unwares

unwares (comparative more unwares, superlative most unwares)

more unwares (comparative)
most unwares (superlative)

From Old English unwæres, unwares, from unwær (“unware”).

Still as he went, he craftie stales did lay / With cunning traines him to entrap vnwares.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(now rare, archaic) Unexpectedly, suddenly.


warely

en-adv

warely (comparative more warely, superlative most warely)

more warely (comparative)
most warely (superlative)

From Middle English wareli, wearliche, from Old English wærlice, corresponding to ware + -ly.

He that betrayed hym / gave them a generall token / ſayinge: whoſoever I do kiſſe / he it is / take hym / and leade hym awaye warely.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiiij:[44], folio lxvij, verso:

Arriued there, the dore they find faſt lockt; / For it was warely watched night and day […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 136:


cogitatively

cogitatively (comparative more cogitatively, superlative most cogitatively)

more cogitatively (comparative)
most cogitatively (superlative)


algate

From all + gate (compare Old Norse alla götu).

His onely hart ſore, and his onely foe, / Sith Vna now he algates must forgoe, [...].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 187:

Or fayrer then her ſelfe, if ought algate / Might fayrer be.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 514:

And therefore would I ſhould be algates ſlaine, / For while I liue, his right is in ſuſpence.

1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 60, page 67:

And with the fall his leg oppreſt ſo ſore, / That for a ſpace there muſt he algates dwell.

1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 42, page 47:


schemingly

schemingly (comparative more schemingly, superlative most schemingly)

more schemingly (comparative)
most schemingly (superlative)


pls

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of please.


henceforwards

henceforwards (comparative more henceforwards, superlative most henceforwards)

more henceforwards (comparative)
most henceforwards (superlative)

The time is come when this struggle between duty and sordid interest ought to end, and reason, as well as enlightened policy, demand that in this respect our legislation should be reformed, in order that the mace of justice, instead of being prostituted in search of lucre, may henceforwards be wholly employed in the support of equity and the protection of society.

1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes:

(archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.


doglessly

We found those hens, dozens it seemed, and half a dozen cocks, not counting the ones that we doglessly walked past.

1989 October 25, “South Dakota hunting rarely a pheasant sight”, in Chicago Tribune:


herebefore

They all admired to see the foresaid riches in such dearth of money as was herebefore.


herefrom

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

'Cease ye herefrom: let her enter a mortal's couch and see her son fall in war, who shall be as Ares in the might of his hands, and as the lightning in the swiftness of his feet.

1874, Pindar, The Extant Odes of Pindar:


sumet

(British, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat


collusively

collusively (comparative more collusively, superlative most collusively)

more collusively (comparative)
most collusively (superlative)

in a collusive manner; fraudulently through collusion


colorably

colorably (comparative more colorably, superlative most colorably)

more colorably (comparative)
most colorably (superlative)


aforetimes

When he had saied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]

1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Aristippus”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book I, folio 43, verso, paragraph 42:


willy-nilly

willy-nilly (comparative more willy-nilly, superlative most willy-nilly)

more willy-nilly (comparative)
most willy-nilly (superlative)

From will I, nill I (also with ye or he instead of I), meaning “if I am willing, if I am not willing”, that is, “whether I am willing or not”. See will (“to desire, wish”), nill (“(obsolete) to be unwilling”).

Some writers chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.

Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.

1868, [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, translated by Arthur Duke Coleridge, Egmont. A Tragedy. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, act II, page 40:

I'll own I'm very glad he's come— / To hide my feelings would be silly— / You see I'm not so shy as some, / My thoughts will come out "willy-nilly."

1869 April 1, A. A. D., “Twelve Scenes in a Young Lady’s Life. No. IV. A Spring Ramble.”, in The Young Englishwoman. A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty Needlework Patterns, volume III, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 220, column 1:

[I]f you love him not, then you can love me, and, therefore, can come to please yourself, willy-nilly. What! am I to be thwarted in such a trifle? Willy-nilly, I say, I will marry thee. Come—we waste the time.

1889, Walter Besant, “A Slight Thing at the Best”, in For Faith and Freedom […], volume II, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 243:

He says he shall come for me willy-nilly, and father and mother say I must have him! But I don't want to—because—because—I love you best!

1895 January, Thomas Hardy, “Hearts Insurgent”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XC, number DXXXVI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, chapter VIII, page 194, column 2:

And, while he sleeps, the indwelling Compassion preserves him, willy nilly, from the suicide which, in his waking hours, he has tried so frantically hard to commit.

1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 154:

The outer world is what we wake up to every morning of our lives, is the place where, willy-nilly, we must try to make our living.

1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 36:

Whether desired or not; without regard for the consequences or the wishes of those affected; whether willingly or unwillingly.

طَوْعًا أَوْ كَرْهًا

whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected

θέλοντας και μη (thélontas kai mi, literally “wanted or not”)

хо́чешь не хо́чешь

xóčešʹ ne xóčešʹ

The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.

(idiomatic) Seemingly at random; haphazardly.

nahodile

seemingly at random — see also haphazardly


trigonometrically

By means of, or in terms of, trigonometry.


oftenly

oftenly (comparative more oftenly, superlative most oftenly)

more oftenly (comparative)
most oftenly (superlative)


refractively

refractively (comparative more refractively, superlative most refractively)

more refractively (comparative)
most refractively (superlative)


allegro ma non troppo

From the Italian allegro (“fast”) ma (“but”) non (“not”) troppo (“too much”).


throughly

throughly (comparative more throughly, superlative most throughly)

more throughly (comparative)
most throughly (superlative)

The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

The next advantage / Will we take throughly.

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 III, scene ii]:

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 51:2:

(now rare, archaic) Thoroughly, completely.


violably

violably (comparative more violably, superlative most violably)

more violably (comparative)
most violably (superlative)


forby

forby (comparative more forby, superlative most forby)

more forby (comparative)
most forby (superlative)

From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- + by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“past”), Low German vörbi, German vorbei (“gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by.

cog

To see the world and folk that went forby, […]

1899, Richard Garnett, Alois Leonhard Brandl, The universal anthology:

(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Past; by; beyond.

He was forby kind.

(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommonly; exceptionally.


incommunicably

en-adv

incommunicably (comparative more incommunicably, superlative most incommunicably)

more incommunicably (comparative)
most incommunicably (superlative)


comfortlessly

comfortlessly (comparative more comfortlessly, superlative most comfortlessly)

more comfortlessly (comparative)
most comfortlessly (superlative)


combinedly

combinedly (comparative more combinedly, superlative most combinedly)

more combinedly (comparative)
most combinedly (superlative)


leptonically

In a leptonic manner; by means of leptons


toastily

toastily (comparative more toastily, superlative most toastily)

more toastily (comparative)
most toastily (superlative)

In short, she always made herself as toastily comfortable as a cat.

1968, Bruce Gould, Beatrice Blackmar Gould, American story:


whoopingly

whoopingly (comparative more whoopingly, superlative most whoopingly)

more whoopingly (comparative)
most whoopingly (superlative)

He had a whoopingly joyful time for several miles, with his swift thoroughbred racing just behind or at the side of the big Plains animal.

1976, Thomas Bailey Marquis, Keep the last bullet for yourself: the true story of Custer's last stand, page 25:

Statesmen sometimes need some whoopingly big lies to justify to themselves and their followers actions which they contemplate.

1966, Leonard William Doob, Public opinion and propaganda, page 390:

(degree) To a very great extent; extremely.


nontransparently

Done in a nontransparent fashion or manner.


bull-like

bull-like (comparative more bull-like, superlative most bull-like)

more bull-like (comparative)
most bull-like (superlative)

He was breathing bull-like from anger.

[Entry for the Greek word "Taurêdon"] Ταυρηδόν, adv. (i.) bull-like. B. 816.

1754, James Sanxay, Lexicon Aristophanicum, Græco-Anglicum, p. 348:

Alternative spelling of bulllike Earlier and more common.


deathlily

deathlily (comparative more deathlily, superlative most deathlily)

more deathlily (comparative)
most deathlily (superlative)


nonautomatically

nonautomatically (comparative more nonautomatically, superlative most nonautomatically)

more nonautomatically (comparative)
most nonautomatically (superlative)

Done in a nonautomatic manner or fashion.


conciliatorily

conciliatorily (comparative more conciliatorily, superlative most conciliatorily)

more conciliatorily (comparative)
most conciliatorily (superlative)


fashionably late

fashionably late (comparative more fashionably late, superlative most fashionably late)

more fashionably late (comparative)
most fashionably late (superlative)

Three hours later—fashionably late, of course—the Stuart party swept in state into their box.

1874, May Agnes Fleming, chapter V, in A Terrible Secret:

Ex-Senator Blount's party of three was fashionably late at the function in Mesa Circle, but in the crush filling the spacious drawing-rooms the hostess and her long line of receiving assistants were still on duty.

1913, Francis Lynde, chapter X, in The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush:

The sofa which she had counted on to hold four looked crowded with three[…] and when the Simpsons came, fashionably late (having only just finished dinner), they had to content themselves with the end of a holland-covered form hired from the baker.

1917, O. Douglas [pseudonym; Anna Masterton Buchan], chapter II, in The Setons:

Well, she's fashionably lean / And she's fashionably late / She'll never rank a scene / She'll never break a date

1967, “Twentieth Century Fox”, in The Doors, performed by The Doors:

(idiomatic) Arriving behind time to an event which does not normally require one to be punctual.


oldly

oldly (comparative more oldly, superlative most oldly)

more oldly (comparative)
most oldly (superlative)

From Middle English oldely, aldeliȝ, aldelike, equivalent to old + -ly.

windows fashioned oldly


balistically

balistically (comparative more balistically, superlative most balistically)

more balistically (comparative)
most balistically (superlative)


nonadiabatically

nonadiabatically (comparative more nonadiabatically, superlative most nonadiabatically)

more nonadiabatically (comparative)
most nonadiabatically (superlative)


concurringly

concurringly (comparative more concurringly, superlative most concurringly)

more concurringly (comparative)
most concurringly (superlative)


concupiscently

concupiscently (comparative more concupiscently, superlative most concupiscently)

more concupiscently (comparative)
most concupiscently (superlative)

In a concupiscent manner; with concupiscence


nonstereospecifically

nonstereospecifically (comparative more nonstereospecifically, superlative most nonstereospecifically)

more nonstereospecifically (comparative)
most nonstereospecifically (superlative)

Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
A complex mixture of adducts arose from the reaction of isobenzofuran 67 with Smith’s diene (4) as addition occurred nonstereospecifically at both p-centers of 4.


viscidly

viscidly (comparative more viscidly, superlative most viscidly)

more viscidly (comparative)
most viscidly (superlative)

The room was stuffy, the smoke hanging as viscidly in the warm still air as the white of an egg hangs in water, as if she’d been sitting there for some time.

