palewise

An oblong figure fesswise divided palewise, from one end a thick projection, and in chief a crescent.

2007, Colin Stewart Sinclair Lyon, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, Oxford University Press, USA:

(chiefly heraldry) Divided by perpendicular vertical lines like pales.

Erm. three longbows palewise in fess gu.

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 348:

Three roundels in chief and two horse-shoes palewise in base, probably intended for the arms of Daubeney and Ferrers.

1904, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 511:

Anchor: Placed palewise, unless otherwise blazoned

1965, Heather Child, Heraldic Design: A Handbook for Students, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 82:

In place of the rainbow there was, palewise on a field of gules, on either side of the shield, the broken lance which had caused the death of Henri II—Lacrymae hinc, hinc dolor was the motto. And to this symbolism of mourning was also[…]

2019 July 2, Jean Heritier, Catherine de Medici, Routledge, →ISBN:

In one shield the lis are positioned vertically or palewise, […] and the Poutrel lis were shown bend-wise in the glass at Prestwold church and pale-wise in Thomas Jenyns' Ordinary.

2020 January 9, Paul A. Fox, Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale: A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 540:

(chiefly heraldry) In the direction of or positioned like a pale: vertically.


weather-wise

Early in December, a rotten day weatherwise, Charley Partanna, CEO of the Prizzi family, sat behind his desk

1988, Richard Condon, Prizzi's glory, page 1:

Newfoundland is at the end of the line weather-wise, the last stop for storms that come across the continent or up the Atlantic seaboard

2000, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir:


conceptively

en-adv

conceptively (comparative more conceptively, superlative most conceptively)

more conceptively (comparative)
most conceptively (superlative)


sad to say

Sad to say, I can’t remember anything else about him. Only that voice, whispering in my ear.

However, some of us did make quite reasonable patterns and had the satisfaction of seeing castings produced from them but, sad to say, many of these efforts were used as firewood after they had left the shop.

1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:


on and off

With so much worry, I only slept on and off last night.


bullyingly

bullyingly (comparative more bullyingly, superlative most bullyingly)

more bullyingly (comparative)
most bullyingly (superlative)


non-stop

The through Moorgate service has been most handsomely speeded up, and suburban trains in both directions now run non-stop between Kings Cross (Underground) and Elstree.

1960 February, “The dieselised St. Pancras suburban service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:


unpublishably

unpublishably (comparative more unpublishably, superlative most unpublishably)

more unpublishably (comparative)
most unpublishably (superlative)

They were doubtless innocent and happy creatures, but some of their ways were unpublishably singular, and were reserved for a scientific book by Herschel.

1909, William Shepard Walsh, Handy-book of literary curiosities:

In an unpublishable manner; unsuitably for publication.


unwinkingly

Certainly Miss Mann had a formidable eye for one of the softer sex. It was prominent, and showed a great deal of the white, and looked as steadily, as unwinkingly, at you as if it were a steel ball soldered in her head […]

1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 10, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:

But Miss Marley had dispensed with the inspirations of reverie, and now composed herself for some rational conversation with Jasper, who sat very erect, with his black beads of eyes fixed unwinkingly on Miss Marley.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128:

As we sped effortlessly along at a steady 75-80 m.p.h., with the three vertical lights of a clear aspect shining unwinkingly on the ground glass of the cab signal, our engineer lolled back in his chair and leisurely lit a huge cigar; [...].

1961 June, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States”, in Trains Illustrated, page 357:

Without winking; with one's full attention.


extralegally

In an extralegal manner; outside the law.


singlely

(archaic or nonstandard) Singly, individually.


unrefinedly

unrefinedly (comparative more unrefinedly, superlative most unrefinedly)

more unrefinedly (comparative)
most unrefinedly (superlative)

In an unrefined manner; uncouthly, rudely, vulgarly.


propagandistically

propagandistically (comparative more propagandistically, superlative most propagandistically)

more propagandistically (comparative)
most propagandistically (superlative)

In a propagandistic manner; with the characteristics of propaganda.


unsettledly

unsettledly (comparative more unsettledly, superlative most unsettledly)

more unsettledly (comparative)
most unsettledly (superlative)


unregenerately

unregenerately (comparative more unregenerately, superlative most unregenerately)

more unregenerately (comparative)
most unregenerately (superlative)


currishly

currishly (comparative more currishly, superlative most currishly)

more currishly (comparative)
most currishly (superlative)

In a currish manner; like a cur or knave.


invariantly

Mrs. Friesen had a routine and that was invariantly maintained.

2006, Ranjan Roy, Chronic Pain and Family: A Clinical Perspective:

In a manner that is invariant (without variation).

(mathematics) In a manner that is invariant; unaffected by some operation.


scaldingly

scaldingly (comparative more scaldingly, superlative most scaldingly)

more scaldingly (comparative)
most scaldingly (superlative)

The water was scaldingly hot.

In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 102:


economicly

economicly (comparative more economicly, superlative most economicly)

more economicly (comparative)
most economicly (superlative)

From the common reduced pronunciation of economically.

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of economically


exemplarily

exemplarily (comparative more exemplarily, superlative most exemplarily)

more exemplarily (comparative)
most exemplarily (superlative)

In an exemplary manner; ideally, admirably.


snickeringly

snickeringly (comparative more snickeringly, superlative most snickeringly)

more snickeringly (comparative)
most snickeringly (superlative)


Christmasly

Christmasly (comparative more Christmasly, superlative most Christmasly)

more Christmasly (comparative)
most Christmasly (superlative)


daedally

daedally (comparative more daedally, superlative most daedally)

more daedally (comparative)
most daedally (superlative)


blotchily

blotchily (comparative more blotchily, superlative most blotchily)

more blotchily (comparative)
most blotchily (superlative)

Sunlight filtered blotchily through the forest canopy.


slumberingly

slumberingly (comparative more slumberingly, superlative most slumberingly)

more slumberingly (comparative)
most slumberingly (superlative)


bushily

bushily (comparative more bushily, superlative most bushily)

more bushily (comparative)
most bushily (superlative)


wonkily

wonkily (comparative more wonkily, superlative most wonkily)

more wonkily (comparative)
most wonkily (superlative)

My mother walked wonkily back to the footpath.

2006, Michel Faber, The Apple, Canongate Books, page 192:


baby-wise

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

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

Slowly his huge and inarticulate fist traveled to his eye, and stayed there baby-wise. / The young men of today do not cry. They turn Syndicalist instead; dimly conscious in the darkness of the wall that stands between them and the largesse of life that they feel to be their right, and flinging against that wall in an impotent fury of words and blows.

1913, Alfred Ollivant, “The Faithful Servant”, in The Independent, volume 75:

She clutched it in great haste, wrapped her apron about it, and carrying it baby-wise, ran fleetly off, casting apprehensive glances over her shoulder.

1885, Mary Noailles Murfree, The prophet of the Great Smoky mountains, by Charles Egbert Craddock, page 108:

He cuddled it, baby-wise, but he looked up from it often to curse with an astonishing utter abandon straight at the noses of his captors.

1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter XXIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 223:


plotlessly

plotlessly (comparative more plotlessly, superlative most plotlessly)

more plotlessly (comparative)
most plotlessly (superlative)


preoccupiedly

preoccupiedly (comparative more preoccupiedly, superlative most preoccupiedly)

more preoccupiedly (comparative)
most preoccupiedly (superlative)


lexicographically

lexicographically (comparative more lexicographically, superlative most lexicographically)

more lexicographically (comparative)
most lexicographically (superlative)

That upto is, and has long been, a part of Indian English is clear, however, significantly, it has never been covered lexicographically.

2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302:

(domain) From the perspective of lexicography.


evaporatively

evaporatively (comparative more evaporatively, superlative most evaporatively)

more evaporatively (comparative)
most evaporatively (superlative)


conformally

conformally (comparative more conformally, superlative most conformally)

more conformally (comparative)
most conformally (superlative)


rightwise

Presumably from Old English rihtwīs, reinforced by reanalysis as right + wise.

And, after that fourth trial, sundry of the kings and many of the lesser barons and knights and all of the commons cried out that these were trials enough, and that Arthur had assuredly approved himself to be rightwise King […]

1915, Howard Pyle, The story of King Arthur and his knights, page 36:

[…] made indubitably clear that Arthur was rightwise king of the realm […]

"That it was Maximus's sword which Merlin found for Arthur and fixed in the stone of Lludyn's Hill by magic arts so that none but he who was rightwise born King of all the Britons could pull it out."

2003, Nancy McKenzie, Grail Prince, page 192:

(rare) Rightly (correctly or justly); rightfully.


rightwise

and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.

1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English:

Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.

2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336:

(rare) By a rightward path; rightwards, rightwardly; clockwise (in a clockwise manner).


ultrastrongly

ultrastrongly (comparative more ultrastrongly, superlative most ultrastrongly)

more ultrastrongly (comparative)
most ultrastrongly (superlative)


infantilely

infantilely (comparative more infantilely, superlative most infantilely)

more infantilely (comparative)
most infantilely (superlative)


pricily

pricily (comparative more pricily, superlative most pricily)

more pricily (comparative)
most pricily (superlative)


cloudwise

Osmunda swept a curtsey, that yellow hair falling cloudwise to her feet, then turned swift to disappear in the shadow of the turret stair.

Apparently its upper portion rose up to heaven in the form of a column ; its lower being spread out cloudwise, over Israel's camp.

2003, Arthur W Pink, Gleanings in Exodus:

Cloudwise, it will be densely overcast tomorrow.

