shorthanded

shorthanded (comparative more shorthanded, superlative most shorthanded)

more shorthanded (comparative)
most shorthanded (superlative)

"They were working shorthanded," said one PMA official, "this company's got a policy of releasing gangs working shorthanded."

1997, David Wellman, The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront, →ISBN, page 274:

A player may receive a red card any time without the player first receiving a yellow card. When a player gets a red card, they must leave the game and their team must play shorthanded.

2013, Dr. Harry Barker, KICK-IT: A Fun Soccer Primer For Kids, →ISBN:

Because most pots are played shorthanded, medium pocket pairs, as well as AK, AQ, and AJ, go up in value.

2011, Vines & McEvoy, How to Win No-Limit Hold'em Tournaments, →ISBN:

túl kevés munkaerővel/személyzettel rendelkezik


inclusively

en-adv

inclusively (comparative more inclusively, superlative most inclusively)

more inclusively (comparative)
most inclusively (superlative)

In a manner which includes every possibility.


stylographically

stylographically (comparative more stylographically, superlative most stylographically)

more stylographically (comparative)
most stylographically (superlative)


truculently

truculently (comparative more truculently, superlative most truculently)

more truculently (comparative)
most truculently (superlative)

Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance?

1954, William Golding, “chapter 11”, in Lord of the Flies:

It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face. Toberman was disconcerted. ‘What's the matter?’ he demanded truculently.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

`What's wrong with that?' he demanded truculently.

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 128:


inwards

inwards (comparative more inwards, superlative most inwards)

more inwards (comparative)
most inwards (superlative)

As well as their obvious novelty value, the Class 313s offered fast acceleration, those power-operated sliding doors, non-opening passenger windows, closed ventilators to prevent any body part, head or limbs reaching out, drivers' and guards' doors opening inwards, and end doors for emergency exit.

2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:


emphatically

emphatically (comparative more emphatically, superlative most emphatically)

more emphatically (comparative)
most emphatically (superlative)

Perhaps, at, another time, Ralph’s obstinacy and dislike would have been proof against any appeal from such a quarter, however emphatically urged; but now, after a moment’s hesitation, he went into the hall for his hat, and returning, got into the coach without speaking a word.

1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.

2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:

He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.

1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

I must be taken neither really nor emphatically , but only emblematically: for being the Hierogliphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expreſſed their velocity by incurvity

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:


for good and all

hauing prepared a like feather to the same, of some other Hawke or fowle, resembling the broken feather: you muste cutte the quyll of it, and so force it togyther, as it maye enter the broken quyll of the Hawkes feather, annoynting it before you thruste it in, or seeme to place it for good and all, in the gummie fatte of a fygge

1575, George Turberville, The Booke of Faulconrie or Hauking, London: Christopher Barker, Part 3, p. 275:

It is so long since the reader […] has been parted from the midwife, that it is high time to mention her again to him, merely to put him in mind that there is such a body still in the world, and whom […] I am going to introduce to him for good and all:

1760, Laurence Sterne, chapter 13, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 1, page 53:

“Come,” said Gamfield; “say four pound, gen’lmen. Say four pound, and you’ve got rid of him for good and all. There!”

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 40:

‘It gets worse and worse the further we go,’ said Acorn. ‘Where are we going and how long will it be before some of us stop running for good and all?’

1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down, Puffin, published 1973, Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 61:

[…] we gonna talk this through for good and all.

2020, Monique Roffey, chapter 9, in The Mermaid of Black Conch, Leeds: Peepal Tree Press:

(idiomatic) In a way that is conclusive and final.


unwillingly

unwillingly (comparative more unwillingly, superlative most unwillingly)

more unwillingly (comparative)
most unwillingly (superlative)

From unwilling + -ly or un- + willingly.

Mai unwillingly starts her journey, wondering how she, still dependent on her parents, can possibly be a reliable companion to her frail grandmother.

2015 August 5, Cathryn M. Mercier, “‘Listen, Slowly,’ by Thanhha Lai”, in The New York Times:

In an unwilling or uncooperative manner.


whereunto

/wɛːɹʌnˈtuː/

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I will retire as soon as you have told
Whereunto leadeth this lost thread of gold.

1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section XVIII:

[…] for that they were content somewhat to unwrest the sovereignty from the height whereunto he had strained it; which brought the state to a better proportion of harmony.

a. 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England […] :

(archaic or formal, sometimes interrogative) Unto what or which; to what purpose.


inviolably

inviolably (comparative more inviolably, superlative most inviolably)

more inviolably (comparative)
most inviolably (superlative)

In an inviolable manner; without violation or violence of any kind.


fretfully

fretfully (comparative more fretfully, superlative most fretfully)

more fretfully (comparative)
most fretfully (superlative)


invincibly

invincibly (comparative more invincibly, superlative most invincibly)

more invincibly (comparative)
most invincibly (superlative)

In an invincible manner; unconquerably; insuperably.


invigoratingly

invigoratingly (comparative more invigoratingly, superlative most invigoratingly)

more invigoratingly (comparative)
most invigoratingly (superlative)


inventively

inventively (comparative more inventively, superlative most inventively)

more inventively (comparative)
most inventively (superlative)


invalidly

invalidly (comparative more invalidly, superlative most invalidly)

more invalidly (comparative)
most invalidly (superlative)


inversely

In an inverse order or manner; by inversion.


invaluably

invaluably (comparative more invaluably, superlative most invaluably)

more invaluably (comparative)
most invaluably (superlative)


halftime

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concretely

concretely (comparative more concretely, superlative most concretely)

more concretely (comparative)
most concretely (superlative)

In a concrete manner, physically, definitely


in house

All of the Disney World character costumes were developed in house, using materials like rubber for Mickey Mouse's face and crushed velvet for his black fur.

We like to keep our product and process development in house to help protect our intellectual property rights.

Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers.

2009, J. Adamson, Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing, page 71:

Occurring within an establishment, using existing personnel, facilities, and supplies, as opposed to at some external supplier or customer.


wis

wis (comparative more wis, superlative most wis)

more wis (comparative)
most wis (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English wis (“certain, sure”), from an aphetic form of Middle English iwis, ywis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”)), or of North Germanic origin, cognate with Icelandic viss (“certain, sure”), Dutch gewis (“certain, sure”), and German gewiss (“certain, sure”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz. More at iwis.

inh+

So I wis would the Dragon under him […]

1884, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The armourer's prentices:

(rare, obsolete or dialectal) Certainly, surely.

(rare, obsolete or dialectal) Really, truly.

As wis God help me.

c. 1368-1372, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess:


half-time

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I'm working half-time this month (two and a half days per week) before my maternity leave.


posilutely

“Anyway, we're not trespassing now,” Hunt put in. “Posilutely not,” I said.

1922 June, Percy K. Fitzhugh, “Roy Blakely's Bee-Line Hike”, in Boys' Life, volume 12, number 6, →ISSN, page 19:

“Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”

1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:

"No way, madam, it's posilutely confidential," I chuckled.

1998, Lewis Kornfeld, The Pheromone Factor: Twenty-Five Short Stories:

(informal, humorous or childish) Positively and absolutely.


nuff

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(especially African-American Vernacular or Jamaica, MLE) Pronunciation spelling of enough.


hotfoot

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.


aya

“The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”

1938, Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts, Coward-McCann and Samuel French, published 1965, →ISBN:

“And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”

2001, David McCullough, John Adams, Simon & Schuster, published 2001, →ISBN:

(archaic, dialect, New England) Yes; yea; aye.


fust

She'd drink the gin fust and give him her ten commandments artervards, when she'd aggerawated him to try it on.


uniformly

en-adv

uniformly (comparative more uniformly, superlative most uniformly)

more uniformly (comparative)
most uniformly (superlative)

The Pullmans have been painted green, uniformly with the rest of the stock, and only their characteristic outline distinguishes them from the rest of the stock.

1945 July and August, “Notes and News: B.L.A. Leave Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 231:

After decades of observation, it's pretty obvious to me that all governments are uniformly useless at actually running anything, so we need to employ the private sector to do the job for us on properly specified contracts [...].

2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:


semantically

semantically (comparative more semantically, superlative most semantically)

more semantically (comparative)
most semantically (superlative)

In a typical lexicalist approach (e.g. Koontz-Garboden 2006), the unmarked lexeme is taken as lexically listed, even if its meaning (as it often does) includes templatic entailments, and the derivational morphology is taken to operate on the underived form to yield the derived form. This is the case not only morphologically, but also semantically.

2014 September 25, Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology, page 347:

In the manner of or referring to semantics.