2009, Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, Virago Press (2018), page 444:


ex hypothesi

From Late Latin ex hypothesi (literally “from the hypothesis”), from hypothesis.

bor

Following from the hypothesis; in accordance with the hypothesis; by hypothesis; as a consequence of assumptions made; theoretically; supposedly; hypothetically.


kawaiily

en-adv

kawaiily (comparative more kawaiily, superlative most kawaiily)

more kawaiily (comparative)
most kawaiily (superlative)

(very rare, chiefly in the context of Japanese culture) In a kawaii manner; cutely.

kavaje

cutely, in the context of Japanese culture


stereoscopically

A single camera video see-through display is not capable of showing the real-world view stereoscopically.

2013, Alan B. Craig, Understanding Augmented Reality: Concepts and Applications:


spunkily

spunkily (comparative more spunkily, superlative most spunkily)

more spunkily (comparative)
most spunkily (superlative)

As for Blue, spunkily performed by Sachs, what can be said for a female character who wants her man to kill her with his dick?

1989 January 20, Tom Boeker, “Beirut”, in Chicago Reader:

Bompass holds Aurora accountable for a debt owed him by her late husband; she can't pay; and their argument escalates until Bompass, no gentleman he, challenges Aurora to a duel--and she spunkily accepts the challenge.

1991 May 10, Albert Williams, “Off Off Loop Theater Festival: High Fidelity/Mo' Better Blue Velvet, or David Lynch Mob Mentality/Babes in Arms, Act I”, in Chicago Reader:


springily

springily (comparative more springily, superlative most springily)

more springily (comparative)
most springily (superlative)

With that he turned on a spurred heel and crossed springily to where his horse stood. "

1921, William Patterson White, The Heart of the Range:

She moved lightly, springily, as one does who finds in it the joy of calling upon abundant strength.


sufferingly

sufferingly (comparative more sufferingly, superlative most sufferingly)

more sufferingly (comparative)
most sufferingly (superlative)

How can humanity be eliminated from a scene where it has been intensely, sufferingly active ever since the dawn of history?

1903, Charles Sprague Smith, Barbizon days: Millet—Corot—Rousseau—Barye:


condolingly

condolingly (comparative more condolingly, superlative most condolingly)

more condolingly (comparative)
most condolingly (superlative)

"But I forgot: yer not one ov ther stitchin' sort, are yer, Lovey? An' them deear liddle 'an's wur never made fer work; but" condolingly, "never mind, I'm kintent wi' yer."

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 226:


sottishly

sottishly (comparative more sottishly, superlative most sottishly)

more sottishly (comparative)
most sottishly (superlative)


northwardly

northwardly (comparative more northwardly, superlative most northwardly)

more northwardly (comparative)
most northwardly (superlative)


sorrowly

sorrowly (comparative more sorrowly, superlative most sorrowly)

more sorrowly (comparative)
most sorrowly (superlative)

Time passes sorrowly, rather than slowly; and my thoughts, without being amused, are employed.

1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,:

Christie walked home very sadly and sorrowly; he was in no haste to meet old Treffy's anxious, inquiring eyes.

1874, Amy Catherine Walton, Christie's Old Organ:

(poetic, archaic) with sorrow, full of sorrow


southwardly

southwardly (comparative more southwardly, superlative most southwardly)

more southwardly (comparative)
most southwardly (superlative)

As we proceeded southwardly, the temperature grew milder, and the day closed with a calm and pleasant sunset.

1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller:

The Scandinavian peoples have developed a tendency to an extra-European outlook, to look west and east rather than southwardly, to be pacifist and progressive in a manner essentially American.

Dungey (7 ) first sketched the consequences for an interplanetary (solar wind) magnetic field (IMF) that was oppositely directed (southwardly) from the generally northward terrestrial field.

2000 June 16, John G. Lyon, “The Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 1987–1991:


werry

Better let me make you up a little fire, the nights is werry cool," continued Ben.

1857, Frank J. Webb, The Garies and Their Friends:

"We must be off if we're to lie at Uxbridge overnight; for there hath been rain beyond, sir, and the roads be werry deep."

I spent a werry plessant arternoon there, and drove home in style on the Box Seat of a reel Company's Bus. The nex day I went to Higate Wood, another of the grate works of the good old Copperashun.

1890, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 30, 1890.:


full circle

Thus, patterns whose parts move about a point axis are called finite, because eventually the parts will move full circle to superimpose upon the original starting point […]

1983, Dorothy Koster Washburn, Structure and Cognition in Art, page 138:

Little has been heard lately of Gwynedd Council's campaign for the line to be upgraded for freight use, enabling it to haul slate waste from Blaenau Ffestiniog for export to Europe. [...] It would mean things have gone full circle, for the line's original purpose was transporting slate from Ffestiniog quarries to a quay at Deganwy for shipping abroad.

2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 58:

Through a rotation or revolution that ends at the starting point.

wieder zum Anfangspunkt zurück

through a rotation or revolution that ends at the starting point

Now the wheel is turning back full circle.

1963 August, “New 5,000 H.P.-Plus Diesels for U.S. Railroads”, in Modern Railways, page 127:

He'd begin with a premise and wrap it up at the end, full circle, the moral of the story hanging on the last word of the last line.

2001, Peter M. Coan, Taxi: The Harry Chapin Story, page 139:

This therefore marks our return full circle to the optical proofs in the Diotprique with which our detective work began.

2012, John Schuster, Descartes-Agonistes: Physcio-mathematics, Method & Corpuscular Mechanism 1618-33, page 213:

(idiomatic) Through a cycle of transition, returning to where one started after gaining experience or exploring other things.

zurück zum Ausgangspunkt

(idiomatic) through a cycle of transition, returning to where one started


per accidens

Borrowed from Late Latin conversio per accidens, English from 1425.

By chance; by reason of an accidental, incidental or non-essential circumstance; contingently; indirectly.


lookswise

And coming back to what we told you earlier on, though lookswise they suit each other to the tee, it's really something else, when it comes to a relationship of any kind!

I stared at Wendy trying to find any possible connection between the two, lookswise or personality.

2005, Steven Kedrowski, Lovesong for the Bad Priestess:

"I mean lookswise. Is he gorgeous, or a gorgon, or somewhere in between?"

In a manner that pertains to looks or appearance.


frice

As if to continue the sequence once, twice, thrice with four.

[…] not once or twice or thrice or frice, but many times, and always under awkward conditions.

1999, John R. Erickson, Gerald L. Holmes, Every dog has his day:

[…] and wince, she says, and twice and thrice and frice and fice and sice and seven-up sits the Star of the County Down […]

2001, Benedict Kelly, The collected stories of Benedict Kiely:

Three cheers for scratch: Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huz-ZAH! Not only do I get to see it now, but I got to say huzzah thrice! Well, I guess now it's frice.

2001 February 7, "Joe", “Linnell finds the camera!”, in alt.music.tmbg (Usenet), message-ID <95sa2g$debts$1@ID-50051.news.dfncis.de>:

I've been caught out once or twice or thrice or frice.

2001 August 4, "Alan T Gower", “Seconds from Disaster”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet), message-ID <3b6bac29$0$3761$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>:

Our sacred boost is now finally perfected! As powerful as can be... and FRICE can you use it!

2015, “Chumbucket”, in Mad Max, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment:

(rare, nonstandard, humorous) four times


theer

(obsolete or pronunciation spelling) there


astart

From Middle English asterten, asteorten, from a- (from Old English ā-) + sterten, equivalent to a- + start.


truthwards

truthwards (comparative more truthwards, superlative most truthwards)

more truthwards (comparative)
most truthwards (superlative)


primpingly

primpingly (comparative more primpingly, superlative most primpingly)

more primpingly (comparative)
most primpingly (superlative)


how so

From ellipsis of "how is that so?", and also continuing Middle English how-so, hou-so, hu se (“however, in whatsoever way”). Compare West Frisian hoesa (“how so, why”), Dutch hoezo (“how so, why”), German Low German woso (“how so, why”), German wieso (“how so, why”), Swedish hurså (“how so”). By surface analysis, how + so.

But how so thys money was lent or gyded, at thys daye the cheste remayneth in the chamber of London, wythout money or pledges for the same.

1809, The Literary Panorama, and National Register, page 1179:

But we have groaned over this experience, an O ! dear ! with every breath, and wished ourselves out of it, someway, somehow, no matter what way or how so we were rid of it.

1897, Ursula Newell Gestefeld, How We Master Our Fate, page 62:

Of every wit somewhat he can Out-take that him lacketh rule, His own estate to guide and rule; How so it stood of his speaking, He was not wise in his doing;

2014, Gesta Romanorum, →ISBN, page clxxxiii:

Yet how so ere I love, I must be wife.

1598, Robert Greene, The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth:

That picture wasn't much to look at, being so old and all, but Mrs. Oaks made like it looked so nice; or, that's what she said as she stared at it, looking back and forth at the picture and me like it wasn't so. Only, she just didn't know how so it wasn't. It wasn't me at all.

2013, Earlene Jernigan-Carter, When Life Just Happens: A Book of Short Stories, →ISBN, page 70:

My reflection in you warbled, because you see only hints, of what I see to beacon of me. Who am I who is reflecting from you? How so do I identify my soul in you?

2014, Eve Chilicas, Supernatural: Sci-Fi Poetry, →ISBN, page 24:

The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord ; and in thy salvation how so shall he rejoice!