(weather) Regarding the clouds or cloud cover


devouringly

devouringly (comparative more devouringly, superlative most devouringly)

more devouringly (comparative)
most devouringly (superlative)

In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.


vacillatingly

vacillatingly (comparative more vacillatingly, superlative most vacillatingly)

more vacillatingly (comparative)
most vacillatingly (superlative)

In a vacillating manner; uncertainly, waveringly.


diminishingly

diminishingly (comparative more diminishingly, superlative most diminishingly)

more diminishingly (comparative)
most diminishingly (superlative)

In a diminishing manner; becoming progressively smaller.


waveringly

waveringly (comparative more waveringly, superlative most waveringly)

more waveringly (comparative)
most waveringly (superlative)

In a wavering way; in a way involving wavering.


erringly

erringly (comparative more erringly, superlative most erringly)

more erringly (comparative)
most erringly (superlative)

In an erring manner; with mistakes or sins.


quibblingly

quibblingly (comparative more quibblingly, superlative most quibblingly)

more quibblingly (comparative)
most quibblingly (superlative)

In a quibbling manner; with petty argumentativeness.


soaringly

soaringly (comparative more soaringly, superlative most soaringly)

more soaringly (comparative)
most soaringly (superlative)

The bird soon flew soaringly out of view.


panderingly

panderingly (comparative more panderingly, superlative most panderingly)

more panderingly (comparative)
most panderingly (superlative)


juttingly

juttingly (comparative more juttingly, superlative most juttingly)

more juttingly (comparative)
most juttingly (superlative)

In a jutting manner; so as to obtrude or stick out.


glitteringly

glitteringly (comparative more glitteringly, superlative most glitteringly)

more glitteringly (comparative)
most glitteringly (superlative)

The streets were glitteringly shrouded in snow.


clatteringly

clatteringly (comparative more clatteringly, superlative most clatteringly)

more clatteringly (comparative)
most clatteringly (superlative)

Grandpa Piper replaced the vase clatteringly back upon the mantleshelf.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 135:


scowlingly

scowlingly (comparative more scowlingly, superlative most scowlingly)

more scowlingly (comparative)
most scowlingly (superlative)

He scowlingly apologised to his brother, not really meaning it.


sputteringly

sputteringly (comparative more sputteringly, superlative most sputteringly)

more sputteringly (comparative)
most sputteringly (superlative)


splutteringly

splutteringly (comparative more splutteringly, superlative most splutteringly)

more splutteringly (comparative)
most splutteringly (superlative)


trepidly

trepidly (comparative more trepidly, superlative most trepidly)

more trepidly (comparative)
most trepidly (superlative)


perturbingly

perturbingly (comparative more perturbingly, superlative most perturbingly)

more perturbingly (comparative)
most perturbingly (superlative)

The 'art or mystery of printing' could spread sedition and heresy more perturbingly than word of mouth.

1978, Peter H Sutcliffe, The Oxford University Press: an informal history:


dyadically

In the APL programming language, some operators can be used both monadically and dyadically.

In a dyadic manner; as a dyad or by means of dyads.


monadically

In a monadic manner; as a monad or by means of monads.


participially

(grammar) As a participle; in a participial manner.


mappen

Dunnet gowl, Aggy. Mappen I'll be maister man mysel' soon.

1887, Hall Caine, chapter VII, in A Son of Hagar: A Romance of Our Time […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, 1st book (Retro Me, Sathana), page 128:

(UK, dialectal, obsolete) It may happen that; maybe, perhaps.


connectively

connectively (comparative more connectively, superlative most connectively)

more connectively (comparative)
most connectively (superlative)


detailly

detailly (comparative more detailly, superlative most detailly)

more detailly (comparative)
most detailly (superlative)

(proscribed, nonstandard, non-native speakers' English, Cameroon) In detail.


degenerately

degenerately (comparative more degenerately, superlative most degenerately)

more degenerately (comparative)
most degenerately (superlative)


macromolecularly

macromolecularly bound selenium

In a macromolecular manner; by means of macromolecules.


definably

definably (comparative more definably, superlative most definably)

more definably (comparative)
most definably (superlative)

...the definably rectilinear patterns which give Geometric pottery its name...

1998, William G Cavanagh, Mike Curtis, Post-Minoan Crete:


semisecretly

In a semisecret manner; with partial secrecy.


ogreishly

ogreishly (comparative more ogreishly, superlative most ogreishly)

more ogreishly (comparative)
most ogreishly (superlative)

/ˈəʊɡ(ə)ɹɪʃli/

A great, distorted silhouette of his own head appeared upon the wall, leaning ogreishly over the pillow.

1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 191:


fiberwise

(mathematics) With regard to the fiber of a map.


nonnegatively

(mathematics) In a nonnegative manner, or to a nonnegative degree.


unbendingly

unbendingly (comparative more unbendingly, superlative most unbendingly)

more unbendingly (comparative)
most unbendingly (superlative)

Without bending; with rigid adherence to a principle etc.


nonsocially

I met him nonsocially, on a business trip.

In a nonsocial manner; not concerned with society or social matters.


nonintentionally

In a nonintentional manner; without intention.


polishedly

polishedly (comparative more polishedly, superlative most polishedly)

more polishedly (comparative)
most polishedly (superlative)

In a polished manner; refinedly, elegantly.


undoubtfully

undoubtfully (comparative more undoubtfully, superlative most undoubtfully)

more undoubtfully (comparative)
most undoubtfully (superlative)


saltly

saltly (comparative more saltly, superlative most saltly)

more saltly (comparative)
most saltly (superlative)


incommensurably

incommensurably (comparative more incommensurably, superlative most incommensurably)

more incommensurably (comparative)
most incommensurably (superlative)

In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.


appreciatingly

appreciatingly (comparative more appreciatingly, superlative most appreciatingly)

more appreciatingly (comparative)
most appreciatingly (superlative)

Appreciatively, with appreciation: in an appreciating manner.


'long

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


nondestructively

The material's strength was measured nondestructively.

In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.


timewise

I think that timewise and balancewise, we have seen more emphasis placed on the disturbing negative aspects of what medical evaluation has unearthed than on the positive aspects of the benefits […]

1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Monopoly and Anticompetitive Activities, Competitive problems in the drug industry: Hearings before Subcommittee on Monopoly and Anticompetitive Activities of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, first session (parts 15–17, page 6506)


undilutedly

undilutedly (comparative more undilutedly, superlative most undilutedly)

more undilutedly (comparative)
most undilutedly (superlative)

In an undiluted manner; purely, unadulteratedly.


homotopically

homotopically (comparative more homotopically, superlative most homotopically)

more homotopically (comparative)
most homotopically (superlative)


waterwards

waterwards (comparative more waterwards, superlative most waterwards)

more waterwards (comparative)
most waterwards (superlative)


waterward

waterward (comparative more waterward, superlative most waterward)

more waterward (comparative)
most waterward (superlative)

I now by instinct followed the streets that took me waterward, for there, doubtless, were the cheapest, if not the cheeriest inns.

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


judgmatically

judgmatically (comparative more judgmatically, superlative most judgmatically)

more judgmatically (comparative)
most judgmatically (superlative)

I never fancied broiling fowls;--though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.

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

(colloquial, chiefly US) In a judgmatical way; like a judge, judiciously, with good judgment.


clinchingly

clinchingly (comparative more clinchingly, superlative most clinchingly)

more clinchingly (comparative)
most clinchingly (superlative)

She waited, till with quickened breath
She spoke, as one who banisheth
Reserves that lovecraft heeds so well,
To ease some mighty wish to tell:
“’Twas I,” said she,
“Who wrote thus clinchingly.

1901, Thomas Hardy, “The Tree: An Old Man's Story”, in Poems of the Past and the Present, Stanza VI, p. 437:

“I wouldn't be at all surprised if he drank a lot,” said Lady Partridge, with a hint of solidarity. ¶ “And then, of course,” said Nick clinchingly, but with a sad loll of the head, “he jumped off a bridge into the Mississippi.”

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

These circumstances are clinchingly against the appellant.

2015 October 21, “Spelling mistake in forged document leads to murder conviction”, in The Times of India:

in a clinching manner, in a manner which serves to clinch something


bedwards

bedwards (comparative more bedwards, superlative most bedwards)

more bedwards (comparative)
most bedwards (superlative)

Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards.


unentertainingly

unentertainingly (comparative more unentertainingly, superlative most unentertainingly)

more unentertainingly (comparative)
most unentertainingly (superlative)


medianly

medianly (comparative more medianly, superlative most medianly)

more medianly (comparative)
most medianly (superlative)


disorganisedly

disorganisedly (comparative more disorganisedly, superlative most disorganisedly)

more disorganisedly (comparative)
most disorganisedly (superlative)


disorganizedly

disorganizedly (comparative more disorganizedly, superlative most disorganizedly)

more disorganizedly (comparative)
most disorganizedly (superlative)


hamhandedly

hamhandedly (comparative more hamhandedly, superlative most hamhandedly)

more hamhandedly (comparative)
most hamhandedly (superlative)


nonchemically

Nonchemically Initiated Respiratory Reflexes

1977, Malcolm S Gordon, Animal physiology: principles and adaptations:

In a nonchemical manner; by means other than chemical.


muffledly

muffledly (comparative more muffledly, superlative most muffledly)

more muffledly (comparative)
most muffledly (superlative)

A voice came muffledly from inside the closet.


hamfistedly

hamfistedly (comparative more hamfistedly, superlative most hamfistedly)

more hamfistedly (comparative)
most hamfistedly (superlative)

It is a political offering – the Eurovision palaver, where Madonna hamfistedly tried to engineer peace in the Middle East, was a foreshadowing – but one in which Madonna’s meanings often perform a kind of seven-veil dance.

2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian:


OOI

(chiefly Internet slang) Initialism of out of interest.


unwantedly

unwantedly (comparative more unwantedly, superlative most unwantedly)

more unwantedly (comparative)
most unwantedly (superlative)

She became unwantedly pregnant.


yestermorn

But yeſter-morn, whoſe houſe was ſo great, ſo flouriſhing as Manfred's?

1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter II, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 70:

"That, Clara," I said, "is the gate, that the street which yestermorn your father rode up."

1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 88:

Kate, I must make a confession... I, yestermorn, I took Caleb to The Wood.