семанты́чна

in the manner of or referring to semantics


remotely

remotely (comparative more remotely, superlative most remotely)

more remotely (comparative)
most remotely (superlative)

“We have an accommodation and an acceptance that people will work from home one to two days a week,” says McConnell. But some people work remotely more than others, and she’s empowered her management team to make decisions that work for their direct reports.

2021 April 21, Amy Gunia, “What Will Office Life Be Like After the Pandemic? This Australian Fintech Company May Have the Answer”, in Time:

I'm not remotely in love with you.


hotly

hotly (comparative more hotly, superlative most hotly)

more hotly (comparative)
most hotly (superlative)

From Middle English *hotly, *hatliche, from Old English hātlīċe (“ardently, fervently”); equivalent to hot + -ly.

inh

"You are really intolerable!" said I, hotly.

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

It is interesting that this argument should have come up at this moment," Mr. Smith adds, "when the subject is being debated so hotly in the field of the petrol-driven internal combustion engine."

1951 September, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 621:

The prospective staff redundancy that would ensue from adoption of the plan is, of course, one of the hotly controversial aspects of the proposals and the chief issue on which a three-day N.U.R. strike was threatened for May 14-16, a few days after this issue went to press.

1963 June, “News and Comment: The redundancy problem”, in Modern Railways, pages 362–363:

In a heated manner; intensely or vehemently.


sotto

Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.

1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104

Wolowitz: Énchanté, mademoiselle. Howard Wolowitz, Cal Tech department of applied physics. You may be familiar with some of my work – – it’s currently toodling around the surface of Mars.
Penny: Hi. Penny.
Wolowitz: You smell wonderful. What is that scent you’re wearing?
Penny: It’s called b.o.
Wolowitz: Ah. Hence the shower, of course. Leonard, where have you been hiding this one? She’s charming.
Sheldon: (SOTTO, TO LEONARD) Oh, he’s good.

2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27)


coordinately

en-adv

coordinately (comparative more coordinately, superlative most coordinately)

more coordinately (comparative)
most coordinately (superlative)

These genes are coordinately controlled.


harmoniously

harmoniously (comparative more harmoniously, superlative most harmoniously)

more harmoniously (comparative)
most harmoniously (superlative)

Close beside a tranquil pool, for the moonbeams melted harmoniously into its quiet depths, was an old tree.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 249:


intrusively

intrusively (comparative more intrusively, superlative most intrusively)

more intrusively (comparative)
most intrusively (superlative)


introspectively

introspectively (comparative more introspectively, superlative most introspectively)

more introspectively (comparative)
most introspectively (superlative)


intrepidly

intrepidly (comparative more intrepidly, superlative most intrepidly)

more intrepidly (comparative)
most intrepidly (superlative)


interiorly

interiorly (comparative more interiorly, superlative most interiorly)

more interiorly (comparative)
most interiorly (superlative)

In the interior part; internally; inwardly.


intriguingly

intriguingly (comparative more intriguingly, superlative most intriguingly)

more intriguingly (comparative)
most intriguingly (superlative)

In an intriguing manner; with intrigue; with artifice or secret machinations.


daringly

daringly (comparative more daringly, superlative most daringly)

more daringly (comparative)
most daringly (superlative)


scantily

scantily (comparative more scantily, superlative most scantily)

more scantily (comparative)
most scantily (superlative)

It was rather a nod than a bow, and indicated either that he was an old friend, or that he was scantily versed in the usual social forms.

1875 January–December, Henry James, Jr., Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1876, →OCLC; republished as Roderick Hudson (EBook #176), U.S.A.: Project Gutenberg, 18 September 2016:

This brought me into the study itself. It is a scantily furnished room.

1904 July, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:

American interest is provided by former NBA star, Dennis Rodman, and the scantily clad Traci Bingham, formerly of “Baywatch.”

2006 January 17, Melissa Block, “Analysis: British Parliamentarian among reality TV show cast”, in NPR_ATC:

Sparingly; not plentifully; not fully; in a scanty manner.


sparsely

sparsely (comparative more sparsely, superlative most sparsely)

more sparsely (comparative)
most sparsely (superlative)

a sparsely populated region

Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.

1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:

In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.


fearlessly

fearlessly (comparative more fearlessly, superlative most fearlessly)

more fearlessly (comparative)
most fearlessly (superlative)

The swallows, which had been tempted here in great numbers on account of the quantity of insects to be found in proximity to the wood, and had established themselves in the barn and under the eaves, were gambolling, circling, and twittering fearlessly about in the sunshine.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278:


thinly

thinly (comparative more thinly, superlative most thinly)

more thinly (comparative)
most thinly (superlative)

From Middle English þynnelich (“with thin material; thinly”); equivalent to thin + -ly.

inh

In a thin, loose, or scattered manner; scantily; not thickly.

a thinly veiled attack on my integrity

a thinly disguised attempt at sabotage

Barely; hardly; with little attempt to conceal.


intricately

en-adv

intricately (comparative more intricately, superlative most intricately)

more intricately (comparative)
most intricately (superlative)

Charles followed the girl into the gallery, down which she was slowly proceeding, holding the little twisted scroll in her hand, and looking at it with that expression of fear and curiosity which seems to say, "Now, if you were not so intricately folded, I would open you and see your contents; but I shall not be able to replace these folds in proper order if I do—still, I have a great mind to try."

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 277:

In an intricate manner; with involution or infoldings; with perplexity or intricacy.


internally

internally (comparative more internally, superlative most internally)

more internally (comparative)
most internally (superlative)

In an internal manner; within or inside of external limits; in an inner part or situation.

"I cannot," said she, internally, "see that it makes any difference to him which of my daughters he takes, if, as he says, it is my admirable mode of bringing them up which has put matrimony into his head, for it is certain I have brought them up impartially...

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 264:


intransigently

intransigently (comparative more intransigently, superlative most intransigently)

more intransigently (comparative)
most intransigently (superlative)


intractably

intractably (comparative more intractably, superlative most intractably)

more intractably (comparative)
most intractably (superlative)

In an intractable manner; uncontrollably; unmanageably.


controllably

controllably (comparative more controllably, superlative most controllably)

more controllably (comparative)
most controllably (superlative)


tremendously

tremendously (comparative more tremendously, superlative most tremendously)

more tremendously (comparative)
most tremendously (superlative)

I enjoyed the performance tremendously.

The noise was tremendously loud.

[…] until the Wicked Witch dies you will not see your Uncle and Aunt again. Remember that the Witch is Wicked—tremendously Wicked—and ought to be killed.

1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Emerald City of OZ”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 129:


intransitively

The verb 'die' is used intransitively.

(grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following.


uncontrollably

uncontrollably (comparative more uncontrollably, superlative most uncontrollably)

more uncontrollably (comparative)
most uncontrollably (superlative)

In an uncontrollable manner; without being subject to control.


manageably

manageably (comparative more manageably, superlative most manageably)

more manageably (comparative)
most manageably (superlative)


tractably

tractably (comparative more tractably, superlative most tractably)

more tractably (comparative)
most tractably (superlative)

In a tractable manner; with compliance or docility.


intravenously

(medicine) In an intravenous manner; by means of intravenous injection.


supportably

supportably (comparative more supportably, superlative most supportably)

more supportably (comparative)
most supportably (superlative)


unmanageably

unmanageably (comparative more unmanageably, superlative most unmanageably)

more unmanageably (comparative)
most unmanageably (superlative)

In an unmanageable manner; uncontrollably.


insufferably

insufferably (comparative more insufferably, superlative most insufferably)

more insufferably (comparative)
most insufferably (superlative)


insupportably

insupportably (comparative more insupportably, superlative most insupportably)

more insupportably (comparative)
most insupportably (superlative)


unendurably

unendurably (comparative more unendurably, superlative most unendurably)

more unendurably (comparative)
most unendurably (superlative)


intimidatingly

intimidatingly (comparative more intimidatingly, superlative most intimidatingly)

more intimidatingly (comparative)
most intimidatingly (superlative)

He stared intimidatingly at John. John, feeling threatened, ran off.


sparingly

sparingly (comparative more sparingly, superlative most sparingly)

more sparingly (comparative)
most sparingly (superlative)

The Mark Tree is generally used as an effect to accentuate transitions in music, either at the beginning or end of a phrase. When used sparingly, they ^([sic]) can add an exotic "shimmer" effect.

2008, Kalani, All about Hand Percussion: Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now!, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 24:

In a sparing manner; with frugality, moderation, scantiness, reserve, forbearance, or the like; sparsely.


intolerantly

intolerantly (comparative more intolerantly, superlative most intolerantly)

more intolerantly (comparative)
most intolerantly (superlative)

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana

In an intolerant manner; without toleration.


intrinsically

intrinsically (comparative more intrinsically, superlative most intrinsically)

more intrinsically (comparative)
most intrinsically (superlative)

The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

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

What cannot be commoditized because it is intrinsically inaccessible to commodification?