How so we love thee! Even UNIVAC and IBM Could never count the way.

2012, H. Bundy Shaw, Play On Words: Poems, Lyrics, and Other Writings of H. Bundy Shaw, →ISBN:

I wished my voice would carry him through eternity, keeping us in a moment that nothing could part, oh, and how so I wanted to follow his lead, and how so to death I was determined not to concede, and how so, how so many wonderful things;

2014, Daniel C. Joneikies, Vampyre's Pyre, →ISBN, page 105:


in exchange

I took my old phone back to the shop, and they gave me a new one in exchange.

If I help you with your work, what will you do in exchange?


flappingly

flappingly (comparative more flappingly, superlative most flappingly)

more flappingly (comparative)
most flappingly (superlative)

His rigged large ears like a Fox-hounde flappingly pendent, whose vast stature was little lesse, then a verye naturall Olyphant.

1592, Francesco Colonna, translated by Robert Dallington, Hypnerotomachia, London: Simon Waterson, page 15:

When he talked, he pawed the air with his hands flappingly, something after the fashion of a kangaroo […]

1837, Theodore Hook, chapter 9, in Jack Brag, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 287:

His blue overalls, faded from many washings, fitted him flappingly.

1933, Ben Ames Williams, chapter 5, in Pascal’s Mill, New York: Dutton, page 75:

There was a crippled man down there […]. Convulsions made the man dance flappingly all the time, made him change his expressions, too, as though he were trying to imitate various famous movie stars.

1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 80:


confederately

confederately (comparative more confederately, superlative most confederately)

more confederately (comparative)
most confederately (superlative)


retractably

Robbie and Allen patented their roof design and the four MLB stadiums that are currently retractably domed do not come close to duplicating their ideas.

2009 May 30, Garth Woolsey, “Toronto's dome turns 20”, in Toronto Star:


nonparametrically

nonparametrically (comparative more nonparametrically, superlative most nonparametrically)

more nonparametrically (comparative)
most nonparametrically (superlative)


unbiasedly

unbiasedly (comparative more unbiasedly, superlative most unbiasedly)

more unbiasedly (comparative)
most unbiasedly (superlative)


ellipsoidally

ellipsoidally (comparative more ellipsoidally, superlative most ellipsoidally)

more ellipsoidally (comparative)
most ellipsoidally (superlative)


parabolically

parabolically (comparative more parabolically, superlative most parabolically)

more parabolically (comparative)
most parabolically (superlative)


unangelically

unangelically (comparative more unangelically, superlative most unangelically)

more unangelically (comparative)
most unangelically (superlative)


spectatorially

spectatorially (comparative more spectatorially, superlative most spectatorially)

more spectatorially (comparative)
most spectatorially (superlative)

in a spectatorial manner, as a spectator rather than an actor


quight

But, through long anguish and selfe-murd'ring
He was so wasted and forpined quight

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


accusably

accusably (comparative more accusably, superlative most accusably)

more accusably (comparative)
most accusably (superlative)

in an accusable manner, in a manner chargeable with crime or fault


blamably

blamably (comparative more blamably, superlative most blamably)

more blamably (comparative)
most blamably (superlative)

In a blamable manner; in a manner deserving blame


blameably

blameably (comparative more blameably, superlative most blameably)

more blameably (comparative)
most blameably (superlative)


slightingly

slightingly (comparative more slightingly, superlative most slightingly)

more slightingly (comparative)
most slightingly (superlative)

From slighting (“in the manner of a slight, belittling, deprecative”, adjective) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).

suffix

Huſh, Siſter! Huſh! ſaid he: I vvill not bear to hear her ſpoken ſlightingly of! 'Tis enough, that to oblige your violent and indecent Caprice, you make me compromiſe vvith you thus.

1741, [Samuel Richardson], “Tuesday Morning, the Sixth of My Happiness”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 291:

After having talked ſlightingly of muſick, he vvas obſerved to liſten very attentively vvhile Miſs Thrale played on the harpſichord, […]

1791, James Boswell, “[1775]”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 515:

"I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own however."

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 62:

In order to enter with more discrimination into the style of our different authors, read often "Blair's Lectures." They are, I believe, sometimes spoken slightingly of by men of learning; I, however, as an unlearned man, think them particularly useful.

1832, Edward Berens, “Letter X. English Reading.”, in Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford, […], London: […] [Gilbert & Rivington] for J. G. & F. Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 145–146:

He [Lord Byron] is fond of gossip, and apt to speak slightingly of some of his friends, but is loyal to others.

1880, John Nichol, “1821–1823. Pisa—Genoa—Don Juan.”, in John Morley, editor, Byron (English Men of Letters), London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 167:

In order to console myself—to indemnify myself in some measure—I take to picking all possible faults in the people who glide by. I shrug my shoulders contemptuously, and look slightingly at them according as they pass.

1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part III”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 161:

The colonel touched upon the time when buzzards, in the guise of carpet-baggers, had battened upon the recumbent form; and spoke slightingly of divers persons of antiquity as compared with various Confederate leaders, whose names were greeted with approving nods and ripples of polite enthusiasm.

1915, James Branch Cabell, chapter V, in The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck […], New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, →OCLC, page 104:

(archaic) In a slighting manner; belittlingly, contemptuously.


voguishly

en-adv

voguishly (comparative more voguishly, superlative most voguishly)

more voguishly (comparative)
most voguishly (superlative)


meanspiritedly

meanspiritedly (comparative more meanspiritedly, superlative most meanspiritedly)

more meanspiritedly (comparative)
most meanspiritedly (superlative)


kickingly

kickingly (comparative more kickingly, superlative most kickingly)

more kickingly (comparative)
most kickingly (superlative)

It came in between my legs as I propelled kickingly my body backwards looking at them.

2007, Dwight S. Huggins, A Spacefarer's Journal: A Human's Dream Encounters with Extra-Humans:


halfendeal

halfendeal (comparative more halfendeal, superlative most halfendeal)

more halfendeal (comparative)
most halfendeal (superlative)

From Old English healfan dǣl, accusative form of healfa dǣl (“half part”).

now the humid night was farforth spent, / And heauenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent [...].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


arterwards

Soon arterwards, a day or two as it might be, Mrs. Rummles 'ad 'er mar a-stayin' with her, and the old lady slep in that very room, and was laid up weeks!

P'raps you might like a streak o' mutton arterwards!

1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,:

Only t'other day he up an' took me because Job Jagway ('e works for Squire Cassilis, you'll understand sir) because Job Jagway sez as our wheat, (meanin' Miss Anthea's wheat, you'll understand sir) was mouldy; well, the 'Old Adam' up an' took me to that extent, sir, that they 'ad to carry Job Jagway home, arterwards.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(archaic) Pronunciation spelling of afterwards.


sportfully

sportfully (comparative more sportfully, superlative most sportfully)

more sportfully (comparative)
most sportfully (superlative)

All took the word, to the gay band they hied, The queen, besure, was close to Lanval's side, Sprightly she seem'd, and sportfully did toy, And caught his hand to dance, and led the general joy, Lanval alone was dull where all was gay, His thoughts were fixed on his lovely fay: Soon as he deftly might, he fled the throng; And her dear name nigh trembled on his tongue, When the fond queen, who well had trac'd his flight, Stepp'd forth, and cross'd his disappointed sight.

My stature gives no inch I throw away; My supple joints play free and sportfully; I'm every atom what a man should be.

1887, James Sheridan Knowles, The Love-Chase:

In a play, "The Rovers," he sportfully satirized the romantic drama of Schiller, "The Robbers."

1911, John Holland Rose, William Pitt and the Great War:


crossculturally

crossculturally (comparative more crossculturally, superlative most crossculturally)

more crossculturally (comparative)
most crossculturally (superlative)

Alternative spelling of cross-culturally


coltishly

coltishly (comparative more coltishly, superlative most coltishly)

more coltishly (comparative)
most coltishly (superlative)


autonomically

autonomically (comparative more autonomically, superlative most autonomically)

more autonomically (comparative)
most autonomically (superlative)

autonomic nervous system
autonomic nervous system

With reference to the autonomic nervous system


accessorially

accessorially (comparative more accessorially, superlative most accessorially)

more accessorially (comparative)
most accessorially (superlative)

Besides these groups are introduced, accessorially, all the Fathers and Doctors whose writings maintain the Roman Church's doctrine of the Real Presence.

1869, CI Hemans, A History of Mediaeval Christianity and Sacred Art in Italy, page 463:

English books unite in declaring that he, who councels, procures or aids treason, is guilty accessorially and solely in virtue of the common law principle [...].

1916, AJ Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall, volume 3, page 625:

(rare) In such a way as to be an accessory; in an auxiliary manner, additionally.


dernly

dernly (comparative more dernly, superlative most dernly)

more dernly (comparative)
most dernly (superlative)

next stroke him should haue slaine, / Had not the Lady, which by him stood bound, / Dernely vnto her called to abstaine […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


confluently

confluently (comparative more confluently, superlative most confluently)

more confluently (comparative)
most confluently (superlative)


vice versâ

[I]f the Doctrines, the sum of which I believe to constitute the Truth in Christ, be Christianity, then Unitarianism is not, and vice versâ: […]

1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Conclusion”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 308:

His Britannic Majesty, and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, do stipulate and agree, that there shall be a perfect reciprocity on the subject of the Duties and Imposts to be paid by the Ships and Vessels of the High Contracting Parties, within the several Ports, Harbours, Roads, and Anchoring-places belonging to each of them; to wit, that the Ships and Vessels of the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty shall not pay any higher Duties or Imposts (under whatsoever name they be designated or implied) within the Dominions of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, than the Ships and Vessels belonging to the Subjects of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal shall be bound to pay within the Dominions of His Britannic Majesty, and vice versâ.

1841, British and Foreign State Papers, volume 1, part 1, pages 516–517:

Baird then proceeds to treat of the eastward movement of American birds, and its influence on the ornis of Greenland and Europe, and vice versâ.