2015, Robert Eggers, The Witch (motion picture), spoken by William (Ralph Ineson):

(now rare, archaic) During the morning of yesterday; yesterday morning.


more and more

The road gets more and more steep.

Oil is getting more and more expensive.

He started calling more and more frequently.

1923, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude (translators), War and Peace,
What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose.

The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.

1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91:

The wound hurt more and more as we walked on.

His colour sicken'd more and more,
He faded into age;
And then his enemies began
To show their deadly rage.

A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour
For private sorrow’s barren song,
When more and more the people throng
The chairs and thrones of civil power?’

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXI, page 35:

(manner) In a manner that progressively increases.

越來越

in a manner that progressively increases

More and more, children are among the first to take up new technologies.

More and more it is not the soul and Nature, but the eye and print, whose resultant is thought.

1864 September, “The Cadmean Madness”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 14:

(modal) Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.

越來越多地

indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true


pellucidly

pellucidly (comparative more pellucidly, superlative most pellucidly)

more pellucidly (comparative)
most pellucidly (superlative)


weftwise

In the orientation of the weft in woven yarn.


warpwise

In the orientation of the warp in woven yarn.


sportively

sportively (comparative more sportively, superlative most sportively)

more sportively (comparative)
most sportively (superlative)

Perhaps to treat the matter lightly and sportively would be the course most likely to encourage her to explain it.

"Then you got time, ain't you, to buy a girl a glass o'--" She stopped and winked sportively.

1912, James Brendan Connolly, Wide Courses:

At Zanies last May she sportively bickered with the vocal crowd.

2006 October 13, Ryan Hubbard, “Chelsea Handler”, in Chicago Reader:


passionlessly

passionlessly (comparative more passionlessly, superlative most passionlessly)

more passionlessly (comparative)
most passionlessly (superlative)

In a passionless manner; without passion.


as of yet

Apparently from as yet, by confusion with as of.

(perhaps nonstandard) Alternative form of as yet


egoically

In an egoic manner; from or with regard to the ego.


yeomanlike

yeomanlike (comparative more yeomanlike, superlative most yeomanlike)

more yeomanlike (comparative)
most yeomanlike (superlative)

One by one the archers, stepping forward, delivered their shafts yeomanlike and bravely.

1819, Walter Scott, chapter 13, in Ivanhoe:

In the manner of a yeoman; bravely and stoutly


noninterruptedly

noninterruptedly (comparative more noninterruptedly, superlative most noninterruptedly)

more noninterruptedly (comparative)
most noninterruptedly (superlative)


yeomanly

yeomanly (comparative more yeomanly, superlative most yeomanly)

more yeomanly (comparative)
most yeomanly (superlative)

"Well and yeomanly done!" shouted the robbers; "fair play and Old England for ever!"

1819, Walter Scott, chapter 11, in Ivanhoe:

[…] the men were working yeomanly to build a new nation[…]

1875, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and The First Christmas:


in God's name

In God's name, what do you think you are you doing?

What in God's name are you doing?

"...And in the meantime, if you can sit and talk with me of other things, for God's sake, stay and do so; but if you cannot keep clear of this accursed topic, then in God's name, go, for I cannot bear it."

1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

"In God's name what does this mean?" Harker cried out. "Dr. Seward, Dr. Van Helsing, what is it? What has happened? What is wrong? Mina, dear what is it? What does that blood mean? My God, my God! Has it come to this!" And, raising himself to his knees, he beat his hands wildly together. "Good God help us! Help her! Oh, help her!"

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, God, name.


for pity's sake

All this cry about "showing the male body" disgusts me, too. For pity's sake -- look at the ad -- there is nothing distinguishable below the chest.

1979 April 14, David M. Stryker, “A Contribution”, in Gay Community News, page 4:

(idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic) for Pete's sake; An especially mild oath


uncarefully

uncarefully (comparative more uncarefully, superlative most uncarefully)

more uncarefully (comparative)
most uncarefully (superlative)

For you,
My boys, your father, not uncarefully,
Has spent much forethought with the gods' good help

1868, Augusta Webster (transl.), The Medea of Euripides, page 59, lines 913–915


unmisleadingly

Schopenhauer’s ethics could be unmisleadingly described as a philosophical elaboration of the Christian idea of an unreserved love, whereas Kant’s can be thought of as a Christian ethic in which duty to superhuman authority — in this case, the authority of reason — has replaced the sentiment of love.

1988, Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz, editors, Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West, Cambridge University Press Archive, →ISBN, page 171, →ISBN:


sidesplittingly

sidesplittingly (comparative more sidesplittingly, superlative most sidesplittingly)

more sidesplittingly (comparative)
most sidesplittingly (superlative)

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

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


physics-ly

physics-ly (comparative more physics-ly, superlative most physics-ly)

more physics-ly (comparative)
most physics-ly (superlative)

From physics + -ly, to distinguish from physically.

Physics-ly inclined students are encouraged to derive the equations from first principles; the rest of you may keep reading.

2004, Ben Tsou, Kevin Wayne, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Hard Spheres:

How do you physics-ly determine which fighting style has the most awesome kick?

2009, Rhett Allain, Fight Science = Bad Science:

(colloquial) According to or using physics.


unblamably

unblamably (comparative more unblamably, superlative most unblamably)

more unblamably (comparative)
most unblamably (superlative)


groundbreakingly

groundbreakingly (comparative more groundbreakingly, superlative most groundbreakingly)

more groundbreakingly (comparative)
most groundbreakingly (superlative)


unblameably

unblameably (comparative more unblameably, superlative most unblameably)

more unblameably (comparative)
most unblameably (superlative)


acronymically

acronymically (comparative more acronymically, superlative most acronymically)

more acronymically (comparative)
most acronymically (superlative)

In an acronymic way; in such a way as to form an acronym.


noncausally

noncausally (comparative more noncausally, superlative most noncausally)

more noncausally (comparative)
most noncausally (superlative)

From non- + causally or noncausal + -ly.


toroidally

toroidally (comparative more toroidally, superlative most toroidally)

more toroidally (comparative)
most toroidally (superlative)


turn about

turn and turn about
turn and turn about#English


homelessly

Those with the types (and severity) of brain disorders that cause them to live homelessly may or may not be able to be helped.


weekdaily

From weekday + -ly, by analogy with daily.

The carrier started operations last May with Embraer Brasilias and serves Amsterdam four times weekdaily, under a code share agreement with KLM, and London Stansted three times weekdaily.

1992, in Airports International, Volume 34, Seven Kings Publications Ltd., page 24


incog

incog (comparative more incog, superlative most incog)

more incog (comparative)
most incog (superlative)

What—my old Guardian—what[!] turn inquisitor and take evidence incog.—

1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:

Then you, ye auld, snick-drawing dog!
Ye cam to Paradise incog,
An’ play’d on man a cursed brogue,
(Black be your fa’!)

1786, Robert Burns, Address to the Deil:


superconformally

superconformally (comparative more superconformally, superlative most superconformally)

more superconformally (comparative)
most superconformally (superlative)

From super- + conformally or superconformal + -ly.


ong

(Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of ONG.


geophysically

In some parts of South America the geology is as well known as in parts of North America, but in other geophysically important areas much remains to be done

1964, National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Solid Earth Problems, “Related problems in Geology”, in Solid-earth geophysics: survey and outlook, page 113:

The title section identifies the Cox and Singer (1986) model or models, model number, the comilers and geophysically similar models.

1993, William D. Heran, Patricia L. Hill, Geological Survey (U.S.), edited by D. B. Hoover, The Geophysical Expression of Selected Mineral Deposit Models, →ISBN, page 3:

The region mentioned has been geophysically researched (deep geoelectric, geomagnetic, gravity), too.

2001, M.Oluic, D. Cvijanovic, S. Romandic, edited by Gérard Bégni, Observing our environment from space: new solutions for a new millennium : proceedings of the 21st EARSeL Symposium, Paris, France, 14-16 May 2001, published 2002, →ISBN, Seismotectonic activity in Dinaric Alps based on satellite data and geophysical survey, page 265:

In a geophysical manner; in terms of geophysics.


smokily

smokily (comparative more smokily, superlative most smokily)

more smokily (comparative)
most smokily (superlative)

The soggy wood burned smokily.


twistedly

twistedly (comparative more twistedly, superlative most twistedly)

more twistedly (comparative)
most twistedly (superlative)


decimally

Students were taught how to express fractions decimally.


phantomwise

phantomwise (comparative more phantomwise, superlative most phantomwise)

more phantomwise (comparative)
most phantomwise (superlative)

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, / Alice moving under skies / Never seen by waking eyes.

1871, Lewis Carroll, “A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There:


roomily

roomily (comparative more roomily, superlative most roomily)

more roomily (comparative)
most roomily (superlative)


oceanwards

oceanwards (comparative more oceanwards, superlative most oceanwards)

more oceanwards (comparative)
most oceanwards (superlative)


roomwise

To break up the expenditure in relation to the electrical system roomwise as claimed by the assessee, would, in our view, be too unreal […]

1989, Company Law Institute of India, The income tax reports:

It is obvious that mobile and non-mobile workers don't need the same office solutions, roomwise, or with respect to furniture and technology.

2003, Kari Kuutti, Eija Helena Karsten, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Paul Dourish, ECSCW 2003: Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work:


nonabusively

President Obama is O.K. with this (he calls it “prolonged detention”), but he wants to make sure it is carried out — here comes the oxymoron — fairly and nonabusively.

2009 June 23, Bob Herbert, “Who Are We?”, in New York Times:


offlist

If you are interested, please reply offlist.