2021 September 25, Charles Hugh Smith, Are We Really So "Rich"? A New Way of Defining Wealth:

In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially.

intrínsecament

in an intrinsic manner, internally, essentially

intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell


intolerably

intolerably (comparative more intolerably, superlative most intolerably)

more intolerably (comparative)
most intolerably (superlative)

In an intolerable manner; beyond endurance.


graciously

graciously (comparative more graciously, superlative most graciously)

more graciously (comparative)
most graciously (superlative)

/ˈɡɹeɪʃəsli/

From Middle English graciously, graciousliche; equivalent to gracious + -ly.

In a gracious manner; with grace and courtesy.


unendingly

Imagine God in Heaven surrounded by the choirs of adoring angels singing hosannahs unendingly.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 24:

Without end; eternally; in an unending manner.


sufferably

sufferably (comparative more sufferably, superlative most sufferably)

more sufferably (comparative)
most sufferably (superlative)


courageously

courageously (comparative more courageously, superlative most courageously)

more courageously (comparative)
most courageously (superlative)

Strike vp the Drum and martch corragiouſly,
Fortune her ſelfe dooth ſit vpon our Creſts.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:

In a courageous manner; bravely; boldly.


interrogatively

In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.


whene'er

"Your voice is sad whene'er you speak / and tears bedim your loving eyes."

1875, Thomas Payne Westendorf (lyrics and music), “I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen”:

Whene'er I spoke / Sarcastic joke / Replete with malice spiteful, / This people mild / Politely smil'd, / And voted me delightful!

1884 January 5 (date it opened at the Savoy Theatre), Arthur Sullivan (music), W. S. Gilbert (libretto), Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant

“Or mayhap he didnae want the trouble it could bring him whene'er he went home or visited his kinsmen.”

2009, Hannah Howell, Highland Champion, →ISBN, page 96:

(dialectal or poetic, otherwise archaic) Contraction of whenever.


piquantly

piquantly (comparative more piquantly, superlative most piquantly)

more piquantly (comparative)
most piquantly (superlative)


frigidly

frigidly (comparative more frigidly, superlative most frigidly)

more frigidly (comparative)
most frigidly (superlative)


quintessentially

Peri handed Ptolemy his helmet. It had a crest on it, which she always thought looked quintessentially Roman.

1994, Christopher Bulis, “ch XXIII”, in State of Change, page 237:

In a manner that is typical or characteristic of a thing's nature.


idealistically

idealistically (comparative more idealistically, superlative most idealistically)

more idealistically (comparative)
most idealistically (superlative)


proportionately

proportionately (comparative more proportionately, superlative most proportionately)

more proportionately (comparative)
most proportionately (superlative)

In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.


synchronously

synchronously (comparative more synchronously, superlative most synchronously)

more synchronously (comparative)
most synchronously (superlative)

Audio (US)

Software components usually communicate synchronously--the client makes a connection to the server, sends a request, waits for the server to send a response, and then closes the connection.

2020, Elton Stoneman, “Chapter 21: Asynchronous communication with a message queue”, in Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, →ISBN, Section 21.1: What is asynchronous messaging?:

In a synchronous manner; carried out or occurring with synchrony; in phase or at the same time.


amain

amain (comparative more amain, superlative most amain)

more amain (comparative)
most amain (superlative)

From a- (prefix with the sense ‘at; in; on; with’, used to show a state, condition, or manner) + main (“force, power, strength”). Main is derived from Middle English mayn (“strength”), from Old English mæġen (“strength”), from Proto-Germanic *maginą (“might, power, strength”), *maginaz (“strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“to be able”).

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And in beholding how he [the cyclops Polyphemus] fed and belked vp againe / His bloody vittels at his mouth, and vttred out amayne / The clottred gobbets mixt with wyne, I [Odysseus] thus ſurmyſde: like lot / Hangs ouer my head now, and I muſt alſo go to pot.

1567, Ovid, “The Fourteenth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 176, recto:

So likewiſe turnde the Prince vpon the Knight, / And layd at him amaine with all his will and might.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 27, page 430:

For they both ſay and beleeue that this picture hath ſo great vertue, as alſo that of Padua, whereof I haue before ſpoken, that whenſoeuer it is carried abroad in a ſolemne proceſſion in the time of a great drougth, it will cauſe raine to deſcend from heauen either before it is brought backe into the Church, or very ſhortly after. […] I cannot be induced to attribute ſo much to the vertue of a picture, as the Venetians do, except I had ſeene ſome notable miracle wrought by the ſame. For it brought no drops at all with it: onely about two dayes after it rained (I muſt needes confeſſe) amaine. But I hope they are not ſo ſuperſtitious to aſcribe that to the vertue of the picture.

1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], →OCLC, pages 214–215:

They on the Hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceaving the fewneſs of thir Enemies, came down amain; […]

1670, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 75:

Under his ſpecial eie / Abſtemious I [Samson] grew up and thriv'd amain; / He led me on to mightieſt deeds / Above the nerve of mortal arm / Againſt the uncircumciſ'd, our enemies.

1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 42–43, lines 637–638:

It [this book] ſhews too, who ſets out for life amain, / As if the laſting Crown they would attain: / Here alſo you may ſee the reaſon why / They looſe their labour, and like Fools do die.

1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:

The palfrey was as fleet as wind, / And they rode furiously behind. / They spurr'd amain, their steeds were white; / And once we cross'd the shade of night.

1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Christabel. Part I.”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 8:

Oh! when I have hung / Above the raven's nest, by knots of grass / And half-inch fissures in the slippery rock / But ill sustained, and almost (so it seemed) / Suspended by the blast which blew amain, / Shouldering the naked crag, oh at that time, / While on the perilous ridge I hung alone, / With what strange utterance did the loud dry wind / Blow through my ears!

1799–1805 (dates written), William Wordsworth, “Book I. Introduction.—Childhood and School-time.”, in The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind; an Autobiographical Poem, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1850, →OCLC, pages 16–17:

But as the strange captain, leaning over the pallid bulwarks, was in the act of putting his trumpet to his mouth, it somehow fell from his hand into the sea; and the wind now rising amain, he in vain strove to make himself heard without it.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Albatross”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 263:

And rearing Lindis [a river] backward pressed / Shook all her trembling bankes amaine; / Then madly at the eygre's breast / Flung uppe her weltring walls again.

1863, Jean Ingelow, “The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire. (1571.)”, in Poems, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, →OCLC, page 167:

(archaic, literary) With all of one's might; mightily; forcefully, violently.

си́льно

with all of one’s might — see also mightily, forcefully

At length the Danes beeing aſſayled on eche ſide, both a front before, and on their backes behinde, oppreſſed as it were wyth multitude, they threwe downe theyr weapons and fled amain.

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 189, column 1:

[T]he Queene o'th Skie [i.e., Juno], / Whoſe watry Arch, and meſſenger, am I. / Bids thee leaue theſe, & with her ſoueraigne grace, / Here on this graſſe-plot, in this very place / To come, and ſport: here [i.e., her] Peacocks flye amaine: / Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertaine.

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 IV, scene i], page 14, column 2:

Now when he was got up to the top of the Hill, there came two Men running againſt him amain; the name of the one was Timorous, and of the other Miſtruſt. To whom Chriſtian ſaid, Sirs, what's the matter you run the wrong way?

1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 44:

The heavy rain it hurries amain / And heaven and the hurricane.

1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Chimes”, in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 314, lines 5–6:

(archaic) At full speed; also, in great haste.

The waggonway lay near the Windmill Hills and went down the north side of the hills to the Rivir Tine, and at the Coal steath [= staithe] Mathew Gray lived. I was about hauf way down the bank when thur was two Waggons Coming after me Amain [= broken loose and running away].

1820s (date written), Anthony Errington, “Saving Men on the Waggonway”, in P. E. H. Hair, editor, Coals on Rails: Or The Reason of My Wrighting: The Autobiography of Anthony Errington, a Tyneside Colliery Waggon and Waggonway Wright, from His Birth in 1778 to around 1825 (Liverpool Historical Studies; no. 3), Liverpool: […] [F]or the Department of History, University of Liverpool [by] Liverpool University Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 38:

Riches are mine, Fortune is in my hand; / They whom I favour thrive in wealth amain, / While Virtue, Valour, Wiſdom ſit in want.

