unoften

unoften (comparative more unoften, superlative most unoften)

more unoften (comparative)
most unoften (superlative)

PIE word
 *upó
From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + often.

[B]evvare of Paſſion, as the moſt Capital enemy to the Crovvn and Empire of Reaſon: for thoſe Sons of Thunder […] if vve mark the Cataſtrophe of their turbulent lives vve ſhall find them concluded in a tempeſt, and not unoften like the Phœnix expire in a funerall pile themeſelves had kindled.

1657, [William Sprigg], “An Appendix of Brief Advice to Students”, in Philosophicall Essayes with Brief Adviso’s. […], London: […] J[ohn] S[treater] for Robert Blaggrave, […], →OCLC, section 13 (Passion), page 80:

In ſummer, it removes to ſome diſtance from the houſes, alvvays chooſing the lovver countries about the mills and ſtreams, hiding itſelf among the buſhes, in order to catch the birds, and not unoften taking up its habitation in the hollovv of an old vvillovv, vvhere the female may vvith greater convenience bring forth her young.

1775, Count de Buffon [i.e., Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon], “The Weasel”, in W[illiam] Kenrick, J[ohn] Murdoch, transl., The Natural History of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals; with the Theory of the Earth in General. […], volume II, London: […] T. Bell, […], →OCLC, page 217:

[T]he patricians of Rome were not unaccustomed to the rude fellowship of these brawls; nor was it unoften that the mere presence of a noble sufficed to scatter whole crowds, that had, the moment before, been breathing vengeance against his order and his house.

1835, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Brawl”, in Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I (The Time, the Place, and the Men), page 38:

Of deep concern for us has been the question of machinery for the implementation of land reforms. The present administrative set-up for the purpose, comprising as it does low revenue officials who not unoften belong to the upper crust of our rural society and are interested in non-implementation of land reform measures, has proved very unsatisfactory indeed.

1964 May, K. D. Malaviya [i.e., Keshav Dev Malviya], “Agricultural-Industrial Reorganisation”, in Amarnath Vidyalankar, editor, Congress Forum: Journal of the Congress Forum for Socialist Action, volume II, number 3, New Delhi: Congress Forum for Socialist Action, →OCLC, section III (The Agricultural Sector), page 18:

Sometimes, the quarantine measures are so strict and affect such a large number of products that they upset the economic development of a place by prohibiting the exports of such products. It is natural on the part of the representatives of these areas to put up, not unoften, fight against the promulgated laws. The validity of some laws has been questioned, not unoften, by entomologists also[…].

1974, V[ladimir] V[ladimirovich] Yakhontov, “Economic Importance”, in Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre, transl., The Alfalfa Weevil or Phytonomus […] (TT 70-57232), New Delhi: Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre for the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, →OCLC, page 3:

Not unoften do rural women work at the spinning wheel.

2004, Parmanand Parashar, “The Folklore and Songs”, in Kashmir: The Paradise of Asia, New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, →ISBN, page 330:

(literary except India) Not often; rarely, seldom.


raspily

en-adv

raspily (comparative more raspily, superlative most raspily)

more raspily (comparative)
most raspily (superlative)


raspingly

raspingly (comparative more raspingly, superlative most raspingly)

more raspingly (comparative)
most raspingly (superlative)

Ali is irreverent, lazy and raspingly sardonic, and his obvious fictional predecessor is Joseph Heller ’s Yossarian.

2008 June 15, Robert Macfarlane, “The Late Dictator”, in New York Times:


celebratedly

celebratedly (comparative more celebratedly, superlative most celebratedly)

more celebratedly (comparative)
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polysyllabically

polysyllabically (comparative more polysyllabically, superlative most polysyllabically)

more polysyllabically (comparative)
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He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.

2008 June 20, David Brooks, “The Two Obamas”, in New York Times:


macrobiotically

So I left Teach for America, moved home to be with my mother and prepare for my surgery, and transformed myself into a macrobiotically inclined housekeeper.

2008 June 29, Glynis Ann Ritchie, “Rescued by an Israeli Soldier”, in New York Times:


leanly

leanly (comparative more leanly, superlative most leanly)

more leanly (comparative)
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Faraj Hasab Khudhair, Iraq’s star wheelchair fencer, lost a leg below the knee to a mortar shell in 1986. Mr. Khudhair, a fit, leanly muscled 41-year-old, said he ventured out during United States airstrikes in his Diyala Bridge neighborhood of Baghdad to get to training sessions.

2008 June 29, Andrew E. Kramer, “Athletes Disabled by Wars Lead Iraqi Team in World Games”, in New York Times:


distortedly

distortedly (comparative more distortedly, superlative most distortedly)

more distortedly (comparative)
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Her right arm — painfully, distortedly bony — lay across her chest.

2008 March 13, Andy Newman, “Jury Is About to Decide Fate of Dead Girl’s Stepfather”, in New York Times:


nervily

nervily (comparative more nervily, superlative most nervily)

more nervily (comparative)
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To put it more nervily, and of course Ms. Rice does: “Well, now I knew just what it meant to be the man who knew he was God.”

2008 March 13, Janet Maslin, “Telling His Own Tale of Passions and Piety”, in New York Times:


dustily

dustily (comparative more dustily, superlative most dustily)

more dustily (comparative)
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He switched on, put the groaning vehicle into gear, turned it round skilfully and sped dustily townwards.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 600:

But some of the gathered skirts, with an extra tire of fabric around the middle, looked dustily Yamamoto, with pious allusions to women in bonnets and rustic stoles.

2008 February 27, Cathy Horyn, “Not Everyone Spins Their Wheels”, in New York Times:


ticklishly

ticklishly (comparative more ticklishly, superlative most ticklishly)

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slinkily

slinkily (comparative more slinkily, superlative most slinkily)

more slinkily (comparative)
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“Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll,” which is to have its premiere on Tuesday night on the CW network, may look like just another reality show with attractive, slinkily dressed women preening for the camera in the hope of a shot at stardom.

2007 March 5, Edward Wyatt, “Dolls Clad in Feminism, and Hardly Anything Else”, in New York Times:


chipperly

chipperly (comparative more chipperly, superlative most chipperly)

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pluralistically

pluralistically (comparative more pluralistically, superlative most pluralistically)

more pluralistically (comparative)
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seedily

seedily (comparative more seedily, superlative most seedily)

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twitchily

twitchily (comparative more twitchily, superlative most twitchily)

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smoggily

smoggily (comparative more smoggily, superlative most smoggily)

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muggily

muggily (comparative more muggily, superlative most muggily)

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soupily

soupily (comparative more soupily, superlative most soupily)

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blunderingly

blunderingly (comparative more blunderingly, superlative most blunderingly)

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interpersonally

“However you explain it, a boss who pokes fun of his subordinates like this is interpersonally insensitive.”

2007 March 18, Matt Villano, “Your Manager Is a Bully (but You Aren’t Helpless)”, in New York Times:


virginally

virginally (comparative more virginally, superlative most virginally)

more virginally (comparative)
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fractally

it can be seen that chance positioning can build large fractally structured clusters

2008, Brian H. Kaye, A Random Walk Through Fractal Dimensions, page 220:


pandemically

Malaria occurs endemically, epidemically, pandemically, or sporadically.

1886, Hermann Ludwig Eichhorst, Handbook of Practical Medicine, page 168:


uncompellingly

uncompellingly (comparative more uncompellingly, superlative most uncompellingly)

more uncompellingly (comparative)
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Like Ms. Gallagher, Philippe Parreno excerpts and repeats, but uncompellingly.

2007 March 2, Roberta Smith, “Visions That Flaunt Cartoon Pedigrees”, in New York Times:


smuttily

smuttily (comparative more smuttily, superlative most smuttily)

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Like baby names, cocktail names are steered by trends: the smuttily named drinks of the ’70s and ’80s — “two Buttery Nipples, please” — led to the “-tini” phase, which spiraled out of control in the late ’90s and hit bottom with the Apple Pie-tini.

2007 March 18, Jonathan Miles, “Welcome to the Club”, in New York Times:


blanchingly

blanchingly (comparative more blanchingly, superlative most blanchingly)

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“Grotesque” is full of schoolgirls in long socks but blanchingly free of cuteness, a combination we might call Uh-Oh Kitty.

2007 April 15, Sophie Harrison, “Memoirs of a Geisha’s Sister”, in New York Times:


laparoscopically

The two flat-screen monitors worked perfectly, on the other hand, affording a full-color, high-definition view of the first patient’s gallbladder, which Dr. Gawande and a surgical resident, Siva Raja, proceeded to remove laparoscopically, after first inserting a fiber-optic camera through a tiny incision in the patient’s abdomen.

2007 April 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Atul Gawande Rocks in the O.R.”, in New York Times:

Doctors can perform prostatectomies in one of three different ways: perineally, retropubically, or laparoscopically.

2011, Paul H. Lange, Christine Adamec, Prostate Cancer For Dummies:


oversimplistically

oversimplistically (comparative more oversimplistically, superlative most oversimplistically)

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apophatically

apophatically (comparative more apophatically, superlative most apophatically)

more apophatically (comparative)
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(theology) In an apophatic way; using apophasis.


immunogenically

immunogenically (comparative more immunogenically, superlative most immunogenically)

more immunogenically (comparative)
most immunogenically (superlative)


blastedly

blastedly (comparative more blastedly, superlative most blastedly)

more blastedly (comparative)
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In a blasted way; damnably, confoundedly.


humouristically

humouristically (comparative more humouristically, superlative most humouristically)

more humouristically (comparative)
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humoristically

humoristically (comparative more humoristically, superlative most humoristically)

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fuliginously

fuliginously (comparative more fuliginously, superlative most fuliginously)

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Military France is everywhere full of sour inflammatory humour, which exhales itself fuliginously, this way or that: a whole continent of smoking flax; which, blown on here or there by any angry wind, might so easily start into a blaze, into a continent of fire!