(Internet) Not on a mailing list or newsgroup.


variationally

variationally (comparative more variationally, superlative most variationally)

more variationally (comparative)
most variationally (superlative)


backbreakingly

backbreakingly (comparative more backbreakingly, superlative most backbreakingly)

more backbreakingly (comparative)
most backbreakingly (superlative)


convectively

In a convective manner; with regard to convection.


specularly

specularly (comparative more specularly, superlative most specularly)

more specularly (comparative)
most specularly (superlative)

In a specular manner (in the manner of a mirror)


until the cows come

until the cows come home
until the cows come home#English

Alternative form of until the cows come home


intraocularly

(ophthalmology) Inside or within the eye.


believe it or not

That depends on how long the sentence is. Believe it or not, there’s a canon of construction about provisos, and the test is anything but clear: …

2001, Bryan A. Garner, Legal writing in plain English: a text with exercises, page 108:

One common cause of “flipped bit” memory errors is, believe it or not, cosmic rays.

2003, Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson, PC hardware in a nutshell, page 230:

The descending opening phrase of the aria is, believe it or not, Tatyana’s Fate theme from her Letter Scene, though now in a minor, not major key: …

2007, David Brown, Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music, page 165:

(idiomatic) This may be surprising, but it's true.

信じようも信じまいと

しんじようもしんじまいと

信じられないかもしれませんが

しんじられないかもしれませんが


nonpersonally

nonpersonally identifying information

a nonpersonally guaranteed loan


stairwise

In the manner of a set of stairs; rising in discrete steps.


ipsilaterally

Dorsal columns carry mechanoreceptor information ipsilaterally.

(anatomy, medicine) On the same side of the body.


supernaculum

Sham Latin, intended to mean upon the nail.

(obsolete) According to the rules of an old drinking game in which the drinker upturned the empty cup and had to drink more if the remaining droplets spilled beyond the edge of his fingernail.

Nay, it shall be an overflowing bumper, an you will; and I will drink it super naculum.

1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:


unthoughtfully

unthoughtfully (comparative more unthoughtfully, superlative most unthoughtfully)

more unthoughtfully (comparative)
most unthoughtfully (superlative)


suprabasally

suprabasally (comparative more suprabasally, superlative most suprabasally)

more suprabasally (comparative)
most suprabasally (superlative)


redwards

redwards (comparative more redwards, superlative most redwards)

more redwards (comparative)
most redwards (superlative)

(physics) Towards the red end of the spectrum


unsolicitedly

unsolicitedly (comparative more unsolicitedly, superlative most unsolicitedly)

more unsolicitedly (comparative)
most unsolicitedly (superlative)

What came next was Boylen unexpectedly and unsolicitedly supplying some context.

2019 December 2, Darnell Mayberry, “Nuggets from my notebook: Are you buying the Bulls’ recent improvement?”, in The New York Times:


blueward

blueward (comparative more blueward, superlative most blueward)

more blueward (comparative)
most blueward (superlative)


redward

redward (comparative more redward, superlative most redward)

more redward (comparative)
most redward (superlative)

(physics) Toward the red end of the spectrum


bluewards

bluewards (comparative more bluewards, superlative most bluewards)

more bluewards (comparative)
most bluewards (superlative)


magnetostatically

magnetostatically (comparative more magnetostatically, superlative most magnetostatically)

more magnetostatically (comparative)
most magnetostatically (superlative)


superexponentially

superexponentially (comparative more superexponentially, superlative most superexponentially)

more superexponentially (comparative)
most superexponentially (superlative)


fluorometrically

In terms of, or by means of, fluorometry.


nonconsecutively

Since they were nonconsecutively numbered, it was difficult to find out whether any of the barcoded goods were missing.


unbeautifully

unbeautifully (comparative more unbeautifully, superlative most unbeautifully)

more unbeautifully (comparative)
most unbeautifully (superlative)

In a manner that is unbeautiful (ugly or inelegant).


sitewide

Throughout a site (either a physical place or a website).


neuroradiologically

With regard to, or by means of, neuroradiology.


wealthily

He is now wealthily retired except for his activity as owner of the Marlins but he doesnt plan to stay permanent so he is considering "two or three" other enterprises.

1960 January 24, “Wealthily Retired”, in Miami News:


huggably

huggably (comparative more huggably, superlative most huggably)

more huggably (comparative)
most huggably (superlative)

His eyes are brown bu they look coal-black, at once menacing and pathetic, set into a mischievous baby face whose expression can change in an instant from huggably endearing and childlike to slaveringly insane.

2000, Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, page 237:


hoity-toitily

hoity-toitily (comparative more hoity-toitily, superlative most hoity-toitily)

more hoity-toitily (comparative)
most hoity-toitily (superlative)

"It's none of your business," I said hoity-toitily.

2001, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel, page 36:


computably

computably (comparative more computably, superlative most computably)

more computably (comparative)
most computably (superlative)

If #x5C;mathbf#x7B;A#x7D; is the category of sets, then #x5C;Pi#x5F;Bf is (up to isomorphism) the usual Cartesian product of the fibres A#x5F;y. If #x5C;mathbf#x7B;A#x7D; is a category of spaces and smooth maps, then an element of #x5C;Pi#x5F;Bf will have values varying smoothly in the indices, while if #x5C;mathbf#x7B;A#x7D; models data types and computable functions the values will vary computably.

1995, Colin McLarty, Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, page 102:


sleepwise

Sleepwise, I've always been a strict eight hour man; no more, no less. For some reason though I was awake at six next morning.

1989, Keith Roberts, Winterwood: And Other Hauntings:

During the Depression, putting yourself through school, it was a financial sacrifice, sleepwise — it was not easy.

2004, Katherine Cramer Walsh, Talking about politics: informal groups and social identity in American life:

Sleepwise, your child's needs haven't changed significantly since she was a baby. She still needs approximately 11 to 14 hours of sleep in a 24-hour period...

2007, Jennifer Waldburger, Jill Spivack, The Sleepeasy Solution:


selfconsistently

selfconsistently (comparative more selfconsistently, superlative most selfconsistently)

more selfconsistently (comparative)
most selfconsistently (superlative)


atomistically

atomistically (comparative more atomistically, superlative most atomistically)

more atomistically (comparative)
most atomistically (superlative)


tetchily

tetchily (comparative more tetchily, superlative most tetchily)

more tetchily (comparative)
most tetchily (superlative)

"Do be quiet, will you, or I shall miss it all," cried Jabez, tetchily.

1862, Henry Mayhew, chapter V, in Young Benjamin Franklin:

"No, indeed. He got me dis little buggy—"
"Sidecar," corrected Ryan tetchily. "It's called a sidecar."

2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 338:


unbiddenly

unbiddenly (comparative more unbiddenly, superlative most unbiddenly)

more unbiddenly (comparative)
most unbiddenly (superlative)

He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married [...].

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 10”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:


synergetically

synergetically (comparative more synergetically, superlative most synergetically)

more synergetically (comparative)
most synergetically (superlative)


under weigh

Variant form of underway, by association with weigh anchor.

The last affecting adieu having been given, the General prolonged his stay to see the vessel under weigh: as it spread its sails, he viewed it glide down the Thames with feelings such as those alone experience who part from a much-loved relative, about to be divided by interminable waters.

1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 273:

But then, the idea was, that his presence was by no means necessary in getting the ship under weigh, and steering her well out to sea.

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

After one of those delays which always were happening to retard our plans and weaken the blows which our chiefs intended to deliver, an expedition was got under weigh from New York at the close of the month of September...

1859, W. M Thackeray, The Virginians: a Tale of the Last Century, B. Tauchnitz:

Scarcely had we got things fixed and supper under weigh, when a yell from Boteler, 'He's going to spout!' caused us to drop teapot and pannikin, and tumble out of the tent in half no time.

1876, Earl of Dunraven, The Great Divide: Travels in the Upper Yellowstone in the Summer of 1874, London: Chatto and Windus, page 265:

Suddenly the Syracusans manned their ships and again bore down upon them; the Athenians, in great disorder and most of them fasting, hurried on board, and with considerable difficulty got under weigh.

1883, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides, Boston, D. Lothrop:

I was reluctant to tear myself away from Pisa; but the Ercolano could not wait, and I was back in good time, and soon under weigh...
...His duty was to carry me to the next post-house, and there leave me to be carried forward by another similar conveyance. But the pony No.2 was about a mile off, occupied in drawing a plough, so that I had to wait until the job was over. In about an hour or so I was again under weigh.

1883, James Nasmyth, James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography, Harper & Brothers:


six ways from Sunday

Her eyes were the color of bittersweet chocolate, made up in that sexy smudged I've-just-been-fucked-six-ways-from-Sunday look that I could never emulate without looking like I'd been sucker punched.

2010, Regina Perry, I Kissed a Girl: A Virgin Lesbian Anthology:

Of the 30,000 it might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done. And I’ve tried my best to clarify six ways from Sunday but you know at least I think it’ll be obvious that, in fact, far from being antisemitic, I’m in fact philosemitic.

2023 December 8, Mark Sweney, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk says Disney boss should be ‘fired immediately’ amid X ad boycott”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

six ways to Sunday
six ways to Sunday#English


supplicatingly

supplicatingly (comparative more supplicatingly, superlative most supplicatingly)

more supplicatingly (comparative)
most supplicatingly (superlative)

beseechingly, imploringly, in a supplicatory manner


polarly

With respect to, or in the direction of a pole


merohedrally

merohedrally (comparative more merohedrally, superlative most merohedrally)

more merohedrally (comparative)
most merohedrally (superlative)


pseudomerohedrally

pseudomerohedrally (comparative more pseudomerohedrally, superlative most pseudomerohedrally)

more pseudomerohedrally (comparative)
most pseudomerohedrally (superlative)

From pseudomerohedral + -ly or pseudomerohedry + -ally.


lentivirally

In a lentiviral manner; in a way that pertains to a lentivirus.


erer

From Middle English erer, ærer, from Old English ǣror (“earlier, before, beforehand, formerly; rather”), equivalent to ere + -er.

inh

(obsolete) Before; formerly; at a former time.

(obsolete) Sooner; rather; liever; in preference.


saleswise

The Byrds were altogether rather less successful, saleswise, in the UK.