1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 50–51, lines 429–431:

The herd approach'd; each guest, with busy brain, / Arriving at the portal, gaz'd amain, / And enter'd marveling: […]

1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part II, page 36:


symbolically

en-adv

symbolically (comparative more symbolically, superlative most symbolically)

more symbolically (comparative)
most symbolically (superlative)

From symbolical + -ly or symbolic + -ally.

In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.

2003 Summer, Kristin Henrard, “Post-Apartheid South Africa: Transformation and Reconciliation”, in World Affairs, volume 166, number 1, page 37:


persistently

persistently (comparative more persistently, superlative most persistently)

more persistently (comparative)
most persistently (superlative)

The small girl persistently asked her father to buy her the doll.

One of the most persistently held beliefs about sharks is that they have to stay in motion to stay alive.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 38:


jeah

(slang, nonstandard) variant of yeah; yes.


identically

identically (comparative more identically, superlative most identically)

more identically (comparative)
most identically (superlative)

It was hard to tell the twins apart: they even spoke identically.

two expressions that are identically equal to each other


proportionally

proportionally (comparative more proportionally, superlative most proportionally)

more proportionally (comparative)
most proportionally (superlative)

/pɹəˈpɔɹʃənəli/

/pɹəˈpɔːʃənəli/

In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively.


icily

icily (comparative more icily, superlative most icily)

more icily (comparative)
most icily (superlative)

The cold Alpine air flowed icily into his car, so he stopped by the roadside to put on a leather trench-coat, thick scarf, and woollen hat[…]

1971, Alan Sillitoe, Travels in Nihilon, page 76:

In the manner of ice; with a cold or chilling effect.

[…]quite often her husband and Jo did not eat at home, or sat icily silent through a meal.

1943, M. F. K. Fisher, “To Feed Such Hunger”, in The Gastronomical Me:

Bond had pulled her head back by her hair and had kissed her once, long and cruelly. Then he had told her to go to sleep and had leant back and waited icily for his body to leave him alone.

1957, Ian Fleming, chapter 22, in From Russia With Love:

"So I was made to look the fool?" Jason said icily.

1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 164:

(figuratively) In an uncaring or coolly angry manner.


gruffly

gruffly (comparative more gruffly, superlative most gruffly)

more gruffly (comparative)
most gruffly (superlative)

He was bearded, blunt, thickset, and he wore gold-rimmed spectacles. In his bourrue-bienfaisance, in his honesty, and in his brusque insuavity towards such as would compel his sympathy without justification, he was the very type of the dogmatic family doctor—of the gruffly practical allopathist of the old school.

Bradly squatted on the flat rock to wash his legs, saying gruffly to Podson, "Better wash that dam' mud off; it sticks like hell when it's dry."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 66:

'Hey, what's that?' he exclaimed gruffly, staring searchingly at her as he took her hand.

1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 48:


idiosyncratically

idiosyncratically (comparative more idiosyncratically, superlative most idiosyncratically)

more idiosyncratically (comparative)
most idiosyncratically (superlative)


senselessly

senselessly (comparative more senselessly, superlative most senselessly)

more senselessly (comparative)
most senselessly (superlative)


idiomatically

idiomatically (comparative more idiomatically, superlative most idiomatically)

more idiomatically (comparative)
most idiomatically (superlative)

With regard to idiomaticness; as analyzed with idiomatic meaning taken into account.


ideologically

ideologically (comparative more ideologically, superlative most ideologically)

more ideologically (comparative)
most ideologically (superlative)

Nevertheless intellectually, ideologically and politically he identified with industrialists whom he, just like Smith, saw as the usherers of progress.

2002, Yanis Varoufakis, Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion, page 25:

In an ideological manner; with respect to ideology.

ідэалагі́чна

in an ideological manner; with respect to ideology


idiotically

idiotically (comparative more idiotically, superlative most idiotically)

more idiotically (comparative)
most idiotically (superlative)


radially

radially (comparative more radially, superlative most radially)

more radially (comparative)
most radially (superlative)

In a radial manner, outward from a center.


mendaciously

mendaciously (comparative more mendaciously, superlative most mendaciously)

more mendaciously (comparative)
most mendaciously (superlative)

As a politician, he was very adept at speaking mendaciously in public.

I don't think I'm going to buy what she just told me. Her gestures, eye movements, and hesitancy in her tone raised some substantial red flags. Therefore, I have reason to believe she was giving an excuse mendaciously. If you could've witnessed this, you'd know it too!


kit and caboodle

1954, Gordon Allport, cited in 2005, Steven J. Bartlett, The Pathology Of Man: A Study Of Human Evil, page 243,
If I can put the Catholics into another category and reject them kit and caboodle, my life is further simplified.

Lincoln moved its corporate headquarters, kit and caboodle, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Philadelphia in 1998.

After burying Hiram she packed them up kit and caboodle and moved them to Tuskegee, the nearest big city, so she could find work.

2009, Scharlie R. Martin, Mayhem and Mischief Most Foul, page 161:


onstage

The first is a special—a single lighting instrument that lights a particular spot on the stage. Specials generally have no color, or a more saturated color, allowing them to stand out through other lighting onstage.

2009, Jennifer Bringle, Lighting, page 23:

Taking place on the part of a stage that is visible to the audience.


discretely

discretely (comparative more discretely, superlative most discretely)

more discretely (comparative)
most discretely (superlative)


salaciously

salaciously (comparative more salaciously, superlative most salaciously)

more salaciously (comparative)
most salaciously (superlative)


overlarge

overlarge (comparative more overlarge, superlative most overlarge)

more overlarge (comparative)
most overlarge (superlative)

/əʊvəˈlɑːdʒ/

I will doo with her what me lyst said Palomydes / wete yow wel sayd that knyghte thou spekest ouer large / though thou semest me to haue at auauntage / by cause thow sawest me doo bataille but late

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

(obsolete) Too extravagantly, overconfidently.


idolatrously

idolatrously (comparative more idolatrously, superlative most idolatrously)

more idolatrously (comparative)
most idolatrously (superlative)

[…] yet didst thou find it better, to make up the breaches of that altar, which was misconsecrated to the service of thy God, than to make use of that pile, which was idolatrously devoted to a false god.

1640, Bishop Hall, Christian Moderation:


discreetly

discreetly (comparative more discreetly, superlative most discreetly)

more discreetly (comparative)
most discreetly (superlative)

Mao was animated and following every nuance of the conversation, but I could see that he was also becoming very tired. Chou had been discreetly glancing at his watch with increasing frequency, so I decided that I should try to bring the session to a close.

1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 563:

Acting in a discreet manner; acting in a way that respects privacy or secrecy; quietly


collaboratively

collaboratively (comparative more collaboratively, superlative most collaboratively)

more collaboratively (comparative)
most collaboratively (superlative)


thenceforth

/ˌðɛnsˈfɔːθ/

/ˌðɛnsˈfɔːɹθ/

From Middle English thennesforth, equivalent to thence + forth.

...to the end, that all such foes to the rights of British-America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty; and thenceforth we respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.

1774, First Continental Congress, The Articles of Association:

Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.

1851, Herman Melville, chapter 63, in Moby Dick:

The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.

1861, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Great Expectations:

1927-1929 — Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, "Nirbal Ke Bala Rama", translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
I decided to act thenceforth with great caution; not to leave the house, but somehow leave Portsmouth.

Here his hand trembled as he set his pen to the proclamation that declared slaves thenceforth and forever free.

1994 February 12, Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address:


cater-corner

/ˈkeɪtəˌkɔːnə/

/ˈkætəˌkɔɹnɚ/

Presumably a clipped form of cater-cornered, from cater + cornered, q.v., although catty-cornered is attested earlier (1838).

Altman's is sited catercorner to the ESB.


whereon

And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet haue troden, shall be thine inheritance, and thy childrens for euer, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 14:9:

Florinda sate / Beholding Roderick with fixed eyes intent, / Yet unregardant of the countenance / Whereon they dwelt; in other thoughts absorbed, […]

1816, Robert Southey, Roderick: The Last of the Goths, page 119:

But Black is the colour of my true love's hair.
His face is like some rosy fair,
The prettiest face and the neatest hands,
I love the ground whereon he stands.

c. 19th century, author unknown, Black Is the Color (of My True Love's Hair)


hjem

From Old English hām, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. Cognate with German Heim, Swedish hem, Dutch heem and heim-.

Aa’m gannin hjem man!


geet

An thor was this geet muckle bloke standin by the door!
And there was this very big guy standing at the door!


westbound

He was driving westbound on the George Washington Bridge.