1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):


premenstrually

Before menstruation or its initial onset.


postmenstrually

In a postmenstrual way; after menstruation or its initial onset.


acidotically

acidotically (comparative more acidotically, superlative most acidotically)

more acidotically (comparative)
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deflatedly

deflatedly (comparative more deflatedly, superlative most deflatedly)

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diversly

diversly (comparative more diversly, superlative most diversly)

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[T]h’vn-full Harmony / Of vn-even Hammers, beating diverſly, / VVakens the tunes that his [Tubal-cain’s] ſvveet numbery ſoule / Yer birth (ſom think) learn’d of the vvarbling Pole.

1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second VVeeke, […]. Adam. […].] The Handi-crafts. The IIII. Part of the I. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 290:

(archaic) In a divers way; severally, variously.


immunohistologically

immunohistologically (comparative more immunohistologically, superlative most immunohistologically)

more immunohistologically (comparative)
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unrefreshingly

unrefreshingly (comparative more unrefreshingly, superlative most unrefreshingly)

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unbureaucratically

unbureaucratically (comparative more unbureaucratically, superlative most unbureaucratically)

more unbureaucratically (comparative)
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“The aim is to get the payment to the elderly applicants as quickly and as unbureaucratically as possible,” the ministry said.

2007 September 20, Reuters, “Workers in Nazi Era Ghettos to Be Paid”, in New York Times:


unneighbourly

unneighbourly (comparative more unneighbourly, superlative most unneighbourly)

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tatteredly

tatteredly (comparative more tatteredly, superlative most tatteredly)

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incongruently

incongruently (comparative more incongruently, superlative most incongruently)

more incongruently (comparative)
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unseeably

unseeably (comparative more unseeably, superlative most unseeably)

more unseeably (comparative)
most unseeably (superlative)

The Abbot knew that man was poised between two infinities, the unseeably tiny and the immensities of space […]

1975, Philip Mason, Kipling: the glass, the shadow and the fire:

Van Leeuwenhoek expanded his search for these unseeably small creatures and found them everywhere: on human eyelashes, on fleas, in dust, and on skin.

2007, Kendall Haven, 100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time:


unblanchingly

In an unblanching way; without blanching.


matriarchally

matriarchally (comparative more matriarchally, superlative most matriarchally)

more matriarchally (comparative)
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weepingly

weepingly (comparative more weepingly, superlative most weepingly)

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gluily

gluily (comparative more gluily, superlative most gluily)

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tricklingly

tricklingly (comparative more tricklingly, superlative most tricklingly)

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sarkily

sarkily (comparative more sarkily, superlative most sarkily)

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(British, informal) In a sarky manner; sarcastically.


godlessly

godlessly (comparative more godlessly, superlative most godlessly)

more godlessly (comparative)
most godlessly (superlative)


stumblingly

stumblingly (comparative more stumblingly, superlative most stumblingly)

more stumblingly (comparative)
most stumblingly (superlative)

In a stumbling way; unsteadily, haltingly.


swishingly

swishingly (comparative more swishingly, superlative most swishingly)

more swishingly (comparative)
most swishingly (superlative)

In a swishing way; with a swishing sound or motion.


swashbucklingly

swashbucklingly (comparative more swashbucklingly, superlative most swashbucklingly)

more swashbucklingly (comparative)
most swashbucklingly (superlative)

In a swashbuckling way; adventurously, excitingly.


fascistically

fascistically (comparative more fascistically, superlative most fascistically)

more fascistically (comparative)
most fascistically (superlative)


darlingly

darlingly (comparative more darlingly, superlative most darlingly)

more darlingly (comparative)
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sizewise

“As we workshop, they’ll decide whether it’s a piece that sizewise will work better for the Met or Lincoln Center Theater,” he said.

2007 July 3, Daniel J. Wakin, “Met Opera’s Commissions Show Signs of Progress”, in New York Times:


ticklingly

ticklingly (comparative more ticklingly, superlative most ticklingly)

more ticklingly (comparative)
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Adjust the volume, tweak the contours, refine the timing and, if need be, fiddle with the setting, and the hoariest yuck-fest can seem as dewy as a morning in May. Examples of tales told ticklingly are in unusual abundance here, with comedies for every taste within the mainstream of London theater.

2007 August 2, Ben Brantley, “Titters, Snickers and Guffaws, With a British Accent”, in New York Times:


overzealously

overzealously (comparative more overzealously, superlative most overzealously)

more overzealously (comparative)
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Critics say a law designed to keep medical information confidential is being overzealously applied.

2007 July 3, Siobhan Roberts, “It Will Take More Than a Wolf to Blow One House Down”, in New York Times:

Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls.

2019 September 6, Jordan Weissman, “How Not to Fight Anti-Semitism”, in Slate:

In an overzealous way; with excessive zeal.


gooily

gooily (comparative more gooily, superlative most gooily)

more gooily (comparative)
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decrepitly

decrepitly (comparative more decrepitly, superlative most decrepitly)

more decrepitly (comparative)
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hypersexually

hypersexually (comparative more hypersexually, superlative most hypersexually)

more hypersexually (comparative)
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shrewishly

shrewishly (comparative more shrewishly, superlative most shrewishly)

more shrewishly (comparative)
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lowlily

lowlily (comparative more lowlily, superlative most lowlily)

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jammily

jammily (comparative more jammily, superlative most jammily)

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flukily

flukily (comparative more flukily, superlative most flukily)

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leakily

leakily (comparative more leakily, superlative most leakily)

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boggily

boggily (comparative more boggily, superlative most boggily)

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sappily

sappily (comparative more sappily, superlative most sappily)

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naifly

naifly (comparative more naifly, superlative most naifly)

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orangely

orangely (comparative more orangely, superlative most orangely)

more orangely (comparative)
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The winter sun shone orangely in the sky just as the weak low wattage bulb in the lamp beside her mother had that night she talked.


pinkly

pinkly (comparative more pinkly, superlative most pinkly)

more pinkly (comparative)
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Stanley had been with me for only a few weeks when he vacuumed up his food even faster than normal, came back into the living room, tottered, and keeled over, eyes closed, the tip of his tongue protruding pinkly through his teeth.

2008, Kate Jennings, Stanley and Sophie, page 33:


purplely

purplely (comparative more purplely, superlative most purplely)

more purplely (comparative)
most purplely (superlative)

A vein pulsed purplely in her temple.

1979, Norman Spinrad, The star-spangled future:

(rare) In a purple manner; with purple colour.


yellowly

yellowly (comparative more yellowly, superlative most yellowly)

more yellowly (comparative)
most yellowly (superlative)

1864, Henry T. Spicer, “Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy: Another Past Lodger Relates What Lot He Drew at Glumper House”, in All the Year Round, Extra Christmas Number, 1 December, 1864, Part 4, p. 28,
After rice appeared the much-dreaded pie, glaring yellowly, with its coarse pretentious outside—prototype of many a living humbug—veiling one knows not what of false and vile.

The light of the bicycle lamp sheered yellowly across the dark, catching a glint of raindrops, a mist of darkness, shadow of leaves and strokes of long grass.

1930, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Love among the Haystacks. Chapter IV.”, in The Short Novels, volume I, London: William Heinemann, published 1956, →OCLC, page 25:

He showed his tartar-coated teeth in a fatherly smile. […] when he crossed the room, yellowly smiling, he might have been about to kiss the bride.

1938, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in Brighton Rock, London: Vintage, published 2002:

She had a black cat. It regarded me yellowly through the window screen when I rang her doorbell.

1958, Alfred Hayes, chapter 6, in My Face for the World to See, New York Review of Books, published 2013, page 19:


bluely

bluely (comparative more bluely, superlative most bluely)

more bluely (comparative)
most bluely (superlative)

I pursed my lips thoughtfully, then reached out to prod the bluely gleaming chest of the thing with, I suppose, some notion of rolling it off the bed, […]

2004, Ellen Datlow, The Dark: New Ghost Stories:

By now the bluely luminescent slug-gods were close indeed and their coughing calls loud in the darkness, […]

2005, Brian Lumley, The House of Cthulhu: Tales of the Primal Land:

They formed an oval frame, through which the bluely boundless sea rolled […]

2011, Herman Melville, Lynn Michelsohn, In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville:


froggily

froggily (comparative more froggily, superlative most froggily)

more froggily (comparative)
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Just before she ceased, her arms stretched out right froggily, her weird eyes rolled about, and she gulped a mighty gulp of the strange thin medium...

[Frog, opposing an idea:] Froggily speakin', I wouldn't leap at it...

1960 March 18, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 129:

Some days I raise my eyes and smile froggily back.

1976, Virginia Greer, The glory woods: a hymn of healing:


exiguously

exiguously (comparative more exiguously, superlative most exiguously)

more exiguously (comparative)
most exiguously (superlative)

Demandt discusses a German example, Ferdinand Grautoff's 1906. Der Zusammenbuch der Alten Welt (1905) (cf. Es hätte auch... 195-196). Thus, a war widely predicted in fiction is only exiguously remembered in post factum allohistorical narratives.

2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173:


elementarily

elementarily (comparative more elementarily, superlative most elementarily)

more elementarily (comparative)
most elementarily (superlative)


uncomplicatedly

uncomplicatedly (comparative more uncomplicatedly, superlative most uncomplicatedly)

more uncomplicatedly (comparative)
most uncomplicatedly (superlative)

In an uncomplicated way; without complications.


unfussily

unfussily (comparative more unfussily, superlative most unfussily)

more unfussily (comparative)
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While this production, starring a softly radiant Kate Burton as the mercurial Madame Ranevskaya, does place a subtle emphasis on the tragedy in her past — the death of her young son some five years before the play begins — the teddy bear was a bit of a red herring, as it were. Mr. Martin’s “Cherry Orchard,” presented in a clean new adaptation by the playwright Richard Nelson, is brisk, unfussily funny and steeped in just enough emotion to give it a gloss of tender feeling without drowning it in teardrops.