1867, The record of zoological literature, volume 3, page 60:

Even in the same sentence we often find a purely Japanese construction interrupted by a phrase which it is impossible to consider as anything but clumsy Chinese; while, vice versâ, his Chinese contains expressions not to be understood without a knowledge of Japanese.

1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 20:


full out

full out (comparative more full out, superlative most full out)

more full out (comparative)
most full out (superlative)

With maximum effort; as much or as far as possibly; completely.

(typography, not comparable) Extending across the full width of a page or column, without indentation.


'course

“Huck, have you ever told anybody about that?” “’Bout what?” “You know what.” “Oh—’course I haven’t.”

1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 182:

"[…]she'd probably find something wrong with him too. Wouldn't you?" He looked at me.
"'Course," I said, examining the picture before exclaiming very seriously, "His hair's too greasy."

2002, Jane Green, Bookends, trade paperback, published 2003, →ISBN, page 33:


thorowly

To looke into this Businesse thorowly.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 202:


jerkingly

jerkingly (comparative more jerkingly, superlative most jerkingly)

more jerkingly (comparative)
most jerkingly (superlative)


homologically

homologically (comparative more homologically, superlative most homologically)

more homologically (comparative)
most homologically (superlative)


styll

Modern usage seems to have originated in Canadian slang, compare other modern respellings of i with y like whyte (which also coincides with an older spelling variant).

I’m no new here. So, don’t disrespect me for some new mans styll.

2017 December 1, Roy Woods (lyrics and music), “Monday To Monday”, in Say Less:

(MTE, MLE, slang) Usually added to the end of a sentence to add emphasis.

¶ So streyt that to scape col{us} had noo space ¶ This seyng Colus be styll wythin abode.

1500, anonymous author, The Assemble of Goddes:

These beeing come ouer with an obscure and foggy close ayre, with many losses and a grieuous voyage, they beginne to remember what they haue past and lost: for the more that the compasse of the reuolucion, draweth neere to the discouerie of the Figure of the Center, the sooner they are passed ouer, styll shorter and shorter, and the more swyfter the course of the streame is into the deuouring swallow of the Center.

The lady sate styll in the blacke chayre, in her prayers to God, and to the vyrgyne Mary, humbly prayenge them, by theyr specyall grace, to send her husbande the victory, accordynge to the ryght.

1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3):


frabjously

frabjously (comparative more frabjously, superlative most frabjously)

more frabjously (comparative)
most frabjously (superlative)

In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.


unsupportably

unsupportably (comparative more unsupportably, superlative most unsupportably)

more unsupportably (comparative)
most unsupportably (superlative)


abridgedly

abridgedly (comparative more abridgedly, superlative most abridgedly)

more abridgedly (comparative)
most abridgedly (superlative)

in an abridged manner, in a manner that is cut short or shortened


vinegarishly

vinegarishly (comparative more vinegarishly, superlative most vinegarishly)

more vinegarishly (comparative)
most vinegarishly (superlative)


sloshingly

sloshingly (comparative more sloshingly, superlative most sloshingly)

more sloshingly (comparative)
most sloshingly (superlative)

It [the plane] struck solidly, seemed to rebound a little, then settled sloshingly.


dottily

dottily (comparative more dottily, superlative most dottily)

more dottily (comparative)
most dottily (superlative)


schoolishly

schoolishly (comparative more schoolishly, superlative most schoolishly)

more schoolishly (comparative)
most schoolishly (superlative)

Such a schoolishly overwritten, crammed style characterizes his two novels about the decline of traditional peasant life […]

1988, Iván Boldizsár, NHQ; the new Hungarian quarterly, Volume 29:

This is clearly apparent in its schoolishly Hegelian three-part progression.

1992, Denis Hollier, Against architecture: the writings of Georges Bataille:

[…] children need not always be sitting schoolishly, but they must be 'actively' occupied.

2006, Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe, Educational research: why "what works" doesn't work:


topheavily

topheavily (comparative more topheavily, superlative most topheavily)

more topheavily (comparative)
most topheavily (superlative)


yappingly

yappingly (comparative more yappingly, superlative most yappingly)

more yappingly (comparative)
most yappingly (superlative)


barkingly

barkingly (comparative more barkingly, superlative most barkingly)

more barkingly (comparative)
most barkingly (superlative)


unkemptly

unkemptly (comparative more unkemptly, superlative most unkemptly)

more unkemptly (comparative)
most unkemptly (superlative)


thisaway

"It was thisaway, mister; yes, sir; listen: I was camped in the ravine, an' all to wunst I seen the flare of the fire an' I run over there; but 'twas too late--the roof had fell in an' the pore feller must 'a' been cooked alive.

(dialect or humorous) This way; in this direction.


thur

“Thur’s a lot of Indians down thur, Captain Scull,” one says.

2007 November 11, Virginia Heffernan, “High-Def at High Noon”, in New York Times:


mesoscopically

In a mesoscopic manner, or on a mesoscopic scale


unfrighteningly

unfrighteningly (comparative more unfrighteningly, superlative most unfrighteningly)

more unfrighteningly (comparative)
most unfrighteningly (superlative)


unfrivolously

unfrivolously (comparative more unfrivolously, superlative most unfrivolously)

more unfrivolously (comparative)
most unfrivolously (superlative)


equatorially

equatorially (comparative more equatorially, superlative most equatorially)

more equatorially (comparative)
most equatorially (superlative)


earst

So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, published 1921, Book I:


calculably

calculably (comparative more calculably, superlative most calculably)

more calculably (comparative)
most calculably (superlative)


publickly

publickly (comparative more publickly, superlative most publickly)

more publickly (comparative)
most publickly (superlative)


uncynically

uncynically (comparative more uncynically, superlative most uncynically)

more uncynically (comparative)
most uncynically (superlative)


loathingly

loathingly (comparative more loathingly, superlative most loathingly)

more loathingly (comparative)
most loathingly (superlative)

He attempted to embrace her, but she withdrew herself loathingly from his arms.

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 417:


noninteractively

The program can run noninteractively if there is no user at the computer.


ex professo

As an expert; with the competence one would expect from a professional; in the capacity of an expert.


oraculously

oraculously (comparative more oraculously, superlative most oraculously)

more oraculously (comparative)
most oraculously (superlative)

Thirdly, the teſtimonies of Antiquity and ſuch as paſſe oraculouſly amongſt us, were not if wee conſider them alwayes ſo exact, as to examine the doctrine they delivered.

1646, Thomas Browne, “Of Adherence unto Antiquity”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 21:

(obsolete) In an oraculous manner; like an oracle.


in fine

Presently, when they had exchanged a few kisses, and questions in broken English on one side, he began to unbutton, and, in fine, stripped into his shirt.

1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, published 1985, page 66:

All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.

1780, Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Article I:

Then again, why should there not be an ‘Emigration Service,’ and Secretary, with adjuncts, with funds, forces, idle Navy-ships, and ever-increasing apparatus; in fine an effective system of Emigration; […]

1843, Thomas Carlyle, “III, The One Institution”, in Past and Present, book 4:

“In fine, we thought that he was everything / To make us wish that we were in his place.”

1897, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory:

“My temper is sweet, and my character without blemish. In fine, Miss Dobson, I am a most desirable parti.”

[…]the church was told in fine that Brother Ayer must stop his singing[…]

1961, “Trouble In The Amen Corner”, performed by Jim Reeves:

(archaic) Ultimately, in the end; in conclusion.


tn

I'm just annoyed cuz you didn't text me tn and ugh fuck you

2014 October 15, @spanishgodess_, Twitter:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of tonight.


seismologically

in a seismological manner; in terms of seismology.


uneducatedly

uneducatedly (comparative more uneducatedly, superlative most uneducatedly)

more uneducatedly (comparative)
most uneducatedly (superlative)


strickenly

strickenly (comparative more strickenly, superlative most strickenly)

more strickenly (comparative)
most strickenly (superlative)


spurningly

spurningly (comparative more spurningly, superlative most spurningly)

more spurningly (comparative)
most spurningly (superlative)


positutely

"Whatever you do, you "absitively," "positutely"...must not panic."

2000, Disney - The Little Mermaid II, Return to the Sea - https://web.archive.org/web/20110411054111/http://movie.subtitlr.com/subtitle/show/250961#line281

absitively posolutely
absitively posolutely

(informal, humorous or childish) positively and absolutely; see absitively posolutely


cyberstyle

...snail mail it to their regional processor (who will in turn send a signature "flag" to the central processor), but everything else goes cyberstyle.

1997, Anna Leider, Robert Leider, Don't miss out: the ambitious student's guide to financial aid, Volume 22:

1997, RoDeoFlowr, “looking for penpals cyberstyle”, in soc.penpals (Usenet):

Finally, you enter a credit card number, and with a click of a button, your application flies cyberstyle to the school of choice, although you can print it out and mail it in if you prefer.

1999, Cynthia Green, Jennifer Reingold, Business Week guide to the best business schools:

Is it sex—cyberstyle—or is it abstinence?

2008, Mary Ann Lamanna, Agnes Riedmann, Marriages and Families: Making Choices in a Diverse Society:

(rare, informal) By means of a computer.


itchingly

itchingly (comparative more itchingly, superlative most itchingly)

more itchingly (comparative)
most itchingly (superlative)


taperingly

taperingly (comparative more taperingly, superlative most taperingly)

more taperingly (comparative)
most taperingly (superlative)

In a tapering manner; growing thinner towards one end.


hobblingly

hobblingly (comparative more hobblingly, superlative most hobblingly)

more hobblingly (comparative)
most hobblingly (superlative)


nibblingly

nibblingly (comparative more nibblingly, superlative most nibblingly)

more nibblingly (comparative)
most nibblingly (superlative)


featherily

featherily (comparative more featherily, superlative most featherily)

more featherily (comparative)
most featherily (superlative)

Twice it rained in the night, but it was a gentle rain, whimpering featherily on the skin coverings of the conical lodges.


dehumanizingly

dehumanizingly (comparative more dehumanizingly, superlative most dehumanizingly)

more dehumanizingly (comparative)
most dehumanizingly (superlative)


dehumanisingly

dehumanisingly (comparative more dehumanisingly, superlative most dehumanisingly)

more dehumanisingly (comparative)
most dehumanisingly (superlative)


indepthly

indepthly (comparative more indepthly, superlative most indepthly)

more indepthly (comparative)
most indepthly (superlative)

He looks at me, fully, indepthly! He's never done it before, but he does it now. He smells the gin on my breath, and he knows me; he knows I understand.

It has the ability to concentrate indepthly on many subjects […]

2002, Frances M. Klug, Stories from Heaven:

In the fourth section, SOR Architecture is analyzed indepthly, showing its modules and explaining how it enhances the existing OSGi Service Registry […]

2008, Roger Lee, Computer and Information Science:


songfully

songfully (comparative more songfully, superlative most songfully)

more songfully (comparative)
most songfully (superlative)


ungovernably

ungovernably (comparative more ungovernably, superlative most ungovernably)

more ungovernably (comparative)
most ungovernably (superlative)

Fascinated, she stood shaken ungovernably by its horrible suggestiveness, while above and about her the trees shivered meaningly.

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 286:


sorrowingly

sorrowingly (comparative more sorrowingly, superlative most sorrowingly)

more sorrowingly (comparative)
most sorrowingly (superlative)


piningly

piningly (comparative more piningly, superlative most piningly)

more piningly (comparative)
most piningly (superlative)


arhythmically

arhythmically (comparative more arhythmically, superlative most arhythmically)

more arhythmically (comparative)
most arhythmically (superlative)


unsorrowfully

unsorrowfully (comparative more unsorrowfully, superlative most unsorrowfully)

more unsorrowfully (comparative)
most unsorrowfully (superlative)


ungodlily

ungodlily (comparative more ungodlily, superlative most ungodlily)

more ungodlily (comparative)
most ungodlily (superlative)


lip-smackingly

lip-smackingly (comparative more lip-smackingly, superlative most lip-smackingly)

more lip-smackingly (comparative)
most lip-smackingly (superlative)

Aunt Bessy's Easter ham is always lip-smackingly good.

(manner) With audibly expressed enjoyment.


lip-smacking

lip-smacking (comparative more lip-smacking, superlative most lip-smacking)

more lip-smacking (comparative)
most lip-smacking (superlative)

Aunt Bessy's Easter ham is always lip-smacking good.

She looked so lip-smacking good that he knew even a brief conversation would be a challenge.

2003, Susan Donovan, Take a Chance on Me, St. Martin's Press, page 313:


battily

battily (comparative more battily, superlative most battily)

more battily (comparative)
most battily (superlative)


tattily

tattily (comparative more tattily, superlative most tattily)

more tattily (comparative)
most tattily (superlative)


rattily

rattily (comparative more rattily, superlative most rattily)

more rattily (comparative)
most rattily (superlative)


ungraspably

ungraspably (comparative more ungraspably, superlative most ungraspably)

more ungraspably (comparative)
most ungraspably (superlative)


nonconsensually

In a nonconsensual manner; without consent.


loonily

loonily (comparative more loonily, superlative most loonily)

more loonily (comparative)
most loonily (superlative)


unquietly

unquietly (comparative more unquietly, superlative most unquietly)

more unquietly (comparative)
most unquietly (superlative)


deadeningly

deadeningly (comparative more deadeningly, superlative most deadeningly)

more deadeningly (comparative)
most deadeningly (superlative)

Although it was, on occasion, disturbing to see powerful and complicated emotions and behaviors distilled into deadeningly dull diagnostic phrases […]

1997, Kay Redfield Jamison, An unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness:

[…] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.


resultlessly

In a resultless manner; without a result.


fathomlessly

Prior Albert. Son! you relapse into revenge,
If you regret your enemy’s bloodless death.
Siegendorf. His death was fathomlessly deep in blood.

1822, Lord Byron, Werner, London: John Murray, published 1823, act IV, scene 1, page 153:

[…] she had had glimpses enough of the scene: of the audience of bright elderly women, with snowy hair, eurythmic movements, and finely-wrinkled over-massaged faces on which a smile of glassy benevolence sat like their rimless pince-nez. They were all inexorably earnest, aimlessly kind and fathomlessly pure […]

1927, Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep, Book I, Chapter I:

[…] Wani’s look was so fathomlessly interesting to him […]

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

In a fathomless manner, to a fathomless degree.


dewily

dewily (comparative more dewily, superlative most dewily)

more dewily (comparative)
most dewily (superlative)


uninsistently

uninsistently (comparative more uninsistently, superlative most uninsistently)

more uninsistently (comparative)
most uninsistently (superlative)


empoweringly

empoweringly (comparative more empoweringly, superlative most empoweringly)

more empoweringly (comparative)
most empoweringly (superlative)


uninsightfully

uninsightfully (comparative more uninsightfully, superlative most uninsightfully)

more uninsightfully (comparative)
most uninsightfully (superlative)


hoardingly

hoardingly (comparative more hoardingly, superlative most hoardingly)

more hoardingly (comparative)
most hoardingly (superlative)


transpersonally

transpersonally (comparative more transpersonally, superlative most transpersonally)

more transpersonally (comparative)
most transpersonally (superlative)


brushily

brushily (comparative more brushily, superlative most brushily)

more brushily (comparative)
most brushily (superlative)


huntedly

huntedly (comparative more huntedly, superlative most huntedly)

more huntedly (comparative)
most huntedly (superlative)

He peered huntedly into the darkness.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 87:

In a hunted manner; as though being hunted.


comedogenically

comedogenically (comparative more comedogenically, superlative most comedogenically)

more comedogenically (comparative)
most comedogenically (superlative)


dispersedly

dispersedly (comparative more dispersedly, superlative most dispersedly)

more dispersedly (comparative)
most dispersedly (superlative)

Miles of darkness and sooty blots stretched away to the grey bar that was the sea; nearer, the river shone dispersedly in swamps and meanders.

1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 40:

In a dispersed manner; in a scattered way, here and there.


meddlesomely

meddlesomely (comparative more meddlesomely, superlative most meddlesomely)

more meddlesomely (comparative)
most meddlesomely (superlative)


scummily

scummily (comparative more scummily, superlative most scummily)

more scummily (comparative)
most scummily (superlative)


absobloodylutely

Result of tmesis between absolutely + -bloody-.

Theatre is marvellous, he says, absobloodylutely marvellous.

2006, Bearnárd O'Riain, Running to Stand Still, page 212:

(British, slang, euphemistic) absolutely


tomorn

From Middle English tomorn, from Old English tōmorgen (“tomorrow”), equivalent to to- + morn. More at tomorrow.


nonsimply

nonsimply (comparative more nonsimply, superlative most nonsimply)

more nonsimply (comparative)
most nonsimply (superlative)


continentally

continentally (comparative more continentally, superlative most continentally)

more continentally (comparative)
most continentally (superlative)

In a continental manner or to a continental extent


tout court

Harry was ‘Master Harry’ in their mouths; Judy was officially ‘Miss Judy’; but Black Sheep was never anything more than Black Sheep tout court.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, Baa Baa, Black Sheep:

People did not bow down and worship a rock tout court; the rock was simply a focus that directed their attention to the mysterious essence of life.

2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 21:

Just, simply; without addition or qualification; alone.


demagogically

demagogically (comparative more demagogically, superlative most demagogically)

more demagogically (comparative)
most demagogically (superlative)

From demagogic + -ally or demagogical + -ly.


permutationally

permutationally (comparative more permutationally, superlative most permutationally)

more permutationally (comparative)
most permutationally (superlative)


isocratically

isocratically (comparative more isocratically, superlative most isocratically)

more isocratically (comparative)
most isocratically (superlative)


synoptically

synoptically (comparative more synoptically, superlative most synoptically)

more synoptically (comparative)
most synoptically (superlative)


despitefully

despitefully (comparative more despitefully, superlative most despitefully)

more despitefully (comparative)
most despitefully (superlative)

Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 6:28:

(archaic) In a despiteful manner; spitefully.


ethnopharmacologically

In a ethnopharmacological manner; With regard to ethnopharmacology.


disembodiedly

disembodiedly (comparative more disembodiedly, superlative most disembodiedly)

more disembodiedly (comparative)
most disembodiedly (superlative)


goalwards

Ashley Young's ill-advised attempt to dribble out of danger ended in a corner and when Steven Gerrard's delivery was headed goalwards by Daniel Agger, Sturridge deflected it home from virtually on the line.

2013, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:

The wing-back Rachel Daly smashed a volley goalwards from a cleared corner, but it was straight at Nnadozie.

2023 August 7, Suzanne Wrack, “England beat Nigeria on penalties to reach Women’s World Cup quarter-finals”, in The Guardian:


groinward

Or he'd have wedged a very sharp pencil between the edge of his desk and his groin, the tip facing groinward, and she'd see him pressing harder […]

1989, Tracy Kidder, Among schoolchildren:

His hand crept further up, groinward, when Mike barged in, growling like an old werewolf.

"Are you giving me a pep talk?" I asked. He smiled. "What else are you supposed to do to me today?" I pointed groinward.

2004, Elinor Lipman, The pursuit of Alice Thrift:


deosil

Before people started arriving, I began the day as I always did: by sprinkling saltwater widdershins—counterclockwise—around the perimeter of my shop, then smudging deosil—clockwise—with a sage bundle.

2012, Juliet Blackwell, In a Witch's Wardrobe: A Witchcraft Mystery, New York, NY: New American Library, →ISBN, page 32:


polewards

polewards (comparative more polewards, superlative most polewards)

more polewards (comparative)
most polewards (superlative)


glycosidically

In a glycosidic manner; by means of a glycoside


geostatistically

With regard to, or by means of, geostatistics.


tunicwise

Her classic robe is folded tunicwise over the bosom, her dense hair falls loosely on her shoulders and is cut square across the brow.