Towards the west; in a westerly direction.


idyllically

idyllically (comparative more idyllically, superlative most idyllically)

more idyllically (comparative)
most idyllically (superlative)


eastbound

He drove eastbound on the George Washington Bridge.


northbound

He was travelling northbound on the Golden Gate Bridge.


agriculturally

agriculturally (comparative more agriculturally, superlative most agriculturally)

more agriculturally (comparative)
most agriculturally (superlative)

Farm-state politicians are agriculturally minded.


apically

apically (comparative more apically, superlative most apically)

more apically (comparative)
most apically (superlative)

In an apical manner or direction; towards an apex.


autobiographically

autobiographically (comparative more autobiographically, superlative most autobiographically)

more autobiographically (comparative)
most autobiographically (superlative)


autocratically

autocratically (comparative more autocratically, superlative most autocratically)

more autocratically (comparative)
most autocratically (superlative)


autonomously

autonomously (comparative more autonomously, superlative most autonomously)

more autonomously (comparative)
most autonomously (superlative)

Housed in a converted grocery store, the Academy Charter School is a new kind of public school that operates autonomously under state charter rather than under local school district control.

1994 December 10, Peter Applebome, “Some Educators See Experimental Hybrids As Country's Best Hope for Public Schools”, in The New York Times:

Nonetheless, Mr. Musk has often described the technology as if it could fully drive cars or was on its way to operating autonomously.

2023 January 31, Jack Ewing and Cade Metz, “Tesla’s Self-Driving Technology Comes Under Justice Dept. Scrutiny”, in The New York Times:

In an autonomous or self-governing manner.


sofa king

/ˈsəʊfə kɪŋ/

1999, Diesel Boy, Sofa King Cool (album title).

Kirkman, Ottley, and Crabtree (aka K.O.C.), / Another great character development issue that was Sofa King great and effin’ good.

2006 November, Sophea, “Pen Pals”, in Robert Kirkman, Invincible, number 37, Image Comics, Inc.:

“I'm Sofa King lucky!” he thought, as he drifted off.

So fucking beautiful, Jules kept saying and the dictator's grandson repeated after her, trying out the words. Sofa king beautiful, he chanted. Sofa king beautiful.

2010, Jenny Hollowell, Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe, page 85:

“That is sofa king ridiculous, Mom.” “And don't 'sofa king' me, Keek. In the mood for this, I am not.”

2011, Arlaina Tibensky, And Then Things Fall Apart:

The Sofa King said the phrase "Where the Prices are Sofa King Low!" had been the firm's slogan since it began trading nine years ago

2012 February 29, “Sofa King ad banned in UK over F-bomb similarity”, in New York Post:

To me, this all seems sofa king stupid.

N.Y. Knicks' Jeremy Lin: Dunks are Sofa King unexpected

2012, New Jersey Newsroom.com, February 10, 2012)

2015, Spek Won, Sofa King Amazing (album title).

I like him so much it’s embarrassing. I am sitting in my cubicle beaming like an idiot even though I’m super hungover and my hair smells like smoke and I clearly didn’t shower before booking it into work. He is sofa king hot.

2019, Andrea Bartz, chapter 6, in The Lost Night, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 91:

(slang, rare, humorous, nonstandard) Very, extremely.


eben

eben (comparative more eben, superlative most eben)

more eben (comparative)
most eben (superlative)

Pronunciation spelling of even, representing African-American English.


audaciously

audaciously (comparative more audaciously, superlative most audaciously)

more audaciously (comparative)
most audaciously (superlative)

In short, all those whom the gentry had despised, those whom they had trodden into the dirt, people with no place in society, people with no right to speak, have now audaciously lifted up their heads. They have not only lifted up their heads but taken power into their hands.

1954 [1927 March], Mao Tse-tung, “Report on an Investigation on the Peasant Movement in Hunan”, in Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, volume I, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 29:

In an audacious manner; bravely, daringly, but not foolheartedly.


hoo

From Middle English howe, hu (“how”), from Old English hū (“how”). More at how.


authoritatively

authoritatively (comparative more authoritatively, superlative most authoritatively)

more authoritatively (comparative)
most authoritatively (superlative)

/ɔːˈθɒɹɪtətɪvli/

/ɔˈθɔɹəˌteɪtɪvli/

From Middle English auctoritatively, auctoritativeli; compare Medieval Latin auctoritātīve; equivalent to authoritative + -ly.

In an authoritative manner, being worthy of trust.


etiologically

In an etiological manner; determined on an etiological basis.


heor

Heor man, ye radgie!


preveniently

preveniently (comparative more preveniently, superlative most preveniently)

more preveniently (comparative)
most preveniently (superlative)

In a prevenient manner. Anticipatorily, antecedently.


cavalierly

cavalierly (comparative more cavalierly, superlative most cavalierly)

more cavalierly (comparative)
most cavalierly (superlative)

Louis's brow wore its deepest gloom as he said, "There are few in yonder room who would so cavalierly reject my love."

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 25:

He had, he felt, treated Mrs Hubbard rather cavalierly.

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 14, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 175:

Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those school-room maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one fifty-thousandth of the way.

2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything: Black Swan, page 46:


rathe

rathe (comparative rather, superlative rathest)

rather (comparative)
rathest (superlative)

From Middle English rathe, from Old English hraþe, from Proto-West Germanic *hraþō, *hradō (“quickly”), from *hraþ, *hrad (“quick”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kret- (“quick; to move quickly”). Cognate with German Low German radd, ratt (“rashly; quickly; hastily”), and German gerade (“now, just, exactly”); compare Dutch rad (“quick, swift”), Norwegian rad (“quick, direct”), Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌸𐍃 (raþs, “easy”).


restlessly

en-adv

restlessly (comparative more restlessly, superlative most restlessly)

more restlessly (comparative)
most restlessly (superlative)

There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:


responsibly

responsibly (comparative more responsibly, superlative most responsibly)

more responsibly (comparative)
most responsibly (superlative)


resentingly

resentingly (comparative more resentingly, superlative most resentingly)

more resentingly (comparative)
most resentingly (superlative)

With resentment, or a sense of wrong or affront.


kindheartedly

kindheartedly (comparative more kindheartedly, superlative most kindheartedly)

more kindheartedly (comparative)
most kindheartedly (superlative)


unwholesomely

unwholesomely (comparative more unwholesomely, superlative most unwholesomely)

more unwholesomely (comparative)
most unwholesomely (superlative)

From Middle English unholsomli, equivalent to unwholesome + -ly.

The air in the old mine was unwholesomely damp and dusty.


wholesomely

wholesomely (comparative more wholesomely, superlative most wholesomely)

more wholesomely (comparative)
most wholesomely (superlative)

From Middle English holsumly, holsumliche, equivalent to wholesome + -ly.


wet fly

[…] he had a spinning rod and a fly rod, but the rivers were too shallow and too swift for spinning, and he preferred to fish wet fly.

1952, Nevil Shute, chapter 4, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann:


fastest

superlative form of fast (adverb): most fast


seriatum

Misspelling of seriatim, influenced by the commonness of the Latin ending -um.

THE CHAIR-- I suppose that the motion to take up the resolutions seriatum should be considered first.

1885, Proceedings of the Convention on the Improvement of the Western Waterways, page 41:

Has the motion been made that they be considered seriatum? If the motion has not already been made, I wish to move that these amendments be considered seriatum.

1901, Daughters of the American Revolution magazine, volume 18, page 797:

Mr. Block: Mr. Chairman, I move, then, that the Constitution be not taken up seriatum, section by section. […] If we take it up seriatum we may stay here until next week.

1912, Proceedings of the Organization Meeting and of the First Annual Convention of the Investment Bankers' Association of America, page 38:


thus far

Barry removed Pawlisch last July and the former board member has sought reinstatement to his seat, thus far without success.

1983 December 3, “Citizeens Support Ousting of Homophobic Health Commissioner”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 2:


certes

From Middle English certes, from Old French [Term?], from Latin certus (“certain”).

[F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:

This was very unpleasant, at least to myself; though, certes, it did not prey upon the minds of the others.

Here, certes, was no lost soul, but one who had gone joyfully to meet her Lord.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

пои́стине

certainly, indeed — see also certainly, indeed


comedically

comedically (comparative more comedically, superlative most comedically)

more comedically (comparative)
most comedically (superlative)


thenceforward

Combpyne is 4¼ miles from Axminster, and ¼ mile beyond the station the gradient changes, the line thenceforward falling all the way to Lyme Regis.

1960 June, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-East Devon: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 342:


hereabouts

From hereabout + -s (See adverbial genitive).

The people hereabouts are pretty decent folk.


betta

“Now she be lookin' betta,” one of the women said. “Like she has a chance to make it.”

2003, William Jackson, And the Sea Shall Hide Them, published 2005, page 202:

Now you even know the dope game betta than me, look how much money you save fo me when I went to jail.