2003, Michael Brocken, The British folk revival, 1944-2002:


inadmissibly

en-adv

inadmissibly (comparative more inadmissibly, superlative most inadmissibly)

more inadmissibly (comparative)
most inadmissibly (superlative)

Still, it is not clear how far socialists ought to go in "restricting capitalist acts between consenting adults," since doing so seems to impinge, inadmissibly, on individuals' freedoms.

1984, Andrew Levine, Arguing for socialism: theoretical considerations, page 65:


photochromically

photochromically (comparative more photochromically, superlative most photochromically)

more photochromically (comparative)
most photochromically (superlative)


not in the slightest

- Do you miss your old housemates?
- Not in the slightest! I'm glad to be rid of them.

The Mountain versus the Hound played out entertainingly, with the elder Clegane still outmatching his younger brother pound for pound and blow for blow. Being turned into a walking zombie of sorts didn’t just amplify his strength; it essentially obviated the need to parry blows, as even Sandor sinking his sword deep into his undead brother didn’t seem to slow him down in the slightest.

2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-15:


photodynamically

By means of, or with regard to, photodynamics.


boundedly

boundedly (comparative more boundedly, superlative most boundedly)

more boundedly (comparative)
most boundedly (superlative)


nonliterally

You speak nonliterally when you say one thing and mean something else instead.

2006, Jennifer Hornsby, Guy Longworth, Reading philosophy of language: selected texts with interactive commentary:


squeakingly

squeakingly (comparative more squeakingly, superlative most squeakingly)

more squeakingly (comparative)
most squeakingly (superlative)

The chair moved squeakingly over the linoleum floor.


uninvitingly

uninvitingly (comparative more uninvitingly, superlative most uninvitingly)

more uninvitingly (comparative)
most uninvitingly (superlative)


blobbily

blobbily (comparative more blobbily, superlative most blobbily)

more blobbily (comparative)
most blobbily (superlative)

Inside, it was darker than a plains bungalow, all the woodwork being stained and blobbily varnished; the rooms were much smaller.

1954, Philip Mason, The Men Who Ruled India: The Guardians, St. Martin's Press, page 194:

I sat on the floppy purple thing inflating blobbily behind me. "Just how far away are you?" It firmed beneath me.

1984, Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Wesleyan University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 136:

(Actually the engraving depicts Dickens glancing sideways at some blobbily drawn spectators enjoying a Punch and Judy show outside his window—a scene that much more accurately reflects the kind of source from which he drew his early inspiration.)

2011, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 267:


ratelessly

The scheme is decentralized, requiring no co-ordination, and can be operated ratelessly. that is, it can be run indefinitely until successful reception (at which stage that fact is signaled to all nodes, …

2004, Proceedings of the University of Illinois, volume 42, part 1, page 21

Decoding can be done by Gaussian elimination, and the scheme can be operated ratelessly, i.e. it can be run indefinitely until successful reception (at which stage that fact is signaled to other nodes).

2006, Desmond S. Lun et al., “Network Coding in Wireless Networks”, in Frank H. P. Fitzek, Marcos D. Katz, editors, Cooperation in wireless networks: principles and applications:

The derivation relies on the facts that when the source ratelessly broadcasts, the capacities Cs and C1 in the S–D and S–R links, respectively, are approached at the same time, and that when the relay ratelessly transmits toward the destination, the capacity C2 is realized.

2008 November, "Achievable Rates and Fairness in Rateless Coded Relaying Schemes", in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, volume 7, issue 11 (ISSN: 1536-1276), pages 4439-4444

(mathematics) In a rateless manner; in a manner that employs a rateless code.


uncomely

uncomely (comparative more uncomely, superlative most uncomely)

more uncomely (comparative)
most uncomely (superlative)

From Middle English uncomly, uncomli, from the adjective (see above).

The first troupe was a monstrous rablement / Of fowle misshapen wights, of which some were / Headed like Owles, with beckes vncomely bent […]

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

In an uncomely way; inappropriately, unappealingly.


speaking of

“Speaking of by the way: nice car. I mean that.”

2006, Mark Winegardner, The Godfather’s Revenge, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 76:

No more songs. This is a restaurant, for Christ’s sake, and speaking of, can somebody tell me where the hell is that veal?

2009, Wells Tower, “Executors of Important Energies” (short story), in Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Macmillan, page 83

—[…] Speaking of by the way we should go shopping on Saturday or Sunday because Penney’s is having a sale at Fair Oaks.

2009, James Boice, NoVA, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 47:

“[…] And speaking of, can you please cover up that hideous shirt?”

2010, Julia DeVillers, Jennifer Roy, Take Two, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 8:

(colloquial) Speaking of which; relatedly, used to introduce a related topic.


nonprocedurally

In a nonprocedural manner; not by means of a procedure.


saddlewise

"Shall I cut this loin of mutton saddlewise?" said a gentleman carving. "No," said his friend, "cut it bridlewise, for then we may all chance to get a BIT in our mouths."

In this case, a single atom regularly seated holds a molecule in position which has no seat, but only sits saddlewise on the iodine atom.

1896, W Sedgwick, Argon and Newton: a realisation:

Instead of a single niche mounted saddlewise in the corner walls and supporting by its vault the side of an octagon, which supported in its turn the circular base of the cupola, a number of honeycomb niches were brought together in such a way as to create a gradual transition between the corner and the dome's circular base.

2009, Titus Burckhardt, Art of Islam, Language and Meaning: Commemorative Edition:


comfily

comfily (comparative more comfily, superlative most comfily)

more comfily (comparative)
most comfily (superlative)


in a walk

... Underhand has done at Newcastle what Vampyre just failed to do at Ascot; and both the Two Thousand and the Thousand have been absolutely won in a walk.

1844, The New sporting magazine, page 301:

(idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly sports) Easily; without difficulty.


churningly

churningly (comparative more churningly, superlative most churningly)

more churningly (comparative)
most churningly (superlative)

The boat backed itself churningly out from the slip.

1949, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Four-square: Short stories:

He was terribly, churningly curious, although not about the details of their lesson.


cartographically

cartographically (comparative more cartographically, superlative most cartographically)

more cartographically (comparative)
most cartographically (superlative)

From a cartographic perspective; in the manner of a cartographer.


ragefully

ragefully (comparative more ragefully, superlative most ragefully)

more ragefully (comparative)
most ragefully (superlative)


retrosynthetically

(organic chemistry) By retrosynthetic means.


panickily

panickily (comparative more panickily, superlative most panickily)

more panickily (comparative)
most panickily (superlative)


uxoriously

uxoriously (comparative more uxoriously, superlative most uxoriously)

more uxoriously (comparative)
most uxoriously (superlative)


liberatingly

liberatingly (comparative more liberatingly, superlative most liberatingly)

more liberatingly (comparative)
most liberatingly (superlative)


businesswise

It wasn’t a good year, businesswise, but we got through it without any redundancies.


regioselectively

In a regioselective manner; with regard to regioselection.


allylically

allylically (comparative more allylically, superlative most allylically)

more allylically (comparative)
most allylically (superlative)


droopingly

droopingly (comparative more droopingly, superlative most droopingly)

more droopingly (comparative)
most droopingly (superlative)

The wilted flowers emerged droopingly from their vase.

When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see
No cliff beyond him in the sky,
His pinions were bent droopingly —
And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.

1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:


unforcedly

unforcedly (comparative more unforcedly, superlative most unforcedly)

more unforcedly (comparative)
most unforcedly (superlative)

In an unforced manner; naturally, voluntarily.


unforeseeably

unforeseeably (comparative more unforeseeably, superlative most unforeseeably)

more unforeseeably (comparative)
most unforeseeably (superlative)

In an unforeseeable manner; without the possibility of being predicted.


unforcefully

unforcefully (comparative more unforcefully, superlative most unforcefully)

more unforcefully (comparative)
most unforcefully (superlative)

In an unforceful manner; weakly or halfheartedly.


paralysingly

paralysingly (comparative more paralysingly, superlative most paralysingly)

more paralysingly (comparative)
most paralysingly (superlative)


snortingly

snortingly (comparative more snortingly, superlative most snortingly)

more snortingly (comparative)
most snortingly (superlative)


coolheadedly

coolheadedly (comparative more coolheadedly, superlative most coolheadedly)

more coolheadedly (comparative)
most coolheadedly (superlative)


murmuringly

murmuringly (comparative more murmuringly, superlative most murmuringly)

more murmuringly (comparative)
most murmuringly (superlative)


mumblingly

mumblingly (comparative more mumblingly, superlative most mumblingly)

more mumblingly (comparative)
most mumblingly (superlative)


mutteringly

mutteringly (comparative more mutteringly, superlative most mutteringly)

more mutteringly (comparative)
most mutteringly (superlative)


fumingly

fumingly (comparative more fumingly, superlative most fumingly)

more fumingly (comparative)
most fumingly (superlative)


slidingly

slidingly (comparative more slidingly, superlative most slidingly)

more slidingly (comparative)
most slidingly (superlative)


protestingly

protestingly (comparative more protestingly, superlative most protestingly)

more protestingly (comparative)
most protestingly (superlative)


reproachingly

reproachingly (comparative more reproachingly, superlative most reproachingly)

more reproachingly (comparative)
most reproachingly (superlative)


extenuatingly

extenuatingly (comparative more extenuatingly, superlative most extenuatingly)

more extenuatingly (comparative)
most extenuatingly (superlative)


remonstratingly

remonstratingly (comparative more remonstratingly, superlative most remonstratingly)

more remonstratingly (comparative)
most remonstratingly (superlative)


upliftingly

upliftingly (comparative more upliftingly, superlative most upliftingly)

more upliftingly (comparative)
most upliftingly (superlative)


saunteringly

saunteringly (comparative more saunteringly, superlative most saunteringly)

more saunteringly (comparative)
most saunteringly (superlative)


mourningly

mourningly (comparative more mourningly, superlative most mourningly)

more mourningly (comparative)
most mourningly (superlative)


creakingly

creakingly (comparative more creakingly, superlative most creakingly)

more creakingly (comparative)
most creakingly (superlative)


pouringly

pouringly (comparative more pouringly, superlative most pouringly)

more pouringly (comparative)
most pouringly (superlative)

