was standing in the middle of a [highway].

2010, Rita Herron, Have Cowboy, Need Cupid, Harlequin, →ISBN:

Although it was a beautiful day, it had rained the previous night and the church roof was leaking cats and dogs. Roofers stomped around up on the roof and down below huge buckets lined the hallways to catch the dripping water. I didn't care […]

2011, John Salmon, PHD, Family By God's Design: A Celebrating Community of Honor and Grace, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 147:

“It's sleeting cats and dogs.” Jellyneck's sneakers squished as he headed for the cloakroom, ignoring the question. “Oscar.” Miss Granberry looked up from her desk. “Drape your jacket across the radiator to dry.”

2015, Mary Ann Rodman, Jimmy's Stars, Usborne Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:

(chiefly in set phrases, about raining, other precipitation, or leaking) Heavily; copiously; a lot.

about raining; other precipitation; or leaking; about raining; other precipitation; or leaking


unparsimoniously

unparsimoniously (comparative more unparsimoniously, superlative most unparsimoniously)

more unparsimoniously (comparative)
most unparsimoniously (superlative)


Lutheranly

Lutheranly (comparative more Lutheranly, superlative most Lutheranly)

more Lutheranly (comparative)
most Lutheranly (superlative)

... ordained (?) in 1540 priest by Martin Skytte, the previous Bishop of Abo (who was consecrated (?) Lutheranly, as we have seen, by Peter Monsson of Westeriis), and did not, therefore, as seems probable, possess even valid priestly orders.

Dr Schniewind does this very forcibly and pertinently, though of course, to our English minds, very Lutheranly too. When, however, he endeavours to theorize the problem of mythology on his own account, he does not achieve an equal […]

1953, Rudolf Bultmann, Kerygma and Myth: A Theological Debate:

Lutheran God-talk, after all, has been the main impetus for everything from modern "death of God" talk — all those Nietzscheans were brought up Lutheranly — to numbing, sterile, crabby, and cramping sectarianisms […]

1988, Candida Lund, God and me, Thomas More Pr, →ISBN:

"One of these practices is ethics—the disciplined reflection on Christian moral life, Lutheranly construed. Lutheran ethics is critical and constructive reflection on Christian moral practice. As such it is both descriptive and normative."

1998, Karen L. Bloomquist, John R. Stumme, The Promise of Lutheran Ethics, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 11:


ungainfully

ungainfully (comparative more ungainfully, superlative most ungainfully)

more ungainfully (comparative)
most ungainfully (superlative)

In later times this office was assigned by settled usage to the crier of the Court, who in this capacity was called " the common vouchee," and thus cheerfully and, we presume, not ungainfully passed his life, or so much thereof as was covered by the legal terms, in perpetual contempt of the Court of Common Pleas and liability to be fined at the king's discretion.

1883, Sir Frederick Pollock, The Land Laws, page 82:

The social consideration is that the workers who are ungainfully employed create problems of social friction; and the national character of the people suffers in the end.

1965, Ch Umamaheswara Rao, Small Scale Industries: Some Economic Aspects, page 121:

They are allowed to earn money in no way, nor are they permitted to work, even ungainfully (this circumstance is, no doubt, at the root of the greedy hurry of their lives in Jaouedda).

1985, Robert Kelly, A Transparent Tree, page 33:

At the end of the day 25 per cent of the working time of the gang and of the expensive machine, has been ungainfully spent.

1965, Robert Bruce Oram, Cargo handling and the modern port, page 126:

It was therefore decided to start an experimental scheme in this particular locality in order to furnish the reclaiming operators with the necessary information and experience lest time, effort and money might be ungainfully spent .

1972, Occasional Paper - Issues 23-24, page 103:

A Sekhri girl had hid behind the lofty rocks which had remained unconquered for long, and had watched the British perishing ungainfully without adding any glory to the Empire.

1995, Brij Mohan Toofan, The Kiss of Freedom, page 83:

Without accomplishing anything; unprofitably.

Life reported that he "never walks fast but lumbers along ungainfully to conserve his energy. He never exercises but is exceptionally strong."

she looks in the mirror and sees herself as unattractive and ungainfully overweight.

1994, Mary Valentis, Anne Devane, Female Rage: Unlocking Its Secrets, Claiming Its Power, page 79:

But lndiglo test models were also ungainfully big.

1997, Applications in Basic Marketing, page 21:

Fanny struggled ungainfully to her feet, clutching her protesting back as she got up.


unsubstitutably

Such that it cannot be substituted, or used as a replacement or alternative.


substitutably

Such that it may be substituted, or used as a replacement or alternative.


wellish

wellish (comparative more wellish, superlative most wellish)

more wellish (comparative)
most wellish (superlative)

He knew his letters pretty wellish, but no more.

1885, Henry Ward Beecher, The Christian Union - Volume 31, page 28:

“Fine,” I relent. “Yes. It's going wellish.”

2014, Skylar Dorset, The Girl Who Read the Stars:

Prior to that day, everything I had tried on my healing journey hadn't worked very well or had only worked “wellish” enough.

2019, Anita Swanson Speake, Heartsong: Living with a Dying Heart: A Memoir:

Somewhat well; in a fairly satisfactory manner.


orthophotographically

In terms of, or by means of, orthophotography.


downcountry

(chiefly US) In or into the lowlands, as opposed to the hilly region


nonphonemically

In a nonphonemic manner; not phonemically.


unphonetically

In an unphonetic manner; not phonetically.


humongously

humongously (comparative more humongously, superlative most humongously)

more humongously (comparative)
most humongously (superlative)

May your reputation gain humongously, but don’t overexert yourself or big ben!

1969 November 26, Flambeau, volume 56, number 49, Tallahassee, Fla., page 6:

Extra large liv rm, humongously large kitchen, utility area, central hear-air, ½ acre wooded lot on high knoll.

1973 June 7, The Durham Sun, volume 85, number 87, Durham, N.C., page 7-C:

No humongously outstretched turn signals.

1975 July, the Staff of Trail Bike, “Big Four First: No Turn Signals, No Trials Tires, A Real Trail Bike!: Honda MR175 Elsinore”, in Dirt Bike, volume five, number seven, page 37:

But the administrators’ imaginations failed when confronted with the miles of railroad track and 13 large warehouses scattered about the 1,000-acre campus near the Colorado border. The buildings were used in World War II to repair freight cars used to haul munitions. A few are a block long and two stories high. “We didn’t know what to do with them,” reported administrator Gary Green. “They were so humogously big. They just lay dormant.”

1977 February 13, Lynda McDonnell, “Railroad, college link up for profit”, in Minneapolis Tribune, volume CX, number 265, page 11C:

First of all, they’re just about the most humongously huge lip glosses you’ll ever run across.

1977 December 20, “Bonne Bell… cosmetics for young women of all ages”, in Great Falls Tribune, 92nd year, number 221, Great Falls, Mont., page 11:

1E2 was upset in the quarterfinals by eventual champ 3E1, despite good goaltending by an humongously riptided knuckle-bloodied score of five to two.

Have a humongously super time in Florida.

1979 March 14, Classy Bunch alias Munch Bunch, “Jerry & Peg!!”, in Kenosha News, Kenosha, Wis., page 21:

I called because I’m going to be in the States in a week or so to play in one of those humongously vulgar tournament-of-champion events that the networks like to arrange.

1980, Cleo Birdwell [pseudonym; Don DeLillo], Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, pages 139–140:

This is important because we cannot possibly measure each and every aspect of a certain content area; the required test would be “humongously” long.

1980, L. R. Gay, Educational Evaluation & Measurement: Competencies for Analysis and Application, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 167:

Of course, they couldn’t use their hands to eat or drink, and so food and liquids made their faces humongously messy.

1981, Michael Moynahan, How the Word Became Flesh: Story Dramas for Worship and Religious Education, Resource Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 61:

One is a humongously fascinating person named Howard who wants to make me his wife.

1981, Virginia Euwer Wolff, quoting Judy, Rated PG, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 130:

Then there are those times we can almost visualize humongously heavy burdens on people’s shoulders.

1981, Lee Sparks, editor, The Youth Group How-to Book: 66 Practical Projects and Programs to Help You Build a Better Youth Group, Loveland, Colo.: Group Books, →ISBN, page 145, column 1:

I hesitate because my best friend Anita is a pig, a real skag, and humongously rotund.

1981 April, “Dear Abyss”, in Crazy Magazine, number 73, Marvel Comics Group, page 57, column 2:

There’s a wonderful sketch of a formidable biker called “Roundhouse,” who is “humongously fat and hasn’t had a haircut since third grade.”

2004, Tom Burns, Jeffrey W. Hunter, editors, Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, volume 187, Gale, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 15:


lightlier

comparative form of lightly: more lightly


as if nothing had happened

In a nonchalant manner, by ignoring the existence of a past event and pretending that nothing abnormal had occurred.


idlely

idlely (comparative more idlely, superlative most idlely)

more idlely (comparative)
most idlely (superlative)


anteroventrolaterally

In an anteroventrolateral manner or direction


nawf

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


horse and foot

From horse, meaning "cavalry", and foot, meaning "infantry".

With all one's might
with all one's might

(obsolete) With all one's might, with all one's strength, as hard as one can.


dropwisely

(nonstandard, non-native speakers' English, rare) In a dropwise manner; drop by drop.


unfetchingly

unfetchingly (comparative more unfetchingly, superlative most unfetchingly)

more unfetchingly (comparative)
most unfetchingly (superlative)

In an unfetching manner; unattractively.


posteriolaterally

In a posteriolateral manner or direction


splanchnocranially

In a splanchnocranial manner or direction


milliardfold

“In very few years,” says Bertholt, “insects, at their rapid rate of increase, would multiply a milliardfold, and strata would be formed of the bodies of worms and grubs.”

1890, Henry Sebastian Bowden, Natural Religion, Friedrich Pustet, translation of Apologie Des Christenthums by Hettinger, Franz:

Number is now seen working with itself and evolving itself, combining and dividing itself milliardfold.

1909, Denton Jaques Snider, Cosmos and Diacosmos: The Processes of Nature Psychologically Treated, page 149:

Comparing December, 1923, with the year 1913, we find that the prices of stocks on the average increased 269 milliardfold, while the wages of higher Government officials, a class of people for whom the wage rise was exceptionally, increased 509 milliardfold.

1934, Edwin Walter Kemmerer, “Chapter VI: Germany’s Inflation”, in Kemmerer on Money, George Routledge & Sons, Security Prices:

Commenting on the question of dialectic, Lenin observes in accordance with Engels: Marx analyzes in Capital first of all the simplest, the most common, the most fundamental, the most manifold, the most habitual, milliardfold observable relation of bourgeois (commodity-) society: the exchange of commodities.

1961, Johannes Witt-Hansen, Historical Materialism: The Method, the Theories; Exposition and Critique, volume 1:

In the process of development there is a selective reduction of the silver-halide microcrystals of the photographic layer affected by the action of light, while at the same time the latent photographic image is intensified million and milliard-fold, as a result of which it becomes visible.

1967, N. I. Kirillov, Problems in Photographic Research and Technology, Focal Press:

A more appropriate comparison of a planetary population would be that of a huge space-ship, a milliardfold in complexity compared with anything we know of, with no captain or crew, with no other owners than this population itself, that is set aboard all of a sudden.

1988, L. León, The World-solution for World-problems: The Problem, Its Cause, Its Solution, →ISBN:

During burst the supernovas in forming stage throw more mass than the novas do and give a milliard-fold as much as luminosity as the Sun.

1998, Jinning Wu, Yuhua Li, translated by Zhichao Wang, The Truth of the Universe, →ISBN:

Multiplying Ė₀ with this spherical surface gives the heat rate emitted by the sun: […] that turns out to be: […] which is more than 2 milliard-fold the rate irradiated upon Earth.

2010 November 30, Ryzhard Pohorecki, John Bridgwater, M. Molzahn, Rafiqul Gani, Crispulo Gallegos, Chemical Engineering and Chemical Process Technology: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering, volume 1, United Kingdom: EOLSS Publishers, →ISBN, Orders of Magnitude of Heat Rates and Heat Fluxes, page 134:


uncovetously

uncovetously (comparative more uncovetously, superlative most uncovetously)

more uncovetously (comparative)
most uncovetously (superlative)


ectally

In figure 3 the inner elastic membrane is thickened at places, with denser laminae bounding ectally and entally a finer network of elastic fibrils.

1914, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, volume 19, page 142:


meekishly

meekishly (comparative more meekishly, superlative most meekishly)

more meekishly (comparative)
most meekishly (superlative)

The Chinese meekishly apologized for what they were doing by saying there was no alternative except to lose home and business.

"I have to go to the bathroom," she said meekishly, bowing her head in the process.

2007, Frank V. Arcilesi, Every Day a Bird Learns How to Fly, page 247:

I do remember, however, if someone was not interested in buying our snacks, we would meekishly plead for a handout of some money.

2019, Dr. S.M. Ghazanfar, Lost Life Recovered: an Odyssey:


baritonally

baritonally (comparative more baritonally, superlative most baritonally)

more baritonally (comparative)
most baritonally (superlative)

He was clearly at some ill ease to account for a visitor so baritonally out of key with a Wesleyan vision of life.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 296:


lunatically

lunatically (comparative more lunatically, superlative most lunatically)

more lunatically (comparative)
most lunatically (superlative)

Mr. Darwin saw a dressed-up wooden spoon become lunatically possessed, and dance in the hands of the women holding it.

1870, Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 377:

In a lunatic or lunatical manner; crazily.


ataxically

ataxically (comparative more ataxically, superlative most ataxically)

more ataxically (comparative)
most ataxically (superlative)


kindo

I'm kindo sick of my own cooking.

1926, Hamlin Garland, Trail-Makers of the Middle Border:


compositorially

Some of the errors in the book may have been compositorially introduced.


sooner rather than later

sooner rather than later (not comparable)

I believe that therapists need to be proactive rather than laissez faire in addressing problems— if not immediately, then sooner rather than later.

1994, Harold S. Bernard, K. Roy MacKenzie, Basics of Group Psychotherapy, page 156:

Their present policy of sterilizing monetary inflows is creating imbalances which suggests, sooner rather than later, they're going to have to, for stability purposes, move their currency.

2006, B. Brown, What Drives Global Capital Flows?, page 174:

The response rate is probably higher when treatment is applied sooner rather than later after diagnosis and to children with VSAA rather than AA.

2017, Robert Wynn, Rukhmi Bhat, Paul Monagle, Pediatric Hematology: A Practical Guide, page 66:


faulteringly

faulteringly (comparative more faulteringly, superlative most faulteringly)

more faulteringly (comparative)
most faulteringly (superlative)


unfaulteringly

unfaulteringly (comparative more unfaulteringly, superlative most unfaulteringly)

more unfaulteringly (comparative)
most unfaulteringly (superlative)


rhizomatically

Buffyspeak has also rhizomatically traversed into other shows, both within and beyond the Whedonverse; for example, the similar use of language by Topher in Dollhouse (2009–2010) and the teenagers of Caprica (2009–2010).

2019, Juliette C. Kitchens, Julie L. Hawk, Transmediating the Whedonverse(s), page 152:


yesterday but one

From yesterday + but (“except for”) + one https://www.observer.ug/lifestyle/42-entertainment/44856-kataaha-has-to-sort-out-the-cracks-in-english

"Yesterday but one I located a number of them twisted matches in the floor sweepings of the Slade Arms; an' all that evenin' I sat there, watchin' the different men that came in an' had a drink an' a smoke; but I couldn't get onto no one. …"

1917, William Hope Hodgson, The Mystery of Captain Chappel:

"Yesterday but one [the day before yesterday], I bought a kilo of beans at 4,000 [shillings]. Yesterday, I came back and it was 5,000."

2020 April 21, “How Uganda’s history of epidemics has prepared it for COVID-19” (4:49 from the start), in PBS NewsHour, Michael Baleke (actor), WETA-TV, via Public Broadcasting Service:

Day before yesterday
day before yesterday#English


right-down

right-down (comparative more right-down, superlative most right-down)

more right-down (comparative)
most right-down (superlative)

... and I'm sure we all are, and pity yer very much. But yer must know, Work'us, yer mother was a regular right-down bad 'un." "What did you say?" inquired Oliver, looking up very quickly. L "A regular right-down bad 'un, Work'us," replied Noah, ...

1867, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, page 76:

Synonym of downright; completely; absolutely


comestibly

Oil is used comestibly in Hungary to a very small extent in comparison with southern countries. This is accounted for by the great production of edible animal fats […]

1909, United States Congressional serial set, number 5503, page 63:


hardliest

(rare) superlative form of hardly: most hardly


hardlier

(rare) comparative form of hardly: more hardly


climatostratigraphically

In terms of, or by means of, climatostratigraphy.


from this moment on

From this moment on, I will try to remember the proper way to pronounce your name.

Starting now, extending indefinitely into the future.


feastfully

feastfully (comparative more feastfully, superlative most feastfully)

more feastfully (comparative)
most feastfully (superlative)


FLOD

(dance) Initialism of facing line of dance.


FDW

(dance) Initialism of facing diagonally to the wall.


BDW

(dance) Initialism of backing diagonally to the wall.


BLOD

(dance) Initialism of backing line of dance.


inferoanteriorly

In an inferoanterior manner or direction


indexterously

indexterously (comparative more indexterously, superlative most indexterously)

more indexterously (comparative)
most indexterously (superlative)

The foundation of the thing rests wholly indexterously freeing the matter of its superfluous moisture, and bringing it out of a semi-fluid state, wherein it is always exposed to a farther fermentation, or destructive alteration;

1761, Peter Shaw, Essays for the Improvement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, page 93:

Masked type have been used in place of quadrats, and in one instance so indexterously that the strange word ' idiotime' has crept into the text.

1864, The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Review:

Our professional carpet-layers would have smiled at the many times Hetty hit the tacks as she went indexterously to work.

1894, Nellie Lowe Willmott, A Dash of Red Paint, page 8:


panickedly

panickedly (comparative more panickedly, superlative most panickedly)

more panickedly (comparative)
most panickedly (superlative)

It hit me panickedly in the face that my voice with just that one 'Yes?' had treated her like a — like a what? — a client, someone with whom I was businessing.

1973, William Bloom, Getting There, page 82:

Larry hides around the corner, panickedly watching.

1996, Scott M. Alexander, The people vs. Larry Flynt: the shooting script, page 35:

And yet, with all that memory, I did nothing more than watch the boy fight and struggle and panickedly try to figure a way to keep from falling.


cineastically

cineastically (comparative more cineastically, superlative most cineastically)

more cineastically (comparative)
most cineastically (superlative)

In a cineastic manner; relating to, or in terms of, filmmaking.


pointingly

pointingly (comparative more pointingly, superlative most pointingly)

more pointingly (comparative)
most pointingly (superlative)

“You mean - there?' I inquired, stretching my arm pointingly over the edge of the car.

1899 May, Neil Wynn Williams, “The Tale of the American Volunteer”, in The Strand Magazine, volume 17, number 100, page 418:

"And if I hear anyone going up the stairs or coming down,” James pointingly looked at Ember and Derek, “You'll be locked in the tool shed.”

2012, Amanda Wiparina, Forbidden, page 93:

When the suspect is the theme, her associates are pointingly referred to by the theme, but the street, felt time, and fatigue are not pointingly referred to.

2015, Lester Embree, The Schutzian Theory of the Cultural Sciences, page 116:

In a manner that points out or indicates.

Gill objects to my (?) method of distinguishing between the larger and smaller zoogeographical divisions, and pointingly submits that "The question may naturally recur, why the line which separates 'regions' from 'sub- regions' should be drawn between 35 and 46 per cent. rather than between 46 and 63 or 64 per cent., or even between 64 and 78 per cent.

1884, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia:

The motion should be denied on the ground that the statements in the moving papers are irrelevant, immaterial and pointingly degrading.

1942, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs:

The relation of the perception to the reality is, therefore, directly opposed to the relation of the will to the reality: The will pointingly produces realities, the perception pointingly subordinates itself to realities.

1942, Francè Veber, There is a God, page 27:


polarward

polarward (comparative more polarward, superlative most polarward)

more polarward (comparative)
most polarward (superlative)

There is, therefere, a constant tendency with the air that these upper currents carry polarward to be crowded out, so to speak — to slough off and turn back.

1891, Matthew Fontaine Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology, page 86:

Continued low temperatures soon left little moisture in the air with the result that sublimation is today moving glaciers polarward all over the world.

1942, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science - Volume 51, page 27:

SMW would be formed at the salinity maximum spreading both polarward and equatorward.

1982, Seymour Oscar Schlanger, Maria Bianca Cita, Nature and Origin of Cretaceous Carbon-Rich Facies, page 214:

Toward the North Pole or the South Pole; away from the equator.


oversensationally

oversensationally (comparative more oversensationally, superlative most oversensationally)

more oversensationally (comparative)
most oversensationally (superlative)


scintillometrically

In terms of, or by means of, scintillometry.


all whithers

Alternative form of allwhither (“in all directions”)


sovranly

sovranly (comparative more sovranly, superlative most sovranly)

more sovranly (comparative)
most sovranly (superlative)


aporematically

aporematically (comparative more aporematically, superlative most aporematically)

more aporematically (comparative)
most aporematically (superlative)


arrowily

arrowily (comparative more arrowily, superlative most arrowily)

more arrowily (comparative)
most arrowily (superlative)

Now how all too often is the sermon huddled up without any attempt to individualize or to send arrowily home to each hearer what has been spoken.

1897, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Representative Nonconformists, page 159:

But now, he would have love in his own way, haughtily, passionately, and darkly, with dark, arrowy desire, and a strange, arrowily-submissive woman.

1924, D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush:


postcentrally

(anatomy) In a postcentral direction or position.


re infecta

From Latin rē, ablative singular of rēs (“matter, affair”) + infectā, ablative singular feminine of infectus (“incomplete”).

Had Caesar been such a fool, he had never passed the Rubicon. But, after he had passed it, had he retreated, re infecta, intimidated by a senatorial edict, what a pretty figure would he have made in history!

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

Having hasten'd to the Bankers lo! to my confusion I am come from thence Re infectâ.

1811, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, letter, June

With the matter unfinished or incomplete.


policingly

[…] usually means passing plenty of pills in paper cups, and not just one. Why I have known psychiatrists - who have protectingly, politely and policingly pressured/prescribed 25 pills per day for the psychiatric "patient"/substitute person ...

1972, Leonard Roy Frank, Sherry Hirsch, Wade Lee Hudson, Madness Network News Volume #1, MNN Redux, page 29:

I asked him if it was necessary and he said yes and he rather policingly escorted me out the front door and into the back of a waiting patrol car.

2012 May 7, Dan Clore, “Drug Warriors Jail Injured Woman for "Forging" a Legimate Prescription”, in soc.rights.human (Usenet):

The insistence upon silence within these stilled spaces, as perhaps within a Quaker chapel, is such as to impose (self-policingly) its own unexamined […]

2014, Clark Lunberry, Sites of Performance: Of Time and Memory, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 110:

This has led fandom to ask whether the use of “Mary Sue” is self-policingly sexist; after all, mainstream genre stories regularly feature special teenage boys who save the world.

2017, Francesca Coppa, The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 47:

(uncommon) In a policing manner; in a way that polices.


binaristically

This is why Deleuze and Guattari say it is time to "make the multiple" (A Thousand Plateaus), to learn to "see" pluralistically rather than binaristically.

2000, Debra Diane Davis, Breaking Up (at) Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 171:

[…] Levi-Straussian tradition, as binaristically ordered through the opposition of clean and unclean or of raw and cooked. […] (linguistically or alimentarily) binaristically ordered as trying to explore the relationship between food and language ...

2004, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Kitchen Culture: Literature, Eating and the Body Politic in the Nineteenth-century United States:

[…] a tagline that instantly positions Mugabe as the incarnation of evil against the “good men”, binaristically encoded in the poster as “the White Africans” of the title.

2015, Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy, Stuart Murray, What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say, Routledge, →ISBN:

In a way marked by binarism; in a binaristic manner.


augmentedly

augmentedly (comparative more augmentedly, superlative most augmentedly)

more augmentedly (comparative)
most augmentedly (superlative)

The nervous and vascular centres are raised in standard: the whole muscle-system is augmentedly developed, and the secernent organs are woven into more complex structures.

1854, Thomas Williams, “On the Mechanism of Aquatic Respiration and on the Structure of the Organs of Breathing in Invertebrate Animals”, in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology, volume 13, number 76, page 295:

The passages hitherto transcribed are taken from the 5th Lecture of the Philosophy of Life, which might have yielded more, bearing augmentedly on the subject before us

1854, Richard Poole, The Grand Contrast, God and Man:

The graphite fibers are augmentedly drawn and draped into shape between the confining superplastic diaphragms.

2000, Patrick B. Berbon, Superplasticity -Current Status and Future Potential, page 213:

Several cultured neoplastic cells augmentedly attach to activated endothelial cells (EC) (28~27), observations which may explain the tendency of human malignant tumors to metastasize to inflamed or injured sites.

2004, Takashi Yoshiki, Progress in cancer pathobiology and transplantation immunobiology, page 24:


abackstays

(obsolete, nautical, of sails) Lined up in the direction of the wind and thus not propelled by the wind


enervatingly

enervatingly (comparative more enervatingly, superlative most enervatingly)

more enervatingly (comparative)
most enervatingly (superlative)


often times

(nonstandard, proscribed) Misspelling of oftentimes.


unnostalgically

unnostalgically (comparative more unnostalgically, superlative most unnostalgically)

more unnostalgically (comparative)
most unnostalgically (superlative)

In an unnostalgic manner; not nostalgically.


bettah

(non-rhotic, expecially Received Pronunciation) Pronunciation spelling of better.

non-rhotic; expecially Received Pronunciation; non-rhotic; expecially Received Pronunciation


quantum-mechanically

In terms of or by means of quantum mechanics.


unleniently

unleniently (comparative more unleniently, superlative most unleniently)

more unleniently (comparative)
most unleniently (superlative)

From unlenient + -ly or un- + leniently.


gentlewomanlike

gentlewomanlike (comparative more gentlewomanlike, superlative most gentlewomanlike)

more gentlewomanlike (comparative)
most gentlewomanlike (superlative)

For you shall have some, yea many thousands, that live uppon nothing els, and yet go clothed gentlewomanlike both in their silks, and otherwyse, with their fingers clogged with rings, their wrists with bracelets and jewels, and their purses full of gold and silver.

1596, John Payne Collier, Miscellaneous tracts: temp. Eliz. & Jac. 1 - Volumes 9-11, page 101:

To clarify the spirit in which he undertakes the repayment of his loan, Mountford dresses himself "gentlemanlike" and requires Susan to dress "gentlewomanlike."

1985, Lena Cowen Orlin, Man's house as his castle in Elizabethan domestic tragedy, page 204:

It is this contamination of the outward appearance of gentility by actual “unchaste” behaviour that helps to work Stubbes into puritan fury and fuels his vituperative attack on those women who maintain themselves in high style by whoredom, “and yet go clothed Gentlewomanlike."

1998, English Studies in Canada, page 21:


disspiritedly

disspiritedly (comparative more disspiritedly, superlative most disspiritedly)

more disspiritedly (comparative)
most disspiritedly (superlative)


psychoeducationally

In terms of, or by means of, psychoeducation.


pupillometrically

By means of, or in terms of, pupillometry.


unevocatively

unevocatively (comparative more unevocatively, superlative most unevocatively)

more unevocatively (comparative)
most unevocatively (superlative)


obvy

obvy (comparative more obvy, superlative most obvy)

more obvy (comparative)
most obvy (superlative)

BZZZT! the correction is wrong! That's a _fathom_. A _mathom_ is, quite obvy, a _metric_fathom_, and rounded to the nearest full meter. Therefor,^([sic]) the unit is equal to exactly 2 meters.

1992 December 19, Joseph A. Ellis Jr., “Re: Mathoms, Gracey?”, in alt.music.filk (Usenet):

Oh, I think I see. Thanks. What does it have to do with a 'book'? Also, what's the advantage over using a wxListCtrl in a wxPanel? Something here I'm not getting, obvy. Where specifically is the drawing area? In a cell? down below the wxListBook?

2002 April 22, Markus Membrain, “Re: wxListbook”, in comp.soft-sys.wxwindows (Usenet):

(slang) Alternative form of obvi (“obviously”).


laconicly

laconicly (comparative more laconicly, superlative most laconicly)

more laconicly (comparative)
most laconicly (superlative)

An unsuccessful man was in prison , and wrote to him for relief; he replied very laconicly , that it was not convenient to him to grant it; but a little time afterwards a person waited upon the applicant, and told him he had some money for him, but he was on no account to tell who from, but he hoped it would be of use to him, and if it was, and he really required more, he had a discretionary power to relieve him.

1817, Fragments to the Memory of the Late Richard Reynolds, Esq., page 79:

As Lindbergh walked back thoughtfully to headquarters to make his report, a mechanic observed laconicly, "I forgot to tell you the needle on the oxygen indicator was not working properly."

1965, Bryant M. Kirkland, Home before dark, page 21:

“Anybody care to guess what this might be?” he asked, laconicly.


overidealistically

overidealistically (comparative more overidealistically, superlative most overidealistically)

more overidealistically (comparative)
most overidealistically (superlative)


all one wants

Scream all you want, but it is not going to change the fact that the museum will be closed for the entire month.

He can complain all he wants but it won't fix anything.

As much as one wishes; to any extent; used to emphasize the preceding verb.


preceptively

preceptively (comparative more preceptively, superlative most preceptively)

more preceptively (comparative)
most preceptively (superlative)


off-width

(climbing) Pertaining to crack climbing in which the width of the crack is too great for one-hand holds but not wide enough to be used as a chimney.