2003, Karen Williams, chapter IC, in Passion and Pain, page 268:

“I see she's feelin' betta’,” he said in a muffled voice.

2008, Sarah Deckard, Tapestry of Tales: Classic Fairy Tales Retold, page 181:

Other than the omnipotent one, who betta to ask to help us pray for God's mercy and grace than Jesus' mother, the ev'a bless'd Virgin Mary.

2010, Kathy R. Jackson, My Box of Jewels, page 237:

Pronunciation spelling of better (comparative of well).

“Boy, if I done told you once, I done told you a thousand times, you betta leave them white girls alone before one of their boyfriends or husbands roll up on you, and put a hurtin on yo lil behind.”

2007, Gwendolyn Pless, chapter IC, in Praying Hearts and Labor of Love, page 72:

You betta praise the Lord that's all I can say.

2010, Deborah Wofford, Pour Me Out A Blessing Ministries: Presents Lyrical Bliss, page 25:

If I had a lil sister, she betta be scared to screw and be about gettin that paper.

2010, Kenya K. Watkins, chapter IC, in The Life You Choose, page 58:

(slang) Pronunciation spelling of better (had better).


bound for

The plane is bound for England.

He is bound for failure.

(sometimes figurative) Moving towards, going in the direction of.


freshly

freshly (comparative more freshly, superlative most freshly)

more freshly (comparative)
most freshly (superlative)

From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh + -ly.

The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.

Florence, hardly glancing round her, lest she should remind him freshly of their last parting […] led him out to a coach that was waiting at the door, and carried him away.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

(uncommon) In a rude or impertinent manner.


maliciously

maliciously (comparative more maliciously, superlative most maliciously)

more maliciously (comparative)
most maliciously (superlative)

From Middle English maliciousli; equivalent to malicious + -ly.

in a malicious manner, or for malicious reasons


pretty much

That's my life pretty much, down to such times as I got shipped off, arter Pip stood my friend.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 42:

Poets are pretty much the same everywhere in their poetry—and in their prose.

1912, G. K. Chesterton, “The Separatist and Sacred Things,”, in A Miscellany of Men:

Pretty much all of the train operating companies have announced huge fare increases.

2008 January 6, Ron Liddle, “Bring back British Rail, all is forgiven”, in Sunday Times, UK, retrieved 2008-07-16:

Almost completely; very nearly; mostly; more or less; basically.


fruitfully

fruitfully (comparative more fruitfully, superlative most fruitfully)

more fruitfully (comparative)
most fruitfully (superlative)


productively

productively (comparative more productively, superlative most productively)

more productively (comparative)
most productively (superlative)


smartly

From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.

He was dressed smartly.

She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:


Mondayish

I hope to have the job finished by Mondayish.


sub silencio

Borrowed from Latin sub silencio (“beneath the silence”).

bor

(law) in a clearly implied but not overtly stated way


deasil

From 1771, from Scottish Gaelic deiseil, deiseal (“southward, sunward; clockwise”) (adjective and adverb), from Old Irish dessel (“sunwise”), from dess (“right, south”) and sel (“turn”).

It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony, taking care to move according to the course of the sun.

1827, Walter Scott, “The Two Drovers”, in Chronicles of the Canongate, volume 1, Edinburgh: Cadell and Co.:

In Strathfillan, Perthshire, people are cured of insanity by being made to go three times deasil round a certain pool and then being plunged headlong into it.

1939, Wilson Dallam Wallis, Religion in Primitive Society, New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., page 160:

Our clocks and watches turn deasil, and it would seem odd, almost contrary to nature, to have them turn widdershins. We read deasil, and Macaulay's widdershins writing ‘traced from the right on pages white’ was a conscious oddity of priests. Port was circulated deasil; to send it round widdershins was extremely unlucky. Playing cards are dealt deasil; we turn screws deasil. It is possible to trace our right-handedness to the perception of deasil as the normal direction, and widdershins as abnormal, topsy-turvy, unlucky.

1946, Herbert McKay, The World of Numbers, Cambridge University Press, →OL, page 42:


myopically

en-adv

myopically (comparative more myopically, superlative most myopically)

more myopically (comparative)
most myopically (superlative)

She squinted myopically at the small print.


divint

Contraction of the Geordie dee (“do”) + not. Cognate with Scots divvent. Also dinna in parts of Scotland and the north-east of England.

"Divint gan near the Seghill mine". Lyric from the Northumbrian folk song Blackleg Miner


alee

alee (comparative more alee, superlative most alee)

more alee (comparative)
most alee (superlative)

On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather)


unseasonally

unseasonally (comparative more unseasonally, superlative most unseasonally)

more unseasonally (comparative)
most unseasonally (superlative)

They had an unseasonally warm winter and everything seemed to bloom early that year.

Not in keeping with the season; not expected, normal, or usual for the time of year.


tarnation

tarnation (comparative more tarnation, superlative most tarnation)

more tarnation (comparative)
most tarnation (superlative)

/tɑɹˈneɪʃən/

From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.

He was so tarnation black you couldn't see him except in the middle of the day.

1855, John Diprose, Diprose's New Sixpenny Comic Song-Book, page 57:

Since Britannia ruled the waves, I guess it's a tarnation queer thing that she didn't rule 'em straighter.

1867, John Cordy Jeaffreson, A Book about Lawyers - Volume 2, page 242:

Well, that's tarnation strange !

1883 -, John Thomas Dicks, Dicks' standard plays, page 48:

I know it is lonesome for you, but I will be with you again in time and then we can and will have a "tarnation good time."

2009, Dennis M. Larsen -, Slick as a Mitten: Ezra Meeker's Klondike Enterprise, page 29:


temperately

temperately (comparative more temperately, superlative most temperately)

more temperately (comparative)
most temperately (superlative)

My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, / And makes as healthful music: it is not madness

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

maßvoll

1. In a thoughtfully measured or regulated manner, eschewing extremes.


ower

From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over.

She's ower canny hor, like


repetitively

repetitively (comparative more repetitively, superlative most repetitively)

more repetitively (comparative)
most repetitively (superlative)


southwards

On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas.

1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:

In a southerly direction; towards the south.


professionally

professionally (comparative more professionally, superlative most professionally)

more professionally (comparative)
most professionally (superlative)

Steve Davis plays snooker professionally.

As a professional; for one's paid career.

You handled that customer's complaint very professionally.

There is no precredit compassion expressed in “Side Street”: In place of Ray’s protective, implied narrator there is the professionally gruff voice of Paul Kelly, an actor who specialized in coldly professional New York City police detectives.

2007 July 31, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in The New York Times:


maugre

From Middle English maugre, from Anglo-Norman malgré, from mal (“bad”) + gre (“pleasure, grace”) (from Old French, from Latin gratum).

cruell Mulciber would not obay / His threatfull pride, but did the more augment / His mighty rage, and with imperious sway / Him forst (maulgre) his fiercenesse to relent, / And backe retire […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto xi:

(obsolete) Notwithstanding, despite everything.


worser

Is he married?
I cannot hate thee worſer than I do,
If thou againe ſay yes

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:


grimly

grimly (comparative more grimly, superlative most grimly)

more grimly (comparative)
most grimly (superlative)

From Middle English grymly, grimliche, from Old English grimlīċe, equivalent to grim + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic grimmliga.

He looked round and shouted grimly, "As soon as the gate is opened, you go out there - running."

1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 63:

I looked out my window / The cloud was grimly forming / Waiting for the rain I saw / The one dark cloud forming

1968, “Grimly Forming”, in Peter Vandergeler (lyrics), Conspicuous Only in Its Absence, performed by The Great Society:


furtively

furtively (comparative more furtively, superlative most furtively)

more furtively (comparative)
most furtively (superlative)

From Middle English furtyvely; equivalent to furtive + -ly.

And furtively Time looked him in the face and edged towards him fingering with his dripping fingers the hilt of his nimble sword.

1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 4:


the hell out of

Susan Powter (1993) Stop the Insanity! Eat, Breathe, Move, Change the Way You Look and Feel-Forever: “How about eliminating all the stupid choreography you've got us doing—which doesn't do a damn thing, other than confuse the hell out of most people....”

2004: William Upski Wimsatt Adrienne Brown, How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power
There were days where we would just pick up our coats, leave one person in the office, and head into an area that was weak and door-knock the hell out of it.

Rachel Reiland (2004) Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder: “Am I supposed to be like my mother? Crying all the time, manipulating the hell out of him, out of us?”

Now that you're above ground, your suit radio has reestablished connection with the Normandy. Time to get the hell out of here.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: UNC: Espionage Probe:


vapidly

vapidly (comparative more vapidly, superlative most vapidly)

more vapidly (comparative)
most vapidly (superlative)

The three bored, interchangeable booth babes winked and flirted vapidly; he had already forgotten their names.

In a vapid manner; not inspiring; in a manner unlikely to make an impression.


singly

From Middle English senglely. Equivalent to single + -ly.

Singly, they are every one a representation or appearance of some quality, or other accident of a body without us, which is commonly called an object.

1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter I, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC:

The cross, reared now above all other objects, and standing singly out against the sky, was greeted with a burst of delight; […

1880 November 12, Lew[is] Wallace, chapter 10, in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

Grey-coloured woods covered a large part of the surface. This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others—some singly, some in clumps […]

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “13: How My Shore Adventure Began”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.

1906, Jack London, chapter XVIII, in Before Adam:

In a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion.

поотделно

in a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion

to make men singly and personally good

Ursula saw that now Bella Watson's chance meetings with him had to be strategically and singly planned by Bella, whose wifely attentions to the bereaved man were markedly meaning.

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 211:

to attack another singly

Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed.


stoically

stoically (comparative more stoically, superlative most stoically)

more stoically (comparative)
most stoically (superlative)

Frank Connor look the news stoically and, except for a sudden and nearly unnoticed grimace, with no outward show of emotion.

2010, Christopher Reich, “chapter 41”, in Rules of Betrayal, page 208:

In a manner that endures pain and hardship without outwardly showing suffering or expressing complaint.

tyynesti

in a manner that endures pain and hardship without outwardly showing suffering

Regardless of how involved Carl outwardly appears, inside he holds himself stoically detached.

1985, Larry Morton Gernsbacher, The Suicide Syndrome: Origins, Manifestations, and Alleviation of Human Self-destructiveness, page 143:

In an unfeeling manner that inwardly is unaffected by pain or distress.

tyynesti

in an unfeeling manner that inwardly is unaffected by pain or distress

(philosophy) In a manner consistent with the philosophy of stoicism.

stoalaisesti

in a manner consistent with the philosophy of stoicism


cattycorner

(US, Canada) Alternative form of catty-corner


by and by

Australian Kriol: bambai

Bislama: bambae

Hawaiian Creole: bumbai

Tok Pisin: baimbai

From Middle English by and by (“side by side, close together, alongside, on and on, continually, again and again, repeatedly”), equivalent to by + and + by.

inh

O, how this spring of love resembleth / The uncertain glory of an April day / Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, / And by and by a cloud takes all away!

1591, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona:

Two anons and a by and by is an hour and a half.

1636, William Camden with John Philipot, Remaines concerning Britaine, their languages, names, surnames, 5th edition:

a. 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley "On the Symposium, or Preface to the Banquet of Plato"
"You are laughing at me, Socrates," said Agathon, "but you and I will decide this controversy about wisdom by and by, taking Bacchus for our judge. At present turn to your supper."

Sit down, have a rest, and by and by you'll be feeling better.

She said herself / She would forgive him, by and by, not now — / For her own sake then, if not for mine — not now —- But by and by.

1882, Alfred Tennyson, The Promise of May:

Will the circle be unbroken / by and by, by and by? / Is a better home awaiting / in the sky, in the sky?

1907, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?”, Ada R. Habershon (lyrics), Charles H. Gabriel (music):

When […] persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 13:21:


paralytically

He was paralytically drunk.

But if it stay not with the Patient, it must be repeated again: For it's no unusual Thing in these Cases, for Glysters to come slip away presently, by reason that the Intestines having their Fibres benumbed, and paralytically relaxed, lose their retentive Faculty.

1710, Thomas Fuller, Pharmacopœia extemporanea:

But to the top of the House is Mankind, thus paralytically diseased, to be carry'd by the four Evangelists, his Bearers.

1729, Thomas Woolston, A Discurse on the Miracles of our Saviour in view of present controversy between infidels and apostates:

They are paralytically fixed, existing simply as inert conduits which are not capable of acting expulsively on the contents themselves, and only discharge this part of their function in as far as they are acted upon by other contractile agents.

1883, William Robertson, A Text-book of the Practice of Equine Medicine, page 518:

Once I play the first note of the first song, I'm fine, but before that, I can get paralytically afraid.

2014, Emily Spivack, Worn Stories, page 45:


catty-corner

Corruption of cater-corner under influence from catty.

He takes the Brewer turnoff off the Pike and the road takes him through the town where he first bought gas. As he takes the road marked BREWER 16 he can see cattycornered across the main street the dirtdigger's pumps and his dark window full of glinting shovels and fishing rods.

1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 35:

(US, Canada) Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from.


ostentatiously

en-adv

ostentatiously (comparative more ostentatiously, superlative most ostentatiously)

more ostentatiously (comparative)
most ostentatiously (superlative)

In an ostentatious manner; extravagantly or flamboyantly.


as hell

It's cold as hell in here!

It was icy as hell that morning and as I put my brakes on the van just kept going.

The 88-year-old is in fact as "happy as hell" about her new novel Go Set a Watchman.

Kim is as phony as all hell.

With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Two thousand years of waiting for their Messiah, and they're still persistent as hell.

Just annoying as hell, as obnoxious as hell, and as effective as hell.

Even though he was frightened for them, even though he was scared as hell to fail them, it felt so good to know these people cared when he hurt!

2004, Teralee E. M. Bird, Seraphim Trilogy Book One; What the Herald Angel Sang:

(postpositive, simile) To a great extent or degree; very.

My Soul forſakes her vain Delight, / and bids the World farewel, / Baſe as the Dirt beneath my Feet, / And miſcheivous as Hell.

1707, Isaac Watts, “Parting with Carnal Joys”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 87:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, hell.


disconsolately

disconsolately (comparative more disconsolately, superlative most disconsolately)

more disconsolately (comparative)
most disconsolately (superlative)

From the bank the lamb looked at her, then faced round to the hut, and, baaing disconsolately, trotted a few paces back.

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 44:

In a cheerless, dreary manner; in a manner which suggests that one is beyond consolation.

dejectedly

in a manner suggesting one's being beyond consolation


fitfully

fitfully (comparative more fitfully, superlative most fitfully)

more fitfully (comparative)
most fitfully (superlative)

He slept fitfully, plagued by bad dreams and a persistent cough.

The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door […]

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 123, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

The train for Marmion left Boston at four o'clock in the afternoon, and rambled fitfully toward the southern cape, while the shadows grew long in the stony pastures […]

1885–1886, Henry James, chapter XXXV, in The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC:

We shivered miserably throughout the night. Now and again fitfully slept, but the pain of the cold always aroused me.

1904, Jack London, chapter 36, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:

In a fitful manner; irregularly or unsteadily.


prodigally

prodigally (comparative more prodigally, superlative most prodigally)

more prodigally (comparative)
most prodigally (superlative)

In a prodigal manner; extravagantly or wastefully.


professorially

professorially (comparative more professorially, superlative most professorially)

more professorially (comparative)
most professorially (superlative)


pettishly

pettishly (comparative more pettishly, superlative most pettishly)

more pettishly (comparative)
most pettishly (superlative)

Lady Mary turned pettishly away; no woman likes anybody but herself to depreciate a lover; it is personally an ill compliment.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Ranelagh”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 9:

"You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech.

1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:

`Why did you keep me standing there in the cold?' he asked pettishly.

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

[S]he complained pettishly of the heat and the flies and at length of the walk, and reduced Robert to the antics of an obsequious dog.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 118:


eightfold

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold.


unsteadily

unsteadily (comparative more unsteadily, superlative most unsteadily)

more unsteadily (comparative)
most unsteadily (superlative)

He climbed the stairs unsteadily, grasping the banister and gasping for breath.

Terry's fist lashed out, but Simpson, anticipating the blow, stepped quickly to one side. Another followed, however, and caught the older man fairly on the chin, sent him reeling back. He stood swaying unsteadily, a little smile on his lips.

1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XX, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 205:

In an unsteady manner, so as to shake or falter.

"I reckon. It's powerful fine to hear that," replied Lassiter, unsteadily.

1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 21, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

In an uncertain manner; with hesitation or timidity.


phonetically

phonetically (comparative more phonetically, superlative most phonetically)

more phonetically (comparative)
most phonetically (superlative)

The hard words in the passage have been spelled phonetically.

In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.


hitherward

Happiness, unhappiness: all that was but the wages thou hadst; thou hast spent all that, in sustaining thyself hitherward; not a coin of it remains with thee, it is all spent, eaten: and now thy work, where is thy work?

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):


nooit

Borrowed from Afrikaans nooit (“never”).

STIX: You never bought shit? HENRY: Never! STIX: Nooit?

1999, David Graver, Drama for a New South Africa: Seven Plays, page 133:

What would your average South African celebrity say if you used her name or image to sell your product without first obtaining her consent? Probably something like 'Nooit, ek sê, I want big bucks.'

2005, Hans Muhlberg, The Law of the Brand, page 72:


postpaid

The complete words and score … can be supplied by Dick & Fitzgerald, post-paid, on receipt of $2.00.

1903, M. F. Hutchinson, Princess Kiku, New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, page 6:

With the cost of postage already paid or included in the price.


thitherto

thitherto (comparative more thitherto, superlative most thitherto)

more thitherto (comparative)
most thitherto (superlative)

Ay but to mortals the day of death is certain never, […] the Days, with good thitherto unfailing; […]

1874, Ernest Myers, transl., The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Olympian Ode II, page 8:


hereunto

(archaic) Unto this; up until now; hereto.


left, right and centre

The forwards smashed the All Blacks left, right, and centre, and they were switched on from the first whistle.

2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:


thitherward

No more he spake, / But thitherward forthright his ready way did make.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

They saw a maid who thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

The poor woman, who was well aware with such incumbrances she could do nothing with visitors of their rank, eagerly presented a letter from the castle, which had been waiting almost a week, and their horses' heads were in a few minutes turned thitherward, a boy being dispatched from the farm by a near road, to announce their arrival.

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 263:


pursuant

pursuant (comparative more pursuant, superlative most pursuant)

more pursuant (comparative)
most pursuant (superlative)

Anglo-Norman pursuant, present participle of pursure. Doublet of pursuivant.


topside

(nautical) Abovedeck, such as on the weather deck or bridge.


ridiculously

ridiculously (comparative more ridiculously, superlative most ridiculously)

more ridiculously (comparative)
most ridiculously (superlative)

From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

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

`I was with the ballet back home, but the money was ridiculously low.'

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 78:

It's a shame; not only are nuts quite ridiculously nutritious but, as anyone who's ever shelled out (sorry) for a tiny glass of pistachios in a pub will know, they're a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. But although I happen to have a soft spot for nut roast – an option often preferable to the meat that emerged from the school kitchen – it seems I'm in a cranky minority. A request for recipe recommendations was met with a polite silence on Twitter: vegetarianism, apparently, has moved on a bit. You don't see Yotam Ottolenghi faffing about with nut roasts, do you? But I'm determined to revive the fortunes of this much-maligned classic. After all, Christmas isn't Christmas without a luxury nut selection.

2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:

In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.


spasmodically

spasmodically (comparative more spasmodically, superlative most spasmodically)

more spasmodically (comparative)
most spasmodically (superlative)


soothingly

soothingly (comparative more soothingly, superlative most soothingly)

more soothingly (comparative)
most soothingly (superlative)


tellingly

tellingly (comparative more tellingly, superlative most tellingly)

more tellingly (comparative)
most tellingly (superlative)


symptomatically

symptomatically (comparative more symptomatically, superlative most symptomatically)

more symptomatically (comparative)
most symptomatically (superlative)

In a symptomatic manner; diagnostically.

Directed at symptoms, rather than a cause.

Based upon symptoms, rather than a causative agent.


athwartships

From athwart (“across”) + ship + -s as an adverbial ending.

to place / fix / stow something athwartships; to pace the bridge athwartships

At all times except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the Try-works.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 107, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 519:

(nautical) Across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.


to be sure

I don't hate him. To be sure, we're not best buddies, but hate is a strong word.

They call themselves gentlemen, I warrant you; but, as my first husband used to say, they should remember it is we that pay them. And to be sure it is very hard upon us to be obliged to pay them, and to keep 'um too, as we publicans are.

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

But to be sure baby was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

(idiomatic) Certainly, undoubtedly, admittedly.


fatally

fatally (comparative more fatally, superlative most fatally)

more fatally (comparative)
most fatally (superlative)

Witness our too much memorable shame
When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
And all our princes captiv'd by the hand
Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;

1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry V:

He told Peace that he did not believe his statement that he had fired the pistol merely to frighten the constable; had not Robinson guarded his head with his arm he would have been wounded fatally, and Peace condemned to death.

1918, H. B. Irving, A Book of Remarkable Criminals:

A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019.

2020 September 9, “Network News: Man jailed for Hillingdon murder”, in Rail, page 25:

Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision.

2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:

"They pretend," as I hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas;" but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man's writings admit of more than one interpretation. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods:

Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something.

fatalmente

ultimately, with finality or irrevocability

He was a slender young man in hot black clothes; he wore the unfaçaded collar fatally and unanimously adopted by all adam's-apple men of morals; he was washed, fair, flat-skulled, clean-minded, and industrious; and the only noise of any kind he ever made in the world was on Sunday.

1913, Booth Tarkington, chapter 9, in The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 138:

Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom.


vacantly

vacantly (comparative more vacantly, superlative most vacantly)

more vacantly (comparative)
most vacantly (superlative)

Mao gave no indication that he had heard or understood Jakob; his clouded eyes were fixed vacantly on one of the long windows of the old Ming dwelling beyond which the waters of Chung Nan Hai — the Central and South lakes — sparkled in the afternoon sunshine.

1988, Anthony Grey, Peking: A Novel of China's Revolution, 1921-1978, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 580:

In a vacant manner; inanely or foolishly.


downstate

downstate (comparative more downstate, superlative most downstate)

more downstate (comparative)
most downstate (superlative)

(US) To the southern section of a state.


successively

My last to you was of Oct. 8 by the Count de Moustier. Yours of July 18. Sep. 6. & Oct. 24. have been successively received, yesterday, the day before & three or four days before that.

December 20, 1787, Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison.:

Allan was first William Buddicom's and then Trevithick's second-in-command, at Edge Hill and at Crewe successively, for the period of 13½ years from February, 1840, to September, 1853, when he left Crewe to become Superintendent of the Scottish Central Railway.

1951 June, Dr. W. H. Chaloner, “Alexander Allan's Own Claim”, in Railway Magazine, page 416:

In a serial or successive manner; one following another.


à propos

windows are favourite seats; and who knows how much may be effected in a tête-à-tête, by the crimson shade of the curtain flitting over a fair cheek à propos?

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 53:

"You are an awfully good sort," he said to her once a propos of nothing at all.

1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 121:


de haut en bas

Borrowed from French de haut en bas (“from on high to low”).

bor

The landlady looked at him de haut en bas, rather pitying, and at the same time, resenting his clear, fierce morality.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 4, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

Thomas initially took a de haut en bas attitude to Nazism, expecting it to be a flash in the pan.

2016 April, Stoddard Martin, Literary Review, page 19:

With condescension; superciliously. Also used attributively.


herewith

From Middle English herwith or her-with, from late Old English herwiþ. By surface analysis, here + with.

with this; especially, with this letter or communication

с това

with this (especially, with this letter or communication)


insufficiently

en-adv

insufficiently (comparative more insufficiently, superlative most insufficiently)

more insufficiently (comparative)
most insufficiently (superlative)

The machine was decommissioned because it was producing widgets insufficiently.

Mr. Tygart, who came to prominence for successfully pursuing doping cases against the track star Marion Jones and the cyclist Lance Armstrong, has long contended that WADA is insufficiently dedicated to holding dopers and their enablers to account.

2024 July 25, Michael S. Schmidt and Tariq Panja, “How a U.S. Antidoping Law Fueled Global Tensions”, in The New York Times:


brilliantly

brilliantly (comparative more brilliantly, superlative most brilliantly)

more brilliantly (comparative)
most brilliantly (superlative)

Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.

2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:


inshore

The sunset's roses faint and fain decline.
Inshore the still sea shimmers scale on scale,
Like an enormous coat of magic mail —
Sheet silver shot with tremulous opaline.

1875, William Henley, Notes on the Firth:

It is now believed that many species of sharks come inshore at night to feed and, therefore, that attacks made during the day are not related to the feeding process.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 169:


eponymously

in an eponymous manner; as the title character of a book, etc.


blessedly

blessedly (comparative more blessedly, superlative most blessedly)

more blessedly (comparative)
most blessedly (superlative)

From Middle English blessedly, blessidly, blestly, equivalent to blessed + -ly.

Therefore ſhould every Souldier in the Warres doe as euery ſicke man in his Bed, waſh euery Moth out of his Conſcience: and dying ſo, Death is to him aduantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly loſt, wherein ſuch preparation was gayned: […]

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 84, column 2:

We shall blessedly meet again never to depart.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

riemullisesti

happily, joyfully — see also happily, joyfully