2007 January 17, Charles Isherwood, “Echoes of Grief and Loss, Modulated by Humor”, in New York Times:


ruminatively

ruminatively (comparative more ruminatively, superlative most ruminatively)

more ruminatively (comparative)
most ruminatively (superlative)

But who could not have been captivated by the passages of ecstatic murmurings; shimmering, unhinged harmonies; ruminatively Wagnerian lyricism?

2007 January 20, Anthony Tommasini, “Muti Takes the Reins, a Classicist at His Core”, in New York Times:


glegly

glegly (comparative more glegly, superlative most glegly)

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whitely

whitely (comparative more whitely, superlative most whitely)

more whitely (comparative)
most whitely (superlative)

[…] she opened a door which disclosed a staircase so whitely scrubbed that the grain of the wood was wellnigh sodden away by such cleansing.

1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 2”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

it is the autumn of a year:
When through the thin air stooped with fear,
across the harvest whitely peer
empty of surprise
death’s faultless eyes

1922, E. E. Cummings, “Songs, III”, in Tulips and Chimneys, New York: Liveright, published 1976, page 12:

an enemy aeroplane flew part of the way with us, and bomb after bomb burst flaming in the fields alongside, until ‘wished morn’ whitely appeared.

1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 161:

Were I to murmur “Yes,” and then
“How true, my dear,” and “Yes,” again,
And wear my eyes discreetly down,
And tremble whitely at your frown,
And keep my words unquestioning—
My love, you’d run like anything!

1928, Dorothy Parker, “Dilemma”, in Sunset Gun, Garden City, NY: Sun Dial, published 1941, page 63:


matily

matily (comparative more matily, superlative most matily)

more matily (comparative)
most matily (superlative)

“Reading?” I said. He lowered his book – one of Ma Cream's, I noticed – and flashed an upper lip at me. “Your powers of observation have not led you astray, Wooster. I am reading.” “Interesting book?” “Very. I am counting the minutes until I can resume its perusal undisturbed.” I'm pretty quick, and I at once spotted that the atmosphere was not of the utmost cordiality. He hadn't spoken matily, and he wasn't eyeing me matily. His whole manner seemed to suggest that he felt that I was taking up space in the room which could have been better employed for other purposes.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

McCormack rounded a bush and Chisholm reared up out of nowhere, a grinning scarecrow, his arm wrapped matily round the boy's shoulders, a pistol jammed against the boy's temple.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 449:


untowardly

untowardly (comparative more untowardly, superlative most untowardly)

more untowardly (comparative)
most untowardly (superlative)

Those ruddy plumes, embrew′d with heavenly food,
When I would suck them, twine to driest coral;
And when I couch between her lily buds,
They surge like frothy water mounts above all:
Surely, they were all made unto good uses,
But she them all untowardly abuses.

O day untowardly turned!

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

[…] whenever my brains come to be dissected, you will perceive, without spectacles, that he has left a large uneven thread, as you sometimes see in an unsaleable piece of cambrick, running along the whole length of the web, and so untowardly, you cannot so much as cut out a * *, (here I hang up a couple of lights again)—or a fillet, or a thumb-stall, but it is seen or felt.

1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXXIII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VI, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 132:

“[…] I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 18, in Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

It has been said that Mr. Slope, as he started for Ullathorne, received a dispatch from his friend Mr. Towers, which had the effect of putting him in that high good humour which subsequent events somewhat untowardly damped.

1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC:

Perhaps that’s because discretion is a restaurateur’s asset — to dish untowardly would be bad for business.

2007 January 14, Sara Dickerman, “Are You Being Served?”, in New York Times:


famishedly

famishedly (comparative more famishedly, superlative most famishedly)

more famishedly (comparative)
most famishedly (superlative)


unblemishedly

unblemishedly (comparative more unblemishedly, superlative most unblemishedly)

more unblemishedly (comparative)
most unblemishedly (superlative)

In an unblemished way; without blemishes.


confusably

confusably (comparative more confusably, superlative most confusably)

more confusably (comparative)
most confusably (superlative)

Yet except for its longer-tailed Western counterpart (well named difficilis), none of them confusably resemble it.

1937, Aaron Clark Bagg, Samuel Atkins Elliot, Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts:

In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.


eath

From Middle English ethe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus (“empty, lonely”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-. Cognate with Scots eith (“easy”), Old Saxon ōþi (“deserted, empty”), Old High German ōdi (“empty, abandoned, easy, effortless”), Middle High German öde (“blank, vacant, easy”) (German öde), Old Norse auðr (“deserted, empty”), Icelandic auð (“easy”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (auþeis, “desolate, deserted”). More at easy.

cog

Their food and their raiment he eith can supply.


fecally

The water was fecally contaminated.


midsession

The court was interrupted midsession.


ungently

en-adv

ungently (comparative more ungently, superlative most ungently)

more ungently (comparative)
most ungently (superlative)


unaffectionately

unaffectionately (comparative more unaffectionately, superlative most unaffectionately)

more unaffectionately (comparative)
most unaffectionately (superlative)


ponderingly

ponderingly (comparative more ponderingly, superlative most ponderingly)

more ponderingly (comparative)
most ponderingly (superlative)


haemodynamically

(British spelling) With regard to haemodynamics


uneath

From Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”), from Old English unēaþe (“difficult, not easy”); equivalent to un- + eath. More at eath, easy.

inh

Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge.

1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:


heartstoppingly

en-adv

heartstoppingly (comparative more heartstoppingly, superlative most heartstoppingly)

more heartstoppingly (comparative)
most heartstoppingly (superlative)


heart-stoppingly

heart-stoppingly (comparative more heart-stoppingly, superlative most heart-stoppingly)

more heart-stoppingly (comparative)
most heart-stoppingly (superlative)


gut-wrenchingly

gut-wrenchingly (comparative more gut-wrenchingly, superlative most gut-wrenchingly)

more gut-wrenchingly (comparative)
most gut-wrenchingly (superlative)


slobbily

slobbily (comparative more slobbily, superlative most slobbily)

more slobbily (comparative)
most slobbily (superlative)


anthropometrically

By means of, or in terms of, anthropometry.

antropometricamente

by means of or in terms of anthropometry


whinily

whinily (comparative more whinily, superlative most whinily)

more whinily (comparative)
most whinily (superlative)


unfamiliarly

unfamiliarly (comparative more unfamiliarly, superlative most unfamiliarly)

more unfamiliarly (comparative)
most unfamiliarly (superlative)


unconvincedly

unconvincedly (comparative more unconvincedly, superlative most unconvincedly)

more unconvincedly (comparative)
most unconvincedly (superlative)


cheeringly

cheeringly (comparative more cheeringly, superlative most cheeringly)

more cheeringly (comparative)
most cheeringly (superlative)

In a way that cheers; hearteningly, encouragingly.

The crowd cheeringly carried the hero along the streets.


hearteningly

hearteningly (comparative more hearteningly, superlative most hearteningly)

more hearteningly (comparative)
most hearteningly (superlative)

Most hearteningly, Abraham is someone we come to care about: “At least an old man can reward himself with a tepid beer after enduring a long morning alone in his apartment.

2007 January 7, Sarah Saffian, “Seas of Emotion”, in New York Times:

With this shift in both what shows are being made, and in what viewers desire, the genre hearteningly appears to be reverting to its roots of being an entertainment spectacular, giving the space for novelty and mad-cap amusement that's presented in a warm and humorous way. After a discordant patch, it's in tune again – even if some auditionees, as ever, are not.

2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:


soothfast

From Middle English sothfast, from Old English sōþfæst (“true, trustworthy”), from Proto-West Germanic *sanþafast. Equivalent to sooth + fast.

inh

I care not if the pomps you show / Be what they soothfast appear, / Or if yon realms in sunset glow / Be bubbles of the atmosphere.

1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 24:


hereish

(colloquial) Near here, near this place.


unthoroughly

en-adv

unthoroughly (comparative more unthoroughly, superlative most unthoroughly)

more unthoroughly (comparative)
most unthoroughly (superlative)


salvationally

salvationally (comparative more salvationally, superlative most salvationally)

more salvationally (comparative)
most salvationally (superlative)


untenably

untenably (comparative more untenably, superlative most untenably)

more untenably (comparative)
most untenably (superlative)

And there is something ingenious or untenably sneaky about the Disney Channel making movies about teenagers learning to love musicals at a time when it seriously got into the business of making made-for-TV movie musicals.

2007 January 10, Ginia Bellafante, “Trading Math Class for Corsets and Minis”, in New York Times:


untheatrically

untheatrically (comparative more untheatrically, superlative most untheatrically)

more untheatrically (comparative)
most untheatrically (superlative)


classicly

classicly (comparative more classicly, superlative most classicly)

more classicly (comparative)
most classicly (superlative)

He was a classicly educated man, but he had a brusque manner...

1887, Elizabeth Moore Chapin, American Court Gossip:

Tilting your head to the side, inching a clip off your ear as you answer the phone, is a classicly flirtatious act, like dabbing wrists with perfume or slipping into high heels.

2007 January 11, Alexa Brazilian, “Clip-Ons Are Back. Fondling Allowed.”, in New York Times:


smoochily

smoochily (comparative more smoochily, superlative most smoochily)

more smoochily (comparative)
most smoochily (superlative)


aheight

(obsolete) From high, from a high point.


ambassadorially

ambassadorially (comparative more ambassadorially, superlative most ambassadorially)

more ambassadorially (comparative)
most ambassadorially (superlative)


unironically

unironically (comparative more unironically, superlative most unironically)

more unironically (comparative)
most unironically (superlative)

From unironic + -ally or un- + ironically.

I unironically loved that movie!

"“[88 Minutes] is unironically one of my favorite podcasts. Literally the only source for non-pozzed news from Canada,” wrote one Daily Stormer commentator.