It rained pouringly that night.


terroristically

terroristically (comparative more terroristically, superlative most terroristically)

more terroristically (comparative)
most terroristically (superlative)

By means of terrorism, or in a manner that suggests it.


sidlingly

sidlingly (comparative more sidlingly, superlative most sidlingly)

more sidlingly (comparative)
most sidlingly (superlative)


mortifyingly

mortifyingly (comparative more mortifyingly, superlative most mortifyingly)

more mortifyingly (comparative)
most mortifyingly (superlative)

In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.


deservingly

deservingly (comparative more deservingly, superlative most deservingly)

more deservingly (comparative)
most deservingly (superlative)

She was deservingly jailed for her crimes.


twitteringly

twitteringly (comparative more twitteringly, superlative most twitteringly)

more twitteringly (comparative)
most twitteringly (superlative)


glisteningly

glisteningly (comparative more glisteningly, superlative most glisteningly)

more glisteningly (comparative)
most glisteningly (superlative)

The dew lay glisteningly on the grass.


displeasingly

displeasingly (comparative more displeasingly, superlative most displeasingly)

more displeasingly (comparative)
most displeasingly (superlative)


gruelingly

gruelingly (comparative more gruelingly, superlative most gruelingly)

more gruelingly (comparative)
most gruelingly (superlative)


gruellingly

gruellingly (comparative more gruellingly, superlative most gruellingly)

more gruellingly (comparative)
most gruellingly (superlative)


glimmeringly

glimmeringly (comparative more glimmeringly, superlative most glimmeringly)

more glimmeringly (comparative)
most glimmeringly (superlative)

Lamplight was reflected glimmeringly from the wet street.

The truth came to her glimmeringly.

By way of vague, imprecise notions or suspicions.


grinningly

grinningly (comparative more grinningly, superlative most grinningly)

more grinningly (comparative)
most grinningly (superlative)

Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 21:

It’s very funny — Bob is played by Bill Murray at his most unhinged, the psychiatrist by Richard Dreyfuss at his most grinningly uptight — but it’s a little creepy too.

2009 July 19, Terrence Rafferty, “On the Screen, the Shrink Has Shrunk”, in New York Times:


meaningly

meaningly (comparative more meaningly, superlative most meaningly)

more meaningly (comparative)
most meaningly (superlative)

From Middle English meningli, menyngli, equivalent to meaning + -ly.

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:

Ada opened the album at one of its maroon markers meaningly inserted here and there, glanced once, reclicked the clasp, handed the grinning blackmailer a thousand-dollar note that she happened to have in her bag, summoned Bouteillan and told him to throw Kim out.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 309:

With an implied meaning; with significance; meaningfully.


hiddenly

hiddenly (comparative more hiddenly, superlative most hiddenly)

more hiddenly (comparative)
most hiddenly (superlative)


enrichingly

enrichingly (comparative more enrichingly, superlative most enrichingly)

more enrichingly (comparative)
most enrichingly (superlative)


chemoselectively

By means of, or in terms of, chemoselection.


untraditionally

untraditionally (comparative more untraditionally, superlative most untraditionally)

more untraditionally (comparative)
most untraditionally (superlative)

In an untraditional manner; not according to tradition.


pesteringly

pesteringly (comparative more pesteringly, superlative most pesteringly)

more pesteringly (comparative)
most pesteringly (superlative)

In a pestering manner; annoyingly, bothersomely.


glisteringly

glisteringly (comparative more glisteringly, superlative most glisteringly)

more glisteringly (comparative)
most glisteringly (superlative)


longwindedly

longwindedly (comparative more longwindedly, superlative most longwindedly)

more longwindedly (comparative)
most longwindedly (superlative)


traceably

traceably (comparative more traceably, superlative most traceably)

more traceably (comparative)
most traceably (superlative)


lexiphanically

lexiphanically (comparative more lexiphanically, superlative most lexiphanically)

more lexiphanically (comparative)
most lexiphanically (superlative)

In a manner characterized by lexiphanicism.


complainingly

complainingly (comparative more complainingly, superlative most complainingly)

more complainingly (comparative)
most complainingly (superlative)

A voice answered from within: "tell him I cannot see anyone," it said, complainingly.

1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

Tucking into rissoles of rice, bacon, and potatoes served up on fried bread, he said complainingly, "By ginger, Mudgy, you do go off the handle over nothing. I tell you straight, I was damned annoyed with you this afternoon, going pop like that at a man over nothing."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 93:


pastily

pastily (comparative more pastily, superlative most pastily)

more pastily (comparative)
most pastily (superlative)


shadowily

shadowily (comparative more shadowily, superlative most shadowily)

more shadowily (comparative)
most shadowily (superlative)


nematically

nematically (comparative more nematically, superlative most nematically)

more nematically (comparative)
most nematically (superlative)


ropily

ropily (comparative more ropily, superlative most ropily)

more ropily (comparative)
most ropily (superlative)


choosily

choosily (comparative more choosily, superlative most choosily)

more choosily (comparative)
most choosily (superlative)


crimsonly

crimsonly (comparative more crimsonly, superlative most crimsonly)

more crimsonly (comparative)
most crimsonly (superlative)

Embarrassed beyond measure, she blushed crimsonly.


sadomasochistically

sadomasochistically (comparative more sadomasochistically, superlative most sadomasochistically)

more sadomasochistically (comparative)
most sadomasochistically (superlative)


semiformally

They dressed semiformally for the lunchtime meeting.


loially

loially (comparative more loially, superlative most loially)

more loially (comparative)
most loially (superlative)


uneagerly

uneagerly (comparative more uneagerly, superlative most uneagerly)

more uneagerly (comparative)
most uneagerly (superlative)

I agreed uneagerly with Father that a man should earn his keep […]

1973, William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the levee; recollections of a planter's son:


nowhither

From Middle English nowhider, from Old English nāhwider. Analyzable as no + whither.

This stuffed rump of mine saves not me only from rheumatism, but you also from what other isms! In this your Life-pilgrimage Nowhither, a fine Squallacci marching-music, and Gregorian Chant, accompanies you, and the hollow Night of Orcus is well hid!

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. I, Phenomena”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

They come nowhence, and they go nowhither. But now I see them and all things as ever moving symbols of the motions of man's spirit and destiny.

1869, George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish:

Other paths had looked as promising and had led nowhither. Nevertheless, she tried this one.

1913, Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, The work-a-day girl: a study of some present day conditions:


withinside

I provided myself with a soldier, whom I placed centinel at the door withinside, to guard me from the danger of such assaults for the future.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(intransitive preposition, archaic) Within, inside.


ASAFP

as soon as fucking/freaking possible
as soon as possible#English

Initialism of as soon as fucking/freaking possible.


objurgatively

objurgatively (comparative more objurgatively, superlative most objurgatively)

more objurgatively (comparative)
most objurgatively (superlative)

/ɒbˈd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)ɡətɪvli/

The foolish Patient still at intervals continued to break in on our discourse, which rather promised to take a philosophic turn: “But I have lost my appetite,” said he, objurgatively, with a tone of irritated pathos; “I have no appetite; I can't eat!”

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IV, Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):


in brief

Briefly; concisely; using a few words to summarize.


spreadingly

spreadingly (comparative more spreadingly, superlative most spreadingly)

more spreadingly (comparative)
most spreadingly (superlative)


shorewards

Then it all came back, and I was a boy again on the trawler, creeping shorewards in the light breeze of an August night, and watching that friendly twinkle from the Manor woods above the village.

The men rowed shorewards, but were stopped by four canoes carrying armed men, "new men" the narrative calls them.

1899, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, An Antarctic Mystery:


semicircularly

semicircularly (comparative more semicircularly, superlative most semicircularly)

more semicircularly (comparative)
most semicircularly (superlative)

He whirled and came back open-mouthed, and the little boy and big basket had to whisk semicircularly not to be run down, for de minimis non curat Medicina-even when not in a rage.

1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth:

THOMSON'S Castle of Indolence: Explanatory Verse to Canto II. In a popular and respectable, but not very fashionable quartier in Paris, and in the tolerably broad and effective locale of the Rue, there might be seen, at the time I now treat of, a curious-looking building, that jutted out semicircularly from the neighbouring shops, with plaster pilasters and compo ornaments.

1845, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Night and Morning, Complete:


sepulchrally

sepulchrally (comparative more sepulchrally, superlative most sepulchrally)

more sepulchrally (comparative)
most sepulchrally (superlative)

It is he whose hoarse whispers sound sepulchrally through the tubes, who rings the mysterious bell, and by such complex means despatches his 'shadows' upon their errands.

1872, James D. McCabe, Lights and Shadows of New York Life:


freakin'

freakin' (comparative more freakin', superlative most freakin')

more freakin' (comparative)
most freakin' (superlative)

Clipped form of freaking, itself a euphemised version of fucking.

freakin' awesome!


sophisticatedly

sophisticatedly (comparative more sophisticatedly, superlative most sophisticatedly)

more sophisticatedly (comparative)
most sophisticatedly (superlative)

He could sing you into tears, and dance you into love, and talk you into wonder; when he drew, you begged for his portrait by himself, and when he wrote, you solicited his autograph. Mr. Philip Withers had taken his moustache to foreign parts, and done the Continent sophisticatedly.

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

There stood old Mandy McGovern, her long brown rifle half raised, her finger lying sophisticatedly along the trigger guard, that she might not touch the hair trigger.

On their third album, Amorica (American), they stretch nicely beyond their Faces evocations, resulting in a pleasantly soulful, groovy, and sophisticatedly accurate recollection of a previous decade.

1995 March 10, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:


seraphically

seraphically (comparative more seraphically, superlative most seraphically)

more seraphically (comparative)
most seraphically (superlative)

“You’re an angel, by Jove, you’re an angel!” said Foker, at which Blanche looked seraphically up to the chandelier.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 74, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

They smiled at Kate seraphically, and she saw that they wanted to be alone, and that it made little difference to them whether they were sitting in a warm room or walking the windy streets.

1914, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, The Precipice:

She was all in white like a lily, and otherwise carried out the lily tradition of belonging obviously to the non-toiling-and-spinning species, justifying the arrangement by looking seraphically lovely in the fruits of the loom and labor of the rest of the world.

1921, Margaret Rebecca Piper, Wild Wings:

in a seraphic manner; with angelic purity.


balls-out

a synonymous term whose proposed etymologic connection to this one has been challenged

Descriptive of the use of a centrifugal governor at maximum speed, corresponding to full throttle.

(US, idiomatic, slang) With great abandon.

(US, idiomatic, slang) At the fastest possible speed.


indiscriminatingly

indiscriminatingly (comparative more indiscriminatingly, superlative most indiscriminatingly)

more indiscriminatingly (comparative)
most indiscriminatingly (superlative)


nonuniformly

nonuniformly (comparative more nonuniformly, superlative most nonuniformly)

more nonuniformly (comparative)
most nonuniformly (superlative)


betime

From Middle English by-tyme (“by time”); equivalent to by + time.

Send succours (lords), and stop the rage betime, Before the wound do grow uncurable; For being green, there is great hope of help."

1868, Mary Frances Cusack, An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800:

Her feature all as fresh aboue, As is the grasse that grows by Doue, as lyth as lasse of Kent: Her skin as soft as Lemster wooll, As white as snow on peakish hull, or Swanne that swims in Trent. 30 This mayden in a morne betime, Went forth when May was in her prime, to get sweet Cetywall, The hony-suckle, the Harlocke, The Lilly and the Lady-smocke, to decke her summer hall.

1907, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton:


conjugatively

conjugatively (comparative more conjugatively, superlative most conjugatively)

more conjugatively (comparative)
most conjugatively (superlative)


be it as it may

(idiomatic) Even if that is the case; whether that is true or not; nevertheless.


silverily

silverily (comparative more silverily, superlative most silverily)

more silverily (comparative)
most silverily (superlative)


regiospecifically

regiospecifically (comparative more regiospecifically, superlative most regiospecifically)

more regiospecifically (comparative)
most regiospecifically (superlative)


oölogically

oölogically (comparative more oölogically, superlative most oölogically)

more oölogically (comparative)
most oölogically (superlative)


oologically

oologically (comparative more oologically, superlative most oologically)

more oologically (comparative)
most oologically (superlative)

From oologic + -ally or oological + -ly.

From the perspective of scientific study of eggs or of a collector of eggs.


overside

1880, from the phrase over the side (of a ship), equivalent to over + side.

The cargo was dumped overside by the crew.

Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.

1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:


like a bull in a china shop

like a bull in a china shop (not comparable)

Some comparisons in general use partake of the humorous and satirical, as when one man is said to comport himself “like a bull in a china shop”.

1869, Every Saturday: a journal of choice reading, page 108:

(simile) Clumsily, aggressively, without care, concern or self-control.

comme un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine

como um elefante em uma loja de cristais


summet

(British, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat


actuarily

In the manner of, or using the methods of an actuary


unpretentiously

unpretentiously (comparative more unpretentiously, superlative most unpretentiously)

more unpretentiously (comparative)
most unpretentiously (superlative)

In a manner that is not pretentious; sincerely, without affectation.


il. col.

(bibliography) Abbreviation of illustrations in color.


post festum

Latin post (“after”) + festum (“feast”).


abaht

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

(England) Pronunciation spelling of about.


alarmedly

alarmedly (comparative more alarmedly, superlative most alarmedly)

more alarmedly (comparative)
most alarmedly (superlative)

At first the ravenous animals were startled and terrified at the change—at the cessation of movement. They shrank alarmedly back […]

1842, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, in Eliza Leslie, editor, The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present, Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, page 147:

Now I thought I had said something calculated to make Bessie turn pale and gasp, but I could scarcely believe it when I looked up, expecting to find her almost fainting, and saw her pensively, but by no means alarmedly, shaking her head. "

1872, John Hay et al., Not Pretty, But Precious:

The Law and Order Party was being organized out of various elements that viewed alarmedly the Vigilantes' growing power.

1922, Louis John Stellman, Port O' Gold:


affrightedly

affrightedly (comparative more affrightedly, superlative most affrightedly)

more affrightedly (comparative)
most affrightedly (superlative)

From affrighted + -ly. According to the Poly-Olbion project, coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.

The thunder of their rage, and boystrous struggling, make
The neighboring Forrests round affrightedly to quake:

1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 12 p. 201:

What's all this?" gasps Mr. MCLAUGHLIN, struggling affrightedly in his suffocating cage of whalebone and alpaca.

1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870:

I knew the voice and cast one quick glance that way, in time to see Ella sinking affrightedly out of sight under the dismayed looks of father and mother; then, anxious to note whether the prisoner had recognised her, too, looked hastily back to find him standing quietly and unmoved, with his eyes on his counsel and his lips set in the stern line which was slowly changing his expression.

1910, Anna Katharine Green, The House of the Whispering Pines:

Some circled in the air and occasionally swooped down towards the ground only to rocket up again affrightedly to the sky; for the tiger lay by its kill and resented the approach of any daring bird that aspired to share the feast.


filmily

filmily (comparative more filmily, superlative most filmily)

more filmily (comparative)
most filmily (superlative)

The fine rain blew very softly, filmily, but the wind made no noise. Nothing made any sound.

1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:


abune

(Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon


astuciously

astuciously (comparative more astuciously, superlative most astuciously)

more astuciously (comparative)
most astuciously (superlative)


chordwise

In the manner of a chord (straight line connecting points of a curve).


bellicosely

bellicosely (comparative more bellicosely, superlative most bellicosely)

more bellicosely (comparative)
most bellicosely (superlative)


to the T

to the T (comparative more to the T, superlative most to the T)

more to the T (comparative)
most to the T (superlative)


gawpingly

gawpingly (comparative more gawpingly, superlative most gawpingly)

more gawpingly (comparative)
most gawpingly (superlative)

A big black car flashed through the Main Street, causing passersby to swivel gawpingly around.

1991, John Waters, Jiving at the crossroads:

With a gawping expression, as of incredulity.


mushily

mushily (comparative more mushily, superlative most mushily)

more mushily (comparative)
most mushily (superlative)


cancerously

cancerously (comparative more cancerously, superlative most cancerously)

more cancerously (comparative)
most cancerously (superlative)

He was motionless for a moment, breathing deeply, and then he separated himself from them, leaning his body away, with a distaste that he could feel growing cancerously.

2005, Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: a novel, page 323:

In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.

cancerously diseased cells


topsy turvy

topsy turvy (comparative more topsy turvy, superlative most topsy turvy)

more topsy turvy (comparative)
most topsy turvy (superlative)

China, and Ganges, and Japan, / Are Words my Papa taught my Pen. He ſays, they're Countries to be found, / In a ſtrange World, below the Ground; / Where Folks with Feet erected treat, / And diſtant, downward hang their Head; / Fearleſs they topſy turvy run, / With naught beneath—but Skies and Sun.

1742, John Winstanley, “A Child’s Answer to an Invitation; Done by His Father”, in Poems Written Occasionally […], Dublin: […] S. Powell, for the author, →OCLC, pages 31–32:

[A]s the Parſon told us laſt Sunday, nobody believes in the Devil now-a-days; and here you bring about a Parcel of Puppets dreſt up like Lords and Ladies, only to turn the Heads of poor Country Wenches, and when their Heads are once turned topſy turvy, no wonder every thing elſe is ſo.

1749, Henry Fielding, “From which it May be Inferred, that the Best Things are Liable to be Misunderstood and Misinterpreted”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XII, pages 231–232:


attently

attently (comparative more attently, superlative most attently)

more attently (comparative)
most attently (superlative)


Stateside

Alternative letter-case form of stateside


dialytically

dialytically (comparative more dialytically, superlative most dialytically)

more dialytically (comparative)
most dialytically (superlative)


hastely

hastely (comparative more hastely, superlative most hastely)

more hastely (comparative)
most hastely (superlative)

But this good knight soone as he them can spie, / For the coole shade him thither hastly got […]

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


jeremitaylorically

jeremitaylorically (comparative more jeremitaylorically, superlative most jeremitaylorically)

more jeremitaylorically (comparative)
most jeremitaylorically (superlative)

From Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), a clergyman and writer of theology, -ic + -ally.

He sate with "his eye in a fine frenzy rolling," and turned his inspired gaze on Marionetta as if she had been the ghastly ladie of a magical vision; then placed his hand before his eyes, with an appearance of manifest pain — shook his head — withdrew his hand — rubbed his eyes, like a waking man — and said, in a tone of ruefulness most jeremitaylorically pathetic, "To what am I to attribute this very unexpected pleasure, my dear Miss O'Carroll?"

1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey:

I find his beauties cloying and his style too jeremitaylorically purple.

1960, Frank Percy Wilson, Seventeenth Century Prose:

(nonce word) Like Jeremy Taylor or his prose style; solemn, elaborate, ornate.


ungratifyingly

ungratifyingly (comparative more ungratifyingly, superlative most ungratifyingly)

more ungratifyingly (comparative)
most ungratifyingly (superlative)

In a way or to an extent that is ungratifying.


belive

belive (comparative more belive, superlative most belive)

more belive (comparative)
most belive (superlative)

From Middle English bilive (“actively, vigorously, eagerly, gladly, quickly, at once”), with syncopated alternative form blive. The adverb is from a contraction of by／bi + live (dative form of lyf, "life"), literally, "by life".

affix

By that same way the direfull dames doe driue / Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood, / And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue [...].

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

(obsolete outside Scotland) Quickly, forthwith.

(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Soon, presently, before long; by and by; anon


circumscriptively

en-adv

circumscriptively (comparative more circumscriptively, superlative most circumscriptively)

more circumscriptively (comparative)
most circumscriptively (superlative)


needer

But," added he, observing the other's embarrassment, "dat is needer here nor dere.

1856, John Turvill Adams, The Lost Hunter:

Didn't put them in two boxes lak dey does now, and dey warn't painted needer.

1936-1938, Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives= A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves:


gladsomely

gladsomely (comparative more gladsomely, superlative most gladsomely)

more gladsomely (comparative)
most gladsomely (superlative)

THE ADVENT BELLS./ The Advent bells are ringing in many parishes throughout various parts of England during this month of December, if I may judge from my own neighbourhood--on the western borders of Berks--where, at least three times in the week, I hear their merry peals break gladsomely upon the dark stillness of these cold evenings, from many a steeple around.

1849, Various, Notes & Queries 1849.12.22:

But she was dressed in breeches and a slouch hat, a cigarette hung from the corner of her mouth, and she beckoned April gladsomely with an immense cowthong whip.


everyway

A true and genuine record of what English schools of the highest class were more than sixty-five years ago cannot fail to have much to interest the present generation on both sides of the Atlantic; if only because we may now indulge in the self-complacency of being everyway wiser, better, and happier than our recent forebears.

1886, Martin Farquhar Tupper, My Life as an Author:


exteriorly

exteriorly (comparative more exteriorly, superlative most exteriorly)

more exteriorly (comparative)
most exteriorly (superlative)

The church, which is situated near the centre of the town, exteriorly resembles a huge Dutch barn.

1849, Edwin Bryant, What I Saw in California:

The first evidence of what it was about to be, was the appearance of the drapery establishments in the city on Saturday morning; the windows, exteriorly and interiorly, being one mass of crape and green ribbon--funeral knots, badges, scarfs, hat-bands, neckties, &c., exposed for sale.

1868, A.M. Sullivan, The Wearing of the Green:

The hotel was drab and decayed exteriorly; but the dining room was a continental elegance of marble, gilt, and mirrors.

1922, Edgar Lee Masters, Children of the Market Place:


if you like

But imagine, if you like, a world where climate change did not exist.

Please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.

This band's genre can be described as, if you like, New Wave or Post-Punk.

So to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard.


meridionally

With regard to, or in the direction of a meridian

południkowo

with regard to the direction of a meridian


hammily

hammily (comparative more hammily, superlative most hammily)

more hammily (comparative)
most hammily (superlative)

Peter Zahradnick is hammily creepy as the doomed handyman who wises up to Rhoda before anyone else.

1990 August 10, Lawrence Bommer, “The Bad Seed/Craig's Wife”, in Chicago Reader:

Baltar, played hammily as a selfish, cowardly survivor, is to “Battlestar Galactica” what Erica Kane is to “All My Children”  an amusingly villainous central character who brings a little campy comic relief to all that earnest, jaw-clenched melodrama.

2008 April 4, Alessandra Stanley, “Space Opera Returns: One Last Step for Mankind”, in New York Times:


comelily

comelily (comparative more comelily, superlative most comelily)

more comelily (comparative)
most comelily (superlative)

From Middle English comelili, comlily, comlyli, comlyly; equivalent to comely + -ly.

In an attractive or pleasing manner; attractively, beautifully, handsomely, pleasingly.

a convenient place in which the church may conveniently, and comelily meet together, not a stable, or swine-stye

1610, John Robinson, A Justification of Separation from the Church of England:

In a manner which meets accepted moral or social norms; appropriately, becomingly, properly.


artwise

It has, after all, been almost twenty years, and as Norma reminded me, a lot can happen, artwise, in that amount of time.

2003, Eli Bartra, Crafting gender: women and folk art in Latin America and the Caribbean:

Probably a lot of it was that, as much boundless energy as I had, I was aware I was really kind of limited in my skills. Juggling that many titles, I had to take shortcuts artwise.

2003, Eric Nolen-Weathington, George Pérez, Modern Masters Volume 2: George Perez:


diabatically

diabatically (comparative more diabatically, superlative most diabatically)

more diabatically (comparative)
most diabatically (superlative)


knobbily

knobbily (comparative more knobbily, superlative most knobbily)

more knobbily (comparative)
most knobbily (superlative)

His body sprouts fingers thicker than carrots. They grip me knobbily. He rocks back and forth like a leaky old boat shakes on the ocean.

1994, Helene P Foley, The Homeric hymn to Demeter: translation, commentary, and interpretive essays:


crapulously

crapulously (comparative more crapulously, superlative most crapulously)

more crapulously (comparative)
most crapulously (superlative)

From late Middle English crapulously, equivalent to crapulous + -ly.


talismanically

talismanically (comparative more talismanically, superlative most talismanically)

more talismanically (comparative)
most talismanically (superlative)


deliberatively

deliberatively (comparative more deliberatively, superlative most deliberatively)

more deliberatively (comparative)
most deliberatively (superlative)


puzzledly

puzzledly (comparative more puzzledly, superlative most puzzledly)

more puzzledly (comparative)
most puzzledly (superlative)


unfelicitously

unfelicitously (comparative more unfelicitously, superlative most unfelicitously)

more unfelicitously (comparative)
most unfelicitously (superlative)

In an unfelicitous manner; unhappily, unfortunately.


uninstructively

uninstructively (comparative more uninstructively, superlative most uninstructively)

more uninstructively (comparative)
most uninstructively (superlative)


unpolemically

unpolemically (comparative more unpolemically, superlative most unpolemically)

more unpolemically (comparative)
most unpolemically (superlative)


larcenously

larcenously (comparative more larcenously, superlative most larcenously)

more larcenously (comparative)
most larcenously (superlative)


pugilistically

pugilistically (comparative more pugilistically, superlative most pugilistically)

more pugilistically (comparative)
most pugilistically (superlative)

Wired Puerto Ricans were pacing about pugilistically on the corner, and black guys with big hats were leaning in doorways.

1994, Edward St Aubyn, Bad News, Picador, published 2006, page 191:

In a pugilistic manner; by means of fighting; aggressively.


once more

I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,[…], down the nave to the western door.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

All my best memories come back clearly to me / Some can even make me cry, just like before / It's yesterday once more

1973, “Yesterday Once More”, in Now & Then, performed by the Carpenters:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see once, more.


whilere

From Middle English whil er, whileere [and other forms], whilom er (“some while ago or before, formerly”), from Old English hwīle ǣr, hwīlum ǣr, from hwīle (accusative singular of hwīl), hwīlum (“at some time in the past, once; sometimes”) (dative plural of hwīl (“period of time, a while”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest; peace, rest”)) + ǣr (“before”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *airiz (“before, earlier”)). The English word is analysable as while + ere.

inh

VVe met that villen (God from him me bleſſe) / That curſed wight, from whom I ſcapt whyleare, / A man of hell, that cals himſelfe Deſpayre: […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 28, page 127:

Thou mak'ſt me merry: I am full of pleaſure, / Let vs be iocond. Will you troule the Catch / You taught me but whileare?

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], page 12, column 2:

He who with all Heav'ns heraldry whileare / Enter'd the world, now bleeds to give us eaſe; / Alas, how ſoon our ſin / Sore doth begin / His Infancy to ſeaſe!

c. 1633–1634, John Milton, “Upon the Circumcision”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 21:

But who shall teach my harp to gain / A sound of the romantic strain, / Whose Anglo-Norman tones whilere / Could win the Second Henry's ear, / Famed Beauclere called, for that he loved / The minstrel, and his lay approved?

1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Fifth: To George Ellis, Esq.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, page 234:

(archaic) A while ago; a time before; formerly, previously.


cuntily

en-adv

cuntily (comparative more cuntily, superlative most cuntily)

more cuntily (comparative)
most cuntily (superlative)


cuntwardly

cuntwardly (comparative more cuntwardly, superlative most cuntwardly)

more cuntwardly (comparative)
most cuntwardly (superlative)


cuntward

cuntward (comparative more cuntward, superlative most cuntward)

more cuntward (comparative)
most cuntward (superlative)

His mouth moved down from her breasts, lapping cuntward at the same instant her hand exerted pressure to push him in that direction.

2007, Karl Rockwood, The Very Private Secretary:

The walls of her cunt were rippling under conscious control, drawing the first ball deeper, drawing the second and third balls after it. She looked up and saw Anna's balls climbing cuntward too.

(vulgar, rare) Towards a cunt (female genitalia).


rallyingly

rallyingly (comparative more rallyingly, superlative most rallyingly)

more rallyingly (comparative)
most rallyingly (superlative)


coastally

coastally (comparative more coastally, superlative most coastally)

more coastally (comparative)
most coastally (superlative)


flusteredly

flusteredly (comparative more flusteredly, superlative most flusteredly)

more flusteredly (comparative)
most flusteredly (superlative)


whinnyingly

whinnyingly (comparative more whinnyingly, superlative most whinnyingly)

more whinnyingly (comparative)
most whinnyingly (superlative)

The lady laughed whinnyingly and probed with questing fingers at her back hair.


unpresentably

unpresentably (comparative more unpresentably, superlative most unpresentably)

more unpresentably (comparative)
most unpresentably (superlative)

[…] a letter from Josephson was read in which the Cafe Society op declared Heard's ork played too loud, library included too many vocal numbers and men frequently appeared dressed unpresentably, same charges he made at Tuesday's hearing, according to Buddy Busch, Heard's press rep.


scalably

scalably (comparative more scalably, superlative most scalably)

more scalably (comparative)
most scalably (superlative)


isomerically

In an isomeric manner; with regard to isomers.


optomechanically

By means of, or in terms of, optomechanics.


coeternally

coeternally (comparative more coeternally, superlative most coeternally)

more coeternally (comparative)
most coeternally (superlative)