1922, Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Manon Phlipon Roland: early years:


beggarwise

beggarwise (comparative more beggarwise, superlative most beggarwise)

more beggarwise (comparative)
most beggarwise (superlative)

In the manner of a beggar; by begging or scrounging.


yowlingly

yowlingly (comparative more yowlingly, superlative most yowlingly)

more yowlingly (comparative)
most yowlingly (superlative)

By the end of the 10th month the baby waves bye-bye but often makes it yowlingly clear that it does not want to see people go.


shirtwise

Some of the crew mustered, therefore, in cotton drawers or loin-cloths; in a tunic tucked, shirtwise, into them or napping loose […]

1932, Richard Blaker, The needle-watcher:


catwise

Turning with an effort from the sad cat, Amy Parker looked through the fog of the window and saw her neighbour elongate herself catwise round the corner of a shed...

Every cat is necessarily such that its parts are arranged catwise.

1997, Michael Cannon Rea, Material constitution: a reader:

In a happier mood, had he not been driven by hunger, he might have played with it, catwise, when it was dead, tossing it up and pretending that it was alive...

2005, Charles Mayer, Jungle Beasts I Have Captured:


spadewise

His beard was cut spadewise.


cupwise

Without a word, she bounded up and flitted off like a brown bird, gleaming dull-golden in the sun, glancing in and out among the trees, till she paused above a tiny black pool, and then came tripping and swaying back with hands held cupwise and dripping with cool water.

1911, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Quest of the Silver Fleece:


preachily

preachily (comparative more preachily, superlative most preachily)

more preachily (comparative)
most preachily (superlative)


lashwise

“Come, Yankee,” here swore the incensed private; “cease this, or I’ll darn your old fawn-skins for ye with the flat of this sword;” for a specimen, laying it lashwise, but not heavily, across the captive’s back.

1855, Herman Melville, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile:

(nonce word) In the manner of a whiplash.


malodorously

malodorously (comparative more malodorously, superlative most malodorously)

more malodorously (comparative)
most malodorously (superlative)


gelidly

Those lights of human intelligence losing human expression, gelidly protruding like the alien eyes of certain uncatalogued creatures of the deep.

1924, Herman Melville, chapter 17, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:

The United States Supreme Court, however, was not the colonial judiciary. It gelidly declined to co-operate with Washington.

1960, Louis W. Koenig, The Invisible Presidency, Rinehart, page 15:


metrologically

In a metrological manner; with reference to metrology


potentiometrically

In a potentiometric manner; with regard to potentiometry


primitivistically

primitivistically (comparative more primitivistically, superlative most primitivistically)

more primitivistically (comparative)
most primitivistically (superlative)


softheartedly

softheartedly (comparative more softheartedly, superlative most softheartedly)

more softheartedly (comparative)
most softheartedly (superlative)

In a softhearted manner; with sentimental tenderness.


congruously

congruously (comparative more congruously, superlative most congruously)

more congruously (comparative)
most congruously (superlative)


congregationally

congregationally (comparative more congregationally, superlative most congregationally)

more congregationally (comparative)
most congregationally (superlative)

From congregational + -ly or congregation + -ally.

In a congregational manner; as a congregation


cupboardwise

Boxes, assembled within a larger box cupboardwise and placed on a bedside table, can be used for storage in the same way that pockets are used.

1957, Catherine Weldon, Young folks in homes: leisure-time activities in child-caring institution:

By the early nineteenth century there were even kitchen dolls whose skirts opened cupboardwise to reveal suitably papered rooms with shelves...

1959, Therle Hughes, Small decorative antiques:

They were small upright receptacles intended for hanging against the wall, having a single door opening cupboardwise...


leaps and bounds

Our company has progressed leaps and bounds this year.

[…] the Afghan War showed that America's ability to project power from a distance had improved leaps and bounds since the 1990 Gulf War.

2003, Robyn Lim, The geopolitics of East Asia: the search for equilibrium:


unhealthfully

unhealthfully (comparative more unhealthfully, superlative most unhealthfully)

more unhealthfully (comparative)
most unhealthfully (superlative)


hedonically

hedonically (comparative more hedonically, superlative most hedonically)

more hedonically (comparative)
most hedonically (superlative)


varyingly

varyingly (comparative more varyingly, superlative most varyingly)

more varyingly (comparative)
most varyingly (superlative)

The shells we found on the beach were varyingly white, pink, and pale yellow.


microtonally

microtonally (comparative more microtonally, superlative most microtonally)

more microtonally (comparative)
most microtonally (superlative)

This is possible because the pitches of the notes are allowed to vary microtonally. For instance, the C note in the second chord is played at 528 Hz […]

2005, William A. Sethares, Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale:


wheezily

wheezily (comparative more wheezily, superlative most wheezily)

more wheezily (comparative)
most wheezily (superlative)


meteorologically

The rest of the weekend was glorious, meteorologically and musically.

2009 July 7, James R. Oestreich, “Stravinsky and Brahms: The Odd Couple at Tanglewood”, in New York Times:

In meteorological terms; in the context of weather.


outgoingly

outgoingly (comparative more outgoingly, superlative most outgoingly)

more outgoingly (comparative)
most outgoingly (superlative)


unenergetically

unenergetically (comparative more unenergetically, superlative most unenergetically)

more unenergetically (comparative)
most unenergetically (superlative)


enumerably

(mathematics) In a manner that permits enumeration.


postsurgically

The patient felt better postsurgically.

Relating to the period following surgery.


phylogeographically

In a phylogeographic manner; with regard to phylogeography


forgettably

forgettably (comparative more forgettably, superlative most forgettably)

more forgettably (comparative)
most forgettably (superlative)

The film sequel was forgettably samey.


stageside

The stageside seats are more expensive, but you have a better view of the action.


plumpish

plumpish (comparative more plumpish, superlative most plumpish)

more plumpish (comparative)
most plumpish (superlative)

This lass, Nelly Long, she was dressish and dapper,
And, though our Dick was a good looked lad,
She snubb'd him, scop'd him, for she was a snapper,
And told him quite plumpish—she wan't to be had: […]

(informal) In a blunt and direct fashion.


renewably

renewably (comparative more renewably, superlative most renewably)

more renewably (comparative)
most renewably (superlative)


blandiloquently

blandiloquently (comparative more blandiloquently, superlative most blandiloquently)

more blandiloquently (comparative)
most blandiloquently (superlative)


repressively

repressively (comparative more repressively, superlative most repressively)

more repressively (comparative)
most repressively (superlative)


offputtingly

offputtingly (comparative more offputtingly, superlative most offputtingly)

more offputtingly (comparative)
most offputtingly (superlative)


unnoticeably

unnoticeably (comparative more unnoticeably, superlative most unnoticeably)

more unnoticeably (comparative)
most unnoticeably (superlative)


onanistically

onanistically (comparative more onanistically, superlative most onanistically)

more onanistically (comparative)
most onanistically (superlative)


blameworthily

blameworthily (comparative more blameworthily, superlative most blameworthily)

more blameworthily (comparative)
most blameworthily (superlative)


censurably

censurably (comparative more censurably, superlative most censurably)

more censurably (comparative)
most censurably (superlative)


supercautiously

supercautiously (comparative more supercautiously, superlative most supercautiously)

more supercautiously (comparative)
most supercautiously (superlative)


reciprocatively

reciprocatively (comparative more reciprocatively, superlative most reciprocatively)

more reciprocatively (comparative)
most reciprocatively (superlative)


as the wind blows

(idiomatic, poetic) According to any given circumstances.


unbeatably

unbeatably (comparative more unbeatably, superlative most unbeatably)

more unbeatably (comparative)
most unbeatably (superlative)


draughtily

draughtily (comparative more draughtily, superlative most draughtily)

more draughtily (comparative)
most draughtily (superlative)


dogwise

He prowls round the neighborhood at nightfall, lying perdu all the day, generally in an inaccessible morass, curled up or lying outstretched dogwise on a round hassock of grass […]

1890, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age, volume 186:


sackwise

I was being carried along a dimly lighted, tunnel-like place, slung, sackwise, across the shoulder of a Burman.

1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:

Some drew donkeys on which were thrown and bumped their wounded, sackwise.

1968, Ernest Raymond, The story of my days: an autobiography 1888-1922:


teamwise

He is also aware that, teamwise, it's not a bad strategy to stay closer to Roger's camp than to Doug and Jamie's, who seem to be getting more enthusiastic about paddling...

2001, Todd Balf, The last river: the tragic race for Shangri-la:

"We got some good things done teamwise," Green said the following day. "I think we're as close a ballclub right now than we have been in a long time."

2004, Frank Fitzpatrick, You Can't Lose 'Em All: The Year the Phillies Finally Won the World Series:

Teamwise, this shortening of all organizational functions brings the support and stability of the management process closer to the day-to-day work of the team members who make up the foundation.

2005, Mae Taylor Moss, The emotionally intelligent nurse leader:


cosmographically

In terms of, or by means of, cosmography.


wontedly

wontedly (comparative more wontedly, superlative most wontedly)

more wontedly (comparative)
most wontedly (superlative)

It matched for that matter her other elements, which were wontedly conspicuous as usual as she sat there suggestive of early tea.

1899, Henry James, The Awkward Age, published 1908:

What if she happened to meet him! Would he imagine her purpose in coming there? Her heart began to beat un-wontedly.

1921, Zane Grey, The Mysterious Rider, published 2008:

"My dear child," Mr. Jenkins said, and his voice was un-wontedly compassionate.

1973, Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door:


disquietly

disquietly (comparative more disquietly, superlative most disquietly)

more disquietly (comparative)
most disquietly (superlative)

We have seen the best of our time: / machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all / ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our / graves […]

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 111–114:


undecidedly

undecidedly (comparative more undecidedly, superlative most undecidedly)

more undecidedly (comparative)
most undecidedly (superlative)


anywhence

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As soon as I receive it anywhence, you shall have it presently returned.

1671: Thomas Brancker, in Stephen Peter Rigaud’s Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, volume 1, page 167 (1841 publication)


incommodiously

incommodiously (comparative more incommodiously, superlative most incommodiously)

more incommodiously (comparative)
most incommodiously (superlative)


communicably

communicably (comparative more communicably, superlative most communicably)

more communicably (comparative)
most communicably (superlative)


unpremeditatedly

unpremeditatedly (comparative more unpremeditatedly, superlative most unpremeditatedly)

more unpremeditatedly (comparative)
most unpremeditatedly (superlative)

In an unpremeditated manner; without prior planning.


unknownst

(archaic) Alternative form of unbeknownst


mineralogically

Rocks in each of the three categories were then classified mineralogically.

2003, Davis A. Young, Mind over magma: the story of igneous petrology:


toothsomely

toothsomely (comparative more toothsomely, superlative most toothsomely)

more toothsomely (comparative)
most toothsomely (superlative)


sinisterly

sinisterly (comparative more sinisterly, superlative most sinisterly)

more sinisterly (comparative)
most sinisterly (superlative)

From Middle English sinistrely, equivalent to sinister + -ly.


oversentimentally

oversentimentally (comparative more oversentimentally, superlative most oversentimentally)

more oversentimentally (comparative)
most oversentimentally (superlative)


omnipotently

omnipotently (comparative more omnipotently, superlative most omnipotently)

more omnipotently (comparative)
most omnipotently (superlative)


unwelcomely

unwelcomely (comparative more unwelcomely, superlative most unwelcomely)

more unwelcomely (comparative)
most unwelcomely (superlative)

[…] we were already preparing ourselves for a more striking engagement, when we were most unwelcomely interrupted by the presence of three watchmen.

1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, or, The adventures of a gentleman:


onomatopoeically

onomatopoeically (comparative more onomatopoeically, superlative most onomatopoeically)

more onomatopoeically (comparative)
most onomatopoeically (superlative)


unresourcefully

unresourcefully (comparative more unresourcefully, superlative most unresourcefully)

more unresourcefully (comparative)
most unresourcefully (superlative)


monosyllabically

He was moody all day, answering questions monosyllabically and refusing to join our games.


apoplectically

apoplectically (comparative more apoplectically, superlative most apoplectically)

more apoplectically (comparative)
most apoplectically (superlative)

[…]"Could you do a video on the Laconia incident?" I could; I probably won't, because I would go apoplectically angry about halfway through. Umm, yeah - I did a Drydock question about it, and, by the end of that, which is usually like a five-minute answer or so, I was already, yeee, a little - little steamed.

2022 September 25, Drachinifel, 2:52:53 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 208 (Live Segment) - 25th September 2022, archived from the original on 2022-09-26:


unanalytically

unanalytically (comparative more unanalytically, superlative most unanalytically)

more unanalytically (comparative)
most unanalytically (superlative)


neurophysiologically

In her own view, she was most likely predisposed neurophysiologically to schizophrenia in such a way that her psyche could not tolerate the fracturings that others weathered while maintaining a functioning life.

2013, Mary Elene Wood, Life Writing and Schizophrenia, page 277:

In terms of, or with regard to, neurophysiology.


uninspiringly

uninspiringly (comparative more uninspiringly, superlative most uninspiringly)

more uninspiringly (comparative)
most uninspiringly (superlative)

In particle physics, that system is uninspiringly called the Standard Model, which accounts for all known matter but has one gap: the elusive Higgs boson.

2009 August 9, James Glanz, “When Mortals Work on Cosmic Time”, in New York Times:


unsuspectedly

unsuspectedly (comparative more unsuspectedly, superlative most unsuspectedly)

more unsuspectedly (comparative)
most unsuspectedly (superlative)


phoneward

The pet book produced, the librarian again starts phoneward, but is waylaid by the president of the student council.

1947, Lucile Foster Fargo, The library in the school:

In the meantime Ivor had already skated phoneward across the parquetry to hear what Nina Lecerf or some other neighbor wanted.

1974, Vladimir Nabokov, Look at the harlequins!:

"Dionne, one: I am seriously regretful over last night's lapse," I said, turning my head phoneward.

1997, H. B. Gilmour, Cher and Cher alike:


anywhither

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Coordinate term: everywhither

Clearly enough, if the Chiefs be not self-motive and what we call men, but mere patient lay-figures without self-motive principle, the Government will not move anywhither; it will tumble disastrously, and jumble, round its own axis, as for many years past we have seen it do.

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter III, ’’The One Institution’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):

(rare) To (in the direction of) anywhere.


one after the other

one after another
one after another#English


teeteringly

teeteringly (comparative more teeteringly, superlative most teeteringly)

more teeteringly (comparative)
most teeteringly (superlative)

We feel more dangerously, teeteringly close to disease and death (in a slow, rotting, swamp-induced fashion) than we did during the war in Rhodesia...

2003, Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood:

She would feel ridiculous slinking around in clinging lame dresses and teeteringly high heels, playing the seductress.

2008, Suzanne White, The New Chinese Astrology:


epiphytically

In an epiphytic manner; in the manner of an epiphyte


biostatistically

Viewed biostatistically, some people seem better off because they are kept alive longer and in better condition.

2004, Cynthia Ann Werner, Duran Bell, Values and valuables: from the sacred to the symbolic:

In terms of, or with regard to, biostatistics.


volatilely

volatilely (comparative more volatilely, superlative most volatilely)

more volatilely (comparative)
most volatilely (superlative)


fidgetily

fidgetily (comparative more fidgetily, superlative most fidgetily)

more fidgetily (comparative)
most fidgetily (superlative)


disconcertedly

disconcertedly (comparative more disconcertedly, superlative most disconcertedly)

more disconcertedly (comparative)
most disconcertedly (superlative)


rectangularly

rectangularly (comparative more rectangularly, superlative most rectangularly)

more rectangularly (comparative)
most rectangularly (superlative)


nonmonotonously

nonmonotonously (comparative more nonmonotonously, superlative most nonmonotonously)

more nonmonotonously (comparative)
most nonmonotonously (superlative)

From nonmonotonous + -ly or non- + monotonously.


a.e.

almost everywhere
almost everywhere#English

(mathematics) Initialism of almost everywhere.


nonexponentially

The program's running time increases nonexponentially with the number of files to be processed.


mountingly

mountingly (comparative more mountingly, superlative most mountingly)

more mountingly (comparative)
most mountingly (superlative)

In a manner that mounts or accumulates; increasingly.


unregretfully

unregretfully (comparative more unregretfully, superlative most unregretfully)

more unregretfully (comparative)
most unregretfully (superlative)

In an unregretful manner; without regret.


heathenishly

heathenishly (comparative more heathenishly, superlative most heathenishly)

more heathenishly (comparative)
most heathenishly (superlative)


ectad

From Ancient Greek ἐκτός (ektós, “out of”) + -ad.

Insertion was ectad of the rectus almost to the midventral line.

1878, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution Press, page 57:

This is the cephalic and ventral ramus of the common trunk; it is ectad of the carotid artery and the facial vein, entad of the submaxillary gland, and upon the ectal surface of the masseter muscle.

1886 November 5, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, volume 24:

Its cranial border is thickened and somewhat curled around the anterior fifth of the ilium and distad lies in the groove between the gluteus medius and the iliacus, continuing ectad of the proximal end of the vastus externus the cranial border of the biceps femoris to which it has a short semitendinous attachment distad and ectad of its insertion on the great trochanter.

1921, Wilfred H. Osgood, A monographic study of the American marsupial, Cænolestes, page 36:


wiselier

Gonzalo. […] you have spoken truer than you purposed.
Sebastian. You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.

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 II, scene i]:

O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings freed,
While, and on whom, thou may’st – shine on!

1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Duty surviving self-love”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume 2, London: William Pickering, published 1828, page 77:

(archaic) comparative form of wisely (adverb): more wisely


falseheartedly

falseheartedly (comparative more falseheartedly, superlative most falseheartedly)

more falseheartedly (comparative)
most falseheartedly (superlative)


organisationally

Alternative spelling of organizationally


compendiously

compendiously (comparative more compendiously, superlative most compendiously)

more compendiously (comparative)
most compendiously (superlative)

Thys boke we have devysed,
Compendyously comprysed, […]

c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 23–24:


nowheres

They do say, though, that Mr. Colson's dogs wouldn't go nowheres near that cabin.

1994, Eugenia W. Collier, Breeder and other stories:


foorth

I see Coosen you knowe mee not, and I doe not greatlie blame you, it is so long since you came foorth of the Countrey, but I am such a ones sonne, naming her Uncle right, and his sonnes name, which she very well remembred, but had not seene him in eleven yeares.

1592, R. G., The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592):

I my Lord, the rest have taine their standings in the next roome, therefore good my Lord goe not foorth.

1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris:


conductively

conductively (comparative more conductively, superlative most conductively)

more conductively (comparative)
most conductively (superlative)


lumpenly

lumpenly (comparative more lumpenly, superlative most lumpenly)

more lumpenly (comparative)
most lumpenly (superlative)


bumpily

bumpily (comparative more bumpily, superlative most bumpily)

more bumpily (comparative)
most bumpily (superlative)


statelily

statelily (comparative more statelily, superlative most statelily)

more statelily (comparative)
most statelily (superlative)


repugnantly

repugnantly (comparative more repugnantly, superlative most repugnantly)

more repugnantly (comparative)
most repugnantly (superlative)


humpily

humpily (comparative more humpily, superlative most humpily)

more humpily (comparative)
most humpily (superlative)

Potentilla and Ivory Daphne sat humpily about on the unfolded lawns, and ahead, there towered out enormous cliffs and fantastic pinnacles of what looked like Dolomite.

1921, Reginald Farrer, chapter 10, in The Rainbow Bridge, London: E. Arnold & Co., page 181:


lightsomely

lightsomely (comparative more lightsomely, superlative most lightsomely)

more lightsomely (comparative)
most lightsomely (superlative)

From lightsome (any sense) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).


funking

This is funking awful!

I funking love this show!

(euphemistic, slang) bowdlerization of fucking


lumpishly

en-adv

lumpishly (comparative more lumpishly, superlative most lumpishly)

more lumpishly (comparative)
most lumpishly (superlative)

1640, Richard Brome, The English Moor, in Five New Playes, London: A. Crook, 1659, Act I, Scene 3, p. 12,
Millicent. Construe more charitably, I beseech you,
My Virgin blushes.
Testy. ’Tis your sullenness;
Would you have brided it so lumpishly
With your spruce younker, that fine silken beggar,
Whose Land lies in your Husbands counting house,
Or the most part.

1797, Robert Heron, A New General History of Scotland, Edinburgh: R. Morison & Son et al., Volume III, Book IV, Section II, p. 246,
The men at arms or heavy-armed soldiery of the modern European armies, were so completely clad in massy steel; that it seemed as if the warriour thus armed, and then mounted on horseback, or placed in the field of fight, would scarcely be able either to advance or retire, or to do any thing else but bear the brunt of his adversary’s blow, to wield, himself, some awkward strokes, and to stand or fall lumpishly on the spot on which he was fixed.

Three or four ladies of distinction and liveliness used to say to one another, ‘Let us dine at our dear Merdle’s next Thursday. Whom shall we have?’ Our dear Merdle would then receive his instructions; and would sit heavily among the company at table and wander lumpishly about his drawing-rooms afterwards, only remarkable for appearing to have nothing to do with the entertainment beyond being in its way.

1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 12”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 33, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I:

He stood there almost voiceless, lumpishly ugly with his face yellow and creased after the sleepless night, and his birthmark like a smear of dirt.

1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 19”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

[…] he is, as he affirms, a “people person”—his impulses are unfailingly awkward, his attempts at humor are lumpishly uncool, he’s accident-prone and fretful, but he’s also effusively sympathetic, optimistic, encouraging, and insistently pursuing sentimentally warm companionships based on little but a bottomless fund of sheer enthusiasm.

2016 October 21, Richard Brody, “‘Keeping Up with the Joneses’ and the marketing of cinematic charisma”, in The New Yorker:


lumpily

lumpily (comparative more lumpily, superlative most lumpily)

more lumpily (comparative)
most lumpily (superlative)

I had no idea that anything in the shape of a horse could be so limp as that, either living or dead. His wild mane hung down lumpily, a mere mass of inanimate horsehair; his aggressive ears had collapsed, but as he went swaying slowly across the front of the bridge I noticed an astute gleam in his dreamy, half-closed eye.

1912, Joseph Conrad, chapter 4, in A Personal Record:

An hour later, he had paid about $3.25, been talked through the workings of a small bank of stainless-steel machines, and was leaving with a bag of fluffy if lumpily folded clothes.

2011 February 1, Stephanie Nolen, “India makes a clean start with first laundromat”, in The Globe and Mail:

He'd stuck his hands in his pockets as I came in, and he sat down lumpily in his chair.

1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 4”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

“You’ll feel better when you’ve drunk this’m,” said the parlourmaid lumpily, pouring out some tea.

1922, Arnold Bennett, Lilian, Part IV, Chapter 1:

What ever became of the chaos in Laos? Last year at this time the pro-Communist Pathet Lao were strutting lumpily across the Plain of Jars in their dun-colored uniforms, proudly triumphant over the “neutralist” forces of General Kong Le and threatening to overrun the entire country.

1965 June 11, “The Silent Sideshow”, in Time:

This extraordinary life probably needed a solidly presented non-fiction film; what we have here is an odd and lumpily constructed drama-doc with daytime-telly production values, featuring some very hammy acting and direction.

2015 December 3, Peter Bradshaw, “The Honourable Rebel review – lustrous life of an aristo adventuress”, in The Guardian:

Like a lump; awkwardly, heavily, ponderously.


cogitatingly

cogitatingly (comparative more cogitatingly, superlative most cogitatingly)

more cogitatingly (comparative)
most cogitatingly (superlative)


digestively

In a digestive manner; by means of digestion


for one

A shortening of for one thing or for one person

I don't like this carpet – for one, it doesn't suit our lounge room at all and it's also much too expensive.

As the first in a number of examples or reasons.

I am ashamed of you, son. We do not condone theft or violence, Ryan. It is, for one, illegal, and may as such land you in jail or lead to other punishments.

As a single given example, often the most obvious or important one and almost certainly enough to sway the argument, of several reasons for something.

първо на първо

as a single, most important example in a number of examples

I know you may not agree but I, for one, think we should get rid of this unfair piece of legislation.

Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.

2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:

As one person among other people who may not hold the same opinion.


unmitigatedly

unmitigatedly (comparative more unmitigatedly, superlative most unmitigatedly)

more unmitigatedly (comparative)
most unmitigatedly (superlative)


deep inside

deep inside (comparative more deep inside, superlative most deep inside)

more deep inside (comparative)
most deep inside (superlative)

But deep inside he knew the truth was he longed for one last great adventure.

1998, Jon Land, Dead Simple, Forge, →ISBN, page 156:

Besides, sometimes, deep inside, she longed to be twelve again.

2008, Susan May Warren, Finding Stefanie, Tyndale, →ISBN, page 61:

He's been short-tempered and snappy for as long as I can remember. But for what it's worth—deep inside—he's a good man.

2010, Judy Duarte, His, Hers and…Theirs?, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 45:


townwards

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

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


triflingly

triflingly (comparative more triflingly, superlative most triflingly)

more triflingly (comparative)
most triflingly (superlative)

[…] I am apt to think, that a perſon, vvho vvas ready to give more knovvledge than he received, vvould be vvelcome vvherever he came. […] Hovv much more nobly vvould a philoſopher, thus employed, ſpend his time, than […] more triflingly ſedulous in the incatenation of fleas, or the ſculpture of cherry-ſtones.

1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Essay XVIII”, in Essays. […], London: […] W[illiam] Griffin […], →OCLC, page 151:


prudentially

prudentially (comparative more prudentially, superlative most prudentially)

more prudentially (comparative)
most prudentially (superlative)


groaningly

groaningly (comparative more groaningly, superlative most groaningly)

more groaningly (comparative)
most groaningly (superlative)


melancholically

melancholically (comparative more melancholically, superlative most melancholically)

more melancholically (comparative)
most melancholically (superlative)


noncongenitally

What are the clinical findings for noncongenitally acquired rubella? How is noncongenitally acquired rubella contracted?

2006, Eric M. Chen, Sanjay S. Kasturi, Déjà review: microbiology and immunology:

In a noncongenital manner; not from birth.


batspit

Yes, you are totally batspit crazy. You'll need many sessions.

2010, Scott Adams, Dilbert comic strip 06-18-2010:


antiparallelly

From anti- + parallelly or antiparallel + -ly.

(mathematics) In an antiparallel manner.


thighward

She tucked it back and went away and he heard her cooing to old Breaux on the sofa. With the heel of his hand he forced his erection thighward and left the room.

[…] smooth forehead, mouth like an open rose and thighward a gate with a rose garden in it […]

2002, Phyllis Gotlieb, Red blood, black ink, white paper, page 113:


frolicsomely

frolicsomely (comparative more frolicsomely, superlative most frolicsomely)

more frolicsomely (comparative)
most frolicsomely (superlative)


frolicksomely

frolicksomely (comparative more frolicksomely, superlative most frolicksomely)

more frolicksomely (comparative)
most frolicksomely (superlative)


per impossibile

Moreover it is evident that all incomplete syllogisms are completed by means of the first figure, for all of them are concluded, either ostensively or per impossible, but in both ways the first figure is produced […]

1853 [c. 350 BCE], Aristotle, translated by Octavius Freire Owen, The Organon, or Logical Treatises of Aristotle, volume 1, London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, translation of original in Ancient Greek, page 98:

If, per impossibile, large economic inequalities did not threaten political, legal, and social equality, they would be much less objectionable.

1979, Thomas Nagel, Mortal Questions, essay 8: “Equality”, page 107:


consentaneously

consentaneously (comparative more consentaneously, superlative most consentaneously)

more consentaneously (comparative)
most consentaneously (superlative)


for fun

In order to obtain pleasure or excitement; for kicks.


testingly

testingly (comparative more testingly, superlative most testingly)

more testingly (comparative)
most testingly (superlative)

I have lived as a spoiled child and you have lived as an exposed child, and now those children are looking testingly at each other.

1994, Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate, The Best Intentions:

At the same time she lifts her left leg testingly in a kind of skip or dance step, before exiting quietly stage right.

1997, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Jo Riley, The show and the gaze of theatre: a European perspective:

...whether the exercises took place in recognized military training areas or in territory testingly unfamiliar to the troops.

2005, Thom Burnett, Conspiracy Encyclopedia:

In a challenging manner; so as to test the stamina, patience, etc.


allowedly

allowedly (comparative more allowedly, superlative most allowedly)

more allowedly (comparative)
most allowedly (superlative)


facedly

He straight-facedly told me that he'd been to the Moon.

She two-facedly advised Lisa about how to keep the boyfriend she herself had been cheating with.

(in combination) With a particular kind of face.


straightfacedly

straightfacedly (comparative more straightfacedly, superlative most straightfacedly)

more straightfacedly (comparative)
most straightfacedly (superlative)


to and again

[…] in the morning he walked along the shore to and again with his father several hours, always leading him by the hand as if he had been a lady […]

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

(obsolete) To and fro; backwards and forwards.


eventologically

In an eventological manner; with regard to eventology


dilapidatedly

dilapidatedly (comparative more dilapidatedly, superlative most dilapidatedly)

more dilapidatedly (comparative)
most dilapidatedly (superlative)


ultraweakly

ultraweakly (comparative more ultraweakly, superlative most ultraweakly)

more ultraweakly (comparative)
most ultraweakly (superlative)

2010 Biswarup Das, "Hudson-Parthasarathy dilation for a class of symmetric quantum dynamical semigroups" arxiv
Note that Dom(L2) becomes a *-subalgebra which is ultraweakly dense in B(H) as well as dense in L²(trᴴ) (i.e. in the norm || · ||²).


unpalatably

unpalatably (comparative more unpalatably, superlative most unpalatably)

more unpalatably (comparative)
most unpalatably (superlative)


taxingly

taxingly (comparative more taxingly, superlative most taxingly)

more taxingly (comparative)
most taxingly (superlative)


clearheadedly

clearheadedly (comparative more clearheadedly, superlative most clearheadedly)

more clearheadedly (comparative)
most clearheadedly (superlative)


geoeconomically

In terms of, or with regard to, geoeconomics.


minusculely

minusculely (comparative more minusculely, superlative most minusculely)

more minusculely (comparative)
most minusculely (superlative)