2018 May 16, Martin Patriquin and others, “Canadian Far Right Extremism: The Racist Podcaster Who Started a Neo-Nazi Coffee Company to Fund White Nationalism”, in Vice:


subnationally

subnationally (comparative more subnationally, superlative most subnationally)

more subnationally (comparative)
most subnationally (superlative)


preeningly

preeningly (comparative more preeningly, superlative most preeningly)

more preeningly (comparative)
most preeningly (superlative)


noncompetitively

noncompetitively (comparative more noncompetitively, superlative most noncompetitively)

more noncompetitively (comparative)
most noncompetitively (superlative)

According to one recent audit reported in The Washington Post, among 49 privatized contracts, three out of five were awarded noncompetitively, lacked oversight, and raised questions of legality.

2007 January 16, “Tracking Outsourced Bonanzas”, in New York Times:


quickwittedly

quickwittedly (comparative more quickwittedly, superlative most quickwittedly)

more quickwittedly (comparative)
most quickwittedly (superlative)


undetectably

undetectably (comparative more undetectably, superlative most undetectably)

more undetectably (comparative)
most undetectably (superlative)


foodwise

Living with a master chef, we led a charmed life, foodwise.


knottily

knottily (comparative more knottily, superlative most knottily)

more knottily (comparative)
most knottily (superlative)

He examines the implications of a doubly incestuous bloodline (which is not new speculation and is knottily complicated: it makes Adolf “a First-Degree Incestuary One Step Removed.”)

2007 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees”, in New York Times:


subtropically

subtropically (comparative more subtropically, superlative most subtropically)

more subtropically (comparative)
most subtropically (superlative)


uncomically

uncomically (comparative more uncomically, superlative most uncomically)

more uncomically (comparative)
most uncomically (superlative)


governmentally

As a lawyer who has often been condemned for representing the despised, I understand how important it is to our legal system that lawyers remain entirely free to choose their clients without fear of governmentally imposed or suggested sanctions.

2007 January 22, “A Lawyer’s Free Speech (1 Letter)”, in New York Times:

In a governmental way; by or through a government.


overprotectively

overprotectively (comparative more overprotectively, superlative most overprotectively)

more overprotectively (comparative)
most overprotectively (superlative)

Shafak sketches these Armenians flatly and superficially, as uniformly and fiercely anti-Turk — and as overprotectively fretful about beautiful and bookish Armanoush.

2007 January 21, Lorraine Adams, “Armenian in Istanbul”, in New York Times:


geomagnetically

These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering and exiting networks where equipment is grounded to Earth.

2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:

In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.


midmovie

But his film received a premiere last Friday night at midnight at the Egyptian Theater, a coveted slot at Sundance, and quite a few members of the audience left midmovie.

2007 January 22, David Carr, “M dot Strange Finds a Way at Sundance”, in New York Times:

During a movie or the showing of a movie.


betwixt and between

Neither here nor there
neither here nor there


pantingly

pantingly (comparative more pantingly, superlative most pantingly)

more pantingly (comparative)
most pantingly (superlative)

This same man, […] pantingly threatened me with permanent disfiguring mayhem, if ever again I should introduce his name into print, […]

1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 581:

He spies on the Hitler household by inserting a pantingly nosy narrator who poses as a Nazi Intelligence officer but claims to have been sent by the Devil.

While, or as if, panting; eagerly, breathlessly.


makai

Borrowed from Hawaiian makai (“seaward”).

There are plenty of lots for sale — ranging from $30,000 to $60,000 for an acre that’s mauka (toward the mountain), and $100,000 or much higher for land that’s makai (toward the sea).

2007 April 6, Beth Greenfield, “On the Big Island, a Place for Price-Sensitive Home Shoppers”, in New York Times:


muckily

muckily (comparative more muckily, superlative most muckily)

more muckily (comparative)
most muckily (superlative)


schoolboyishly

schoolboyishly (comparative more schoolboyishly, superlative most schoolboyishly)

more schoolboyishly (comparative)
most schoolboyishly (superlative)

Hari Singh laughed schoolboyishly through the nest of beard.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 109:


unanxiously

unanxiously (comparative more unanxiously, superlative most unanxiously)

more unanxiously (comparative)
most unanxiously (superlative)


vicissitudinously

vicissitudinously (comparative more vicissitudinously, superlative most vicissitudinously)

more vicissitudinously (comparative)
most vicissitudinously (superlative)


undramatically

undramatically (comparative more undramatically, superlative most undramatically)

more undramatically (comparative)
most undramatically (superlative)


shoppily

shoppily (comparative more shoppily, superlative most shoppily)

more shoppily (comparative)
most shoppily (superlative)


umwhile

From Middle English umwhile, umwhyle, umbewhile, from the phrase umbe while (literally “at times, at some time”). Analyzable as um- + while. More at umbe, while.

(obsolete outside dialects, chiefly Scotland) formerly; late; whilom.


transeuntly

transeuntly (comparative more transeuntly, superlative most transeuntly)

more transeuntly (comparative)
most transeuntly (superlative)


mauka

Borrowed from Hawaiian mauka (“landward, shoreward (from the sea), towards the inland”).


mayhappen

[…] they hastened up, and presently stood before that cavern's mouth with doubt and joy mingled in their minds; for now, mayhappen, they had reached the gate of the Glittering Plain, or mayhappen the gate of death.

1891, William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain:


overloudly

en-adv

overloudly (comparative more overloudly, superlative most overloudly)

more overloudly (comparative)
most overloudly (superlative)


oversoftly

oversoftly (comparative more oversoftly, superlative most oversoftly)

more oversoftly (comparative)
most oversoftly (superlative)


crumbily

crumbily (comparative more crumbily, superlative most crumbily)

more crumbily (comparative)
most crumbily (superlative)


crummily

crummily (comparative more crummily, superlative most crummily)

more crummily (comparative)
most crummily (superlative)


'ere

“’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. […]”

1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 214:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(British, slang and dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of here.


midset

And the band appears comfortable with its pop instincts: a pair of new songs, played midset, were even frothier and looser than its album.

2009 March 17, Jon Caramanica, “Surfing Along a Foamy Wave, Constantly Changing but Ever Cynical”, in New York Times:

(music) In the middle of a set, in the middle of a gig.


corruptively

corruptively (comparative more corruptively, superlative most corruptively)

more corruptively (comparative)
most corruptively (superlative)


witchily

witchily (comparative more witchily, superlative most witchily)

more witchily (comparative)
most witchily (superlative)

As she advanced from the bathroom, her ebony-blue-grey hair falling wild and witchily around her shoulders, clad in her scarlet-daubed painters smock […]

1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19:


unworriedly

unworriedly (comparative more unworriedly, superlative most unworriedly)

more unworriedly (comparative)
most unworriedly (superlative)

Andrew Veyette gave a lovely sinuousness to his “Sarabande” solo, and Ellen Bar was coolly seductive in her “Bransle Gay” solo and the subsequent pas de trois, balancing unworriedly in arabesque as her two partners switched sides.

2007 January 27, Roslyn Sulcas, “Finding a Famous Pair’s Intensity and Sensitivity”, in New York Times:

In an unworried way; calmly, without anxiety.


smashingly

smashingly (comparative more smashingly, superlative most smashingly)

more smashingly (comparative)
most smashingly (superlative)

It has been just over a year since their Wellington boots last sloshed about on these shores, and it’s not as though that trip — billed as their first official overseas tour since being married in April 2005 — came off so smashingly that they, or an adoring American public, ought to be crying out for another.

2007 January 27, Eric Konigsberg, “On Your Toes, Blokes, 2 Highnesses Coming — Charles and Camilla”, in New York Times:


meanderingly

meanderingly (comparative more meanderingly, superlative most meanderingly)

more meanderingly (comparative)
most meanderingly (superlative)

This contrast between the emotional intimations of the movement (at one point a performer chases another around the stage, pulling off his clothes) and the dancers’ affectless manner might be a reason that “Bones” can sometimes feel meanderingly opaque.

2009 April 6, Roslyn Sulcas, “Deadpan Expresssions but Lively Connections in Acrobatic Tableaus”, in New York Times:


synergically

synergically (comparative more synergically, superlative most synergically)

more synergically (comparative)
most synergically (superlative)


idd

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of indeed.


projectively

projectively (comparative more projectively, superlative most projectively)

more projectively (comparative)
most projectively (superlative)


ventromedially

ventromedially (comparative more ventromedially, superlative most ventromedially)

more ventromedially (comparative)
most ventromedially (superlative)


jitterily

jitterily (comparative more jitterily, superlative most jitterily)

more jitterily (comparative)
most jitterily (superlative)


whippily

whippily (comparative more whippily, superlative most whippily)

more whippily (comparative)
most whippily (superlative)


sleepingly

sleepingly (comparative more sleepingly, superlative most sleepingly)

more sleepingly (comparative)
most sleepingly (superlative)


uncompanionably

uncompanionably (comparative more uncompanionably, superlative most uncompanionably)

more uncompanionably (comparative)
most uncompanionably (superlative)


actorishly

actorishly (comparative more actorishly, superlative most actorishly)

more actorishly (comparative)
most actorishly (superlative)

Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and without any intimations of my own ludicrousness spent two years showing God what I thought of him by letting myself go.

2007 November 18, Glen Duncan, “Young Man Behaving Badly”, in New York Times:


stinkingly

stinkingly (comparative more stinkingly, superlative most stinkingly)

more stinkingly (comparative)
most stinkingly (superlative)


sassily

sassily (comparative more sassily, superlative most sassily)

more sassily (comparative)
most sassily (superlative)

Jantzen’s most popular look this season is a sassily ruched one-piece, updated in lifeguard red and now called the Vamp, which would seem to encourage accessorizing with a cigarette and a martini more than a Pilatesstick.

2008 May 15, Eric Wilson, “Out With Vegas, In With Vamp”, in New York Times:


hydromechanically

In a hydromechanical way; by means of hydromechanics.


aculturally

aculturally (comparative more aculturally, superlative most aculturally)

more aculturally (comparative)
most aculturally (superlative)


gutsily

gutsily (comparative more gutsily, superlative most gutsily)

more gutsily (comparative)
most gutsily (superlative)


bumpingly

bumpingly (comparative more bumpingly, superlative most bumpingly)

more bumpingly (comparative)
most bumpingly (superlative)


joltily

joltily (comparative more joltily, superlative most joltily)

more joltily (comparative)
most joltily (superlative)


saintlily

saintlily (comparative more saintlily, superlative most saintlily)

more saintlily (comparative)
most saintlily (superlative)

And how perfect she was, how daintily complete in mere physical beauty, from the heavy masses of her dark, copper-hued hair, and the sweet pale face, now looking so saintlily grave, and now bubbling with fun at some unexpected turn of humour […]

1908, John William Brodie-Innes, Morag the Seal:


sveltely

sveltely (comparative more sveltely, superlative most sveltely)

more sveltely (comparative)
most sveltely (superlative)


priggishly

priggishly (comparative more priggishly, superlative most priggishly)

more priggishly (comparative)
most priggishly (superlative)

Philostratus seems to be the only writer who conceives that the Knossian Labryinth ^([sic]) was pointed out to visitors as still existing. Apollonius of Tyana priggishly refused to go to see it, because he would not make himself a spectator of Minos's wrong-doing.

1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 110:


businesslikely

businesslikely (comparative more businesslikely, superlative most businesslikely)

more businesslikely (comparative)
most businesslikely (superlative)

Saumarez was silent for good or bad, and as business-likely attentive as he could be, having due regard to his work and his polo.


somewhy

From some + why, in analogy with somewhere, somehow etc.

Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn
 What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?

1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505, retrieved 2012-01-18:

I loved them both—but not so very much else in the book—but I read them over twice & thought—somewhy—of Highland Park & our quaint little trips to Los Angles[sic] & elsewhere thereabouts on the street car.

1988, William Morris, 1924, quotee, edited by Thomas P. Riggio, Letters to Women: New Letters, Reprint edition, University of Illinois Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 179:

Somewhy I've always had this stupid idea that something or something or somebody awful is waiting here for me.

2003, Cameron Royce Jess, Bearer of the Chose Seed (Fiction), Inscape Publications, →ISBN, page 15:

But somehow, somewhy, he did something and that woman knew it. And somehow, somewhy on a whole lot of other days he doesn't do anything we can see ...

2008, Margaret Feinberg, “Bring Them to Me”, in The Sacred Echo, Zondervan, →ISBN, page unk:

Or is it actually him? Still holding on somewhere, somehow, somewhy.

2011, Issac Marion, Warm Bodies (Fiction), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 92:


bioethically

bioethically (comparative more bioethically, superlative most bioethically)

more bioethically (comparative)
most bioethically (superlative)

Knowingly giving a person a placebo when there is an effective treatment available is a bioethically complex issue.


sacrosanctly

sacrosanctly (comparative more sacrosanctly, superlative most sacrosanctly)

more sacrosanctly (comparative)
most sacrosanctly (superlative)


hackily

hackily (comparative more hackily, superlative most hackily)

more hackily (comparative)
most hackily (superlative)


dicily

dicily (comparative more dicily, superlative most dicily)

more dicily (comparative)
most dicily (superlative)


onomastically

onomastically (comparative more onomastically, superlative most onomastically)

more onomastically (comparative)
most onomastically (superlative)


hand in glove

hand in glove (comparative more hand in glove, superlative most hand in glove)

more hand in glove (comparative)
most hand in glove (superlative)

The vendors were working hand in glove with our people.

Isn't it beautiful to see two people / So much in love? / Barenaked as two virgins hand in hand / And hand and hand in glove

1992, “Be My Yoko Ono”, in Gordon, performed by Barenaked Ladies:


softly softly

Reduplication of softly. Likely an allusion to softly, softly, catchee monkey or a similar phrase.

We couldn't get him back into training before Christmas time because he picked up an injury at the Cheltenham Festival last year and we had to go softly softly.

2006 April 28, “Royal heads Betfred field”, in RTE Sport, Ireland, retrieved 2009-06-22:

(UK) In a very tactful, careful, or nondisruptive manner.


hand-in-glove

hand-in-glove (comparative more hand-in-glove, superlative most hand-in-glove)

more hand-in-glove (comparative)
most hand-in-glove (superlative)


partisanly

partisanly (comparative more partisanly, superlative most partisanly)

more partisanly (comparative)
most partisanly (superlative)


heroicly

heroicly (comparative more heroicly, superlative most heroicly)

more heroicly (comparative)
most heroicly (superlative)


down to the short strokes

Possibly an allusion to painting, in which a painter typically finishes a work with short, careful, finishing strokes of the paint brush, or to golf, in which a player concludes each hole by making short strokes with a putter. In swimming competition, as a swimmer nearly reaches a wall to turn or to finish, the competitor might take a shorter stroke to start the turn smoothly, or to finish faster.

"You should never count Lyndon out," Nixon said. "When it comes down to the short strokes, there's no one who can handle them better than Lyndon Johnson.

1960 July 14, Arthur Edson, “Lyndon's Knack Gets Test”, in Milwaukee Sentinal, retrieved 2009-05-29, page 7:

When the budget negotiations get down to the short strokes in October, should I cave or take the "train wreck"?

1995 June 26, William Safire, “Essay: Reading Bill's Mind”, in New York Times, retrieved 2009-05-29:

Anyone who wants to vote on delegates who will then decide whether to ratify the deal must have a membership by the end of this week. "It's getting down to the short strokes," MacKay said.

2003 November 13, “Angry Tories protest outside Harper-MacKay meeting”, in CTV.ca/Canadian Press, retrieved 2009-05-29:

(idiomatic) To the final steps or decisive phase of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious.


disenchantingly

disenchantingly (comparative more disenchantingly, superlative most disenchantingly)

more disenchantingly (comparative)
most disenchantingly (superlative)


mapwise

He placed his fingertip where he had left off and began to focus again. So far the spiral had only moved a few inches beyond the borders of Novanna City mapwise.

The countryside unfolded mapwise beneath us.


stretchably

stretchably (comparative more stretchably, superlative most stretchably)

more stretchably (comparative)
most stretchably (superlative)


nippily

nippily (comparative more nippily, superlative most nippily)

more nippily (comparative)
most nippily (superlative)

With one class of boat, and continual practice under similar conditions, it is surprising to see how the boats are handled, how nippily the live ballast finds its place when gybing, how rapidly the canvas is taken in or set —a very important function, for the winds in the bay are treacherous and uncertain, the most favourable being hard north-easters.

1899, Robert Taylor Pritchett, Pen and Pencil Sketches of Shipping and Craft All Round the World:

I nippily learned that they could tidy away twice the amount of liquor we manly-men could without getting drunk.

2014, Richard L. Cañas, SHIFT - The End of the War on Drugs, The Beginning of the War on Terrorism:


limbmeal

From Middle English lymmele, limmel, from Old English limmǣlum (“limbmeal, limb by limb”); equivalent to limb + -meal.

inh

O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal!

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

[…] they deal with Christ as a Kennel of Hounds do with an Hare, pluck him to pieces, wound and tear him, what in them lies, limb meal, neither his Blood, nor his Wounds, nor his Head, nor his Heart, nor any other part shall escape, and they even dare Vengeance it self […]

1677, Edward Bury, England’s Bane, or, The Deadly Danger of Drunkenness, London: Thomas Parkhurst, page 16:

1890, John Payne (translator), The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen, London: The Villon Society, Volume 5, Part 3, Story 24, pp. 323-324,
Such was the end of that vile and wicked woman, worthy of a more cruel death and to be torn of dogs limbmeal.


henlike

en-adv

henlike (comparative more henlike, superlative most henlike)

more henlike (comparative)
most henlike (superlative)

He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.

1901, Miles Franklin, “An Introduction to ’Possum Gully”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 10:

But then there was the rain. And with it memories of Vanikarri and the iron huts of the wards and the black-cloaked sisters running henlike through the puddles and giggling.

1956, Robert C[onroy] Goldston, The Eighth Day, New York, N.Y., Toronto, Ont.: Rinehart & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 198:

This brought other States running henlike to the winner.

1968, Time Capsule 1932: A History of the Year Condensed from the Pages of Time, New York, N.Y.: Time-Life Books, →LCCN, page 53:


echoingly

echoingly (comparative more echoingly, superlative most echoingly)

more echoingly (comparative)
most echoingly (superlative)

The building is deserted. The door closes echoingly behind you.


vocatively

vocatively (comparative more vocatively, superlative most vocatively)

more vocatively (comparative)
most vocatively (superlative)

Kinship terminology is reportedly not used vocatively in family II, whereas it is in family I (note that Kwaza has no vocative morpheme). It is by MA considered ugly to use the words for 'husband' and 'wife' vocatively.

2004, Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza, page 722:


unprintably

unprintably (comparative more unprintably, superlative most unprintably)

more unprintably (comparative)
most unprintably (superlative)


sunkenly

sunkenly (comparative more sunkenly, superlative most sunkenly)

more sunkenly (comparative)
most sunkenly (superlative)


by God

Ellipsis of a full oath of the form "I swear by God that…"

I should not wonder if you had your orders to-morrow; but you cannot sail with this wind, if you are to cruize to the westward; Captain Walsh thinks you will certainly have a cruize to the westward, with the Elephant. By G—, I wish you may.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 150:

With a frown, Rye studies my face. He disengages my arm in order to take my hand in both of his and squeeze it tight. "Why don't you go back and confront him, sweetheart? I'll go with you, by God. I don't like the idea of him bullying you, and he needs to hear that."

2007, Cassandra King, Queen of Broken Hearts:

Used as an oath to emphasize the veracity of an associated statement.

I saw that map and I said right then, 'Someday I'm going to make a map of how it was that day, make a drawing of Pearl Harbor, and I'll make it right.' And I did, by God.

1991 November 20, Paul Hendrickson, “Echoes Of the Day of Infamy”, in Washington Post:


snowily

snowily (comparative more snowily, superlative most snowily)

more snowily (comparative)
most snowily (superlative)

[…] the nicest young man that ever was, — daintily gloved, patently booted, oilily curled, snowily wristbanded, with a lovely cambric (prima facie) handkerchief bound about his hyacinthine locks and polished hat.

1871, Gail Hamilton, Gala-days, page 191:


classlessly

classlessly (comparative more classlessly, superlative most classlessly)

more classlessly (comparative)
most classlessly (superlative)


uninfluentially

uninfluentially (comparative more uninfluentially, superlative most uninfluentially)

more uninfluentially (comparative)
most uninfluentially (superlative)

In an uninfluential way; without influence.


servilely

servilely (comparative more servilely, superlative most servilely)

more servilely (comparative)
most servilely (superlative)


therethrough

When the system is in the form of a matrix with drug distributed therethrough, particles of the drug can be mixed with the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer […]

1984, D A Jones, Transdermal and related drug delivery systems:


curvilinearly

curvilinearly (comparative more curvilinearly, superlative most curvilinearly)

more curvilinearly (comparative)
most curvilinearly (superlative)


therethroughout

Still another way of practicing the process is to provide cured liners or sheets having the particles distributed therethroughout […]

1980, Paul G Stecher, New dental materials:


syntagmatically

syntagmatically (comparative more syntagmatically, superlative most syntagmatically)

more syntagmatically (comparative)
most syntagmatically (superlative)


unacademically

unacademically (comparative more unacademically, superlative most unacademically)

more unacademically (comparative)
most unacademically (superlative)


thereover

From Middle English therover, tharover, from Old English þǣrofer, equivalent to there + over. Cognate with Dutch daarover (“thereover”), Middle Low German darover (“thereover”), German darüber (“thereover”), Danish derover (“thereover”), Swedish däröver (“thereover”).

The collector sheet preferably has embossing to help spread liquids flowing thereover, to increase heat transfer to the liquid flowing thereover […]

1977, J. K. Paul, Solar heating and cooling: recent advances:


hereinunder

In and under this (of a clause to follow later in a document, etc.).


inessentially

inessentially (comparative more inessentially, superlative most inessentially)

more inessentially (comparative)
most inessentially (superlative)


hyponymically

From hyponymic + -ally. By surface analysis, hyp- + -onym + -ic + -ally = hypo- + -nym + -ic + -ally.


unessentially

en-adv

unessentially (comparative more unessentially, superlative most unessentially)

more unessentially (comparative)
most unessentially (superlative)


runnily

runnily (comparative more runnily, superlative most runnily)

more runnily (comparative)
most runnily (superlative)


slushily

slushily (comparative more slushily, superlative most slushily)

more slushily (comparative)
most slushily (superlative)


adversarially

adversarially (comparative more adversarially, superlative most adversarially)

more adversarially (comparative)
most adversarially (superlative)


unchristianly

unchristianly (comparative more unchristianly, superlative most unchristianly)

more unchristianly (comparative)
most unchristianly (superlative)


suppletively

suppletively (comparative more suppletively, superlative most suppletively)

more suppletively (comparative)
most suppletively (superlative)

And as noted in chapter 2, in exactly this sense the adjective bad compares regularly, not suppletively: bad – badder – baddest.

2012, Jonathan David Bobaljik, Universals in Comparative Morphology, page 195:


numberlessly

numberlessly (comparative more numberlessly, superlative most numberlessly)

more numberlessly (comparative)
most numberlessly (superlative)

In a numberless way; uncountably, infinitely.


hairily

hairily (comparative more hairily, superlative most hairily)

more hairily (comparative)
most hairily (superlative)


kookily

kookily (comparative more kookily, superlative most kookily)

more kookily (comparative)
most kookily (superlative)


inexperiencedly

inexperiencedly (comparative more inexperiencedly, superlative most inexperiencedly)

more inexperiencedly (comparative)
most inexperiencedly (superlative)


clingingly

clingingly (comparative more clingingly, superlative most clingingly)

more clingingly (comparative)
most clingingly (superlative)

In a clinging manner; tenaciously or possessively.


unencouragingly

He then moved towards the Saloon, and Stobhill, saying unencouragingly: "I will have your message conveyed to Miss, sir," opened the door for him.


experiencedly

experiencedly (comparative more experiencedly, superlative most experiencedly)

more experiencedly (comparative)
most experiencedly (superlative)


traitorly

traitorly (comparative more traitorly, superlative most traitorly)

more traitorly (comparative)
most traitorly (superlative)

But wete ye wel whan ye are past this lodgynge / I shalle hurte you and I may / for ye slewe my fader traitourly / But fyrst for the loue of my lord sir Tor / and for the loue of sir Lamorak the honourable Knyght that here is lodged ye shal haue none ylle lodgynge / For hit is pyte that euer ye shold be in the company of good Knyghtes

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter IX, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:


damn and blast

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(British, Cockney rhyming slang, motor racing) Last.


outragedly

outragedly (comparative more outragedly, superlative most outragedly)

more outragedly (comparative)
most outragedly (superlative)


macaronically

macaronically (comparative more macaronically, superlative most macaronically)

more macaronically (comparative)
most macaronically (superlative)


blockheadedly

blockheadedly (comparative more blockheadedly, superlative most blockheadedly)

more blockheadedly (comparative)
most blockheadedly (superlative)


unheroically

unheroically (comparative more unheroically, superlative most unheroically)

more unheroically (comparative)
most unheroically (superlative)

Her memoir describes what it’s like to hate the Nazis — as she and her husband did — but to protest unheroically: making a snide comment when a building super rants against “unpatriotic people”; not finding humor in a party member’s joke; walking out of a movie in which a Jewish prime minister is executed (“the audience burst into applause”).

2007 February 4, “Nonfiction Chronicle”, in New York Times:


midverse

This is the project led by Brendan Fowler, who talks and yelps and mumbles and doesn’t quite rap his songs in real time, reserving the right to change his mind midverse, or to fixate on a phrase and repeat it.

2007 February 4, Kelefa Sanneh, “Friends, Feuds, Yelps, Sobs and a Swedish Nightingale”, in New York Times:


unfadingly

unfadingly (comparative more unfadingly, superlative most unfadingly)

more unfadingly (comparative)
most unfadingly (superlative)

In an unfading way; eternally, immortally.


incommunicatively

incommunicatively (comparative more incommunicatively, superlative most incommunicatively)

more incommunicatively (comparative)
most incommunicatively (superlative)


uncontainably

uncontainably (comparative more uncontainably, superlative most uncontainably)

more uncontainably (comparative)
most uncontainably (superlative)

Here, Mr. Hodgkin has slathered green onto a cheap frame, as he frequently does, incorporating the frames as objects and also making the pictures seem to spill out, uncontainably, beyond their edges.

2007 February 16, Michael Kimmelman, “Blasts of Color, Evoking Memories”, in New York Times:


compensatorily

compensatorily (comparative more compensatorily, superlative most compensatorily)

more compensatorily (comparative)
most compensatorily (superlative)

In a compensatory way; so as to compensate.


unfalsifiably

unfalsifiably (comparative more unfalsifiably, superlative most unfalsifiably)

more unfalsifiably (comparative)
most unfalsifiably (superlative)


substandardly

substandardly (comparative more substandardly, superlative most substandardly)

more substandardly (comparative)
most substandardly (superlative)


necessitously

necessitously (comparative more necessitously, superlative most necessitously)

more necessitously (comparative)
most necessitously (superlative)


vibratingly

vibratingly (comparative more vibratingly, superlative most vibratingly)

more vibratingly (comparative)
most vibratingly (superlative)

In a vibrating way; accompanied by vibrations.

It is interesting that someone who spends "maybe...ten minutes per month" with men can take to hating them with such zeal […] It must be a very vibratingly intense 10 minutes with some very nasty men.

1980 April 12, Buz Hargraves, “Alix Dobkin”, in Gay Community News, page 4:

In a way or to an extent that makes one vibrate.


the devil

What the devil are you doing here at this time of night?

VVhat is he an honeſt man? the deuill he is, he is the Parſon of the Towne,
You thinke ther’s no knauerie hid vnder a black gowne,
Find him in a pulpit but twiſe in the yeare,
And Ile find him fortie times in the ale-houſe taſting ſtrong beare.

1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

“Brother,” said she, “whatever message Mr Blifil thinks proper to send to my niece shall be delivered to her; and I suppose she will want no instructions to make a proper answer. I am convinced she will not refuse to see Mr Blifil at a proper time.”—“The devil she won’t!” answered the squire.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

(idiomatic) Used to add emphasis to a question or statement.

an diaoul

adds emphasis to a question or statement


zappily

zappily (comparative more zappily, superlative most zappily)

more zappily (comparative)
most zappily (superlative)


stroppily

stroppily (comparative more stroppily, superlative most stroppily)

more stroppily (comparative)
most stroppily (superlative)


mincingly

mincingly (comparative more mincingly, superlative most mincingly)

more mincingly (comparative)
most mincingly (superlative)

He walked somewhat mincingly, thin, in soiled whites, his brief-case under his arm.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 444:

In a mincing way; affectedly, with excessive delicacy.


vernacularly

vernacularly (comparative more vernacularly, superlative most vernacularly)

more vernacularly (comparative)
most vernacularly (superlative)


sententially

If the desire is satisfied by an event or state of affairs expressed sententially, the object of the desire itself should be expressed sententially.

1972, Martin Harvey Weiner, A Theory of Desires, page 19:


unverifiably

I want a rational explanation of reality - not a metaphysical one, that can easily and unverifiably be posed by any crackpot - well-intentioned or otherwise.


one of these days

One of these days, he won't be so lucky.

One day, some day (especially in warning of a negative consequence).


straight from the shoulder

From a technique for delivering a strong punch.

I'd jes' like to drop into the Eastry Arms, jes' when all those beggars in the parlour are sittin' down to whist, Ruck and Marbel and all, and give 'em ten minutes of my mind, George. Straight from the shoulder. Jes' exactly what I think of them.

1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “(please specify |book 1 to 4)”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC:

He's an uncomplicated working-class kid who speaks, jab-like, straight from the shoulder.

2005 November 20, Kevin Mitchell, “Listen to the dreams of fighters”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 2009-06-11:

(idiomatic, chiefly of communicating) In a straightforward manner; directly; bluntly.


stumpily

stumpily (comparative more stumpily, superlative most stumpily)

more stumpily (comparative)
most stumpily (superlative)


unamusedly

unamusedly (comparative more unamusedly, superlative most unamusedly)

more unamusedly (comparative)
most unamusedly (superlative)


popishly

popishly (comparative more popishly, superlative most popishly)

more popishly (comparative)
most popishly (superlative)


compressively

compressively (comparative more compressively, superlative most compressively)

more compressively (comparative)
most compressively (superlative)


regeneratively

regeneratively (comparative more regeneratively, superlative most regeneratively)

more regeneratively (comparative)
most regeneratively (superlative)


up and

Unknown. Possibly from get up and. Possibly a dialect use of up (verb).

Halfway through the performance he just up and left.

I knowed then why she up and went there, because Ada told me.

1932, Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road, page 168:

The dog up and died, he up and died
 And after twenty years he still grieves

1968, Jerry Jeff Walker (lyrics and music), “Mr. Bojangles”:

When he saw me hand and face, he up and goes for the head's office before I can say 'struth' and, by the time I can get after him, it's too late.

1990, Archie Weller, “Johnny Blue”, in Going Home: Stories, page 41:

a friend of mine who, within ten days, said 'I've had enough of this' and he just up and died. It seemed he wished himself to die.

2001, Charles G. Roland, Long Night's Journey into Day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941 ..., page 193:


hypersonically

hypersonically (comparative more hypersonically, superlative most hypersonically)

more hypersonically (comparative)
most hypersonically (superlative)


swoopingly

swoopingly (comparative more swoopingly, superlative most swoopingly)

more swoopingly (comparative)
most swoopingly (superlative)

In a swooping way; with a swooping motion.


unskilfully

unskilfully (comparative more unskilfully, superlative most unskilfully)

more unskilfully (comparative)
most unskilfully (superlative)


evar

That was the best party evar!!1!!!1!

(Internet slang, humorous) ever (at any time)


supposively

People from other planets have supposively visited Earth in flying saucers.


discoursively

discoursively (comparative more discoursively, superlative most discoursively)

more discoursively (comparative)
most discoursively (superlative)

In a reasoning manner; by way of conversation or discourse.


mediocrely

mediocrely (comparative more mediocrely, superlative most mediocrely)

more mediocrely (comparative)
most mediocrely (superlative)


untroubledly

untroubledly (comparative more untroubledly, superlative most untroubledly)

more untroubledly (comparative)
most untroubledly (superlative)


thereinunder

In and under that (of a clause to follow later in a document, etc.).


peachily

peachily (comparative more peachily, superlative most peachily)

more peachily (comparative)
most peachily (superlative)

Gloomily, I noted the splendor of Melody's thighs, peachily tan.

1991, Lindsley Cameron, The Prospect of Detachment:

Otomo's manga-influenced hyperbole of the viscerally brutal and the peachily sentimental creates a contemporary animated vision of the apocalyptic city...

2000, Chris Darke, Light readings: film criticism and screen arts:

In a peachy way; excellently, marvellously.


downtempo

downtempo (comparative more downtempo, superlative most downtempo)

more downtempo (comparative)
most downtempo (superlative)


Januarys

From January + -s. See -s (Etymology 3).


whereabout

the object whereabout they are conversant

1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

(archaic) About which; concerning which.


durationally

Characteristic of, or relating to, a duration.


compensably

compensably (comparative more compensably, superlative most compensably)

more compensably (comparative)
most compensably (superlative)


scrubbily

scrubbily (comparative more scrubbily, superlative most scrubbily)

more scrubbily (comparative)
most scrubbily (superlative)


podgily

podgily (comparative more podgily, superlative most podgily)

more podgily (comparative)
most podgily (superlative)


televisually

In a televisual way; of, or by means of, television.


gainwise

I do not see much of a difference gainwise.


womanishly

womanishly (comparative more womanishly, superlative most womanishly)

more womanishly (comparative)
most womanishly (superlative)


structurelessly

(rare) In a structureless way; without structure.


verisimilarly

verisimilarly (comparative more verisimilarly, superlative most verisimilarly)

more verisimilarly (comparative)
most verisimilarly (superlative)

In a verisimilar way; suggesting truthfulness.


bogusly

bogusly (comparative more bogusly, superlative most bogusly)

more bogusly (comparative)
most bogusly (superlative)


mossily

mossily (comparative more mossily, superlative most mossily)

more mossily (comparative)
most mossily (superlative)


gnomishly

gnomishly (comparative more gnomishly, superlative most gnomishly)

more gnomishly (comparative)
most gnomishly (superlative)


inkily

inkily (comparative more inkily, superlative most inkily)

more inkily (comparative)
most inkily (superlative)

squid fling themselves / athwart shadowy currents / inkily.

2022, Ynes Sanz, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 34:


præsumably

Præsumably … praeposito …; the upper half only of each letter survives.

1952: Joyce Maire Reynolds [ed.] and John Bryan Ward-Perkins [ed.], The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, page 54 (British School at Rome)


preëminently

preëminently (comparative more preëminently, superlative most preëminently)

more preëminently (comparative)
most preëminently (superlative)

[T]he traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region, such as Warwickshire at that time was, is usually exact as well as tenacious; and, with respect to [William] Shakespeare in particular, we may presume it to have been full and circumstantial through the generation succeeding to his own, not only from the curiosity, and perhaps something of a scandalous interest, which would pursue the motions of one living so large a part of his life at a distance from his wife, but also from the final reverence and honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet so preëminently successful; […]

1850, Thomas De Quincey, “Shakspeare”, in Biographical Essays, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 4:

Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit.

1889, The Wesley Naturalist, volume 2, page 143:


unwelcomingly

unwelcomingly (comparative more unwelcomingly, superlative most unwelcomingly)

more unwelcomingly (comparative)
most unwelcomingly (superlative)


unargumentatively

unargumentatively (comparative more unargumentatively, superlative most unargumentatively)

more unargumentatively (comparative)
most unargumentatively (superlative)


adscititiously

adscititiously (comparative more adscititiously, superlative most adscititiously)

more adscititiously (comparative)
most adscititiously (superlative)


isentropically

isentropically (comparative more isentropically, superlative most isentropically)

more isentropically (comparative)
most isentropically (superlative)


pelagically

In a pelagic way; in or of the open sea.


cytotoxically

cytotoxically (comparative more cytotoxically, superlative most cytotoxically)

more cytotoxically (comparative)
most cytotoxically (superlative)


electrophilically

electrophilically (comparative more electrophilically, superlative most electrophilically)

more electrophilically (comparative)
most electrophilically (superlative)


screechingly

screechingly (comparative more screechingly, superlative most screechingly)

more screechingly (comparative)
most screechingly (superlative)

In a screeching way; with screeching noises.


orthodoxly

orthodoxly (comparative more orthodoxly, superlative most orthodoxly)

more orthodoxly (comparative)
most orthodoxly (superlative)

if, after a season of thoughtlessness, you perceive your understanding on a sudden lively to discern, and your will vigorous to pursue heavenly things, you may orthodoxly conclude there has been an effusion, not that there is one now.

1778, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued, III.12:

Biology is orthodoxly the part of science that deals directly with the phenomena of living matter.

1925, Scudder Klyce, Sins of Science, XXV.1:

So great was Ariel’s success and that of the similar Disraeli that readers might have expected Maurois to treat Shelley's friend and fellow-poet in the same style. But no miniature in enamel is this orthodoxly lengthy, appendixed, annotated biography of Byron.

In a correct or proper way; conventionally; correctly.

He wears a turban, he puts on his sandal mark every morning, he bathes and eats and marries and dies orthodoxly; he probably begets children orthodoxly.

1980, Agehananda Bharati, The Ochre Robe:

The teaching here is orthodoxly Islamic, the preoccupation with assessing the relation of works to faith is very much of the European fifteenth century.

1990, LP Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500, page 91:

In a religiously orthodox way; in accordance with accepted religious doctrine.


homologously

homologously (comparative more homologously, superlative most homologously)

more homologously (comparative)
most homologously (superlative)


multisyllabically

multisyllabically (comparative more multisyllabically, superlative most multisyllabically)

more multisyllabically (comparative)
most multisyllabically (superlative)


unseemingly

unseemingly (comparative more unseemingly, superlative most unseemingly)

more unseemingly (comparative)
most unseemingly (superlative)


disorderedly

disorderedly (comparative more disorderedly, superlative most disorderedly)

more disorderedly (comparative)
most disorderedly (superlative)

In a disordered way; haphazardly, chaotically.


morbifically

morbifically (comparative more morbifically, superlative most morbifically)

more morbifically (comparative)
most morbifically (superlative)


monkishly

monkishly (comparative more monkishly, superlative most monkishly)

more monkishly (comparative)
most monkishly (superlative)


pro hac vice

From Latin pro hac vice (“for this turn”).


in place

(obsolete) To a particular place; so as to be present or nearby.

The girders were carefully set in place.

Into a proper or intended position; into place.

New procedures were put in place.

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.

2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-02-13, page 162:

Into a state of deployment or implementation.

They ran in place with full packs for an hour.

In the event of a radiation leak, shelter in place: do not attempt to find a community shelter.

(chiefly Canada, US) Without changing position.


poutingly

poutingly (comparative more poutingly, superlative most poutingly)

more poutingly (comparative)
most poutingly (superlative)


unfearfully

unfearfully (comparative more unfearfully, superlative most unfearfully)

more unfearfully (comparative)
most unfearfully (superlative)


cherubically

cherubically (comparative more cherubically, superlative most cherubically)

more cherubically (comparative)
most cherubically (superlative)


antonymously

antonymously (comparative more antonymously, superlative most antonymously)

more antonymously (comparative)
most antonymously (superlative)


sably

sably (comparative more sably, superlative most sably)

more sably (comparative)
most sably (superlative)


fele

From Middle English fele, from Old English feola, fela (“much, many, very”), from Proto-Germanic *felu (“very, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁u (“many”). Cognate with Scots fele (“many, much, great”), Dutch veel (“much, many”), German viel (“much, many”), Latin plūs (“more”), Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”). Related to full.

For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere.

1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

(dialectal or obsolete) Greatly, much, very


roughishly

roughishly (comparative more roughishly, superlative most roughishly)

more roughishly (comparative)
most roughishly (superlative)


bothersomely

bothersomely (comparative more bothersomely, superlative most bothersomely)

more bothersomely (comparative)
most bothersomely (superlative)


unkingly

From un- + kingly (adverb via Middle English unkyngly).

In an unkingly manner; not befitting a king.


grittily

grittily (comparative more grittily, superlative most grittily)

more grittily (comparative)
most grittily (superlative)


plaguily

plaguily (comparative more plaguily, superlative most plaguily)

more plaguily (comparative)
most plaguily (superlative)

[…] most wicked woman (that hast so plaguily a corrupted minde, as thou canst not keepe thy sickenesse to thy selfe, but must most wickedly infect others) […]

c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

I was plaguily nettled, and disappointed too.

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 318:

Little wonder that the artist’s glance frequently wandered across the great shining table towards a girl who, if they had not been so plaguily intent on honouring his fame, might have now been replacing the Mayoress at his side.

1907, Israel Zangwill, “The Jewish Trinity”, in Ghetto Comedies, London: Heinemann, page 89:


laminarly

laminarly (comparative more laminarly, superlative most laminarly)

more laminarly (comparative)
most laminarly (superlative)

He found the flame propagation velocity measured at the outer cone to equal that of an identical gaseous mixture flowing laminarly.

1949, The Texas Journal of Science, volumes 1-2, page 137:


proprietarily

proprietarily (comparative more proprietarily, superlative most proprietarily)

more proprietarily (comparative)
most proprietarily (superlative)

In positioning black bodies as fundamentally incapable as they don the material mantles of, and carry out activities associated with, whiteness, the white viewer is inoculated against the shock of seeing African Americans engaging freely with a world that was once proprietarily their own. In other words, despite the law, African Americans are imposters.

2015, Heidi Nast, “Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”, in Rosemary-Claire Collard, Kathryn Gillespie, editors, Critical Animal Geographies, page 138:

In a proprietary way; with an air of ownership.


sacrad

sacrad (comparative more sacrad, superlative most sacrad)

more sacrad (comparative)
most sacrad (superlative)


manipulably

manipulably (comparative more manipulably, superlative most manipulably)

more manipulably (comparative)
most manipulably (superlative)


sacramentally

sacramentally (comparative more sacramentally, superlative most sacramentally)

more sacramentally (comparative)
most sacramentally (superlative)

[…] in the supper, or in the bread and wine (which two retaine their propre substaunces) they are Sacramentally or spiritually present, not substancially or bodily.

1572, John Coxe, transl., Questions of Religion Cast Abroad in Helvetia by the Adversaries of the Same, and Aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick, London: George Byshop, page 92b:

“But I have made up my mind that I am not your wife! I belong to him—I sacramentally joined myself to him for life. Nothing can alter it!”

1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part 6, Chapter 3:

He saw himself giving a little book to Sir Bussy almost sacramentally. “Here,” he would say, “is a book to set you thinking […].”

1930, H. G. Wells, The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, London: Heinemann, Book 1, Chapter 4:

The Christian rites for the coronation of kings make it very clear that the temporal monarch is in some sense being ordained, for he is sacramentally anointed and has the hands of the bishop laid upon him in the same manner as at the ordination of a priest.

1954, Alan W. Watts, chapter 6, in Myth and Ritual in Christianity, New York: Grove Press, published 1960, page 191:


quaquaversally

quaquaversally (comparative more quaquaversally, superlative most quaquaversally)

more quaquaversally (comparative)
most quaquaversally (superlative)

The upthrust tilted the strata quaquaversally from the rising central mass.

1893, Andrew Cowper Lawson, “Post-Pliocene Diastrophism”, in Collected Papers, volume 2, Berkeley: University of California, page 150:

The quaquaversally dipping folation of the gneiss near the contact the contact is probably related to the shearing in the zone along the contact.

1952, James Wood Clarke, “The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Thomaston Quadrangle, Georgia”, in Garland Payton, editor, Short Contributions to the Geology, Geography and Archaeology of Georgia, number 60, Atlanta, Georgia: Georgia State Division of Conservation Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, page 9:


zingily

zingily (comparative more zingily, superlative most zingily)

more zingily (comparative)
most zingily (superlative)


undirectedly

undirectedly (comparative more undirectedly, superlative most undirectedly)

more undirectedly (comparative)
most undirectedly (superlative)


directedly

directedly (comparative more directedly, superlative most directedly)

more directedly (comparative)
most directedly (superlative)


hushedly

hushedly (comparative more hushedly, superlative most hushedly)

more hushedly (comparative)
most hushedly (superlative)


gutlessly

gutlessly (comparative more gutlessly, superlative most gutlessly)

more gutlessly (comparative)
most gutlessly (superlative)


flexuously

flexuously (comparative more flexuously, superlative most flexuously)

more flexuously (comparative)
most flexuously (superlative)


steroidally

steroidally (comparative more steroidally, superlative most steroidally)

more steroidally (comparative)
most steroidally (superlative)

With CNN's need to feed its news maw and with a Boomer-fueled entertainment industry that was growing steroidally through merger madness, News Lite […] crept in on little tab feet.

2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:

In a steroidal way; (as though) by means of steroids.


tripartitely

In a tripartite fashion; into three parts.


ratiocinatively

ratiocinatively (comparative more ratiocinatively, superlative most ratiocinatively)

more ratiocinatively (comparative)
most ratiocinatively (superlative)


syllogistically

syllogistically (comparative more syllogistically, superlative most syllogistically)

more syllogistically (comparative)
most syllogistically (superlative)


quadripartitely

In a quadripartite fashion; into four parts.


unlogically

unlogically (comparative more unlogically, superlative most unlogically)

more unlogically (comparative)
most unlogically (superlative)


visionarily

visionarily (comparative more visionarily, superlative most visionarily)

more visionarily (comparative)
most visionarily (superlative)


diamagnetically

diamagnetically (comparative more diamagnetically, superlative most diamagnetically)

more diamagnetically (comparative)
most diamagnetically (superlative)


diuretically

diuretically (comparative more diuretically, superlative most diuretically)

more diuretically (comparative)
most diuretically (superlative)


flakily

flakily (comparative more flakily, superlative most flakily)

more flakily (comparative)
most flakily (superlative)


multitudinously

multitudinously (comparative more multitudinously, superlative most multitudinously)

more multitudinously (comparative)
most multitudinously (superlative)

Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale. There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptised.

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

When one makes his first voyage in a ship, it is an experience which multitudinously bristles with striking novelties; novelties which are in such sharp contrast with all this person’s former experiences that they take a seemingly deathless grip upon his imagination and memory.

1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC, page 379:

[…] human affairs are multitudinously complex […]

1922, H. G. Wells, chapter 52, in A Short History of the World, London: Cassell, page 303:


unscalably

unscalably (comparative more unscalably, superlative most unscalably)

more unscalably (comparative)
most unscalably (superlative)


kissably

kissably (comparative more kissably, superlative most kissably)

more kissably (comparative)
most kissably (superlative)


oligarchically

oligarchically (comparative more oligarchically, superlative most oligarchically)

more oligarchically (comparative)
most oligarchically (superlative)


sneerily

sneerily (comparative more sneerily, superlative most sneerily)

more sneerily (comparative)
most sneerily (superlative)


epiphanically

epiphanically (comparative more epiphanically, superlative most epiphanically)

more epiphanically (comparative)
most epiphanically (superlative)


enlighteningly

enlighteningly (comparative more enlighteningly, superlative most enlighteningly)

more enlighteningly (comparative)
most enlighteningly (superlative)


lycanthropically

lycanthropically (comparative more lycanthropically, superlative most lycanthropically)

more lycanthropically (comparative)
most lycanthropically (superlative)


dynastically

dynastically (comparative more dynastically, superlative most dynastically)

more dynastically (comparative)
most dynastically (superlative)

From dynastic + -ally or dynastical + -ly.


unyieldingly

unyieldingly (comparative more unyieldingly, superlative most unyieldingly)

more unyieldingly (comparative)
most unyieldingly (superlative)

Reynolds’ character, called simply Guy, is an unyieldingly chipper everydude who greets each morning with a smile.

2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:


expectedly

expectedly (comparative more expectedly, superlative most expectedly)

more expectedly (comparative)
most expectedly (superlative)

More expectedly (and successfully), the Royal Shakespeare Company offers up a “Richard III” that speaks to contemporary fears of the hatreds that breed fascism, with the eponymous crookback played (by the rising young actor Jonathan Slinger) as a festering skinhead who addresses the audience with the complicity of a caveman comic.

2007 February 18, Ben Brantley, “When Adaptation Is Bold Innovation”, in New York Times:

In an expected way; as expected; predictably.


rudderlessly

rudderlessly (comparative more rudderlessly, superlative most rudderlessly)

more rudderlessly (comparative)
most rudderlessly (superlative)

He lived rudderlessly, without ambition.

2007 February 18, Carol Pinchefsky, “‘La Bohème’ Is Romantic, as Long as I’m Not the Star”, in New York Times: