bottomlessly

1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political, London: A. Seile, 9th impression, 1670, XIX. Of the Evil in Man from himself, and occasions, p. 33,https://archive.org/details/resolvesdivine00fell
Who is it, that is so bottomlesly ill, as to love vice, because it is vice? Yet we find, there are some so good, as to love goodness purely for goodness sake.

Once Daisy, yielding to the furtive cat-cruelty below her mild placidity, took him with her through the insane horrors of the scenic railway; they plunged bottomlessly from light into roaring blackness, and as his first yell ceased with a slackening of the car, rolled gently into a monstrous lighted gloom peopled with huge painted grotesques, the red maws of fiendish heads, the cunning appearances of death, nightmare, and madness.

1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 5, in Look Homeward, Angel:

He laughed; he watched me; the look in his eyes was so bottomlessly bitter it was almost benevolent.

1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4:


unpreparedly

en-adv

unpreparedly (comparative more unpreparedly, superlative most unpreparedly)

more unpreparedly (comparative)
most unpreparedly (superlative)


foothot

foothot (comparative more foothot, superlative most foothot)

more foothot (comparative)
most foothot (superlative)

From Middle English fot hot; equivalent to foot + hot.

Thenne there came two knyȝtes of Northgales / that one hyghte Hewe de la montayne / and the other syr Madok de la montayne / & they chalengyd sire launcelot foote hote / Syr Launcelot not refusyng hem but made hym redy

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:

(obsolete) Without stopping or slowing down; immediately, at once.


bimeby

"You'll be wantin' to get married bimeby, and then it'll be convenient to have some money to begin with."

1874, Horatio Alger, Jr., Risen from the Ranks:

"Oh, I's middlin'; hain't got noth'n' to complain of, I's gwine to come a-court'n you bimeby, Roxy."

1894, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson:

And bimeby I'll come home, bringin' loads of gold and di'mon' rings; My, won't all the boys be jealous when they see those kind of things! '

1902, Joseph C. Lincoln, Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse:

"That'll give the blank, blank, blank of a blank some idea of the fun we'll have watching him squirm bimeby!"

1927, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 29, in Elmer Gantry:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(dated) Pronunciation spelling of by and by.


chokingly

chokingly (comparative more chokingly, superlative most chokingly)

more chokingly (comparative)
most chokingly (superlative)

Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 288:

Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly.

1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory:

In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces.

1992 May 15, Effie Mihopoulos, “Silent Messengers”, in Chicago Reader:

His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct.

2007 April 12, Richard Eder, “A Line Divides Art and Life. Erase It at Your Own Risk.”, in New York Times:

While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke.


ne'ertheless

/ˌnɛəðəˈlɛs/

From Middle English nerthelesse, nere-the-les, nerþeles By surface analysis, ne'er + the + less.

(archaic or poetic) Alternative spelling of nevertheless


distressfully

distressfully (comparative more distressfully, superlative most distressfully)

more distressfully (comparative)
most distressfully (superlative)

[4] And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow.

1877, Robert Louis Stevenson, “An Apology for Idlers”, in Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson:

Oh, I don't understand you at all," Lydia said distressfully.

"Perhaps an hour and a half passed, quietly, except when, once in a way, the dogs would whine distressfully.

1912, William Hope Hodgson, Carnacki, The Ghost Finder:

"I know it is," she sighed, distressfully re-reading it.

1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Evil that Men do-”, in Encounters, page 171:


consumedly

consumedly (comparative more consumedly, superlative most consumedly)

more consumedly (comparative)
most consumedly (superlative)

From consumed + -ly. In the sense "extremely", perhaps influenced by confoundedly and/or consummately.

They give every token of hating their neighbors consumedly; argal, they are going to be madly enamored of them.

1860, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860:

The men took it as a huge joke, and at every pause laughed consumedly.

1913, Stewart Edward White, The Land of Footprints:

And so, we are proud--yes! we are consumedly proud, and we know that we have earned the right to be proud.

1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck:

These border rascals are apt to be restless in the dark hours, and their knives prick most consumedly sharp!

1900, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Red Axe:


consarned

It looks consarned strange, that's what I say!

1902, James A. Braden, Far Past the Frontier:


deucedly

"You know, Kaspar," said he, in conclusion, to the excited Almayer, "it is deucedly awkward to have a half-caste girl in the house.

Then you load them deucedly badly,' said Lord Wellington.

1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard:

Now I come to think of it, the case grows deucedly clear.

1904, Edith Ferguson Black, A Beautiful Possibility:

"Look above your head, Roger. Deucedly interesting, isn't it?" "Those insects, do you mean?"

1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 154:

(degree, informal) Quite; extremely; utterly.


seriocomically

seriocomically (comparative more seriocomically, superlative most seriocomically)

more seriocomically (comparative)
most seriocomically (superlative)


snakewise

In the manner of a snake; serpentine, with twisting or wriggling motions.


fecundly

fecundly (comparative more fecundly, superlative most fecundly)

more fecundly (comparative)
most fecundly (superlative)


serpentinely

serpentinely (comparative more serpentinely, superlative most serpentinely)

more serpentinely (comparative)
most serpentinely (superlative)


testicularly

testicularly (comparative more testicularly, superlative most testicularly)

more testicularly (comparative)
most testicularly (superlative)


if, as and when

1944, Thomas Reed Powell, letter to William O. Douglas, quoted in Melvin I. Urofsky (1989), '"Dear Teacher": The Correspondence of William O. Douglas and Thomas Reed Powell', Law and History Review 7(2), page 364,
No one cares about what a judge thinks, if, as and when. All that counts is what he says.

The whole thing, Tyne decided, would make a nice problem to mull over in his old age -- if, as, and when.

1988, Harry Brown, A Walk in the Sun, →ISBN, page 75:

We'll talk about appeals if, as and when.

2001, The Man Who Wasn't There, spoken by Freddy Riedenschneider (Tony Shalhoub):

(informal, chiefly law) In the event that the thing being discussed comes to pass.


saltirewise

(heraldry) In the form of a saltire; crossing diagonally.


lenticularly

lenticularly (comparative more lenticularly, superlative most lenticularly)

more lenticularly (comparative)
most lenticularly (superlative)


breadthwise

breadthwise (comparative more breadthwise, superlative most breadthwise)

more breadthwise (comparative)
most breadthwise (superlative)

The tubes should be placed breadthwise inside the box.

Across the breadth of an object or place.


snakingly

The anonymous writer asserts that the definition was inserted into the preamble only of the Act of 1643, and "subtilly and snakingly" made statutory in 1655 "all to gratify the conjobling^([sic]) of a Linsy Winsy Apothecary-Surgeons."

1905, The Practitioner, volume 75, page 107:

Amazonian in build, with a pretty face, Bindu often called herself an actress and snakingly pointed to a string of films where she was not clawed, pawed or jawed by her boss.

The snakingly complex, ductile, and extended syntax of Yeats's 'While I, from that reed-throated whisperer' is in the mix here, also.

2012, Fran Brearton, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, page 578:

(rare) In a snaking manner; serpentinely.


pregnantly

pregnantly (comparative more pregnantly, superlative most pregnantly)

more pregnantly (comparative)
most pregnantly (superlative)

A thousand moral paintings I can show / That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's / More pregnantly than words.

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 95:

(obsolete) unresistingly; openly; hence, clearly, evidently


drenchingly

drenchingly (comparative more drenchingly, superlative most drenchingly)

more drenchingly (comparative)
most drenchingly (superlative)

The rain came down drenchingly and we were soaked to the skin in mere seconds.


airly

airly (comparative airlier, superlative airliest)

airlier (comparative)
airliest (superlative)

The winter had set in airly, and the snow had lain deep for months, and the game of the woods had got pretty well starved out.

1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:

Ye're up airly the mornin'.

"They're comin' airly," said John Watson, slowly, as he shook down the bag of seed wheat that he had just filled; "but I guess they are the best judge of whether they can make a livin' outside any longer."

1921, Nellie L. McClung, Purple Springs:


forrard

Here and there an adventurous genius coins a phrase for the benefit of posterity,--as we once heard a mate order a couple of men to "go forrard and trim the ship's whiskers," to the utter bewilderment of his captain, who, in thirty years' following of the sea, had never heard the martingale chains and stays so designated.

1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858:

Off, here, Masser Mile--larboard bow, well forrard; look sharp and soon see him, yourself, sir."

1863, James Fenimore Cooper, Miles Wallingford:

The old chap who had just come off the look-out, had returned forrard again, and I was alone on that part of the deck.

1909, William Hope Hodgson, The Ghost Pirates:


grumblingly

grumblingly (comparative more grumblingly, superlative most grumblingly)

more grumblingly (comparative)
most grumblingly (superlative)

But they went off disappointed, and grumblingly.

1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:

This threat being dramatically capped by the click of a cocking pistol, 'Frisco Kid obeyed and went grumblingly back to the cockpit. "

1902, Jack London, The Cruise of the Dazzler:

Amy grumblingly agreed to give the stream another chance to behave itself.

1915, Ralph Henry Barbour, Left Tackle Thayer:

He looked down at her, and her eagreness softened him, so that he took her by the hand and said grumblingly, 'Oh well, if it means so much to you, come along.'

1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 78:


headforemost

’Twere best at once to sink to peace,
Like birds the charming serpent draws,
To drop head-foremost in the jaws
Of vacant darkness and to cease.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXIV, page 53:

Exerting all his remaining strength he rushed down the bank, dropped his rifle, and plunged headforemost into the stream.

1894, Robert Michael Ballantyne, The Dog Crusoe and His Master:

He doubled up and went headforemost to the ground.

1900, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Who Goes There?:

Quick, or I'll land you headforemost in that pond, you infernal old hag!"


frowningly

frowningly (comparative more frowningly, superlative most frowningly)

more frowningly (comparative)
most frowningly (superlative)

"And by what name is he known?" frowningly inquired the king.

1907, Erasmus W. Jones, The Young Captives:

"I'm sorry to hear you say that," said Wade, frowningly.

1909, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Lilac Girl:

She looked at him frowningly.

1913, Ethel May Dell, The Rocks of Valpre:

This was to defeat Podson's urgent need of anybody's company to reprieve him from his own. He was constantly letting out a howl of exasperation with, "So help me Bob, Mudgy, you are a rude cow. Here have I been talking to you for half an hour and not a blinking word out of you." For which Bradly might, or might not, look frowningly round to locate a disturbance in the remote distance before returning to tonal trance again.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 121:


halfe

Frighted with this confused noyse, I rose, And looking from a turret, might behold Yong infants swimming in their parents bloud, Headles carkasses piled vp in heapes, Virgins halfe dead dragged by their golden haire, […].

1594, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage:


thuswise

Butt God which shewed before by the mougth off all hys prophetes that Christ shulde suffre, hath thuswyse fulfilled it.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:

The atoms, as their own weight bears them down / Plumb through the void, at scarce determined times, / In scarce determined places, from their course / Decline a little – call it, so to speak, / Mere changed trend. For were it not their wont / Thuswise to swerve, down would they fall, each one, / Like drops of rain, through the unbottomed void; / And then collisions ne'er could be nor blows / Among the primal elements; and thus / Nature would never have created aught.

1916, William Ellery Leonard, transl., On the Nature of Things, New York: E. P. Dutton, translation of De rerum natura by Lucretius, →OCLC, Book 2, line 218–227:


derisorily

derisorily (comparative more derisorily, superlative most derisorily)

more derisorily (comparative)
most derisorily (superlative)


puckeringly

puckeringly (comparative more puckeringly, superlative most puckeringly)

more puckeringly (comparative)
most puckeringly (superlative)

In a puckering manner; in a way that causes puckering (especially of the mouth, as some sour foodstuffs do).


ethnoreligiously

ethnoreligiously (comparative more ethnoreligiously, superlative most ethnoreligiously)

more ethnoreligiously (comparative)
most ethnoreligiously (superlative)


derivationally

derivationally (comparative more derivationally, superlative most derivationally)

more derivationally (comparative)
most derivationally (superlative)


inconsequently

inconsequently (comparative more inconsequently, superlative most inconsequently)

more inconsequently (comparative)
most inconsequently (superlative)

My thoughts turned, inconsequently, out of their channel of bitterness, to fresh, desperate questionings.

1907, William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland:

'Have a burnt almond,' said Captain Willis inconsequently, as though it would help her to understand.

Columbus smiled at the compliment and snapped inconsequently at a fly.

In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence


allegro non troppo

From Italian allegro (“fast”) + non (“not”) + troppo (“too much”).


enliveningly

enliveningly (comparative more enliveningly, superlative most enliveningly)

more enliveningly (comparative)
most enliveningly (superlative)


skippingly

skippingly (comparative more skippingly, superlative most skippingly)

more skippingly (comparative)
most skippingly (superlative)

So as to skip; moving with small hops or jumps.


loathly

loathly (comparative loathlier, superlative loathliest)

loathlier (comparative)
loathliest (superlative)

From Middle English *lothli, loothly, from Old English lāþlīċe (“hatefully”), from lāþlīċ + -e (adverbial suffix); equivalent to loath + -ly.


stilly

stilly (comparative more stilly, superlative most stilly)

more stilly (comparative)
most stilly (superlative)

She passed away very stilly and painlessly.

1868, George A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone;:

The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening.

When she arrived at the white boat which floated so stilly on the morning glitter of the water, only just stirred by a breeze from the south, she stepped at once on board.

1921, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat:


fr

Alternative forms: FR, frr, (reduplication) frfr

all i want is to pass all my finals fr

my grandma just baked me cookies!!! she's fr the best

(Internet slang) Initialism of for real.


obv.

obv. (comparative more obv., superlative most obv.)

more obv. (comparative)
most obv. (superlative)

J. is dating P. at NYU and modeling on the side. They're planning to meet us in Paris for spring break so J. can go to some look-sees (and eat some escargot, obv.).

2007, Melissa de la Cruz, Crazy Hot, page 270:


overoptimistically

overoptimistically (comparative more overoptimistically, superlative most overoptimistically)

more overoptimistically (comparative)
most overoptimistically (superlative)


pretextually

pretextually (comparative more pretextually, superlative most pretextually)

more pretextually (comparative)
most pretextually (superlative)


convertibly

convertibly (comparative more convertibly, superlative most convertibly)

more convertibly (comparative)
most convertibly (superlative)


unopposedly

unopposedly (comparative more unopposedly, superlative most unopposedly)

more unopposedly (comparative)
most unopposedly (superlative)

In an unopposed manner; without opposition.


epenthetically

From epenthetical + -ly or epenthetic + -ally.

In an epenthetic (epenthetical) manner; by means of epenthesis.


unmovingly

unmovingly (comparative more unmovingly, superlative most unmovingly)

more unmovingly (comparative)
most unmovingly (superlative)


earthside

(science fiction) On or to the planet Earth.


gibbously

gibbously (comparative more gibbously, superlative most gibbously)

more gibbously (comparative)
most gibbously (superlative)


transcontinentally

a telecommunications cable deployed transcontinentally

In a transcontinental manner; across a continent.


suchwise

From Middle English suchewyse, equivalent to such + -wise.

(archaic) In such a way; in that manner.


corkingly

corkingly (comparative more corkingly, superlative most corkingly)

more corkingly (comparative)
most corkingly (superlative)

(informal) In a corking manner; splendidly.


spoonwise

Finally, Elaine rolled over and fitted herself spoonwise against the solid wall of Burton's back.

1994, Elizabeth Inman, The Rake's Quarry:

She didn't protest when he put his arms around her, pulling him to her spoonwise, kissing an errant lock of hair as it brushed against his face.

1999, Vivian Leiber, Soldier and the Society Girl:


suppositiously

suppositiously (comparative more suppositiously, superlative most suppositiously)

more suppositiously (comparative)
most suppositiously (superlative)


superordinately

superordinately (comparative more superordinately, superlative most superordinately)

more superordinately (comparative)
most superordinately (superlative)


labyrinthinely

labyrinthinely (comparative more labyrinthinely, superlative most labyrinthinely)

more labyrinthinely (comparative)
most labyrinthinely (superlative)


undebatably

undebatably (comparative more undebatably, superlative most undebatably)

more undebatably (comparative)
most undebatably (superlative)

In a way that is not debatable; in an undebatable way.


weariedly

weariedly (comparative more weariedly, superlative most weariedly)

more weariedly (comparative)
most weariedly (superlative)


pecuniarily

She knew of course what he meant—how it had taken his father-in-law's great fortune, and taken no small slice, to surround him with an element in which, all too fatally weighted as he had originally been, he could pecuniarily float....

In a pecuniary manner; in terms of money; financially.


unweariedly

unweariedly (comparative more unweariedly, superlative most unweariedly)

more unweariedly (comparative)
most unweariedly (superlative)

He arranges everywhere, struggles unweariedly to arrange, and place on some intelligible footing, the ‘affairs and dues, res ac redditus,’ of his dominion.

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. X, ’’Government’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

In an unwearied manner; not weariedly; without being weary.


foreseeably

foreseeably (comparative more foreseeably, superlative most foreseeably)

more foreseeably (comparative)
most foreseeably (superlative)

“It could foreseeably be admissible,” said Gerald Lefcourt, a defense lawyer with experience in both criminal and celebrity cases.

2009 October 6, Bill Carter, “Letterman Apologizes on the Air to His Wife”, in New York Times:


sous-vide

Borrowed from French sous-vide (literally “under vacuum”).

bor

She cooked the steak sous-vide.

In the manner of heating in an airtight bag for an extended period of time at relatively low, but tightly controlled temperature.


as it happens

I have my guitar with me in the car, as it happens. I’ll go and get it.

―“You won’t know Paris, I suppose.” ―“As it happens, I went to university there!”

In the second volume of his autobiography, he writes of a journey up the Padma by paddle steamer (built, as it happens, on the river outside my window), where the dry season had exposed many sandbanks...

2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:

(idiomatic) By coincidence, incidentally.


taxwise

You lose the amortization of your capital equipment, taxwise. Compare this with the cost of leasing.

1975, Gardiner G Greene, How to start and manage your own business:

Indeed, that Vic is willing to structure the deal to my advantage taxwise is the main reason why I will accept less from him...

For our clients, we run the numbers both ways to see which is preferable taxwise.

2004, Robert A Green, The Tax Guide for Traders:


fanwise

The two of diamonds being handed back, lay it on the table, and then take off the four top cards from the pack and spread them fanwise on the table […]

1886, Henri Garenne, The Art of Modern Conjuring:

In this equipment, Dr. Giesl has tried to produce a true ejector effect in the smokebox and had replaced the conventional blastpipe by seven steam nozzles, directing their exhaust into seven ejector pipes arranged fanwise in the longitudinal axis of the smokebox.

1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 420:


oenologically

en-adv

oenologically (comparative more oenologically, superlative most oenologically)

more oenologically (comparative)
most oenologically (superlative)

Vouvray thus permitted the Canard staff to demarcate themselves not only from the world of oenologically ignorant foreigners (and hence, to reaffirm their Frenchness) but also from that of official celebrations with their pomposity and hypocrisy.

2002, Allen Douglas, War, memory, and the politics of humor:

In an oenological manner; with regard to the study of wine.


summatively

The author observes that teachers who persistently perform poorly can be counseled out of teaching by using the model summatively.

1995, Anthony J Shinkfield, Daniel L Stufflebeam, Teacher evaluation: guide to effective practice:

A good example of a process that can be assessed formatively and summatively is student use of safety skills in a laboratory or vocational program.

2009, Ken O'Connor, How to Grade for Learning, K-12:

(education) By means of summative assessments, aiming to summarize earlier knowledge with periodic tests.


translatively

"To move in a sphere" is the peculiar privilege of gold and silver fish; and is, translatively, the most absurd of all those absurd expressions to which illiterate and unreflecting fashion has given currency.

1846, “Edmund Burke”, in Douglas William Jerrold, editor, Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, volume 4, page 45:

Only uppercase W can be formed by the reflexively or translatively symmetrical doubling of a grapheme, namely V.

1994, Světla Čmejrková, Writing Vs Speaking: Language, Text, Discourse, Communication: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Czech Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, October 14-16, 1992, page 105:

We do not shift the particles translatively because it can lead to unwanted behaviours. The MHT hypotheses are shifted translatively and rotatory according to their deltas.

2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, page 178:


superparamagnetically

superparamagnetically (comparative more superparamagnetically, superlative most superparamagnetically)

more superparamagnetically (comparative)
most superparamagnetically (superlative)

In a superparamagnetic way; by means of superparamagnetism.


unmanneredly

unmanneredly (comparative more unmanneredly, superlative most unmanneredly)

more unmanneredly (comparative)
most unmanneredly (superlative)


the Devil

What’s all this!---what’s here to do!---what the Devil are you all about!---Zounds! who do you want here, Mr. Trueman?

1771, Amyas Griffith, The Swadler. A New Comedy of Three Acts., Clonmell: […] Edward Collins, page 38:

Who the Devil are you? Where the Devil do you come from / And what the Devil are you doing crusted up like a cloud-cuckoo?

“Whatever did happen to you, sir? How the Devil did ye get captured? Once the Dons ran off, we couldn’t find hide nor hair of you.”

2015, Dewey Lambdin, Kings and Emperors, Canelo, published 2020, →ISBN:

Alternative letter-case form of the devil.


aldermanly

aldermanly (comparative more aldermanly, superlative most aldermanly)

more aldermanly (comparative)
most aldermanly (superlative)


honest to God

Compare swear to God. Originally used as a sentence adverb or interjection, modifying entire clauses or utterances; honest itself is used this way, as in “Honest, I had no idea!” (meaning “I'm telling the truth, I had no idea!”).

Honest to God, I thought you already knew!

Honest; truly, really; used to emphasize that a statement is true.

She is honest to God brilliant.


refutatively

refutatively (comparative more refutatively, superlative most refutatively)

more refutatively (comparative)
most refutatively (superlative)


sprawlingly

sprawlingly (comparative more sprawlingly, superlative most sprawlingly)

more sprawlingly (comparative)
most sprawlingly (superlative)

In a sprawling manner; widely and haphazardly.


unrulily

unrulily (comparative more unrulily, superlative most unrulily)

more unrulily (comparative)
most unrulily (superlative)


pleonastically

pleonastically (comparative more pleonastically, superlative most pleonastically)

more pleonastically (comparative)
most pleonastically (superlative)

Originally implying ‘ similarly, intensity,’ from OIA. « rūpa » form, shape #x3E; MIA. « -rūva », this affix is generally used pleonastically in NIA. in which it occurs in only a few words : e.g., ^(#x2A;)গোরূ #x3E;গোরু, « ^(#x2A;)gō-rū #x3E; gō-ru » ox, cow, cattle,[…]

1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, Calcutta University Press, page 697:

(chiefly linguistics) In a pleonastic manner.


truely

truely (comparative truelier or more truely, superlative trueliest or most truely)

truelier (comparative)
more truely (comparative)
trueliest (superlative)
most truely (superlative)

God did not only truely decree the thing to be as he truely spoke of it, nor only he truely spoke it as it is, but it truely is as he truly^([sic]) bespoke it and decreed it […]

1642, Charles Herle, A payre of compasses for church and state:


nowhile

THE morning meal hurriedly partaken, Alloway and Carleton mounted their fleet steeds, and in nowhile gained the summit of the high hill within a mile of the port of entry, from which was a full view of the broad Potomac.

1884, Joseph Mayo, Woodbourne, Digitized edition, Baltimore Pub. Co., published 2010, page 200:

FORMLESS, imageless, nowhere, nowhile, non-existent — a Void : and over against this, all that is, that ever was, and ever shall be — a Universe. Everything from nothing.

1895, Henry Mills Alden, A Study of Death, Digitized edition, Harper & Brothers, published 2007, page 65:

When he was in serious trouble with his Norman barons and prelates, he promised to grant to men "their woods and liberties of the chase ; but it stood nowhile"

1925, John Nisbet, The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters, Volume 1, Reprint edition, W. Blackwood, published 2007, page 8:


somewise

(archaic) Somehow; in some manner, by some means.


streakily

streakily (comparative more streakily, superlative most streakily)

more streakily (comparative)
most streakily (superlative)


no while

From Middle English no while, equivalent to no (determiner) + while (noun).

Thenne Kynge Mark hadde his ansuer / There with came Elyas and badde the Kynge yelde vp the castel / for ye maye not hold it no whyle / Sir Elyas said the kyng so wyll I yelde vp the castel yf I be not soone rescoued

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

For no time; not for any length of time.


combwise

"Well, we have disposed of them, at any rate, which is always something gained," said the Prime Minister, passing his fingers combwise through his beard...

1905, Edgar Jepson, Lady Noggs, peeress:

In the manner of a comb; with a scraping motion intended to straighten.


operibus citatis

ŏpĕʹrĭbəs sĭtäʹtēz

/ɒˈpɛɹɪbəs sɪˈtɑːtiːz/

From post-Classical Latin operibus citātīs (“in the works quoted”), ablative plural form of Latin opus citātum (“quoted work; the work quoted”). Compare opere citato.


opere citato

ŏʹpĕrā sĭtäʹtō

/ˈɒpɛɹeɪ sɪˈtɑːtəʊ/

From post-Classical Latin opere citātō (“in the work quoted”), ablative singular form of opus citātum (“quoted work; the work quoted”), from Classical Latin opus (“work”) + citātum, neuter singular past participial form of citō (“I summon”). Compare opus citatum, opere laudato, loco citato, locus citatus.

k̂ey-², however, has both in the Baltic nouns adduced and in the Baltic pronouns added by Arbeitman (operibus citatis) both centum and satəm reflexes.

2000, Yoël L. Arbeitman, editor, Orbis Supplementa — The Asia Minor Connexion: Studies on the Pre-Greek Languages, in Memory of Charles Carter, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 14, →ISBN:

On the lack of a true forum for discussion in the PPP, see, among others, Waseem, opere citato, pp. 324–325; Anwar H. Syed, op.cit. pp. 207–214.

2004, Subrata Kumar Mitra, Mike Enskat, and Clemens Spiess, Political Parties in South Asia, page 176, note 32 (Greenwood Publishing Group; →ISBN, 9780275968328)

In the work (already) cited or quoted. Used, typically in footnotes and endnotes, to cite in an abbreviated form a source that has been cited previously; frequently abbreviated as op. cit.


arrantly

en-adv

arrantly (comparative more arrantly, superlative most arrantly)

more arrantly (comparative)
most arrantly (superlative)

In an arrant manner; utterly, thoroughly, outright.


marriageably

marriageably (comparative more marriageably, superlative most marriageably)

more marriageably (comparative)
most marriageably (superlative)


hourwise

1957, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Letters from Goethe
Let me proffer the observation that work done to a prescribed timetable, within a given time, produces and trains men who also do only the barest minumum by the hour and as it were hourwise.

The results of quality control checks and number of reports received hourwise for each synoptic hour for each WMO block are monitored.


shorthandedly

shorthandedly (comparative more shorthandedly, superlative most shorthandedly)

more shorthandedly (comparative)
most shorthandedly (superlative)

Some form of self-steering on a cruising yacht, whether electronic or wind powered, is a necessity if a vessel is to cruise shorthandedly in comfort and safety.

1980 Jul-Dec, Peter Watson, “Do-it-yourself Wind Vane Steering Gear”, in Cruising World, page 116:

Taking Gomery's well-argued point, it still seems that a new kind of publicity and new sets of social practices that can be shorthandedly described as "television" did replace the cinema as the central site of phantasmatic Americanness at this historical juncture.

2000, Ronald M. Radano, Philip V. Bohlman, Music and the Racial Imagination, →ISBN, page 140:

These “privatized” rents are not directly controlled by the authoritarian state and they cannot be, in classic rentier-state logic, shorthandedly distributed according to political considerations.

2013, Holger Albrecht, Raging Against the Machine: Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism in Egypt, →ISBN, page 26:

Using shorthand or as a form of shorthand.


salinely

salinely (comparative more salinely, superlative most salinely)

more salinely (comparative)
most salinely (superlative)


intelligentially

The mind receives positive impressions only, and intelligentially conceives negatives by eliminating positive impressions.

1892, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Origin and Development of Religious Belief:

In an intelligential manner; by means of the intelligence.


scrollwise

The schoolroom was large, airy, clean, properly fitted up, and embellished with texts from the Slavonic Bible written scrollwise on door and walls.

1877, Adelina Paulina Irby, Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe:


sinisterwise

(heraldry, archaic) Sinister; on the left-hand side from the wearer's viewpoint.


chequerwise

Arranged in staggered rows, like the squares of a chequerboard.


thwartwise

(archaic) Athwart; from side to side; across.


dexterwise

[...] on the reverse is a fish, naiant dexterwise; the diameter is 0.02, and the material copper, silver being the only other metal used.

1876, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, page 273:

In his day, however, only two types were known, one with an amphora and the other with a goat on the reverse, the obverse of both showing a helmeted head of Pallas facing dexterwise.

1879, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, page 165:

Or, a lion's gamb, erased dexterwise gules.

1884, Jacob Youde William Lloyd, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd, page 198:

(heraldry, archaic) Dexter; on or toward the right-hand side from the wearer's perspective.


slopewise

The second member or part of the Plough, is called the skeath, and is a peece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse: it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise, so that ioyned they present this figure.

1613, Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman:


ICYMI

Billy Joel on the Onion (ICYMI)
The other day when I was bored I browsed the archive of The Onion and had another chuckle at this dandy.

2000 July 20, ElwoodCuse, “Billy Joel on the Onion (ICYMI)”, in alt.music.billy-joel (Usenet), message-ID <167565cc.467d6937@usw-ex0102-084.remarq.com>:

ICYMI: What guys REALLY think on Shake Well Before Use - http://tiny url.com/ypcljm

2007 March 27, Ariel Waldman (@arielwaldman), Twitter, retrieved 2014-08-14:

(Internet slang) Initialism of in case you missed it.


exploratively

exploratively (comparative more exploratively, superlative most exploratively)

more exploratively (comparative)
most exploratively (superlative)

Stones had escaped detection in 9% of the 132 cases with contrast-medium passage to the duodenum both pre- and post-exploratively.

1973, J. E. Jorpes, V. Mutt, Secretin, cholecystokinin, pancreozymin and gastrin:


exploratorily

exploratorily (comparative more exploratorily, superlative most exploratorily)

more exploratorily (comparative)
most exploratorily (superlative)

Thereupon his first act was to pass his hand exploratorily over his head, when there came away a mass of hair not smaller than the first quantity.

1874, Glasgow and West of Scotland Medical Association, Glasgow Medical Journal, volume 6, page 509:


purposively

purposively (comparative more purposively, superlative most purposively)

more purposively (comparative)
most purposively (superlative)

When the vows are purposively made, Why is there a curse of mistrade?

2003, Chaka S. Thomas, In the Midst of Love and Desires, page 41:

Howard [...] walked purposively to the front door.

2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 206:


dentitionally

The report for 1909 showed that 42 per cent. of the children's months were defective dentitionally.

1913, The Dental Surgeon, volume 9, page 331:

However, this may be said of external pressure only when it is applied to an arch that is dentitionally complete.

1964, Thomas H. Forde, The principles and practice of oral dynamics, page 87:

These features can probably be considered the minimal characteristic complex for the great ape and human clade, and suggest that they were, at least partly, hard-object feeders, dentitionally most similar to later Sivapithecus, Ouranopithecus, Australopithecus and early Homo.

2011, Mario Vaneechoutte, Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution:


yeastily

yeastily (comparative more yeastily, superlative most yeastily)

more yeastily (comparative)
most yeastily (superlative)


erosionally

In an erosional manner; by means of erosion.


tablewise

From Middle English tabylwyse, equivalent to table + -wise.

It was a flat, plain slab of dark gray stone, placed on pillars tablewise, that stood solitary above the turf, commanding attention.

Positioned in a way that suggests the shape of a table.

(Christianity) Oriented like the communion table, with the ends east and west, as opposed to altarwise.


sloshily

sloshily (comparative more sloshily, superlative most sloshily)

more sloshily (comparative)
most sloshily (superlative)


farsightedly

farsightedly (comparative more farsightedly, superlative most farsightedly)

more farsightedly (comparative)
most farsightedly (superlative)


splendiferously

splendiferously (comparative more splendiferously, superlative most splendiferously)

more splendiferously (comparative)
most splendiferously (superlative)


oracularly

oracularly (comparative more oracularly, superlative most oracularly)

more oracularly (comparative)
most oracularly (superlative)


kabbalistically

kabbalistically (comparative more kabbalistically, superlative most kabbalistically)

more kabbalistically (comparative)
most kabbalistically (superlative)


qabalistically

qabalistically (comparative more qabalistically, superlative most qabalistically)

more qabalistically (comparative)
most qabalistically (superlative)


cabbalistically

cabbalistically (comparative more cabbalistically, superlative most cabbalistically)

more cabbalistically (comparative)
most cabbalistically (superlative)


cabalistically

cabalistically (comparative more cabalistically, superlative most cabalistically)

more cabalistically (comparative)
most cabalistically (superlative)


mauvely

mauvely (comparative more mauvely, superlative most mauvely)

more mauvely (comparative)
most mauvely (superlative)

She is deep in the stacks of the university library, her carrel in a mauvely lit cave around which book spines rise like a forest.

2003, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades:


occidentally

occidentally (comparative more occidentally, superlative most occidentally)

more occidentally (comparative)
most occidentally (superlative)


slipperily

slipperily (comparative more slipperily, superlative most slipperily)

more slipperily (comparative)
most slipperily (superlative)


retrocessively

retrocessively (comparative more retrocessively, superlative most retrocessively)

more retrocessively (comparative)
most retrocessively (superlative)


symphoniously

symphoniously (comparative more symphoniously, superlative most symphoniously)

more symphoniously (comparative)
most symphoniously (superlative)


australly

australly (comparative more australly, superlative most australly)

more australly (comparative)
most australly (superlative)

This was divided into two fires, between which the people and cattle rushed australly for purposes of purification.

1908, Arthur O'Clery, The history of Ireland to the coming of Henry II.:

In an austral manner; of or to the south.


determinatively

determinatively (comparative more determinatively, superlative most determinatively)

more determinatively (comparative)
most determinatively (superlative)


slippily

slippily (comparative more slippily, superlative most slippily)

more slippily (comparative)
most slippily (superlative)

Jumping out slippily by the way the water came in, he was soon off and away.

1964, Arthur John Arberry, Aspects of Islamic civilization, as depicted in the original texts:


orientally

orientally (comparative more orientally, superlative most orientally)

more orientally (comparative)
most orientally (superlative)

“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:


unobligingly

unobligingly (comparative more unobligingly, superlative most unobligingly)

more unobligingly (comparative)
most unobligingly (superlative)


shamanistically

shamanistically (comparative more shamanistically, superlative most shamanistically)

more shamanistically (comparative)
most shamanistically (superlative)


nonscientifically

He approached the problem nonscientifically, but intelligently.


unamiably

unamiably (comparative more unamiably, superlative most unamiably)

more unamiably (comparative)
most unamiably (superlative)

'She ain't strong, an' don't eat much' was his loud excuse to Mina, unamiably watching both, and disappointed at Nungi's giving in.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 263:


boobishly

boobishly (comparative more boobishly, superlative most boobishly)

more boobishly (comparative)
most boobishly (superlative)


tentwise

In the manner of a tent; consisting of draped material with a gap serving as entrance.


multilingually

multilingually (comparative more multilingually, superlative most multilingually)

more multilingually (comparative)
most multilingually (superlative)


unexcitingly

unexcitingly (comparative more unexcitingly, superlative most unexcitingly)

more unexcitingly (comparative)
most unexcitingly (superlative)


boreally

boreally (comparative more boreally, superlative most boreally)

more boreally (comparative)
most boreally (superlative)


clangingly

clangingly (comparative more clangingly, superlative most clangingly)

more clangingly (comparative)
most clangingly (superlative)

The dinner gong rang clangingly throughout the house.

With a loud, metallic or cymbal-like, clanging sound.


fragilely

fragilely (comparative more fragilely, superlative most fragilely)

more fragilely (comparative)
most fragilely (superlative)

There was of course the same familiar face, the same dainty fragilely-built person that his eyes had first encountered on the lawn of the Residency

1983, Khalid Hasan, Faruq Hassan, Versions of truth: Urdu short stories from Pakistan:


atavistically

atavistically (comparative more atavistically, superlative most atavistically)

more atavistically (comparative)
most atavistically (superlative)


absofreakinlutely

absofreakinlutely (comparative more absofreakinlutely, superlative most absofreakinlutely)

more absofreakinlutely (comparative)
most absofreakinlutely (superlative)

That is absofreakinlutely the best Frellin Frackin' gimmick Ive seen.


spinward

spinward (comparative more spinward, superlative most spinward)

more spinward (comparative)
most spinward (superlative)

It was half-daylight; the shadow of the terminator was coming in from spinward like a black curtain.

1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ...

2007, Arthur C. Clarke with Stephen Baxter, Firstborn [A Time Odyssey; 3], New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books; Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

spinward adv. in or toward the direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating. Also as adj.

2007, Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 215:

"[…] You would fall against the anti-spinward wall and slide down along that wall until you hit the floor ..." / "Whoa, whoa, whoa ..." Lars interrupted. "Anti-spinward? What in the world?" / "Moving in the same direction as the Station's direction of spin is considered spinward. Moving in the direction opposite the spin is considered anti-spinward. You sound like a boy asking what one does with his hands when the rollercoaster car leaves the track."

2015, Steven Burgauer, Skullcap, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:

(often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin.


westwardly

westwardly (comparative more westwardly, superlative most westwardly)

more westwardly (comparative)
most westwardly (superlative)

He was going westwardly, and very kindly enquired of me where I was travelling?

1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 38:


dystopically

dystopically (comparative more dystopically, superlative most dystopically)

more dystopically (comparative)
most dystopically (superlative)


on-campus

Engaging in an activity by a faculty member or a student of an educational institution on the campus.


off-campus

Engaging in an activity by a faculty member or a student of an educational institution off the campus.


discrepantly

discrepantly (comparative more discrepantly, superlative most discrepantly)

more discrepantly (comparative)
most discrepantly (superlative)


nanotechnologically

In a nanotechnological manner or context.


unconstructively

unconstructively (comparative more unconstructively, superlative most unconstructively)

more unconstructively (comparative)
most unconstructively (superlative)

In an unhelpful manner; in an unconstructive manner.


squawkily

squawkily (comparative more squawkily, superlative most squawkily)

more squawkily (comparative)
most squawkily (superlative)


blowsily

blowsily (comparative more blowsily, superlative most blowsily)

more blowsily (comparative)
most blowsily (superlative)


punnily

punnily (comparative more punnily, superlative most punnily)

more punnily (comparative)
most punnily (superlative)


unpityingly

unpityingly (comparative more unpityingly, superlative most unpityingly)

more unpityingly (comparative)
most unpityingly (superlative)


postdepositionally

In a postdepositional manner; after deposition.


predepositionally

In a predepositional manner; before deposition.


insularly

insularly (comparative more insularly, superlative most insularly)

more insularly (comparative)
most insularly (superlative)


sniggeringly

sniggeringly (comparative more sniggeringly, superlative most sniggeringly)

more sniggeringly (comparative)
most sniggeringly (superlative)

Chinese teachers would then sniggeringly explain to their young pupils...


persay

Mercury contents did not affect recreation persay but definitely could if found in fish tissue at high levels.

1972, Peter Chan, Water quality and recreational value analysis on Lake Dubay:


homiletically

homiletically (comparative more homiletically, superlative most homiletically)

more homiletically (comparative)
most homiletically (superlative)


intramurally

intramurally (comparative more intramurally, superlative most intramurally)

more intramurally (comparative)
most intramurally (superlative)


ovately

ovately (comparative more ovately, superlative most ovately)

more ovately (comparative)
most ovately (superlative)


smirkily

smirkily (comparative more smirkily, superlative most smirkily)

more smirkily (comparative)
most smirkily (superlative)


gurglingly

gurglingly (comparative more gurglingly, superlative most gurglingly)

more gurglingly (comparative)
most gurglingly (superlative)


praps

I tried to see if I could tell by his looks which way he had decided but I couldn't, and I thought praps it would be a good time to ask him and find out.


Frenchly

Frenchly (comparative more Frenchly, superlative most Frenchly)

more Frenchly (comparative)
most Frenchly (superlative)

Van Kampen, who anticipated Motley in disparaging the Walloons as being Frenchly fickle...

1912, John Mackinnon Robertson, The evolution of states:

He thought it indecorous to have a young and pretty girl packing with him in his room. He was thinking so Frenchly, that it even seemed to him Bess should not have proposed it.

I realized how unlike his true self he had been; he was Frenchly warm today, and Frenchly open and reasonable.

1937, Marguerite Farlee Bayliss, Bolinvar:

In the manner of the French or their language.

françaisement

In the manner of the French or their tongue


dulcetly

dulcetly (comparative more dulcetly, superlative most dulcetly)

more dulcetly (comparative)
most dulcetly (superlative)


pendulously

pendulously (comparative more pendulously, superlative most pendulously)

more pendulously (comparative)
most pendulously (superlative)

Noiselessly it raised its head, and steadily its green eyes watched this invader, and when convinced that she was a menace, a forked tongue protruded from its head, swinging to and fro pendulously.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 291:


virginly

virginly (comparative more virginly, superlative most virginly)

more virginly (comparative)
most virginly (superlative)

In a virgin manner; purely, innocently, chastely.


prepossessingly

prepossessingly (comparative more prepossessingly, superlative most prepossessingly)

more prepossessingly (comparative)
most prepossessingly (superlative)


conjecturally

conjecturally (comparative more conjecturally, superlative most conjecturally)

more conjecturally (comparative)
most conjecturally (superlative)


medicolegally

Four aspects help to distinguish medicolegally significant remains from those that are not: state of preservation, body modification, personal belongings, and conditions of interment.

2016, Steven N. Byers, Introduction to Forensic Anthropology:


maieutically

maieutically (comparative more maieutically, superlative most maieutically)

more maieutically (comparative)
most maieutically (superlative)


forebodingly

forebodingly (comparative more forebodingly, superlative most forebodingly)

more forebodingly (comparative)
most forebodingly (superlative)

But there were other nights, wild and stormy, when the moon had gone to another town and every star was dark side down, and when the wind, while she slept, had left the she-oaks by the river to moan forebodingly round the house.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 183:


labially

labially (comparative more labially, superlative most labially)

more labially (comparative)
most labially (superlative)

Transillumination of anterior teeth, using the composite curing light placed labially to shine through the tooth and be viewed using the mouth mirror, shows up any cavities as dark interproximal shadows.

2013, Carole Hollins, Questions and Answers for Dental Nurses, page 44:

(linguistics, dentistry) In a labial manner; by means of the lips.


beadily

beadily (comparative more beadily, superlative most beadily)

more beadily (comparative)
most beadily (superlative)

Finally he began to hover in the open window of the shack, buzzing there with his furious wings, looking at me beadily, then, flash, he was gone.

1976, Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, page 180:

It was a part of his general mischief—he lurched about all day, asked leading questions, rubbed up old scandals and scratched beadily for new ones.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

(usually of a look) in an avaricious or penetrating manner.


destitutely

destitutely (comparative more destitutely, superlative most destitutely)

more destitutely (comparative)
most destitutely (superlative)


paltrily

paltrily (comparative more paltrily, superlative most paltrily)

more paltrily (comparative)
most paltrily (superlative)


festally

festally (comparative more festally, superlative most festally)

more festally (comparative)
most festally (superlative)


godforsakenly

godforsakenly (comparative more godforsakenly, superlative most godforsakenly)

more godforsakenly (comparative)
most godforsakenly (superlative)


godawfully

godawfully (comparative more godawfully, superlative most godawfully)

more godawfully (comparative)
most godawfully (superlative)


nonstandardly

nonstandardly (comparative more nonstandardly, superlative most nonstandardly)

more nonstandardly (comparative)
most nonstandardly (superlative)

Men, however, are likely to underreport their use of standard forms, and to claim that they speak more nonstandardly than they really do.

1999, Suzanne Romaine, Communicating gender:


unremorsefully

unremorsefully (comparative more unremorsefully, superlative most unremorsefully)

more unremorsefully (comparative)
most unremorsefully (superlative)

In an unremorseful manner; without remorse.


nonemotionally

Surrogates employed several means for emotionally distancing themselves from the fetus. One was to react to any movement emanating from the belly area nonemotionally.

2010, Elly Teman, Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self, page 75:


calmingly

calmingly (comparative more calmingly, superlative most calmingly)

more calmingly (comparative)
most calmingly (superlative)


shufflingly

shufflingly (comparative more shufflingly, superlative most shufflingly)

more shufflingly (comparative)
most shufflingly (superlative)


dartingly

dartingly (comparative more dartingly, superlative most dartingly)

more dartingly (comparative)
most dartingly (superlative)


jauntingly

jauntingly (comparative more jauntingly, superlative most jauntingly)

more jauntingly (comparative)
most jauntingly (superlative)


encumberingly

encumberingly (comparative more encumberingly, superlative most encumberingly)

more encumberingly (comparative)
most encumberingly (superlative)


flaringly

flaringly (comparative more flaringly, superlative most flaringly)

more flaringly (comparative)
most flaringly (superlative)


rovingly

rovingly (comparative more rovingly, superlative most rovingly)

more rovingly (comparative)
most rovingly (superlative)


flirtingly

flirtingly (comparative more flirtingly, superlative most flirtingly)

more flirtingly (comparative)
most flirtingly (superlative)


earthshakingly

earthshakingly (comparative more earthshakingly, superlative most earthshakingly)

more earthshakingly (comparative)
most earthshakingly (superlative)


encroachingly

encroachingly (comparative more encroachingly, superlative most encroachingly)

more encroachingly (comparative)
most encroachingly (superlative)


harassingly

harassingly (comparative more harassingly, superlative most harassingly)

more harassingly (comparative)
most harassingly (superlative)


admonishingly

admonishingly (comparative more admonishingly, superlative most admonishingly)

more admonishingly (comparative)
most admonishingly (superlative)


hinderingly

hinderingly (comparative more hinderingly, superlative most hinderingly)

more hinderingly (comparative)
most hinderingly (superlative)


deploringly

deploringly (comparative more deploringly, superlative most deploringly)

more deploringly (comparative)
most deploringly (superlative)


depravingly

depravingly (comparative more depravingly, superlative most depravingly)

more depravingly (comparative)
most depravingly (superlative)


intrudingly

intrudingly (comparative more intrudingly, superlative most intrudingly)

more intrudingly (comparative)
most intrudingly (superlative)


informingly

informingly (comparative more informingly, superlative most informingly)

more informingly (comparative)
most informingly (superlative)


incumberingly

incumberingly (comparative more incumberingly, superlative most incumberingly)

more incumberingly (comparative)
most incumberingly (superlative)


indulgingly

indulgingly (comparative more indulgingly, superlative most indulgingly)

more indulgingly (comparative)
most indulgingly (superlative)


inflamingly

inflamingly (comparative more inflamingly, superlative most inflamingly)

more inflamingly (comparative)
most inflamingly (superlative)


debasingly

debasingly (comparative more debasingly, superlative most debasingly)

more debasingly (comparative)
most debasingly (superlative)


incitingly

incitingly (comparative more incitingly, superlative most incitingly)

more incitingly (comparative)
most incitingly (superlative)


inflatingly

inflatingly (comparative more inflatingly, superlative most inflatingly)

more inflatingly (comparative)
most inflatingly (superlative)


unhinderedly

unhinderedly (comparative more unhinderedly, superlative most unhinderedly)

more unhinderedly (comparative)
most unhinderedly (superlative)

In an unhindered manner; without hindrance; freely.


hintingly

hintingly (comparative more hintingly, superlative most hintingly)

more hintingly (comparative)
most hintingly (superlative)


shoutingly

shoutingly (comparative more shoutingly, superlative most shoutingly)

more shoutingly (comparative)
most shoutingly (superlative)


lamentingly

lamentingly (comparative more lamentingly, superlative most lamentingly)

more lamentingly (comparative)
most lamentingly (superlative)


criticisingly

criticisingly (comparative more criticisingly, superlative most criticisingly)

more criticisingly (comparative)
most criticisingly (superlative)


unpleasingly

unpleasingly (comparative more unpleasingly, superlative most unpleasingly)

more unpleasingly (comparative)
most unpleasingly (superlative)


criticizingly

criticizingly (comparative more criticizingly, superlative most criticizingly)

more criticizingly (comparative)
most criticizingly (superlative)


unamusingly

unamusingly (comparative more unamusingly, superlative most unamusingly)

more unamusingly (comparative)
most unamusingly (superlative)


sterilely

sterilely (comparative more sterilely, superlative most sterilely)

more sterilely (comparative)
most sterilely (superlative)

They were mannequins— “Dummies!” I said aloud. Hairless, bald and sterilely feminine.

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 556:


unapprovingly

unapprovingly (comparative more unapprovingly, superlative most unapprovingly)

more unapprovingly (comparative)
most unapprovingly (superlative)


unpleasurably

unpleasurably (comparative more unpleasurably, superlative most unpleasurably)

more unpleasurably (comparative)
most unpleasurably (superlative)


forehanded

forehanded (comparative more forehanded, superlative most forehanded)

more forehanded (comparative)
most forehanded (superlative)

In delivering it forehanded, the ball is dropped in front of the left foot, and is struck when about a foot or even less from the ground.

2014, John Moyer Heathcote, Classic Guide to Tennis, →ISBN, page 122:


overreachingly

overreachingly (comparative more overreachingly, superlative most overreachingly)

more overreachingly (comparative)
most overreachingly (superlative)


flouncingly

flouncingly (comparative more flouncingly, superlative most flouncingly)

more flouncingly (comparative)
most flouncingly (superlative)


unfoldingly

unfoldingly (comparative more unfoldingly, superlative most unfoldingly)

more unfoldingly (comparative)
most unfoldingly (superlative)

In an unfolding manner; gradually revealing more detail, etc.


embitteredly

embitteredly (comparative more embitteredly, superlative most embitteredly)

more embitteredly (comparative)
most embitteredly (superlative)


stranglingly

stranglingly (comparative more stranglingly, superlative most stranglingly)

more stranglingly (comparative)
most stranglingly (superlative)


organoleptically

organoleptically (comparative more organoleptically, superlative most organoleptically)

more organoleptically (comparative)
most organoleptically (superlative)


pouncingly

pouncingly (comparative more pouncingly, superlative most pouncingly)

more pouncingly (comparative)
most pouncingly (superlative)

The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:

In a pouncing manner; with a pouncing motion.


sibilantly

sibilantly (comparative more sibilantly, superlative most sibilantly)

more sibilantly (comparative)
most sibilantly (superlative)


unsurpassedly

unsurpassedly (comparative more unsurpassedly, superlative most unsurpassedly)

more unsurpassedly (comparative)
most unsurpassedly (superlative)


slenderly

slenderly (comparative more slenderly, superlative most slenderly)

more slenderly (comparative)
most slenderly (superlative)

The columns slenderly rose to support a heavy platform and statue.

It is no wonder that in an age when this kind of merit is so little in fashion, and so slenderly provided for, persons possessed of it should very eagerly flock to a place where they were sure of being received with great complaisance […]

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:


vegetatively

The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:

In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.

Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]

1985, Charles L. Scott, The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision, page 80:


quippingly

quippingly (comparative more quippingly, superlative most quippingly)

more quippingly (comparative)
most quippingly (superlative)

In a quipping manner; jokingly, jestingly.


squirmingly

squirmingly (comparative more squirmingly, superlative most squirmingly)

more squirmingly (comparative)
most squirmingly (superlative)


enquiringly

enquiringly (comparative more enquiringly, superlative most enquiringly)

more enquiringly (comparative)
most enquiringly (superlative)


tralatitiously

tralatitiously (comparative more tralatitiously, superlative most tralatitiously)

more tralatitiously (comparative)
most tralatitiously (superlative)

Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a series of predeterminate links [...].

1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 92:

In a tralatitious manner; metaphorically.


unworryingly

(rare) In a way that does not cause worry or anxiety.


cleanlily

cleanlily (comparative more cleanlily, superlative most cleanlily)

more cleanlily (comparative)
most cleanlily (superlative)


chillily

chillily (comparative more chillily, superlative most chillily)

more chillily (comparative)
most chillily (superlative)

Coordinate term: coldly

Near-synonyms: cooly, frostily


quackishly

quackishly (comparative more quackishly, superlative most quackishly)

more quackishly (comparative)
most quackishly (superlative)


naggingly

naggingly (comparative more naggingly, superlative most naggingly)

more naggingly (comparative)
most naggingly (superlative)


chasteningly

chasteningly (comparative more chasteningly, superlative most chasteningly)

more chasteningly (comparative)
most chasteningly (superlative)


scoldingly

scoldingly (comparative more scoldingly, superlative most scoldingly)

more scoldingly (comparative)
most scoldingly (superlative)

She shook her finger at him scoldingly.


refractorily

refractorily (comparative more refractorily, superlative most refractorily)

more refractorily (comparative)
most refractorily (superlative)


dodderingly

dodderingly (comparative more dodderingly, superlative most dodderingly)

more dodderingly (comparative)
most dodderingly (superlative)


plentily

plentily (comparative more plentily, superlative most plentily)

more plentily (comparative)
most plentily (superlative)

From Middle English plentely, plenteliche, equivalent to plenty + -ly.


unappetisingly

unappetisingly (comparative more unappetisingly, superlative most unappetisingly)

more unappetisingly (comparative)
most unappetisingly (superlative)


inadeptly

inadeptly (comparative more inadeptly, superlative most inadeptly)

more inadeptly (comparative)
most inadeptly (superlative)


hypercorrectly

hypercorrectly (comparative more hypercorrectly, superlative most hypercorrectly)

more hypercorrectly (comparative)
most hypercorrectly (superlative)


ileally

In an ileal manner; of, into, or by means of the ileum.


bulbously

bulbously (comparative more bulbously, superlative most bulbously)

more bulbously (comparative)
most bulbously (superlative)


unpatronizingly

unpatronizingly (comparative more unpatronizingly, superlative most unpatronizingly)

more unpatronizingly (comparative)
most unpatronizingly (superlative)


unpatronisingly

unpatronisingly (comparative more unpatronisingly, superlative most unpatronisingly)

more unpatronisingly (comparative)
most unpatronisingly (superlative)


scaringly

scaringly (comparative more scaringly, superlative most scaringly)

more scaringly (comparative)
most scaringly (superlative)


unpausingly

Without pause; pauselessly, ceaselessly.


cursingly

cursingly (comparative more cursingly, superlative most cursingly)

more cursingly (comparative)
most cursingly (superlative)


darkishly

darkishly (comparative more darkishly, superlative most darkishly)

more darkishly (comparative)
most darkishly (superlative)


defendably

defendably (comparative more defendably, superlative most defendably)

more defendably (comparative)
most defendably (superlative)


jouncingly

jouncingly (comparative more jouncingly, superlative most jouncingly)

more jouncingly (comparative)
most jouncingly (superlative)


unboundedly

He was unboundedly generous.


boundingly

boundingly (comparative more boundingly, superlative most boundingly)

more boundingly (comparative)
most boundingly (superlative)


clangily

clangily (comparative more clangily, superlative most clangily)

more clangily (comparative)
most clangily (superlative)


bloatedly

bloatedly (comparative more bloatedly, superlative most bloatedly)

more bloatedly (comparative)
most bloatedly (superlative)


bouncingly

bouncingly (comparative more bouncingly, superlative most bouncingly)

more bouncingly (comparative)
most bouncingly (superlative)


swollenly

swollenly (comparative more swollenly, superlative most swollenly)

more swollenly (comparative)
most swollenly (superlative)

[…] men who grow suddenly and swollenly rich by the opportunities of public office, and by their works of shameful robbery from the helpless citizens […]

I saw a tear gather at the inner corner of each eye, gather very slowly and swollenly and then run down with the precision of a tiny mechanical toy […]

1960, Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men:


aquaculturally

In an aquacultural manner; with regard to, or by means of, aquaculture.


octangularly

an octangularly shaped room


psychopathically

psychopathically (comparative more psychopathically, superlative most psychopathically)

more psychopathically (comparative)
most psychopathically (superlative)


zigzaggedly

zigzaggedly (comparative more zigzaggedly, superlative most zigzaggedly)

more zigzaggedly (comparative)
most zigzaggedly (superlative)


buccally

Banded molars can be rotated, moved buccally and lingually, extruded on one side, and intruded on the other side in ways that are not desired.

2010, Robert N. Staley, Neil T. Reske, Essentials of Orthodontics: Diagnosis and Treatment, →ISBN, page 86:

(dentistry, medicine, referring to force, movement, or both) In the buccal direction; toward the cheek.

(dentistry, medicine) Via buccal administration; via absorption through the mucosa of the cheek.


rumouredly

rumouredly (comparative more rumouredly, superlative most rumouredly)

more rumouredly (comparative)
most rumouredly (superlative)


rumoredly

rumoredly (comparative more rumoredly, superlative most rumoredly)

more rumoredly (comparative)
most rumoredly (superlative)


demoralisingly

demoralisingly (comparative more demoralisingly, superlative most demoralisingly)

more demoralisingly (comparative)
most demoralisingly (superlative)


demoralizingly

demoralizingly (comparative more demoralizingly, superlative most demoralizingly)

more demoralizingly (comparative)
most demoralizingly (superlative)


overaggressively

overaggressively (comparative more overaggressively, superlative most overaggressively)

more overaggressively (comparative)
most overaggressively (superlative)

In an overaggressive way; involving too much aggression.


transformatively

transformatively (comparative more transformatively, superlative most transformatively)

more transformatively (comparative)
most transformatively (superlative)


snobbily

snobbily (comparative more snobbily, superlative most snobbily)

more snobbily (comparative)
most snobbily (superlative)


enside

“Better bring yo’ cher enside,” added the woman after a few moments, and he complied.

1889, The Century, volume 38, The Century Co, page 85:


karyokinetically

In a karyokinetic manner; by means of karyokinesis.


buzzily

buzzily (comparative more buzzily, superlative most buzzily)

more buzzily (comparative)
most buzzily (superlative)


overexuberantly

overexuberantly (comparative more overexuberantly, superlative most overexuberantly)

more overexuberantly (comparative)
most overexuberantly (superlative)


sho nuff

(sometimes) Eye dialect spelling of sure enough.

Pronunciation spelling of sure enough.
Eye dialect spelling of sure enough.


neurosurgically

In a neurosurgical manner; with regard to, or by means of, neurosurgery.


acquiescingly

acquiescingly (comparative more acquiescingly, superlative most acquiescingly)

more acquiescingly (comparative)
most acquiescingly (superlative)


flouncily

flouncily (comparative more flouncily, superlative most flouncily)

more flouncily (comparative)
most flouncily (superlative)


flounderingly

flounderingly (comparative more flounderingly, superlative most flounderingly)

more flounderingly (comparative)
most flounderingly (superlative)

In a floundering manner; with awkward struggles.


flourily

flourily (comparative more flourily, superlative most flourily)

more flourily (comparative)
most flourily (superlative)

There was about a stone of potatoes in the centre of the table, bursting flourily through their skins, the steam rising from them.


vindicatorily

vindicatorily (comparative more vindicatorily, superlative most vindicatorily)

more vindicatorily (comparative)
most vindicatorily (superlative)

She spoke not angrily, but haughtily — not vindictively, but vindicatorily."

1852, Pierce Egan, The London apprentice, and the goldsmith's daughter of West Chepe, page 167:

...He has been shamefully wronged since his death." Thus vindicatorily of his friend spoke the just and kind Geoffrey Crayon a day or two since; and we are glad to record it while the dark wing of the poet's renown is uppermost.

1864, Washington Irving, Works of Washington Irving, Volume 26:

Not necessarily because he had put himself out of relation with a fixed and central truth — she explained self-vindicatorily — but because he had lost that anchorage which prevents excessive thinking.

1905, Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association, Eclectic medical journal:

(rare) In a vindicatory manner; in vindication of someone or something.


I must say

“I must say, I was very happy when I met Mr. Coningsby again at Cambridge,” said Lady Wallinger. “It gave me much greater pleasure than seeing any of the colleges.”

1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, etc, page 265:


recurringly

recurringly (comparative more recurringly, superlative most recurringly)

more recurringly (comparative)
most recurringly (superlative)


undulatingly

undulatingly (comparative more undulatingly, superlative most undulatingly)

more undulatingly (comparative)
most undulatingly (superlative)


limitingly

limitingly (comparative more limitingly, superlative most limitingly)

more limitingly (comparative)
most limitingly (superlative)


lispingly

lispingly (comparative more lispingly, superlative most lispingly)

more lispingly (comparative)
most lispingly (superlative)


limpingly

limpingly (comparative more limpingly, superlative most limpingly)

more limpingly (comparative)
most limpingly (superlative)


affirmingly

affirmingly (comparative more affirmingly, superlative most affirmingly)

more affirmingly (comparative)
most affirmingly (superlative)

From Middle English affirmandlye, equivalent to affirming + -ly.


monocratically

monocratically (comparative more monocratically, superlative most monocratically)

more monocratically (comparative)
most monocratically (superlative)


advancingly

advancingly (comparative more advancingly, superlative most advancingly)

more advancingly (comparative)
most advancingly (superlative)

The graceful and animated figure with a Sword in one hand and a Victor’s Crown in the other, and mounted advancingly on the ramparts, explicitly shew the mode in which the place was taken by storm.

1820, James Mudie, An Historical and Critical Account of a Grand Series of National Medals,, London: Henry Colburn, page 112:

in [old horses] the disease is advancingly destructive

1906, Frank Townend Barton, chapter 17, in Horses: Their Points and Management in Health and Disease, London: Everett, page 298:

I haven’t been privy to the month-by-month deterioration of marriages once robust; I haven’t sniffed the sickly sweet waft of gin off the breath of a formerly industrious realtor at advancingly earlier hours of the afternoon.

2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, published 2005, page 66:


animatingly

animatingly (comparative more animatingly, superlative most animatingly)

more animatingly (comparative)
most animatingly (superlative)


affrontingly

affrontingly (comparative more affrontingly, superlative most affrontingly)

more affrontingly (comparative)
most affrontingly (superlative)


applaudingly

applaudingly (comparative more applaudingly, superlative most applaudingly)

more applaudingly (comparative)
most applaudingly (superlative)


asseveratingly

asseveratingly (comparative more asseveratingly, superlative most asseveratingly)

more asseveratingly (comparative)
most asseveratingly (superlative)


appeasingly

appeasingly (comparative more appeasingly, superlative most appeasingly)

more appeasingly (comparative)
most appeasingly (superlative)


assentingly

assentingly (comparative more assentingly, superlative most assentingly)

more assentingly (comparative)
most assentingly (superlative)


aspiringly

aspiringly (comparative more aspiringly, superlative most aspiringly)

more aspiringly (comparative)
most aspiringly (superlative)

to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 24, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, pages 315-316:


subglacially

In a subglacial manner; beneath a glacier or ice.


subgingivally

subgingivally (comparative more subgingivally, superlative most subgingivally)

more subgingivally (comparative)
most subgingivally (superlative)

In a subgingival manner; beneath the gingival margin.


superglacially

superglacially (comparative more superglacially, superlative most superglacially)

more superglacially (comparative)
most superglacially (superlative)

In a superglacial manner; above a glacier or ice.


nonmaterially

All too often, students from nonmaterially privileged backgrounds assume a position of passivity — they behave as victims...

2003, Antonia Darder, Marta Baltodano, Rodolfo D Torres, The critical pedagogy reader:


boastingly

boastingly (comparative more boastingly, superlative most boastingly)

more boastingly (comparative)
most boastingly (superlative)

I doe not thinke that any Spartane Citizen did boastingly glorifie himselfe for his valor, because it was a popular vertue in that Nation […].


assumingly

assumingly (comparative more assumingly, superlative most assumingly)

more assumingly (comparative)
most assumingly (superlative)


atoningly

atoningly (comparative more atoningly, superlative most atoningly)

more atoningly (comparative)
most atoningly (superlative)


coweringly

coweringly (comparative more coweringly, superlative most coweringly)

more coweringly (comparative)
most coweringly (superlative)

He waited coweringly behind the door as the footsteps approached.


availingly

availingly (comparative more availingly, superlative most availingly)

more availingly (comparative)
most availingly (superlative)


spellbindingly

spellbindingly (comparative more spellbindingly, superlative most spellbindingly)

more spellbindingly (comparative)
most spellbindingly (superlative)

Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy "Satchel" Paige.

2009, Larry Tye, Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend:


balkingly

balkingly (comparative more balkingly, superlative most balkingly)

more balkingly (comparative)
most balkingly (superlative)


unfixably

unfixably (comparative more unfixably, superlative most unfixably)

more unfixably (comparative)
most unfixably (superlative)


attractingly

attractingly (comparative more attractingly, superlative most attractingly)

more attractingly (comparative)
most attractingly (superlative)

1618, Michael Baret, An Hipponomie or the Vineyard of Horsemanship, London, prefatory letter to Book 2,
[…] the Osmund or Magneticall stone […] hath the two Poles (the one of them being of contrary qualitie to the other) the Axis, Equator, Meridians, Parallels, and so all the other Circles naturally and sensibly, as are imagined or fained to bee in the Heauens. All which the directory or inclinatory needles, will attractingly deliniate by their conformity and vnion, at conuenient Angles,

The beauties of your Charlotte, both mental and bodily, are indeed too attractingly eminent to be easily worn from the memory of a man, who hath not only possess’d, but so greatly contributed to polish them.

1777, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Charles and Charlotte, London: William Lane, Volume 1, Letter 26, p. 117:

In this critical view of mankind there was an affinity between him and Gwendolen before their marriage, and we know that she had been attractingly wrought upon by the refined negations he presented to her.

1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, London: William Blackwood, Volume 4, Book 7, Chapter 54, p 103:

There is a mystery about wheat which grows deeper and stronger as one shares its life. […] It is more attractingly, hungrily alive than any fruit or even flower of the field, and the voice of its claim is to be felt in the field and not in the granary.

1910, Georgina Binnie-Clark, chapter 16, in A Summer on the Canadian Prairie, London: Edward Arnold, pages 212–213:

The mother-of-pearl sheen casually attractingly flashed as the dull dark plumage catches the sun;

2005, Nadine Gordimer, Get a Life, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Part 1, p. 50:


all things considered

Of course some areas are more dangerous than others, but all things considered Glasgow is quite a safe place to live.

Generally speaking; in terms of the big picture.

Though only a few people attended the premiere, all things considered the play was rather a success.

“[…] and all things considered, I don't much regret that this affair with Miss Amory is manquée, though I wished for it once—in fact, all things considered, I am very glad of it.”

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXXVII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 356:

Yet, all things considered, she was not of an evil mind or an unkindly disposition.

1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, book the, page 159:

All things considered, he would not have been such a bad match for Ida, only that I knew the child did not really care about him, and there was Georgie breaking her proud, patient little heart for his sake, and nobody saw it but one old woman, who had been through it all herself, and knew what it meant.

1876, Henrietta H. Holdich, “My Georgie”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Harper & Brothers, page 421:

Despite possible indications to the contrary.

Although rationing was strict, they had a couple of chickens and a vegetable patch and they ate well, all things considered.

We had a good stock of tea, with which we treated our friends, as above, and we lived very cheerfully and well, all things considered.

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

Jurgis lost his temper very little, however, all things considered.

1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter VII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:

Given the constraints of the situation; relative to what would have been understandable.


choicelessly

choicelessly (comparative more choicelessly, superlative most choicelessly)

more choicelessly (comparative)
most choicelessly (superlative)


therewithin

From there + within. More at pronominal adverb.


wherewithin

This heavenly banquet (wherewithin thou dost witness thyself, O sweet Saviour, to be "the bread of life" wherewith our souls are fed unto true and eternal life and immortality) grant me grace so now to receive, as may be to my singular joy and comfort.

a. 1555, John Bradford, Meditation on the Lords Supper:


a good deal

From deal (“division, portion, share”). Compare a great deal, etc.

We had a good deal more money after winning the lottery.

He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]

1835, James Hogg, The Story of Euphemia Hewit:

She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly: so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.

1865, Lewis Carroll, “Chapter 5: Advice from a Caterpillar”, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

(idiomatic) Very much; to a great extent; a lot; lots.


youngly

youngly (comparative more youngly, superlative most youngly)

more youngly (comparative)
most youngly (superlative)

And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st

1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 11, line 3:

In six sexless weeks the least "good" of the twenty or so French books I've read is the diary of the youngly-dead Jean-Rene Huguenin (all the rage), because it lacks gossip and carnality, the very stuff of journals.

2013, Ned Rorem, The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

The youngly born brother made no explanation of his sense of offense other than to go over and give Artie a stolid and resounding blow.

1911, Sarah Pratt McLean Greene, The Long Green Road:

Refusing to go back to writing things he now thought "youngly glamorous," like Soldiers' Pay, or "trashily smart," like Mosquitoes, he decided to go on even if it meant relinquishing his dream of success.

2001, David L. Minter, Faulkner's Questioning Narratives:

The youngest should speak first, so if I chance In this case to speak youngly, pardon me.

2002, Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, Vittorio Gabrielli, Sir Thomas More: By Anthony Munday and Others:

[…]he was also a divine personification, an actual figure, for example sculpted by Skopas (395—350 B.C.), which has been described as a “youngly ripened boy's body.”

2010, Katherine Ramsland, Anne Rice Reader:

Here we sit, the little minister straight from the book, bashful and youngly anxious, and I the Egyptian, not dancing now with rowanberries in her hair, but sadly altered.

2014vMargaret, Laurence, The Stone Angel:

(rare) In a young or youthful manner; youthfully


believingly

believingly (comparative more believingly, superlative most believingly)

more believingly (comparative)
most believingly (superlative)


alogically

alogically (comparative more alogically, superlative most alogically)

more alogically (comparative)
most alogically (superlative)


besiegingly

besiegingly (comparative more besiegingly, superlative most besiegingly)

more besiegingly (comparative)
most besiegingly (superlative)


bewailingly

bewailingly (comparative more bewailingly, superlative most bewailingly)

more bewailingly (comparative)
most bewailingly (superlative)


beseemingly

beseemingly (comparative more beseemingly, superlative most beseemingly)

more beseemingly (comparative)
most beseemingly (superlative)


blurringly

blurringly (comparative more blurringly, superlative most blurringly)

more blurringly (comparative)
most blurringly (superlative)


benumbingly

benumbingly (comparative more benumbingly, superlative most benumbingly)

more benumbingly (comparative)
most benumbingly (superlative)


bloodcurdlingly

bloodcurdlingly (comparative more bloodcurdlingly, superlative most bloodcurdlingly)

more bloodcurdlingly (comparative)
most bloodcurdlingly (superlative)


beggingly

beggingly (comparative more beggingly, superlative most beggingly)

more beggingly (comparative)
most beggingly (superlative)


blusteringly

blusteringly (comparative more blusteringly, superlative most blusteringly)

more blusteringly (comparative)
most blusteringly (superlative)

"But we have an Army," said General Clock, blusteringly, for he didn't like to be told he was of no account.


bodingly

bodingly (comparative more bodingly, superlative most bodingly)

more bodingly (comparative)
most bodingly (superlative)


boilingly

boilingly (comparative more boilingly, superlative most boilingly)

more boilingly (comparative)
most boilingly (superlative)


bowingly

bowingly (comparative more bowingly, superlative most bowingly)

more bowingly (comparative)
most bowingly (superlative)


bustlingly

bustlingly (comparative more bustlingly, superlative most bustlingly)

more bustlingly (comparative)
most bustlingly (superlative)


bendingly

[…] he trembled violently ; on replacing him at his seat, the agitation continued, his arms bendingly extended, and with such a look, he thanked me […]

1810, Various authors, The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 80, Part 2, page 42:

By layers of the young shoots, may propagate vines, mulberries, figs, filberts,&c. laying them bendingly into the earth, three, four, or five inches deep […]

1832, John Abercrombie, Thomas Mawe, Every man his own gardener, page 507:

(chiefly obsolete) In a manner involving bending.


burningly

burningly (comparative more burningly, superlative most burningly)

more burningly (comparative)
most burningly (superlative)


braggingly

braggingly (comparative more braggingly, superlative most braggingly)

more braggingly (comparative)
most braggingly (superlative)


cajolingly

cajolingly (comparative more cajolingly, superlative most cajolingly)

more cajolingly (comparative)
most cajolingly (superlative)


cantingly

cantingly (comparative more cantingly, superlative most cantingly)

more cantingly (comparative)
most cantingly (superlative)

We have seen and heard the sneers and sarcasms with which poor Frank's unobtrusive attempts to moralize, not tediously, boringly, or cantingly, have been received by Sir George and his eldest son.

1840, The New Monthly Magazine, page 429:

In a canting manner; with jargon or religious affectation.


cherishingly

cherishingly (comparative more cherishingly, superlative most cherishingly)

more cherishingly (comparative)
most cherishingly (superlative)


carousingly

carousingly (comparative more carousingly, superlative most carousingly)

more carousingly (comparative)
most carousingly (superlative)


chaffingly

chaffingly (comparative more chaffingly, superlative most chaffingly)

more chaffingly (comparative)
most chaffingly (superlative)


chantingly

chantingly (comparative more chantingly, superlative most chantingly)

more chantingly (comparative)
most chantingly (superlative)


caperingly

caperingly (comparative more caperingly, superlative most caperingly)

more caperingly (comparative)
most caperingly (superlative)


chucklingly

chucklingly (comparative more chucklingly, superlative most chucklingly)

more chucklingly (comparative)
most chucklingly (superlative)


carpingly

carpingly (comparative more carpingly, superlative most carpingly)

more carpingly (comparative)
most carpingly (superlative)


clashingly

clashingly (comparative more clashingly, superlative most clashingly)

more clashingly (comparative)
most clashingly (superlative)


cheatingly

cheatingly (comparative more cheatingly, superlative most cheatingly)

more cheatingly (comparative)
most cheatingly (superlative)


bunglingly

bunglingly (comparative more bunglingly, superlative most bunglingly)

more bunglingly (comparative)
most bunglingly (superlative)

what I doe, it is but bunglingly, and wants both polishing and beauty.


syrupily

syrupily (comparative more syrupily, superlative most syrupily)

more syrupily (comparative)
most syrupily (superlative)


pubertally

Many people fear that pubertally precocious children will become sexual maniacs...

1968, Sidney Levin, The biologic basis of pediatric practice:


hundredthly

(rare) In the hundredth place; hundredth in a row.


celebratorily

celebratorily (comparative more celebratorily, superlative most celebratorily)

more celebratorily (comparative)
most celebratorily (superlative)

In a celebratory manner; in celebration.


unaccommodatingly

In an unaccommodating manner; unhelpfully, unobligingly.


fantabulously

fantabulously (comparative more fantabulously, superlative most fantabulously)

more fantabulously (comparative)
most fantabulously (superlative)

I'm cooking him a fantabulously swanky meal at my place tomorrow night.

In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.


questionless

From Middle English questionles; equivalent to question + -less.

[I]n the firſt of Henry the ſixth, the Company of Armorers in London were incorporated by the name of the fraternite of Saint George: which queſtionleſſe reflected on him, though not as Patron ſpecially of this Realme of England, yet as the tutelarie Saint of militarie men. Elſe to what purpose ſhould the Armorers, whoſe trade is onely deſtinate to the uſe of Souldiers, be made a Corporation by his name, and under his protection.

1633, Peter Heylyn [i.e., Heylin], The Historie of that Most Famous Saint and Souldier of Christ Iesus; St. George of Cappadocia: […], 2nd edition, London: […] Thomas Harper, for Henry Seyle [i.e., Seile] […], →OCLC, page 303:

And do not you perceive a shamefull errour therein? But questionlesse you dissemble it.

1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:

[W]hilst I was thus musing, and attentively looking upon the Water, to try whether I could discover the Bottom, it happened to me, as it often does to those that gaze too stedfastly on swift Streams, that my Head began to grow giddy, and my Leggs to stagger towards the River, into which questionless I had fell, if Philaretus had not seasonably and obligingly prevented it.

1665, Robert Boyle, “Occasional Reflections. Discourse XVIII. Upon a Giddiness Occasion’d by Looking Attentively on a Rapid Stream.”, in [John Weyland], editor, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects. With a Discourse about Such Kind of Thoughts, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Alex[ander] Ambrose Masson; and sold by John Henry Parker, […], published 1848, →OCLC, section IV (Which Treats of Angling Improv’d to Spiritual Uses), page 277:

(archaic) Certainly; undoubtedly; without question.


barwise

barwise (comparative more barwise, superlative most barwise)

more barwise (comparative)
most barwise (superlative)


arriswise

(tiling) Diagonally, tiles so laid relative to walls or walkway.

(timber) method of sawing lengthwise a timber beam of rectangular cross section, diagonally from corner to corner, to form two beams of triangular cross section.


broadwise

broadwise (comparative more broadwise, superlative most broadwise)

more broadwise (comparative)
most broadwise (superlative)


anglewise

anglewise (comparative more anglewise, superlative most anglewise)

more anglewise (comparative)
most anglewise (superlative)


honkingly

honkingly (comparative more honkingly, superlative most honkingly)

more honkingly (comparative)
most honkingly (superlative)

At last Sinoway pulled himself together and blew his nose honkingly into an immense, white handkerchief.

At four-thirty, the swim period was honkingly announced.

A few cars buzz around them honkingly before an off-duty taxi stops and lets them in for double the normal fare.

If a browser window is larger than a layout table's fixed size, your viewers end up looking at a honkingly big white void.

2005, Jessica Mantaro, FrontPage 2003: the missing manual:

...the Last Chance Fruit Stand cart, which sells not only fruit cups ($3) but also honkingly large turkey legs ($6.40).

2009, Jason Cochran, Pauline Frommer's Walt Disney World & Orlando:

(slang) Greatly, hugely, overwhelmingly.


crescentwise

crescentwise (comparative more crescentwise, superlative most crescentwise)

more crescentwise (comparative)
most crescentwise (superlative)

And then we strolled
For half the day through stately theatres
Benched crescent-wise

1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:


bendwise

bendwise (comparative more bendwise, superlative most bendwise)

more bendwise (comparative)
most bendwise (superlative)

Az. a bend or betw. two dolphins embowed bendwise arg.

1892, Aaron Davis Weld French, Index Armorial to an Emblazoned Manuscript of the Surname of French: Franc, Francois, Frene and Others, Both British and Foreign, Boston, Priv. print., page 49:

(heraldry) Diagonally; placed like a bend, i.e. running from the dexter chief to the sinister base.


chevronwise

chevronwise (comparative more chevronwise, superlative most chevronwise)

more chevronwise (comparative)
most chevronwise (superlative)

CHEVRONNE, or Chevronny, ſignifies the dividing of the ſhield ſeveral times chevron-wiſe.

1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:

(heraldry) Synonym of chevrony: chevron-like, in the manner of a chevron.


cornerwise

cornerwise (comparative more cornerwise, superlative most cornerwise)

more cornerwise (comparative)
most cornerwise (superlative)

From Middle English cornerwise; equivalent to corner + -wise.


flatwise

With a flat side down or otherwise in contact with a flat surface.


gatewise

[...] they are ioyned by two and two together, and every couple sustaineth a third stone lying overthwart, gatewise, which is fastened by the meanes of tenons that enter into mortaises of those stones not closed with any cement.

1876, William Long, Esq., Stonehenge and its Barrows. From the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, etc. [With maps and wood-engravings.], →OCLC, page 25:


fesswise

(heraldry) In the manner of a fess; as a broad horizontal stripe.


longwise

longwise (comparative more longwise, superlative most longwise)

more longwise (comparative)
most longwise (superlative)


spongily

spongily (comparative more spongily, superlative most spongily)

more spongily (comparative)
most spongily (superlative)

a tract [of land] too spongily saturated to be bent to human use

1863, John Hanning Speke, “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, in Living Age, volume 80, page 218: