incalculably

incalculably (comparative more incalculably, superlative most incalculably)

more incalculably (comparative)
most incalculably (superlative)

incalculably small


incontrovertibly

en-adv

incontrovertibly (comparative more incontrovertibly, superlative most incontrovertibly)

more incontrovertibly (comparative)
most incontrovertibly (superlative)

It is, incontrovertibly, our duty, if divine and civil laws have given us a rule whereby to regulate our conduct, and which may both promote the benefit of society and the good of the individual, we are obliged to act agreeably to that rule, let the conduct of others be what it may.

1810, Thomas Comber, Adultery Analyzed: an inquiry into the causes of the prevalence of that vice, page 19:

In such a case and under such proof the intent to kill and the deliberate and premeditated malice are incontrovertibly implied.

1917, State v. Morris, “The Pacific Reporter”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), number 163, page 584:

And if word did spread that he had withdrawn his money from the bank in cash, every man and his cousin in the county would be his threat and enemy until every one of them was incontrovertibly convinced that the actual money actually was somewhere else, and exactly where that somewhere else was.

In an incontrovertible manner; in a manner not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed.


impeccably

impeccably (comparative more impeccably, superlative most impeccably)

more impeccably (comparative)
most impeccably (superlative)

The great pianist was a prolific composer, who wrote impeccably for the piano.

1995, David Dubal, Art of the Piano: Its performers, literature, and recordings, page 433:

It is difficult to distinguish one bourgeois from another: the grande bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed at all times and don't speak to anyone outside their own class; the bonne bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed and speak to everyone; the petite bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed and speak only to complain[…]

1999, The Xenophobe's Guide to the French, page 17:

In fact, even when I did make some small mistakes with grammar, people still said I spoke impeccably.

2009, Susanna Zaraysky, Language Is Music, page 19:


inelegantly

inelegantly (comparative more inelegantly, superlative most inelegantly)

more inelegantly (comparative)
most inelegantly (superlative)

Seianus lay inelegantly on his couch because of his bulk.

1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 84:


ingenuously

ingenuously (comparative more ingenuously, superlative most ingenuously)

more ingenuously (comparative)
most ingenuously (superlative)

Let us ingenuously confesse that only God and Faith hath told it us: for it is no lesson of Nature, nor comming from our reason.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Yet this in Duty and Modesty I may ingenuously confess, My Royal Husband is oto far seduced, his Ear is too open, his Will too violent, and his Heart too free, to those bewitching Syrens, that make his Errors their Profit and Glory.

c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. […] , London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page 41:

I must ingenuously acknowledge the chief Motive of my leaving her was the Present of a New-Year's-Gift she made me; but whether French or Neopolitan, I leave to the Determination of the Sons of Galen.

1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section V:

In an ingenuous manner; frankly, straightforwardly.


indescribably

indescribably (comparative more indescribably, superlative most indescribably)

more indescribably (comparative)
most indescribably (superlative)

The appearance of the dead was indescribably ghastly.

1879, John McElroy, chapter 24, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:

There was something indescribably nerve-shaking and menacing in that constant mutter, which seemed to shape itself into the very syllables of the half-breed, endlessly repeated, "We will kill you if we can."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

“I felt this sense of relief that I didn’t have to lie anymore, and that I could start taking responsibility even though I felt indescribably bad.”

2023 October 11, David Yaffe-Bellany, Matthew Goldstein, J. Edward Moreno, quoting Caroline Ellison, “Caroline Ellison Says She and Sam Bankman-Fried Lied for Years”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


touchily

touchily (comparative more touchily, superlative most touchily)

more touchily (comparative)
most touchily (superlative)

"No," said the latter touchily, "I be not agreed.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 35:


bigly

bigly (comparative more bigly, superlative most bigly)

more bigly (comparative)
most bigly (superlative)

From Middle English bygly, byggly, biggely. By surface analysis, big (“of great size, large (adjective); to a large extent, on a large scale; hard (adverb)”) + -ly.

surf

He looked at Mrs. Harling, who loomed bigly in the dull light.

1915, Cosmo Hamilton, The Miracle of Love, page 256:

Big Bessie's feet hurt like nobody's business, / but she stands—bigly—under the unruly scrutiny, stands in the wild weed.

1968, Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Second Sermon on the Warpland”, in In the Mecca:

I have only one real (and ridiculous) reason—the reflection of my awestruck 5 year old face in a head mirror. […] I gripped my mother's hand while she spoke to a big voice from a big face from a big man in a big white coat. He suddenly stopped and turned his big eyes on me. I dug my nails into my mother's hand. He reached out his big hand over the menacing silver array on his desk. I closed my eyes tightly. He said something … bigly.

2003 April 5, S Alam Hannan, “The instrument that determined my practice”, in BMJ: British Medical Journal:

I will bigly, hugely admit that I was wrong

2006 October 23, Rush Limbaugh, rushlimbaugh.com:

In the light and air the shadows of the clouds move bigly over the baby's arms.

2008, Joy Katz, “On Sharon Olds: Big Baby”, in Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker, editors, Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, page 79:

By the way, isn't my handwriting more appropriate now? You complained that I was writing too bigly for airletters and sort of cheating you of information.

Halfway through the song, the audience decided that they actually really loved me because they started clapping and whooping and standing up. I smiled really bigly' and sang louder.

That is, start to renegotiate, gain some minor concessions then declare victory bigly.

2017 July 18, Tim Worstall, “Trump's Nafta Renegotiation - Insist On Minor Changes, Declare Victory Bigly”, in Forbes:

2018 January 16, Derek Kravitz, Will Parker, “Eric Trump Stands to Profit Bigly From Sweetheart Real Estate Deal With His Dad”, in Mother Jones:

What was the strange urgency? The thought hovered bigly […]

2020, Paul Rausch, The Secret, page 449:

2020 January 23, Rebecca Leber, “Pay to play: Interior Secretary’s old clients spend big and profit bigly”, in High Country News:

Klobuchar delivered in Biden's moment of need. Bigly, as some might say. Her gift should be just as bigly.

2020 March 5, Mike McFeely, “How does Vice President Klobuchar sound?”, in Duluth News Tribune:

(now rare) In a big way, greatly; to a great extent, on a large scale.

Thesse men did much in order to publicke good, befor they spake biglie; bot done nothing since, saue that they haue drawin away considerable forces, raissed at wast charges for the publicke defence.

1651, James Balfour, “[The Annales of Scotland.] Some Shorte Memories and Passages of Staite, from the 13 day of Marche, 1651, to the first of Januarij, 1653”, in [James Haig], editor, The Historical Works of Sir James Balfour of Denmylne and Kinnaird, Knight and Baronet; Lord Lyon King at Arms to Charles the First, and Charles the Second. Published from the Original Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, volume III, London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson & Co. and Arch[ibald] Constable & Co. Edinburgh, published 1825, →OCLC, pages 311–312:

It was well obſerved by the late pious Dr Doddridge, that "The eternal ſalvation of one ſoul is of far greater importance, and bigly pregnant with far greater events, than the temporal ſalvation, wealth, well-being, or happiness of a whole kingdom, though it were for the ſpace of ten thouſand, or of ten millions of ages;[…]"

1790, [James Graham], “The Infallible Guide to Eternal Blessedness; or, the Awful Worth, and Very High Dignity of the Soul, Arising from Its Immortality; …”, in The Guardian of Health, Long-Life, and Happiness: or, Doctor Graham's General Directions as to Regimen, &c. … To which are Added, the Christian's Universal, being a Paraphrase on Our Lord's Prayer; and a Complete and Infallible Guide to Everlasting Blessedness in Heaven!, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by S. Hodgson; and sold by the author; —by Mr Richardson, Royal Exchange, London; —Mr J. Guthrie, Nicholson-street, Edinburgh; and by Mr Cruttwell, Bath, →OCLC, page 7:

Tell me about The Mamas & Papas^([sic]), Bob. I believe you’re backing them very bigly, and they’re great. I believe you're backing them.

2000, Keith Badman, The Beatles Off the Record, London: Omnibus Press, →ISBN:

And he [Henry David Thoreau] was very strong to, for the, for the—against slavery. He was very bigly against that. Slavery was going on in America, enslaving the black people.

2016, Ray Cashman, quoting Patrick James (“Packy Jim”) McGrath, “Person and Place, Life and Times”, in Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 63:

Would'ſt thou not rather chooſe a ſmall renown, / To be the mayor of ſome poor paltry town, / Bigly to look, and barbarouſly to ſpeak; / To pound falſe weights, and ſcanty meaſures break?

1795, Juvenal, “The Works of Juvenal. Translated by John Dryden, Esq. and Others. Satire X.”, in John Dryden, transl., edited by Robert Anderson, The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Robert Anderson, M.D., volume XII, London: Printed for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Co., Edinburgh, →OCLC, page 699, column 2:

In any event, he adopted the whole of [William] Lauder's malignity; and let his partisans first clear him of this offense before they talk bigly of his innocence, and bluster in his cause.

1822, Charles Symmons, “Appendix”, in The Life of John Milton, 3rd edition, London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane, →OCLC, page 483:

Of the Three General Modes of Newspaper Amplification, the first is adapted to persons who talk bigly without difficulty. Its Effect is indeed admirable. There is no fact or conceit so trivial and foolish that it may not be metamorphosed into the Highest Wisdom, or, at least, into the Tone and Semblance of the Highest Wisdom, by the Polysyllabic Method of Spreading. But to those who find it difficult to talk bigly, the adaptation of this method will be attended with the labour of a frequent recurrence to the Dictionary, a thing to be sedulously avoided by all who desire to novel politely, that is to say, easily, alike to Reader and to Writer.

1859 June, G. Buffini Wufficks [probably a pseudonym], “The Polite Art of Novelling. A Didactic Fiction.”, in John R[euben] Thompson, editor, The Southern Literary Messenger; Devoted to Every Department of Literature and the Fine Arts, volume XXVIII (New Series, volume VII), Richmond, Va.: Macfarlane, Fergusson & Co., proprietors, →OCLC, pages 445, column 2, and 446, column 1:

(now rare) In a blustering or boastful manner; haughtily, pompously.


the hell

A: I can run faster than a horse.
B: The hell you can!

'You stay here, sir,' O'Bannion instructed.
'The hell I will,' Feeney said.

(mildly vulgar) Used to indicate emphatic rejection of an assertion or request.

diable

indication of emphatic rejection of an assertion

What the hell was that?

D'Allesandro was particularly adept at that kind of flash-forward-then-backward-all-the-hell-over-the-place kind of narrative and like a tourist following a well-seasoned guide, you never lose track of the line.

1989 December 17, Christopher Wittke, “On The Edge In The '80s”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 11:

“Whoever the hell is running the place now has made a terrible mess of it,” he said... “Not in the sense that it looks different, or that it isn't pretty much permanently full. It's just that the food as gone utterly down the khazi.”

2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:

relative pronoun
relative pronoun#English

(mildly vulgar) Expletive used for emphasis, typically after an interrogative term or relative pronoun.

zur Hölle

expletive used for emphasis after an interrogative term


directionally

en-adv

directionally (comparative more directionally, superlative most directionally)

more directionally (comparative)
most directionally (superlative)


downriver

downriver (comparative more downriver, superlative most downriver)

more downriver (comparative)
most downriver (superlative)

It is easier to paddle downriver.

Travelling in the direction of the river current.


out-of-doors

out-of-doors (comparative more out-of-doors, superlative most out-of-doors)

more out-of-doors (comparative)
most out-of-doors (superlative)

Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29:


chromosomally

chromosomally abnormal


condignly

condignly (comparative more condignly, superlative most condignly)

more condignly (comparative)
most condignly (superlative)

(especially of a punishment) Appropriately.


lornly

lornly (comparative more lornly, superlative most lornly)

more lornly (comparative)
most lornly (superlative)

"Ach, mein pauvre Genro," she said lornly. "Words there are not. You seek truly, but you know not what. You seek what I have found, but where I go, you cannot."

1984, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's tale, page 86:

My 25-year-old heart felt a happy pride in reflecting that I had been chosen to preside in one of the noblest traditions of the House in which, a humble assistant, I was wandering lornly among wealthy invalids.

2008, Amy A. Kass, Giving well, doing good: readings for thoughtful philanthropists, page 136:

He saw himself reflected in Mhoram's eyes, saw himself standing lornly with what he had lost written in his face.

2010, Kate Simons, The Leprous Man: A Psychoanalytical Investigation Into Stephen Donaldson's Fantasy Novels, →ISBN, page 66:


insistingly

insistingly (comparative more insistingly, superlative most insistingly)

more insistingly (comparative)
most insistingly (superlative)


inscrutably

inscrutably (comparative more inscrutably, superlative most inscrutably)

more inscrutably (comparative)
most inscrutably (superlative)


insubstantially

insubstantially (comparative more insubstantially, superlative most insubstantially)

more insubstantially (comparative)
most insubstantially (superlative)


interactively

interactively (comparative more interactively, superlative most interactively)

more interactively (comparative)
most interactively (superlative)


instructively

instructively (comparative more instructively, superlative most instructively)

more instructively (comparative)
most instructively (superlative)


mannishly

mannishly (comparative more mannishly, superlative most mannishly)

more mannishly (comparative)
most mannishly (superlative)


insuperably

insuperably (comparative more insuperably, superlative most insuperably)

more insuperably (comparative)
most insuperably (superlative)


intangibly

intangibly (comparative more intangibly, superlative most intangibly)

more intangibly (comparative)
most intangibly (superlative)


malignantly

malignantly (comparative more malignantly, superlative most malignantly)

more malignantly (comparative)
most malignantly (superlative)


materialistically

materialistically (comparative more materialistically, superlative most materialistically)

more materialistically (comparative)
most materialistically (superlative)


mawkishly

mawkishly (comparative more mawkishly, superlative most mawkishly)

more mawkishly (comparative)
most mawkishly (superlative)


masochistically

masochistically (comparative more masochistically, superlative most masochistically)

more masochistically (comparative)
most masochistically (superlative)


insecurely

insecurely (comparative more insecurely, superlative most insecurely)

more insecurely (comparative)
most insecurely (superlative)


mellowly

mellowly (comparative more mellowly, superlative most mellowly)

more mellowly (comparative)
most mellowly (superlative)


menially

menially (comparative more menially, superlative most menially)

more menially (comparative)
most menially (superlative)


meretriciously

meretriciously (comparative more meretriciously, superlative most meretriciously)

more meretriciously (comparative)
most meretriciously (superlative)


miscellaneously

miscellaneously (comparative more miscellaneously, superlative most miscellaneously)

more miscellaneously (comparative)
most miscellaneously (superlative)


misguidedly

misguidedly (comparative more misguidedly, superlative most misguidedly)

more misguidedly (comparative)
most misguidedly (superlative)


militantly

militantly (comparative more militantly, superlative most militantly)

more militantly (comparative)
most militantly (superlative)


mercurially

mercurially (comparative more mercurially, superlative most mercurially)

more mercurially (comparative)
most mercurially (superlative)


insurmountably

insurmountably (comparative more insurmountably, superlative most insurmountably)

more insurmountably (comparative)
most insurmountably (superlative)


insatiably

insatiably (comparative more insatiably, superlative most insatiably)

more insatiably (comparative)
most insatiably (superlative)


mechanistically

mechanistically (comparative more mechanistically, superlative most mechanistically)

more mechanistically (comparative)
most mechanistically (superlative)

In a mechanistic, impersonal or automatic manner.

The two systems are mechanistically equivalent.

(not comparable) In terms of a mechanism.


mistily

mistily (comparative more mistily, superlative most mistily)

more mistily (comparative)
most mistily (superlative)


metrically

metrically (comparative more metrically, superlative most metrically)

more metrically (comparative)
most metrically (superlative)


measurably

measurably (comparative more measurably, superlative most measurably)

more measurably (comparative)
most measurably (superlative)


maladroitly

maladroitly (comparative more maladroitly, superlative most maladroitly)

more maladroitly (comparative)
most maladroitly (superlative)

There was only one chair, and they offered it to her. They stood over her, maladroitly, apparently unsure how to proceed.

1985, Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, page 103:


mindfully

mindfully (comparative more mindfully, superlative most mindfully)

more mindfully (comparative)
most mindfully (superlative)

From Middle English myndefully, myndfolly, equivalent to mindful + -ly.


metabolically

Here [the new fire ant queen] raises a few tiny “minim” workers entirely from her body reserves of stored fat and metabolically cannibalized wing muscles.

2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 66:

In terms of, or by means of, metabolism.


misleadingly

misleadingly (comparative more misleadingly, superlative most misleadingly)

more misleadingly (comparative)
most misleadingly (superlative)


inquiringly

inquiringly (comparative more inquiringly, superlative most inquiringly)

more inquiringly (comparative)
most inquiringly (superlative)

"Ready?" said the old gentleman inquiringly, when his guests had been washed, mended, brushed, and brandied.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “A Short One—Showing among Other Matters, How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive, and Mr. Winkle to Ride; and How They Both Did It”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 50:


meditatively

meditatively (comparative more meditatively, superlative most meditatively)

more meditatively (comparative)
most meditatively (superlative)

This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room.

1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 153:


melodically

melodically (comparative more melodically, superlative most melodically)

more melodically (comparative)
most melodically (superlative)


manically

manically (comparative more manically, superlative most manically)

more manically (comparative)
most manically (superlative)


intelligibly

intelligibly (comparative more intelligibly, superlative most intelligibly)

more intelligibly (comparative)
most intelligibly (superlative)


microscopically

microscopically (comparative more microscopically, superlative most microscopically)

more microscopically (comparative)
most microscopically (superlative)

Mr. Bowerbank […] has had the kindness to examine the specimens for me microscopically.

1846, Proceedings of the Geological Society of London: November 1826 to June 1833, volume 4, page 571:


maturely

maturely (comparative more maturely, superlative most maturely)

more maturely (comparative)
most maturely (superlative)

When the teachers again ignored the crying and attended to Bill only when he acted maturely, the crying spells dropped sharply

2001 Sep/Oct, Jacob Azerrad, “Why our kids are out of control”, in Psychology Today, volume 34, number 5, page 42:

Maturely, she simply declined to participate in the ceremony.


insipidly

insipidly (comparative more insipidly, superlative most insipidly)

more insipidly (comparative)
most insipidly (superlative)


meteorically

meteorically (comparative more meteorically, superlative most meteorically)

more meteorically (comparative)
most meteorically (superlative)

The students, at least, swore by his name, and Fettes believed himself, and was believed by others, to have laid the foundations of success when he had acquired the favour of this meteorically famous man.

1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher:


maternally

maternally (comparative more maternally, superlative most maternally)

more maternally (comparative)
most maternally (superlative)


meritoriously

meritoriously (comparative more meritoriously, superlative most meritoriously)

more meritoriously (comparative)
most meritoriously (superlative)


inseparably

inseparably (comparative more inseparably, superlative most inseparably)

more inseparably (comparative)
most inseparably (superlative)


insensitively

insensitively (comparative more insensitively, superlative most insensitively)

more insensitively (comparative)
most insensitively (superlative)


melodiously

melodiously (comparative more melodiously, superlative most melodiously)

more melodiously (comparative)
most melodiously (superlative)

From Middle English melodyously; equivalent to melodious + -ly.


mellifluously

mellifluously (comparative more mellifluously, superlative most mellifluously)

more mellifluously (comparative)
most mellifluously (superlative)

When amatory poets sing their loves
In liquid lines mellifluously bland,
And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves,
They little think what mischief is in hand […]

1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto V, Stanza 1:

[…] Mr Wyse had made no secret about the pleasure it would give him to hear his sister and herself mellifluously converse in the Italian tongue […]

1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 6, in Mapp and Lucia:

Govind sang less mellifluously: he partly whined and partly grunted, from his habit of singing while lying on his belly.

1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4:


interdependently

interdependently (comparative more interdependently, superlative most interdependently)

more interdependently (comparative)
most interdependently (superlative)


menacingly

menacingly (comparative more menacingly, superlative most menacingly)

more menacingly (comparative)
most menacingly (superlative)

Food, more and better, was placed near her - but, dumb and motionless, she lay with her face turned to the wall, and her dog growled menacingly at the stranger.

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 19:

Thor glared at him [...] what little light there was in the place mustered its forces briefly to glint menacingly off the horns of his helmet.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110:


mercifully

mercifully (comparative more mercifully, superlative most mercifully)

more mercifully (comparative)
most mercifully (superlative)

The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.

2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian:

The fruits of these kickstarted endeavors began to show in 1915, first in the deployment of a new range of depth charges. These were, mercifully, smaller than Jellicoe's "crushing hand of God" prototype, and, whilst practically just as lethal to submarines, they were significantly less risky to the launching ship, and could also be carried in larger numbers.

2019 July 24, Drachinifel, 11:06 from the start, in Anti-Sub Warfare in WW1 - From Hammers to Hunter-Killers, archived from the original on 2022-11-24:


metaphysically

metaphysically (comparative more metaphysically, superlative most metaphysically)

more metaphysically (comparative)
most metaphysically (superlative)


mindlessly

mindlessly (comparative more mindlessly, superlative most mindlessly)

more mindlessly (comparative)
most mindlessly (superlative)


outstation

(India, Malaysia, Singapore) Out of town.


methodologically

methodologically (comparative more methodologically, superlative most methodologically)

more methodologically (comparative)
most methodologically (superlative)

Methodologically, Wiktionary represents an implementation of the descriptive approach to linguistics and specifically to grammar.

Since it is methodologically desirable that a test of an hypothesis should be as stringent as possible, the strongest possible logic should be used in deriving consequences from the hypothesis, so that its class of potential falsifiers should be as inclusive as possible.

1974, Susan Haack, Deviant Logic: some philosophical issues:

Once these things have been decided, collecting the real world data will be, methodologically, fairly simple.

1992, Frank Hutson Gregory, Logic and Meaning in Conceptual Models: Implications for Information System Design:

We first provide one example of a study with serious methodological limitations, and then give greater attention to methodologically superior studies.

2006, Paul D. Hastings, Johanna Vyncke, Caroline Sullivan, Kelly E. McShane, Michael Benibgui, William Utendale, Children's Development of Social Competence Across Family Types:

(domain) From the perspective of methodology.


maximally

maximally (comparative more maximally, superlative most maximally)

more maximally (comparative)
most maximally (superlative)

To a maximal extent; as much as possible.


tremolando

From Italian tremolando (past participle of tremolare).

bor

past participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">tremolare</i>


institutionally

Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.

2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319:


like sixty

But there's these poor, miserable trash have children like sixty; and there's folks living in splendid houses, dying for children, and can't have any.

1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, page 191:

In transcribing them, I have inserted one or two apostrophes, for the poet always complained that though he could spell like sixty, he never could mind his stops.

1873, Edward Eggleston, The Mystery of Metropolisville, page 119:

That Maine water was so cold that he came to like sixty sore as a pup and wanting to fight Joe.

I charged at those trees going like sixty — at least sixty, whatever it means — and was well in among them when a strange thing happened.

1965, Richard S. Prather, Meandering Corpse, page 91:

Some kids still can't read yet. But they are dumb, dumb-bells, dumb bunnies. Morag can read like sixty. Sometimes she doesn't let on in school, though.

1974, Margaret Laurence, The Diviners, page 28:

Maybe the truth was that all of them — himself, the kids, Uncle Henry, Mrs. Biggs, even Argyle — were bailing like sixty, trying to stay afloat in their sorry little tubs.

1995, James P. Blaylock, All the Bells on Earth, page 269:


miraculously

en-adv

miraculously (comparative more miraculously, superlative most miraculously)

more miraculously (comparative)
most miraculously (superlative)

When he woke for the second time he saw me, and began to question me as to what had happened, but I had to put him off as best I could till the morrow, when he awoke almost miraculously better.

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

Almost miraculously, [risk-neutral valuation] finesses the problem that we know hardly anything about the risk aversion of the buyers and sellers of options.

2018, John C. Hull, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, 10th edition, Pearson, page 276:


insolently

insolently (comparative more insolently, superlative most insolently)

more insolently (comparative)
most insolently (superlative)


deleteriously

deleteriously (comparative more deleteriously, superlative most deleteriously)

more deleteriously (comparative)
most deleteriously (superlative)


hell-for-leather

Earliest reference is from 1889 in "The Gadsbys" by Rudyard Kipling, referring to the effect on the leather of a saddle (or perhaps a crop) of riding a horse as fast as possible.

He rode hell-for-leather to catch up with the stagecoach.


modishly

modishly (comparative more modishly, superlative most modishly)

more modishly (comparative)
most modishly (superlative)


moistly

moistly (comparative more moistly, superlative most moistly)

more moistly (comparative)
most moistly (superlative)


moralistically

moralistically (comparative more moralistically, superlative most moralistically)

more moralistically (comparative)
most moralistically (superlative)


moronically

moronically (comparative more moronically, superlative most moronically)

more moronically (comparative)
most moronically (superlative)


neglectfully

neglectfully (comparative more neglectfully, superlative most neglectfully)

more neglectfully (comparative)
most neglectfully (superlative)


mutably

mutably (comparative more mutably, superlative most mutably)

more mutably (comparative)
most mutably (superlative)


multilaterally

multilaterally (comparative more multilaterally, superlative most multilaterally)

more multilaterally (comparative)
most multilaterally (superlative)


nervelessly

nervelessly (comparative more nervelessly, superlative most nervelessly)

more nervelessly (comparative)
most nervelessly (superlative)


monumentally

monumentally (comparative more monumentally, superlative most monumentally)

more monumentally (comparative)
most monumentally (superlative)

Climbing this mountain naked was a monumentally stupid idea!

Einstein made some monumentally important scientific discoveries.


mulishly

mulishly (comparative more mulishly, superlative most mulishly)

more mulishly (comparative)
most mulishly (superlative)


movingly

movingly (comparative more movingly, superlative most movingly)

more movingly (comparative)
most movingly (superlative)


musicianly

musicianly (comparative more musicianly, superlative most musicianly)

more musicianly (comparative)
most musicianly (superlative)


murderously

murderously (comparative more murderously, superlative most murderously)

more murderously (comparative)
most murderously (superlative)

They decided to stop arguing over which spelling was correct after she began glaring murderously at each person who participated.

In a murderous manner; as if wanting to commit murder; extremely angrily.


observantly

observantly (comparative more observantly, superlative most observantly)

more observantly (comparative)
most observantly (superlative)


multifariously

multifariously (comparative more multifariously, superlative most multifariously)

more multifariously (comparative)
most multifariously (superlative)


obstructively

obstructively (comparative more obstructively, superlative most obstructively)

more obstructively (comparative)
most obstructively (superlative)


mordantly

mordantly (comparative more mordantly, superlative most mordantly)

more mordantly (comparative)
most mordantly (superlative)

Salman Rushdie, commenting on my book God Is Not Great, remarked rather mordantly that the chief problem with its title was a lack of economy: that it was in other words exactly one word too long.

2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 9:

In a mordant manner; incisively, sharply.


mutely

mutely (comparative more mutely, superlative most mutely)

more mutely (comparative)
most mutely (superlative)

She went in a wheelchair, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and dark glasses […] a costume that made her seem romantic and powerful. Mutely she commanded cars, arrangements, appointments, deference, respect.

1983, Robert Ferro, The Family of Max Desir, page 14:


musingly

musingly (comparative more musingly, superlative most musingly)

more musingly (comparative)
most musingly (superlative)

It was half-way through the morning, and he had not breakfasted; the slight litter of other breakfasts stood about on the table to remind him of his hunger; and adding a poached egg to his order, he proceeded musingly to shake some white sugar into his coffee, thinking all the time about Flambeau.

1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:


obtrusively

obtrusively (comparative more obtrusively, superlative most obtrusively)

more obtrusively (comparative)
most obtrusively (superlative)


muscularly

muscularly (comparative more muscularly, superlative most muscularly)

more muscularly (comparative)
most muscularly (superlative)

He cuddles and kisses Jesse and Owen muscularly, surprising Jesse by biting his lip.

2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 322:


muddily

muddily (comparative more muddily, superlative most muddily)

more muddily (comparative)
most muddily (superlative)

July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup. Even his voice, projected muddily though[sic] that steel mask, has the authority of a prison-camp megaphone.


neurally

“And whatʼs more,” the voice went on triumphantly, “the patient is both physically and neurally whole.”

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 236:


monstrously

monstrously (comparative more monstrously, superlative most monstrously)

more monstrously (comparative)
most monstrously (superlative)

She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of the alarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard.

1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:


noncommittally

noncommittally (comparative more noncommittally, superlative most noncommittally)

more noncommittally (comparative)
most noncommittally (superlative)

Parameswaran, intent on puffing, raised one eyebrow and grimaced non-committally.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 440:


obligatorily

obligatorily (comparative more obligatorily, superlative most obligatorily)

more obligatorily (comparative)
most obligatorily (superlative)

In essence, we evolved defenses that rendered us nearly invincible and allowed us to become obligatorily social.

2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 56:


obnoxiously

obnoxiously (comparative more obnoxiously, superlative most obnoxiously)

more obnoxiously (comparative)
most obnoxiously (superlative)


obtusely

obtusely (comparative more obtusely, superlative most obtusely)

more obtusely (comparative)
most obtusely (superlative)


obliviously

obliviously (comparative more obliviously, superlative most obliviously)

more obliviously (comparative)
most obliviously (superlative)


nonsensically

nonsensically (comparative more nonsensically, superlative most nonsensically)

more nonsensically (comparative)
most nonsensically (superlative)


monastically

monastically (comparative more monastically, superlative most monastically)

more monastically (comparative)
most monastically (superlative)


munificently

munificently (comparative more munificently, superlative most munificently)

more munificently (comparative)
most munificently (superlative)


motionlessly

motionlessly (comparative more motionlessly, superlative most motionlessly)

more motionlessly (comparative)
most motionlessly (superlative)

Lying stark, dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale.

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


morbidly

morbidly (comparative more morbidly, superlative most morbidly)

more morbidly (comparative)
most morbidly (superlative)

In his reply he seemed less set against that plan than his past attitude would have led one to predict, but said he would like to hold off a little while longer—long enough to get his things in order and reconcile himself to the idea of leaving an almost morbidly cherished birthplace.

1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 4, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

In a morbid manner, or to a morbid degree.


observably

observably (comparative more observably, superlative most observably)

more observably (comparative)
most observably (superlative)

As the planet orbits the star, it causes a wobble in the star's motion, which can be detected as a small but observably large Doppler effect.

(degree) To a detectable degree, sufficient to be observed.

From the point of view of earth-based observatories, the effect of the planet's orbit around the star is that the star observably wobbles.

Observably, the star wobbles.

(modal) Indicates that the proposition can be verified by observation.


obligingly

obligingly (comparative more obligingly, superlative most obligingly)

more obligingly (comparative)
most obligingly (superlative)

'I'll see to that for you, Miss Clara,' he said obligingly.

1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 82:

Speaker obligingly changed the angle of his cutting.

In an obliging manner; so as to oblige another; as a favour to another.


mistrustfully

mistrustfully (comparative more mistrustfully, superlative most mistrustfully)

more mistrustfully (comparative)
most mistrustfully (superlative)

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

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


mutinously

mutinously (comparative more mutinously, superlative most mutinously)

more mutinously (comparative)
most mutinously (superlative)


neurologically

If it was neurologically possible not to think, she had no thoughts.

2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 202:


modernly

modernly (comparative more modernly, superlative most modernly)

more modernly (comparative)
most modernly (superlative)

The living room was huge and modernly furnished. Open spaces were everywhere, the coffee table was glass-topped, the couches were lightest of tans with red roses sprinkled across them.

If our painters must clothe their portraits in idealities at all, let us at once return to the old taste in this beautiful branch of the fine arts, – as we have modernly done in our buildings, and partially in our statues […]

1836, Cornelius Webbe, Glances at Life in City and Suburb, page 225:


unceasingly

All concerned, more particularly those in charge of the depots, worked unceasingly for long hours.

1961 July, “Glasgow emergency - the restoration of Clydeside steam suburban services”, in Trains Illustrated, page 432:

without ceasing (stopping); continuously


objectionably

objectionably (comparative more objectionably, superlative most objectionably)

more objectionably (comparative)
most objectionably (superlative)


obediently

obediently (comparative more obediently, superlative most obediently)

more obediently (comparative)
most obediently (superlative)

This at least Heidi could understand, and she followed her obediently into the dining-room.

1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 71:


negligently

negligently (comparative more negligently, superlative most negligently)

more negligently (comparative)
most negligently (superlative)

With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.

1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 12.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 301:

In a negligent manner: carelessly or inattentively.


mustily

mustily (comparative more mustily, superlative most mustily)

more mustily (comparative)
most mustily (superlative)

1603, Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, translated by John Florio, The Second Chapter, “Of Repenting,”
[…] nor are there any spirits, or very rare ones, which in growing old taste not sowrely and mustily.

All this is but a light-headed understanding now; I mean, why so melancholy? thou lookest mustily, methinks.

1620, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, The World Tost at Tennis:

My little guide steered me up a filthy, crooked, crazy staircase to an upper floor so lighted, and into a room that smelt of sawdust, shavings, glue, shellac, rancidly-oiled metal, and all kinds of rankly or mustily malodorous muddle.

1871, Richard Rowe, chapter 30, in Episodes in an Obscure Life, New York: George Routledge & Sons, page 370:

He was no student mustily thinking in a dead language, but a gentleman in waiting to the king, knight of the Order of St. Michael, writing in fresh, poetic French, with all the captivation of charm, teaching the fundamental principles of doubt and uncertainty […]

1903, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, “Montaigne”, in Essays on Great Writers, Houghton, Mifflin & Co, page 101:

1908, O. Henry, “The Shocks of Doom” in The Voice of The City: Further Stories of the Four Million, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914, pp. 96-7,
He was either young or old; cheap lodging-houses had flavored him mustily; razors and combs had passed him by; in him drink had been bottled and sealed in the devil’s bond.

The single window, square and mustily curtained, is so small that it cannot be imagined to admit much light on the brightest of days […]

1912, Booth Tarkington, Beauty and the Jacobin: an Interlude of the French Revolution, Harper & Bros., page 2:

He felt he was intruding, and hurried past the door with the coloured glass panes into the Book Room, which smelled mustily of old paper and worm-eaten wood.

1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1:


obsessively

obsessively (comparative more obsessively, superlative most obsessively)

more obsessively (comparative)
most obsessively (superlative)

There were moments when I doubted whether it was worth all the effort – whether it was crazy of Anderson to toil so obsessively over three breezy, cheeky vignettes which are neither sidesplittingly hilarious nor heart-wrenchingly insightful.

2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC:


opprobriously

opprobriously (comparative more opprobriously, superlative most opprobriously)

more opprobriously (comparative)
most opprobriously (superlative)


opaquely

opaquely (comparative more opaquely, superlative most opaquely)

more opaquely (comparative)
most opaquely (superlative)


obscenely

obscenely (comparative more obscenely, superlative most obscenely)

more obscenely (comparative)
most obscenely (superlative)

By the year 1765, Richard `Dickie' Tattersall, the absurdly romantic self-styled soldier of fortune and indulged son of an obscenely well-off Yorkshire squire, was brimming with gratitude[.]

1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 245:


dentally

Fireman Foreman's loose-lipped mouth widened in a filial grin, dentally interesting.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 160:

With reference to dental matters; with regards to the teeth.


overbearingly

overbearingly (comparative more overbearingly, superlative most overbearingly)

more overbearingly (comparative)
most overbearingly (superlative)


operationally

In an operational manner; in accordance with an operation.


outspokenly

outspokenly (comparative more outspokenly, superlative most outspokenly)

more outspokenly (comparative)
most outspokenly (superlative)


irrhythmically

In an irrhythmic manner; not rhythmically.


opportunistically

opportunistically (comparative more opportunistically, superlative most opportunistically)

more opportunistically (comparative)
most opportunistically (superlative)


operatically

operatically (comparative more operatically, superlative most operatically)

more operatically (comparative)
most operatically (superlative)


outlandishly

outlandishly (comparative more outlandishly, superlative most outlandishly)

more outlandishly (comparative)
most outlandishly (superlative)

Boxy and unrefined, the Hummer embodied an outlandishly masculine aesthetic that seemed to almost revel in its gargantuan fuel consumption.

2022 April 7, Oliver Milman, “I test-drove the all-electric Hummer. Can it win over America’s EV skeptics?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


outstandingly

outstandingly (comparative more outstandingly, superlative most outstandingly)

more outstandingly (comparative)
most outstandingly (superlative)


open-mindedly

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

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


oppositely

oppositely (comparative more oppositely, superlative most oppositely)

more oppositely (comparative)
most oppositely (superlative)


outrageously

outrageously (comparative more outrageously, superlative most outrageously)

more outrageously (comparative)
most outrageously (superlative)

From Middle English outrageously, equivalent to outrageous + -ly.

The hotel was wonderful, but the food was outrageously expensive.

[…] John Currin moved from painting yearbookish images of anonymous girls to painting outrageously goofy pictures of women with ridiculously oversize breasts.

2009 January 25, Ken Johnson, “The Image Is Erotic. But Is It Art?”, in New York Times:

In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.


phenomenologically

There is no question that, phenomenologically considered, the experience of perceiving and the experience of having a hallucination are sufficiently similar that, on the strength of what proves to be a hallucination, one may sincerely claim to have (veridically) perceived something.

1969, Joseph Margolis, “Existential Import and Perceptual Judgments”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 66, number 13, page 404:

(philosophy) In a manner characteristic of phenomenology or of phenomenological philosophy.

fenomenologicamente

in a manner characteristic of phenomenology

The DSM may be viewed as a behavioristically, phenomenologically oriented nosology which often groups unlike disease states together into categories, and in its behaviorist approach, can ignore distinctions between pathophysiological processes within the brain and normal human response to stressors. Because of this and the modern access, via the techniques of molecular biology, to molecular processes in the human brain and other bodily systems, there is growing call in the psychiatric community to reformulate the mental health nosology, basing it rather upon the pathophysiological processes which may, or may not, underlie problematic behavioral phenomena.

(medicine) In a manner which places primary or undue reliance upon subjective criteria such as signs, symptoms and behaviors, while ignoring objective etiologies in the formulation of diagnoses and in the compilation of a formal nosologies.


opportunely

opportunely (comparative more opportunely, superlative most opportunely)

more opportunely (comparative)
most opportunely (superlative)

In a manner suitable for some particular purpose.

sopivasti

in a manner suitable for some particular purpose

In a manner convenient or advantageous at some particular time.

sopivasti

in a manner convenient or advantageous at some particular time


passingly

I'm only passingly familiar with Schopenhauer: I haven't read many of his works.


pitiably

pitiably (comparative more pitiably, superlative most pitiably)

more pitiably (comparative)
most pitiably (superlative)


pettily

pettily (comparative more pettily, superlative most pettily)

more pettily (comparative)
most pettily (superlative)


piggishly

piggishly (comparative more piggishly, superlative most piggishly)

more piggishly (comparative)
most piggishly (superlative)


permissibly

permissibly (comparative more permissibly, superlative most permissibly)

more permissibly (comparative)
most permissibly (superlative)


pardonably

pardonably (comparative more pardonably, superlative most pardonably)

more pardonably (comparative)
most pardonably (superlative)

Both men were astonished (and I imagine, pardonably proud) when I told them that our Canadian National road over the Rocky Mountain Summit through Yellowhead Pass above Jasper, is almost exactly only one-third as steep as Shap Bank!

1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:


parasitically

parasitically (comparative more parasitically, superlative most parasitically)

more parasitically (comparative)
most parasitically (superlative)

Similarly, plants and mycorrhizal fungi are no longer thought of as behaving either mutualistically or parasitically.


plaintively

plaintively (comparative more plaintively, superlative most plaintively)

more plaintively (comparative)
most plaintively (superlative)


penuriously

penuriously (comparative more penuriously, superlative most penuriously)

more penuriously (comparative)
most penuriously (superlative)


peripherally

peripherally (comparative more peripherally, superlative most peripherally)

more peripherally (comparative)
most peripherally (superlative)


parsimoniously

parsimoniously (comparative more parsimoniously, superlative most parsimoniously)

more parsimoniously (comparative)
most parsimoniously (superlative)


pedantically

pedantically (comparative more pedantically, superlative most pedantically)

more pedantically (comparative)
most pedantically (superlative)

From pedantic + -ally and/or pedantical + -ly.


prancingly

prancingly (comparative more prancingly, superlative most prancingly)

more prancingly (comparative)
most prancingly (superlative)


prescriptively

prescriptively (comparative more prescriptively, superlative most prescriptively)

more prescriptively (comparative)
most prescriptively (superlative)


peskily

peskily (comparative more peskily, superlative most peskily)

more peskily (comparative)
most peskily (superlative)


permissively

permissively (comparative more permissively, superlative most permissively)

more permissively (comparative)
most permissively (superlative)


perceptually

perceptually (comparative more perceptually, superlative most perceptually)

more perceptually (comparative)
most perceptually (superlative)


perceptively

perceptively (comparative more perceptively, superlative most perceptively)

more perceptively (comparative)
most perceptively (superlative)


practicably

practicably (comparative more practicably, superlative most practicably)

more practicably (comparative)
most practicably (superlative)


patchily

patchily (comparative more patchily, superlative most patchily)

more patchily (comparative)
most patchily (superlative)

Hawkins, Lewis and Hankin are placed in the Diachronic category due to their attempt at a historical perspective, even though that is very patchily executed.

2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 310:


paternally

paternally (comparative more paternally, superlative most paternally)

more paternally (comparative)
most paternally (superlative)


providentially

providentially (comparative more providentially, superlative most providentially)

more providentially (comparative)
most providentially (superlative)


professedly

professedly (comparative more professedly, superlative most professedly)

more professedly (comparative)
most professedly (superlative)


proficiently

proficiently (comparative more proficiently, superlative most proficiently)

more proficiently (comparative)
most proficiently (superlative)


piercingly

piercingly (comparative more piercingly, superlative most piercingly)

more piercingly (comparative)
most piercingly (superlative)


pallidly

pallidly (comparative more pallidly, superlative most pallidly)

more pallidly (comparative)
most pallidly (superlative)


presentably

presentably (comparative more presentably, superlative most presentably)

more presentably (comparative)
most presentably (superlative)


pictorially

pictorially (comparative more pictorially, superlative most pictorially)

more pictorially (comparative)
most pictorially (superlative)


perniciously

perniciously (comparative more perniciously, superlative most perniciously)

more perniciously (comparative)
most perniciously (superlative)


pigheadedly

pigheadedly (comparative more pigheadedly, superlative most pigheadedly)

more pigheadedly (comparative)
most pigheadedly (superlative)


prohibitively

prohibitively (comparative more prohibitively, superlative most prohibitively)

more prohibitively (comparative)
most prohibitively (superlative)

a prohibitively expensive gift


penetratingly

penetratingly (comparative more penetratingly, superlative most penetratingly)

more penetratingly (comparative)
most penetratingly (superlative)


preciously

preciously (comparative more preciously, superlative most preciously)

more preciously (comparative)
most preciously (superlative)


providently

providently (comparative more providently, superlative most providently)

more providently (comparative)
most providently (superlative)


problematically

problematically (comparative more problematically, superlative most problematically)

more problematically (comparative)
most problematically (superlative)


patronizingly

patronizingly (comparative more patronizingly, superlative most patronizingly)

more patronizingly (comparative)
most patronizingly (superlative)

`Anyway, Bob's on a good wicket!' said Cummings patronisingly. `I wouldn't mind taking on the job myself.'

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 231:


provokingly

provokingly (comparative more provokingly, superlative most provokingly)

more provokingly (comparative)
most provokingly (superlative)


penitently

penitently (comparative more penitently, superlative most penitently)

more penitently (comparative)
most penitently (superlative)


pushily

pushily (comparative more pushily, superlative most pushily)

more pushily (comparative)
most pushily (superlative)


promisingly

promisingly (comparative more promisingly, superlative most promisingly)

more promisingly (comparative)
most promisingly (superlative)


propitiously

propitiously (comparative more propitiously, superlative most propitiously)

more propitiously (comparative)
most propitiously (superlative)


perfidiously

perfidiously (comparative more perfidiously, superlative most perfidiously)

more perfidiously (comparative)
most perfidiously (superlative)


puritanically

puritanically (comparative more puritanically, superlative most puritanically)

more puritanically (comparative)
most puritanically (superlative)


prophetically

prophetically (comparative more prophetically, superlative most prophetically)

more prophetically (comparative)
most prophetically (superlative)


pungently

pungently (comparative more pungently, superlative most pungently)

more pungently (comparative)
most pungently (superlative)


protectively

protectively (comparative more protectively, superlative most protectively)

more protectively (comparative)
most protectively (superlative)


pessimistically

pessimistically (comparative more pessimistically, superlative most pessimistically)

more pessimistically (comparative)
most pessimistically (superlative)


placidly

placidly (comparative more placidly, superlative most placidly)

more placidly (comparative)
most placidly (superlative)

We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.

1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

He was a big chubby man, in his middle thirties, the muscle of his rugger days now settling placidly to reminiscent fat.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 582:


preponderantly

preponderantly (comparative more preponderantly, superlative most preponderantly)

more preponderantly (comparative)
most preponderantly (superlative)

But when the second stage set in, in which man became preponderantly self-conscious, he inevitably set about deflecting sex-activities to his own private pleasure and advantage; he employed his budding intellect in scheming the derailment of passion and desire from tribal needs and, Nature's uses to the poor details of his own gratification.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 186:


prudishly

prudishly (comparative more prudishly, superlative most prudishly)

more prudishly (comparative)
most prudishly (superlative)


prayerfully

prayerfully (comparative more prayerfully, superlative most prayerfully)

more prayerfully (comparative)
most prayerfully (superlative)

"Hear me, O king, whoever you may be, and save me from the anger of the sea-god Neptune, for I approach you prayerfully. […]

1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book V., page 72

In a prayerful manner; with prayer and reverence.


prehistorically

prehistorically (comparative more prehistorically, superlative most prehistorically)

more prehistorically (comparative)
most prehistorically (superlative)


prepositionally

The meaning of the gerundive can further be modified prepositionally.

2007, Kim Schulte, Prepositional Infinitives in Romance: A Usage-based Approach to Syntactic Change:

Words are thus used prepositionally along with all the noun-cases excepting the dative.

1879, William Dwight Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar:


presciently

presciently (comparative more presciently, superlative most presciently)

more presciently (comparative)
most presciently (superlative)

It was Sir Walter Raleigh who presciently said: 'Who commands the sea commands trade; who commands the trade of the world commands its riches, and so commands the world itself.'

1992, Giles Radice, Offshore: Britain and the European Idea, page 20:

But as the pandemic accelerated, EMR acted presciently and made changes before the Government put the country into lockdown.

2020 September 9, Tom Ingall, “EMR adhering to franchise commitmenta”, in Rail, page 62:


provocatively

provocatively (comparative more provocatively, superlative most provocatively)

more provocatively (comparative)
most provocatively (superlative)


profligately

profligately (comparative more profligately, superlative most profligately)

more profligately (comparative)
most profligately (superlative)

In the next section of this paper we discuss a general strategy for estimating profligately (as opposed to parsimoniously) parameterized macromodels[.]

1980, Sims, Christopher A.: Macroeconomics and Reality, Econometrica 48.1, pp. 1-48; p. 15

For the purpose of defining a recursive competitive equilibrium, it is useful to note that it is also possible to define the state of the planner's problem more profligately as #x5C;tildeX#x5F;t#x3D;#x5C;left#x5B;#x5C;begin#x7B;array#x7D;#x7B;ccccc#x7D;#x5C;theta#x26;N#x5F;t#x26;n#x5F;#x7B;t-1#x7D;#x26;n#x5F;#x7B;t-2#x7D;#x26;n#x5F;#x7B;t-3#x7D;#x5C;end#x7B;array#x7D;#x5C;right#x5D;' [sic] with associated decision rule n#x5F;t#x3D;-#x5C;tildeF#x5C;tildeX#x5F;t and law of motion #x5C;tildeX#x5F;#x7B;t#x2B;1#x7D;#x3D;#x5C;left(#x5C;tildeA-#x5C;tildeB#x5C;tildeF#x5C;right)#x5C;tildeX#x5F;t#x2B;#x5C;tildeC#x5C;epsilon#x5F;#x7B;t#x2B;1#x7D;.

2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 233:


punctiliously

Confused for the moment by Podson's impersonation of a genteel stranger making an afternoon call, she now recognized his gentle fluff of whiskers, and dived at Jasper to cover her embarrassment. With Jasper out of action, Podson was able to raise his hat punctiliously and say, "Good afternoon."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 144:

I imagine the Dreamward’s food being even more varied and punctiliously prepared, the ship’s Gift Shop less expensive and its casino less depressing and its stage entertainment less cheesy and its pillow mints bigger.

1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:


parochially

parochially (comparative more parochially, superlative most parochially)

more parochially (comparative)
most parochially (superlative)


pragmatically

pragmatically (comparative more pragmatically, superlative most pragmatically)

more pragmatically (comparative)
most pragmatically (superlative)

"Well, there's no use crying over spilt milk," she said pragmatically.

a pragmatically irrelevant proposition


pitilessly

pitilessly (comparative more pitilessly, superlative most pitilessly)

more pitilessly (comparative)
most pitilessly (superlative)

The simple questions of the tattered man had been knife thrusts to him. They asserted a society that probes pitilessly at secrets until all is apparent.

1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 106:

They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.

1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 60:


prospectively

Coordinate term: retrospectively


promiscuously

promiscuously (comparative more promiscuously, superlative most promiscuously)

more promiscuously (comparative)
most promiscuously (superlative)

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

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


piously

piously (comparative more piously, superlative most piously)

more piously (comparative)
most piously (superlative)


detestably

detestably (comparative more detestably, superlative most detestably)

more detestably (comparative)
most detestably (superlative)


picturesquely

picturesquely (comparative more picturesquely, superlative most picturesquely)

more picturesquely (comparative)
most picturesquely (superlative)

The red-painted farm-houses, peculiar to Norway, lay picturesquely scattered on the higher points of the undulating valley, where men and women were busy hay-making.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279:

An athlete might picturesquely lament that his ankle had betrayed him or that his wrist had gone on strike; and if such modes of speech acquired a wide vogue, we might now and then fall into the trap of supposing that we and our limbs are related in the way in which employers are related to their employees. We might start to talk seriously of cricketers being well advised to dismiss their limbs and to try to get on without them.

1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)


pathologically

pathologically (comparative more pathologically, superlative most pathologically)

more pathologically (comparative)
most pathologically (superlative)


perilously

perilously (comparative more perilously, superlative most perilously)

more perilously (comparative)
most perilously (superlative)

From Middle English perilously; equivalent to perilous + -ly.

A rather interesting and notable convenience, however, is that of ice water bags, which are hung on to the outside of the coaches at certain stops. These can be reached by leaning out of the window rather perilously, to unhook them, and paper cups are stocked in the compartments.

1951 February, K. Westcott Jones, “Some Australian Railway Byways”, in Railway Magazine, page 118:

A door flopped open, wobbling perilously on its one remaining hinge.

1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 90:


punitively

punitively (comparative more punitively, superlative most punitively)

more punitively (comparative)
most punitively (superlative)

Hospital staff or caretaking relatives may find sexual concerns humorous, disgusting, embarrassing; they are bound to react punitively to any signs of homosexuality or affectational same-sex relationship.

1983 December 10, Nancy A. F. Langer, “Different Abilities, Same Queer Pleasures”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 8:


tautologically

tautologically (comparative more tautologically, superlative most tautologically)

more tautologically (comparative)
most tautologically (superlative)


pitifully

pitifully (comparative more pitifully, superlative most pitifully)

more pitifully (comparative)
most pitifully (superlative)

From Middle English petefully, petifullie, pyttyfully, pytyffully; equivalent to pitiful + -ly.

The coral faded even from her lips, till they were as white as Leo's face, and quivered pitifully.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Balance Turns”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 198:


palely

palely (comparative more palely, superlative most palely)

more palely (comparative)
most palely (superlative)

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, / Alone and palely loitering? / The sedge has withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.

1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci, stanza 1:

The people are palely prosperous. They lead monotonous lives.

1907, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, A Fountain Sealed, Chapter:

It was a warm dark night of faint clouds through which the moon shone palely as through a thin silk canopy.

1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, Part Two:


direly

direly (comparative more direly, superlative most direly)

more direly (comparative)
most direly (superlative)


dirtily

dirtily (comparative more dirtily, superlative most dirtily)

more dirtily (comparative)
most dirtily (superlative)


retroactively

The new legislature passed a resolution retroactively legalizing the actions of the revolutionaries that brought them to power.

Done after the fact; applying to events that have previously transpired.


rigorously

rigorously (comparative more rigorously, superlative most rigorously)

more rigorously (comparative)
most rigorously (superlative)

But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.

2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:


traitorously

traitorously (comparative more traitorously, superlative most traitorously)

more traitorously (comparative)
most traitorously (superlative)

The vizier traitorously revealed the location of the hiding princess in order to save himself.


gustoso

gustoso (comparative more gustoso, superlative most gustoso)

more gustoso (comparative)
most gustoso (superlative)


thousandfold

From Middle English thousendfold, from Old English þūsendfeald, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz, corresponding to thousand + -fold. Cognate with Dutch duizendvoud, duizendvoudig, German tausendfältig, Danish tusindfold, Swedish tusendfalt, tusendfaltig, Icelandic þúsundfalt.


noons

Noons—we would have the Jerusalem artichoke at least three times a week; then salsify soups or parsnips, lentils and the green beans or leafy vegetables—these all in their combinations. Evenings—preferably broths […]

2002, William A. McGarey, Edgar Cayce, Edgar Cayce on Healing Foods: For Body, Mind, and Soul, page 50:


ahold

Lay her a hold, a hold, ſet her two courſes off to Sea againe, lay her off.

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

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(nautical, obsolete) (of a ship) Brought to lie as near to the windward as it can to get out to sea, and thereby held steady.


hundredfold

From Middle English hundredfold. Equivalent to hundred + -fold.


reet

Now I've only bin once wi a scarf round mi neck, And I moan't go agin, no not me will I eck. Now it doesn't seem reet if mi memory jogs, Goin down for a pint in thi bowtie and clogs.

2011, “Awterations” (track 14), in Bread and Fishes, performed by Houghton Weavers:


soporifically

soporifically (comparative more soporifically, superlative most soporifically)

more soporifically (comparative)
most soporifically (superlative)

Of course, it's "soporifically boring" - quite deliberately so, "the Brussels bureaucracy aims to keep the public's nose out of 'its' business"

2007 June 23, “Deciding Europe's fate”, in The Week, volumes 619, 5:


eo nomine

/ˌeɪ.əʊ ˈnəʊmɪniː/

From Latin eo nomine, ablative form of id nōmen, “that name”.

Under that name; that is called thus; explicitly.


proviso quod

From Latin proviso quod, from prōvīsō (ablative neuter singular past participle form of prōvidēre, “to provide”) + quod (neuter form of quī, “that”).

…if the plaintife or demandaunt desist in prosecuting an action, by bringing it to a triall, the defendant or tenent may take out the venire facias to the Shyreeue: which hath in it these words, Prouiso quod, &c. to this ende, that if the plaintife take out any writ to that purpose, the shyreeue shall summon but one Iurie vpon them both.

1607: John Cowell, The interpreter: or booke containing the signification of words, p[UNKNOWN]


out to get someone

The supervisor keeps telling me off. He’s out to get me.

In order to live a happier life, one of the first steps is to realize that the world is not out to get you.

"Why does she think they're out to get her?"
"Because she's a paranoid freak," he answered. "Same reason she wears sunglasses and a hat when she goes out the door, as if that equals a disguise."

2009, Antonya Nelson, Nothing Right: Short Stories, page 283:

Deliberately committed or designed to cause problems for another person.


overleaf

On the other side of a sheet of paper (including a leaf of a book); thus, on the next page when flipping from a recto to the sequential verso.


overhanded

As you get older though, you will definitely want to be able to serve overhanded.

The chimney was built entirely from the inside platforms, the masons working overhanded, and thus no staging was necessary on the outside.

1902, William Wallace Chrisite, Chimney Design and Theory: A Book for Engineers and Architects:


tangentially

tangentially (comparative more tangentially, superlative most tangentially)

more tangentially (comparative)
most tangentially (superlative)


insofar

the fugitive-slave act did not affect a foreign country which Virginia claimed to be and that she must reckon it one of the infelicities of her position that in so far at least she was taken at her word

1861 May, Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler, letter to Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Fort Monroe: Headquarters Department of Virginia, Union Army:

Seventh: The defendant, its agents, servants and employees were negligent insofar that the trolley car was started while the plaintiff, Rose Goldman was in the act of alighting therefrom, and before she had reasonable opportunity to fully descend therefrom; insofar that the defendant, its agents, servants and employees did not take proper precaution and used reasonable care in starting the trolly car; insofar that no warning was given to the plaintiff, Rose Goldman, that the trolley car would start and by reason of the negligence of the defendant in other respects.

Although the respective articles of the EEC Treaty expressly provide that all provisions including competition rules have to be applied to public enterprises in the same way as to private enterprises experience of past 20 years shows that rather little has been done insofar.

1980, International Bar Association. Section on Business Law, International Bar Association. Conference, Codes of Conduct for Transnational Corporations, page 52:


per orem

From per, borrowing from classical Latin per (“through”), and orem as incorrectly formed accusative of Latin ōs (“mouth”).

(US, medicine) Alternative form of per os: via the mouth; orally.


telescopically

That planet can only be seen telescopically.

to be telescopically engageable


ex officio

/ˌɛks əˈfɪʃioʊ/

From Latin ex officio (“by right of office”, literally “from the office”).

bor

The President of the Republic of France is, ex officio, also prince of the dyarchy called Andorra.

That friend […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.

1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Constitution of the Church and State:

In the South every negro preacher is ex officio a D.D., and is commonly addressed as Doctor. This enables white Southerners to show a decent respect for his sacred office, and yet avoid the solecism of calling him Mister.

1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 20, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC, footnote, page 138:

By virtue of the office that originated it, or of the title held.


motu proprio

/ˌməʊtuː ˈpɹɒpɹɪəʊ/

/ˌməʊtuː ˈpɹəʊpɹɪəʊ/

From Medieval Latin motu proprio, from ablative form of classical Latin motus (“motion”) + proprius (“one’s own”).

Of one’s own free will, of one’s own volition.


gravitationally

gravitationally interacting massive particle


day and night

All the time; round the clock; unceasingly.


resentfully

en-adv

resentfully (comparative more resentfully, superlative most resentfully)

more resentfully (comparative)
most resentfully (superlative)

`Talk sense, fat face,' he said resentfully.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 28:


rancidly

rancidly (comparative more rancidly, superlative most rancidly)

more rancidly (comparative)
most rancidly (superlative)


riskily

riskily (comparative more riskily, superlative most riskily)

more riskily (comparative)
most riskily (superlative)

[T]he birds hopped round the door (which, somewhat riskily, they ventured to keep open); [...]

1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 90–91:

They played till the sun went down, in pure amusement, careless and timeless. Then, as the little sledge twirled riskily to rest at the bottom of the slope: [...]

1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXX, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC, page 522:


scorrendo

(music) Gliding or passing smoothly between tones.


sillily

sillily (comparative more sillily, superlative most sillily)

more sillily (comparative)
most sillily (superlative)

The man walked down the street so sillily that many a bystander stopped and stared slack-jawed.

Even 'Che Isa [...] had behaved sillily, making up to married men.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:

(dated or hypercorrect) In a silly manner; foolishly.


gobsmackingly

gobsmackingly (comparative more gobsmackingly, superlative most gobsmackingly)

more gobsmackingly (comparative)
most gobsmackingly (superlative)

1992, Mark Lewisohn, Root Into Europe, BBC Guide to Comedy
Astonishingly blunt, completely oblivious to the fact that his opinions and rudeness might be alien or offensive to others, and gobsmackingly ignorant of any other point of view.

The AAA company Millie’s suing is run by a crooked mogul played by Taika Watiti, doing a gobsmackingly awful caricature of modern tech-bro arrogance.

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:

‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat. [title]

2023 October 5, Damian Carrington, “‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat”, in The Guardian:

(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Astonishingly; amazingly.


divisi

(music) divided (within one instrumental part, simultaneous notes between two or more players)


recurrently

recurrently (comparative more recurrently, superlative most recurrently)

more recurrently (comparative)
most recurrently (superlative)


reminiscently

reminiscently (comparative more reminiscently, superlative most reminiscently)

more reminiscently (comparative)
most reminiscently (superlative)


rebukingly

rebukingly (comparative more rebukingly, superlative most rebukingly)

more rebukingly (comparative)
most rebukingly (superlative)


remedially

remedially (comparative more remedially, superlative most remedially)

more remedially (comparative)
most remedially (superlative)


receptively

receptively (comparative more receptively, superlative most receptively)

more receptively (comparative)
most receptively (superlative)


repetitiously

repetitiously (comparative more repetitiously, superlative most repetitiously)

more repetitiously (comparative)
most repetitiously (superlative)


repentantly

repentantly (comparative more repentantly, superlative most repentantly)

more repentantly (comparative)
most repentantly (superlative)


remissly

remissly (comparative more remissly, superlative most remissly)

more remissly (comparative)
most remissly (superlative)


repulsively

repulsively (comparative more repulsively, superlative most repulsively)

more repulsively (comparative)
most repulsively (superlative)

I was walking up and down, putting her to sleep one evening, when I found myself treading on something most repulsively soft; and as I did so, the reptile uncoiled itself and quietly glided off the verandah.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 174:


reassuringly

reassuringly (comparative more reassuringly, superlative most reassuringly)

more reassuringly (comparative)
most reassuringly (superlative)

She made several gulps and controlled her breath. She released her grip on Podson and stared at him without recognition. Podson went on patting her reassuringly, relieved from administering first aid to an attack of the vapours.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 188:


reliably

reliably (comparative more reliably, superlative most reliably)

more reliably (comparative)
most reliably (superlative)

Genuine cowards follow the wicked and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.

Above all, rail needs to be boring. By that, I mean that it must run its timetable reliably, day-in and day-out. Punctuality and reliability remain the bedrock of a successful railway.

2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:


contributorily

contributorily (comparative more contributorily, superlative most contributorily)

more contributorily (comparative)
most contributorily (superlative)


tauntingly

tauntingly (comparative more tauntingly, superlative most tauntingly)

more tauntingly (comparative)
most tauntingly (superlative)


untruthfully

untruthfully (comparative more untruthfully, superlative most untruthfully)

more untruthfully (comparative)
most untruthfully (superlative)


frumpily

frumpily (comparative more frumpily, superlative most frumpily)

more frumpily (comparative)
most frumpily (superlative)


sightlessly

sightlessly (comparative more sightlessly, superlative most sightlessly)

more sightlessly (comparative)
most sightlessly (superlative)


dourly

dourly (comparative more dourly, superlative most dourly)

more dourly (comparative)
most dourly (superlative)


from cover to cover

She read Gone With the Wind from cover to cover in less than six hours.

(idiomatic) From the first page (of a book) all the way to the last page.

완독(完讀)하다

verb meaning "to read from cover to cover"


for all intensive purposes

for all intents and purposes
for all intents and purposes#English

(US, proscribed, nonstandard) Eggcorn of for all intents and purposes.


programmatically

From programmatic + -ally or programmatical + -ly.

While clearly opposed to the political thrust of much 'Heritage' cinema (Sammy and Rosie, in particular, in programmatically anti-Tory: for example, the property developer who ousts the 'straggly kids' is one of Thatcher's MPs and her vision of a 'new Britain' is blatantly lampooned), Kureishi's films do not, however, endorse traditional kinds of Left oppositional politics as the best means by which to challenge the hegemony of the New Right.

2001, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Hanif Kureishi, page 89:

In the manner of a political program; ideologically.

To force a window to repaint itself programmatically, you call the inherited Invalidate() method[…]

2010, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, page 1551:

Mark-up coding was programmatically added to identify certain data types from others, for example, headwords and citations.

2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 489:

(programming) Through program code, rather than through a user interface.


ex parte

From Latin ex parte ("from [one] part").

Grand juries are conducted ex parte; neither the suspect nor his attorney may attend.

(law) In the manner of a proceeding where one of the involved parties is not (or sometimes may not be) present.


statewide

Sharks are an ever-present hazard in South Australia…as of 2002 there had been nearly 50 attacks statewide, including a 48-hour period in September 2000 that saw two surfer fatalities.

2003, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, Harcourt,, →ISBN, page 554:

After an unsuccessful attempt to have The Grapes of Wrath banned statewide (the effort backfired), the AF commissioned and distributed a barrage of counternarratives.

2005, Douglas Cazaux Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden, University of California Press,, →ISBN, page 280:

The state of Jalisco hired a single pharmacy company to provide all such medicines statewide.

2011, Marc J. Roberts, Michael R. Reich, Pharmaceutical Reform, The World Bank, →ISBN, page 152:

Throughout a state (political subdivision of a federal union).

provincewide

Throughout a subdivision of a federal union

Alternatives to the core Spanish identity were pressing only in the Catalon and Basque regions and not statewide.

2004, Carol Skalnik Leff, “Democratization and Disintegration in the Multinational States: The Breakup of the Communist Federations”, in Timothy J. Sinclair, editor, Global Governance, volume II, Routledge, →ISBN, page 166:

In the end, the Communist Party scored a stunning victory in the 26 May 1946 election, winning more than 40 percent in the Czech provinces and taking a substantial plurality of the vote statewide.

2005, Benjamin Frommer, National Cleansing, Cambridge University Press,, →ISBN, page 216:

The Solomons do not cohere ethnographically (there are 70 languages spoken statewide) and nor are they likely to, at least, not in the short term. This does not bode well for the capacity of any Solomons government to win national legitimacy.

2012, Ralph Pettman, Psychopathology and World Politics, World Scientific,, →ISBN, page 179:

Throughout a sovereign state; nationwide.


legalistically

legalistically (comparative more legalistically, superlative most legalistically)

more legalistically (comparative)
most legalistically (superlative)

In a legalistic manner; in a manner promoting legalism.


unforgettably

unforgettably (comparative more unforgettably, superlative most unforgettably)

more unforgettably (comparative)
most unforgettably (superlative)

In an unforgettable manner; very memorably.


unknowingly

An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.

2012, Albert J. Marcella, Cyber Forensics, page 116:


northwestwards

northwestwards (comparative more northwestwards, superlative most northwestwards)

more northwestwards (comparative)
most northwestwards (superlative)


northeastwards

northeastwards (comparative more northeastwards, superlative most northeastwards)

more northeastwards (comparative)
most northeastwards (superlative)


futuristically

futuristically (comparative more futuristically, superlative most futuristically)

more futuristically (comparative)
most futuristically (superlative)


northwestward

northwestward (comparative more northwestward, superlative most northwestward)

more northwestward (comparative)
most northwestward (superlative)


northwesterly

northwesterly (comparative more northwesterly, superlative most northwesterly)

more northwesterly (comparative)
most northwesterly (superlative)


Thursdays

(US, Canada) On Thursday; each Thursday.


Wednesdays

We are closed Wednesdays in the Summer.

Wednesdays we would go bowling.

(US, Canada) On Wednesday; each Wednesday.


Mondays

Downtown Library will be open Mondays from 10 am to 6 pm starting Jan. 25.

2010 January 15, “Recession boosts library attendance”, in The Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA:

Delicious is open from 9am to 6pm Mondays to Saturdays and from 10am to 4pm on Sundays.

2010 January 14, Eleanor Patmore, “Afternoon tea is back in Stortford!”, in Herts and Essex Observer:


northeastward

northeastward (comparative more northeastward, superlative most northeastward)

more northeastward (comparative)
most northeastward (superlative)


quick as a flash

In allusion to the rapidity of flashes of lightning.


unsystematically

unsystematically (comparative more unsystematically, superlative most unsystematically)

more unsystematically (comparative)
most unsystematically (superlative)

Not systematically, in an unsystematic manner.


triply

It is important to lock the door, and triply so at night.

(usually of relative importance) At three times the severity or degree.


unsurprisingly

unsurprisingly (comparative more unsurprisingly, superlative most unsurprisingly)

more unsurprisingly (comparative)
most unsurprisingly (superlative)

Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years.

2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:

Unsurprisingly, the Group was highly critical of the BTC's organisation and finances, and this prompted Marples to bring forward the Transport Act 1962, which created BR as a standalone entity with its own Board, headed by a full-time chairman. Beeching accepted this latter position, and initially became the BTC chairman in June 1961.

2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:


hoarily

hoarily (comparative more hoarily, superlative most hoarily)

more hoarily (comparative)
most hoarily (superlative)


reputably

reputably (comparative more reputably, superlative most reputably)

more reputably (comparative)
most reputably (superlative)


resiliently

resiliently (comparative more resiliently, superlative most resiliently)

more resiliently (comparative)
most resiliently (superlative)


reservedly

reservedly (comparative more reservedly, superlative most reservedly)

more reservedly (comparative)
most reservedly (superlative)


reputedly

reputedly (comparative more reputedly, superlative most reputedly)

more reputedly (comparative)
most reputedly (superlative)

The old mansion was reputedly haunted, but few were willing to go and investigate.


resplendently

resplendently (comparative more resplendently, superlative most resplendently)

more resplendently (comparative)
most resplendently (superlative)


retentively

retentively (comparative more retentively, superlative most retentively)

more retentively (comparative)
most retentively (superlative)


restively

restively (comparative more restively, superlative most restively)

more restively (comparative)
most restively (superlative)


restrictively

restrictively (comparative more restrictively, superlative most restrictively)

more restrictively (comparative)
most restrictively (superlative)


reticently

reticently (comparative more reticently, superlative most reticently)

more reticently (comparative)
most reticently (superlative)


resourcefully

resourcefully (comparative more resourcefully, superlative most resourcefully)

more resourcefully (comparative)
most resourcefully (superlative)


revealingly

revealingly (comparative more revealingly, superlative most revealingly)

more revealingly (comparative)
most revealingly (superlative)


tenably

tenably (comparative more tenably, superlative most tenably)

more tenably (comparative)
most tenably (superlative)


revengefully

revengefully (comparative more revengefully, superlative most revengefully)

more revengefully (comparative)
most revengefully (superlative)


revoltingly

revoltingly (comparative more revoltingly, superlative most revoltingly)

more revoltingly (comparative)
most revoltingly (superlative)

In a revolting manner; with repulsion or disgust.


tawdrily

tawdrily (comparative more tawdrily, superlative most tawdrily)

more tawdrily (comparative)
most tawdrily (superlative)


tearfully

tearfully (comparative more tearfully, superlative most tearfully)

more tearfully (comparative)
most tearfully (superlative)


restfully

restfully (comparative more restfully, superlative most restfully)

more restfully (comparative)
most restfully (superlative)

From Middle English restfully, restfullie, restfullye, equivalent to restful + -ly.


temporally

From Middle English temperally, temperaly, temporally; equivalent to temporal + -ly.


right-handedly

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

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


temptingly

temptingly (comparative more temptingly, superlative most temptingly)

more temptingly (comparative)
most temptingly (superlative)


tempestuously

tempestuously (comparative more tempestuously, superlative most tempestuously)

more tempestuously (comparative)
most tempestuously (superlative)


tendentiously

tendentiously (comparative more tendentiously, superlative most tendentiously)

more tendentiously (comparative)
most tendentiously (superlative)


telegraphically

telegraphically (comparative more telegraphically, superlative most telegraphically)

more telegraphically (comparative)
most telegraphically (superlative)

The police transmitted a description of the suspect telegraphically.

To and fro during the festivities complimentary and congratulatory messages kept going and coming, and from the entire telegraphically-connected parts of the globe messages flowed in at either end, expressing the joy of the civilized world that the belt of electrical communication was complete.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 138:

Her son's letters were always telegraphically brief and to the point.


resonantly

resonantly (comparative more resonantly, superlative most resonantly)

more resonantly (comparative)
most resonantly (superlative)


righteously

righteously (comparative more righteously, superlative most righteously)

more righteously (comparative)
most righteously (superlative)

From Middle English rightwisly, from Old English rihtwīslīce; equivalent to righteous + -ly.


retrospectively

retrospectively (comparative more retrospectively, superlative most retrospectively)

more retrospectively (comparative)
most retrospectively (superlative)

Coordinate term: prospectively

Near-synonyms: in retrospect, in hindsight


resoundingly

resoundingly (comparative more resoundingly, superlative most resoundingly)

more resoundingly (comparative)
most resoundingly (superlative)

The bells tolled resoundingly.

The corner has been mentioned as a wonderful corner for echoes; it had begun to echo so resoundingly to the tread of coming feet, that it seemed as though the very mention of that weary pacing to and fro had set it going.

1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

Then suddenly he seized a new preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a week's work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the bookcase;

1909, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter XIII, in Ann Veronica, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin:

"Let him return and be damned!" shouted Giles, slapping Marge's fat haunch resoundingly. "He may be lord of the keep, but at present we are keepers of the cellar! More ale! Agnes, you little slut, another song!"

1939, Robert E. Howard, Gates of Empire:

The children resoundingly defeated the bully.

My heart needed no tutor for its recognitions, and cried its own "Bravos!" the more resoundingly because un-often summoned from silence.

1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, “ch. 5”, in Autobiography of a Yogi:

(by extension) Emphatically, so as to be celebrated.


incompatibly

incompatibly (comparative more incompatibly, superlative most incompatibly)

more incompatibly (comparative)
most incompatibly (superlative)


pusillanimously

pusillanimously (comparative more pusillanimously, superlative most pusillanimously)

more pusillanimously (comparative)
most pusillanimously (superlative)


respectably

respectably (comparative more respectably, superlative most respectably)

more respectably (comparative)
most respectably (superlative)

A respectably attired solicitor came to read the will.

The house was built in Elizabeth’s time, and is a large, regular brick building—heavy, but respectably looking, and has many good rooms.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 115:

In a respectable manner; so as to gain respect.


alate

There hathe bene alate ſuche tales ſpreade abroade, and moſt vntruly, ſuch falſe taletellers ſhal haue a greuous puniſhement of the Lord whan he ſhall come to rewarde euerye one according vnto his deſertes.

1552, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[The First Sermon]”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 5, recto: