lichtly

lichtly (comparative more lichtly, superlative most lichtly)

more lichtly (comparative)
most lichtly (superlative)

I will mak a lang ladder, Wi' fifty steps and three, three, I will mak a lang ladder, And lichtly come doun to thee, thee, And lichtly come doun to thee.

1827 -, George Ritchie Kinloch, The ballad book:

Saft in his arms he caught her up, Winsome Annie Ramsay. An' swang her lichtly to the croup, Winsome Annie Ramsay.

1851, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal:

Than, tae her gret surprise, he touched her hair, sae lichtly that she cud haurdly feel it, an rinnin a finger doonwart, he fund her yae lang braid an pickit it up.

2011, Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee, Braken Fences, →ISBN, page 63:

(Scotland) lightly; gently or without great force.

But a wuman wha wad sae misguide the son o' her ain body, an' for naething but that as she had broucht him furth sic he was, — it "s no to be lichtly believed nor lichtly endured.

1874, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature:

“Dinna speak sae lichtly, Thamas," remonstrated his wife. “

1877, Henry Johnston, The Dawsons of Glenara: A Story of Scottish Life, page 38:

Weel, time gaed by: and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly o' that black business.

1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables:

(Scotland) In a manner that is not serious.


orthoepically

In an orthoepical manner: pronounced correctly or in accordance with standard usage.


overboldly

en-adv

overboldly (comparative more overboldly, superlative most overboldly)

more overboldly (comparative)
most overboldly (superlative)


overindulgently

overindulgently (comparative more overindulgently, superlative most overindulgently)

more overindulgently (comparative)
most overindulgently (superlative)


overanxiously

overanxiously (comparative more overanxiously, superlative most overanxiously)

more overanxiously (comparative)
most overanxiously (superlative)


lordishly

lordishly (comparative more lordishly, superlative most lordishly)

more lordishly (comparative)
most lordishly (superlative)

Bark peeled from them, brittle as cicada shell; in their branches stood tawny frogmouths, their beaks lordishly raised.

2011, Sonya Hartnett, The Ghost's Child - Page 19:


softwarily

Anyone who buys a computer lacking a standard operating system may find himself in the isolation unit, softwarily speaking.

1984, James E. Balmer, The Portable Computer Book, page 57:

(computing, slang, humorous, rare) In terms of software.


firstable

The point of view we bring in these notes has a double interest; firstable it tends to unify the language of functional inequalitites of type Poincaré to the field of processes continuously depending on their past;

2002, Alejandro Maass, Servet Martínez, Jaime San Martín, Dynamics and Randomness, →ISBN, page 230:

Firstable you won't believe all the responsibility I have over my shoulders.

2014, Gregory A. Smith, Public Schools That Work: Creating Community, →ISBN, page 194:

Firstable the Italian was disrupting the timing of the “bulls”, it was getting late for the next bull to be ejected.

2014, Victor H. Acuna, An Ecuadorian Festivity: Close to Heaven, →ISBN:

Firstable (the latest word for first of all, for those not too cool for school), the decline in teen users can be largely attributed to rival messaging apps and the public distrust of Facebook.

2014 December 23, Quinten Plummer, “Teens Show Thumbs Up to Instagram but Thumbs Down to Facebook”, in Tech Times:

(nonstandard, non-native speakers' English) First of all; firstly


ever after

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

1992, Basic Instinct, written by Joe Eszterhas, Catherine and Nick played by (respectively) Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas
Catherine: What do we do now, Nick?
Nick: Fuck like minks, raise rug rats, live happily ever after.
Catherine: I hate rug rats.
Nick: Fuck like minks, forget the rug rats, and live happily ever after.


secondable

… two main reasons. Firstly, as the wealth increases the complexity of its administration increments as well, making compulsory the support of a professional; secondable, since the cost structure is usually linked with the assets under management, they …

1993, Luca Reddavide, The Evolution of Wealth Management: Transformation and Innovation of Robo Advisory, thesis submitted to Università Ca' Foscari Venezia:

Secondable (see the firstable hyperlink), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there isn't much headroom for his company's social networking site.

Firstable, workers who work in a close connection with pesticides like formulators, sprayers, mixers, loaders and agricultural farm workers have a big risk to expose themselves to the pesticides that harm their health. Secondable, people can expose to a number of pesticides through food

2015, Heidi Rosala, Consumer selection of vegetarian food in restaurants, thesis submitted to University of Jyväskylä:

Firstable, they simulated the considered plant in its original site (Granada, Spain), secondable, the simulation was performed in another location (Ma’an, Jordan).

2020, T. E. Boukelia, A. Bouraoui, A. Laouafi, S. Djimli, Y. Kabar, “3E (Energy-Exergy-Economic) comparative study of integrating wet and dry cooling systems in solar tower power plants”, in Energy, →DOI:


no more

I will pay no more today.

He will bother you no more.

If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,
I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, 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):

1817, Lord Byron, So, we'll go no more a roving:

Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen,
No more will he wander Lochaber again.

[There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.

1972, “School's Out”, performed by Alice Cooper:

I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.

1973, Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born:

- I can't swim.
- No more can I.


lordfully

lordfully (comparative more lordfully, superlative most lordfully)

more lordfully (comparative)
most lordfully (superlative)

They have said boldly and lordfully, " Here we stand, the offspring of the by gone time, an oak here and a mushroom there, and as long as we can each count one, you shall have no good thing either with us or without us."

1843, Thomas Perronet Thompson, Exercises, political and others - Page 185:

In a very real sense, then, George lordfully creates the troubles for which Lennie will himself be blamed and punished—though he only obeys his master's vengeful voice.

2009, Michael J. Meyer, The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men:


rebukefully

rebukefully (comparative more rebukefully, superlative most rebukefully)

more rebukefully (comparative)
most rebukefully (superlative)


reptilianly

reptilianly (comparative more reptilianly, superlative most reptilianly)

more reptilianly (comparative)
most reptilianly (superlative)


ricketily

ricketily (comparative more ricketily, superlative most ricketily)

more ricketily (comparative)
most ricketily (superlative)


reverberatively

reverberatively (comparative more reverberatively, superlative most reverberatively)

more reverberatively (comparative)
most reverberatively (superlative)


scattily

scattily (comparative more scattily, superlative most scattily)

more scattily (comparative)
most scattily (superlative)


scatteredly

scatteredly (comparative more scatteredly, superlative most scatteredly)

more scatteredly (comparative)
most scatteredly (superlative)


disciplinedly

In a disciplined manner, with discipline, with self-control or organization.


scrimpily

scrimpily (comparative more scrimpily, superlative most scrimpily)

more scrimpily (comparative)
most scrimpily (superlative)


semiautonomously

From semi- + autonomously or semiautonomous + -ly.

The result is a remote-controlled machine that does scut work for a timber crew and teaches itself to operate semiautonomously, using LiDar — or light detection and ranging — to map the forest.

2024 August 30, Tim Fernholz, “Silicon Valley Wants to Fight Fires With Fire”, in The New York Times:


slumbrously

slumbrously (comparative more slumbrously, superlative most slumbrously)

more slumbrously (comparative)
most slumbrously (superlative)


xerophytically

a xerophytically adapted grass


vivisectionally

In terms of, or by means of, vivisection.


unpurposefully

unpurposefully (comparative more unpurposefully, superlative most unpurposefully)

more unpurposefully (comparative)
most unpurposefully (superlative)


unexpressively

unexpressively (comparative more unexpressively, superlative most unexpressively)

more unexpressively (comparative)
most unexpressively (superlative)


unhurtfully

unhurtfully (comparative more unhurtfully, superlative most unhurtfully)

more unhurtfully (comparative)
most unhurtfully (superlative)


unharmfully

unharmfully (comparative more unharmfully, superlative most unharmfully)

more unharmfully (comparative)
most unharmfully (superlative)


unhopefully

unhopefully (comparative more unhopefully, superlative most unhopefully)

more unhopefully (comparative)
most unhopefully (superlative)


unprotectedly

unprotectedly (comparative more unprotectedly, superlative most unprotectedly)

more unprotectedly (comparative)
most unprotectedly (superlative)


unshakenly

unshakenly (comparative more unshakenly, superlative most unshakenly)

more unshakenly (comparative)
most unshakenly (superlative)


unchallengeably

unchallengeably (comparative more unchallengeably, superlative most unchallengeably)

more unchallengeably (comparative)
most unchallengeably (superlative)


unbenignly

unbenignly (comparative more unbenignly, superlative most unbenignly)

more unbenignly (comparative)
most unbenignly (superlative)


unconfusedly

unconfusedly (comparative more unconfusedly, superlative most unconfusedly)

more unconfusedly (comparative)
most unconfusedly (superlative)


unavailably

unavailably (comparative more unavailably, superlative most unavailably)

more unavailably (comparative)
most unavailably (superlative)


unambitiously

unambitiously (comparative more unambitiously, superlative most unambitiously)

more unambitiously (comparative)
most unambitiously (superlative)


unroughly

unroughly (comparative more unroughly, superlative most unroughly)

more unroughly (comparative)
most unroughly (superlative)

So I was taught all the usual girl things then current, encouraged to play unroughly, given dolls, pretty clothes, advised on softness and sweetness, I must conclude.


yestereven

From Middle English yester even, yistreven, alteration of yesterevening (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + even (“evening”).

inh

“Wert thou not in presence yester-even,” said De Bracy, “when we heard the Prior Aymer tell us a tale in reply to the romance which was sung by the Minstrel? […]”

1820, Walter Scott, chapter 15, in Ivanhoe:


thermographically

By means of, or in terms of, thermography.


thermoscopically

By means of, or in terms of, thermoscopy.


tracelessly

jäljettömiin

without leaving a trace — see also without a trace


tubulously

en-adv

tubulously (comparative more tubulously, superlative most tubulously)

more tubulously (comparative)
most tubulously (superlative)


therebeside

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stridulantly

stridulantly (comparative more stridulantly, superlative most stridulantly)

more stridulantly (comparative)
most stridulantly (superlative)


splotchily

splotchily (comparative more splotchily, superlative most splotchily)

more splotchily (comparative)
most splotchily (superlative)


sparkishly

sparkishly (comparative more sparkishly, superlative most sparkishly)

more sparkishly (comparative)
most sparkishly (superlative)


spinosely

spinosely (comparative more spinosely, superlative most spinosely)

more spinosely (comparative)
most spinosely (superlative)


soporiferously

soporiferously (comparative more soporiferously, superlative most soporiferously)

more soporiferously (comparative)
most soporiferously (superlative)


subtotally

subtotally pancreatectomized rats


radiobiologically

By means of, or in terms of, radiobiology.


qualifyingly

So as to qualify, or modify the meaning of something.


quenchlessly

quenchlessly (comparative more quenchlessly, superlative most quenchlessly)

more quenchlessly (comparative)
most quenchlessly (superlative)


psychoneuroimmunologically

In terms of, or by means of, psychoneuroimmunology.


suggestibly

suggestibly (comparative more suggestibly, superlative most suggestibly)

more suggestibly (comparative)
most suggestibly (superlative)


thereamong

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undisciplinedly

undisciplinedly (comparative more undisciplinedly, superlative most undisciplinedly)

more undisciplinedly (comparative)
most undisciplinedly (superlative)

In an undisciplined manner; without discipline.


admonitorily

admonitorily (comparative more admonitorily, superlative most admonitorily)

more admonitorily (comparative)
most admonitorily (superlative)


algologically

In terms of algology, the study of algae.


intravitreously

Cells were then washed with PBS, counted and 10,000 cells were injected intravitreously using a 33-gauge Hamilton syringe, into healthy wild type mice.

2016 January 14, “Imbalances in Mobilization and Activation of Pro-Inflammatory and Vascular Reparative Bone Marrow-Derived Cells in Diabetic Retinopathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


afterhand

To be sure, ye ken best, " said the writer; “ hut, after a', now, wad it no be better to lay by this hundred pound in Tam Turnpenny's, in case the young lady should want it afterhand, just for a sair foot?“

1824, Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well: In Four Volumes - Volume 2, page 153:

Deduction is knowledge beforehand ; induction is knowledge afterhand.

1880, The North American Review - Volume 131, page 283:

If necessary it would afterhand always be possible to integrate over larger time intervals.

1950, Proceedings of the Section of Sciences:

The author forgets that the resurrection implied death as its antecedent, and that if believed in, it would have made death appear in an altogether different light, and that if it failed to do that, it would beforehand share the same fate as the death, that, viz., of being disregarded ; and afterhand would seem " too good news to be true."

1971, Alexander B. Bruce, The Training of the Twelve: Timeless Principles for Leadership Development, →ISBN, page 495:


anagraphically

The socialists all seemed to me to be old, even those who were anagraphically young, and to be lacking in revolutionary capacity.

1969, Joyce Lussu, Freedom has no frontier, page 11:

Even in a restricted group of persons, individualities have the right to manifest themselves; even where anagraphically just one religion is present, there are differences in approaching the same faith and in expressing it in practice.

1992, Islamochristiana - Volume 18, page 29:

A bare two per cent of the country—six million acres squeezed between the vast rainless deserts—was capable of sustaining life, and the population was increasing by half a million human beings every year. Anagraphically and ecologically, the prospects were appalling.

2011, Raymond Flower, Napoleon to Nasser: The Story of Modern Egypt, →ISBN:

Involving or pertaining to anagraphic data.

Since there are, in the LGN, a number of examples of the SAR sign with a value mú, it may be that the place name in the Sippar tablet should be read anagraphically as mú:šim and connected with the 'à-me-šum of the LGN.

1992, Douglas Frayne, The Early Dynastic List of Geographical Names, page 20:

The Natasha of War and Peace, who anagraphically does not exist, in the economy of the book and in readers' imaginations is more real than Napoleon.

1996, Giuseppe Mantovani, Environments: From Everyday To Virtual, →ISBN, page 120:

Evident in the representation of three of early cinema's most popular stars, this tendency to construct the persona anagraphically - to refer to the self as a token of a transindividual category -- is a common feature of early fan discourse.

2014, Barry King, Taking Fame to Market: On the Pre-History and Post-History of Hollywood Stardom, →ISBN:

Involving the relationship between an ontological entity and its representation in words or symbols.


shitfully

shitfully (comparative more shitfully, superlative most shitfully)

more shitfully (comparative)
most shitfully (superlative)

“Details, details,” Hornby said, smiling shitfully.

2014, Piers Hobson, Thieves: A comedy of crime and conscience - Page 261:


affectlessly

affectlessly (comparative more affectlessly, superlative most affectlessly)

more affectlessly (comparative)
most affectlessly (superlative)


anthropocentrically

anthropocentrically (comparative more anthropocentrically, superlative most anthropocentrically)

more anthropocentrically (comparative)
most anthropocentrically (superlative)


anacreontically

anacreontically (comparative more anacreontically, superlative most anacreontically)

more anacreontically (comparative)
most anacreontically (superlative)


aspersively

aspersively (comparative more aspersively, superlative most aspersively)

more aspersively (comparative)
most aspersively (superlative)


avengingly

avengingly (comparative more avengingly, superlative most avengingly)

more avengingly (comparative)
most avengingly (superlative)

In mercy ye skies to my woes,
Let your thunders avengingly roll,
And death kindly hush to repose
The Etna that bursts on my soul.

1764, anonymous author, “The Fair Penitant”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 34, page 540:

The remembrance of the engagement that I had broken came back on me avengingly […]

1852, Wilkie Collins, chapter 8, in Basil, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 139:

His cheeks grew tight with fury at the thought that he had just been duped into humiliation by a man who was almost the same age as he was and still only a captain, and he swung upon the chaplain avengingly with a look of such murderous antagonism that the chaplain began to tremble.

1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 19, in Catch-22, New York: Dell, published 1962, page 196:


blushlessly

blushlessly (comparative more blushlessly, superlative most blushlessly)

more blushlessly (comparative)
most blushlessly (superlative)


bivariately

Interestingly, in our analyses higher pre-treatment shame–as a central emotion in social anxiety–was substantially related to worse outcome (endstate, remission) bivariately, but in the regression models shame explained only an insignificant portion of variance in addition to pre-treatment social anxiety.

2016 January 20, “Do Patient Characteristics Predict Outcome of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Social Anxiety Disorder?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


no tea, no shade

No tea no shade, I do not like your hair today.

Even before LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett left the group, it always felt to me like DC was about Beyoncé, like Destiny's Child should just be called Beyoncé (and her chorus of rotating background singers), no tea no shade.

“All right, all right!” he replied. “I will holler at her in the morning and give her a talking to. But if she comes for me, no tea, no shade, I will read her for filth, is that understood?”

(LGBTQ slang) Indicating that no offence is meant, that the speaker is merely making an observation.


presurgically

Currently, fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is one of the most popular and accurate techniques for presurgically evaluating thyroid nodules.

2016 January 20, “Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy as a Preoperative Procedure in Patients with Malignancy in Solitary and Multiple Thyroid Nodules”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


sciolistically

sciolistically (comparative more sciolistically, superlative most sciolistically)

more sciolistically (comparative)
most sciolistically (superlative)

From sciolistic + -ally or sciolistical + -ly.

Weismann sciolistically charges epilepsy to microbes, explaining its greater maternal transmission by the exceedingly crude notion that since the ovum can carry more microbes than the spermatozoon, epilepsy occurs more frequently […]

1902, The Medical News, volume 80, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., →OCLC, page 295:

To treat it sciolistically is to forget that, in the beginning, "male and female created He them."

1917, William Lane, Selections from the Writings of "Tohunga" (William Lane), Auckland: Wilson & Horton, →OCLC, page 6:

[O]ne cannot help sympathizing with an author who, in this era of the sciolistically psychological novel, of shallow realisms and valetudinarian introspections, undertakes a novel on wider premises and with the attempt, at least, of a wider view.

1919, The Athenæum, London: J. Lection, →OCLC, page 1340:

If Mr. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot is only intermittently and at times sciolistically a psychologist in his effort toward a scientific method, one must observe also that at the very basis of his attitude, where it is most explicit, in the essay called "The Perfect Critic," he is least scientific.

1921 March 2, Conrad Aiken, “The Scientific Critic”, in Albert Jay Nock, editor, The Freeman, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: Freeman Inc., →OCLC, page 593:

If one were willing to ignore the tiresome, sciolistically facetious, and repetitious style of this book, its total lack of clarity and structure, and the errors and misunderstandings in which it abounds, there would remain the fact that in the state of its information it lies some decades behind Whitney's excellent popular books […]

1944, Leonard Bloomfield, “The Loom of Language. By Frederick Bodmer. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, [1944]. Pp x+692, illustrated. [book review]”, American Speech, volume 19, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, OCLC 42448942, page 211; reprinted in Charles F[rancis] Hockett, editor, A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology, abridged edition, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1987, 978-0-226-06071-2, page 281

Now, I have nothing against this attempt to integrate the art of music in subservience to the art of speech. It is a tradition dating back over 2500 years in Europe and perhaps much farther back in India and China. I do, however, want to see it competently done, not blindly and sciolistically, as is so much of the talking about contemporary music.

1967, George List, Juan Orrego-Salas, editors, Music in the Americas [Inter-American Music Monograph Series; 1], Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics, →OCLC, page 202:

In October 1985, a London Times columnist, David Watt, viewed with alarm American gratification over the capture of the Achille Lauro terrorists. Sciolistically citing [Alexis] de Tocqueville, Watt fancied that American democracy is governed by little more than "a rush of blood to the head."

1987, The World & I, volume 2, Washington, D.C.: Washington Times Corp., →OCLC, page 647:

Someone in blackface would pluck a banjo and tell a few jokes, perhaps an itinerant Irish tenor would warble a hungover ballad, then things turned sciolistically scientific as Owen Tully Stratton sallied forth. He would sell various harmless but useless curealls (probably no better or worse than the proprietary medicines of today), […]

1989, West Coast Review of Books, volume 15, Rapport Publishing Company, page 132:

In a sciolistic or sciolistical manner; in a manner that shows only superficial knowledge.


dendroclimatologically

In terms of, or by means of, dendroclimatology.


supercalifragilisticexpialidociously

supercalifragilisticexpialidociously (comparative more supercalifragilisticexpialidociously, superlative most supercalifragilisticexpialidociously)

From supercalifragilisticexpialidocious + -ly.

In a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious manner.


salutatorily

salutatorily (comparative more salutatorily, superlative most salutatorily)

more salutatorily (comparative)
most salutatorily (superlative)


semiconservatively

(genetics) In a semiconservative fashion.


separatively

separatively (comparative more separatively, superlative most separatively)

more separatively (comparative)
most separatively (superlative)


cracklessly

cracklessly (comparative more cracklessly, superlative most cracklessly)

more cracklessly (comparative)
most cracklessly (superlative)

The ordinary tests for ductility do not give very much information of the ability of a metal to undergo such localized plastic readjustment cracklessly.

1932, American Society of Naval Engineers, Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume 44, Issue 4


addressably

addressably (comparative more addressably, superlative most addressably)

more addressably (comparative)
most addressably (superlative)


undubitably

undubitably (comparative more undubitably, superlative most undubitably)

more undubitably (comparative)
most undubitably (superlative)


underhoof

It is worth noting that zebras might be even noisier in woodland than grassland habitats because of twigs and branches underhoof and so the chances of zebra prey remaining hidden when near to a predator are likely minimal.

2016 January 23, “Zebra Stripes through the Eyes of Their Predators, Zebras, and Humans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


primpily

primpily (comparative more primpily, superlative most primpily)

more primpily (comparative)
most primpily (superlative)

"The day after the funeral the primpily attired eldest son, who had authorized access, went to the bank, emptied the contents of the safety deposit box into a Mark Cross shopping bag, and proceeded directly to Townsend's."


sensely

sensely (comparative more sensely, superlative most sensely)

more sensely (comparative)
most sensely (superlative)

Voice is in soundlessness contained; will too reposed to strike an active note: the floating mote more sensely seems than does the dormant nerve — no force, no verve; the body heaveless, prone.

A final resting place Designed for heavenly dwelling Genesis of Earthlings Experiences with designated Spirits blessed with flesh To sensely feel God's Best Before one says Humans were earth once One cannot carbonly Determine when humans Arrived and what dwelled […]

2008, Elise Shedd, Elysium Dimension: God's Heavenly Realms:

My dormantly resting multitasking skills had never been so sensely bombarded, as absolute chaos kissed the lips of mayhem that thwarted our every turn.

2011, Eddie Horton, Just Compass - Page 16:

In a sensely manner; sensorily; sensibly


halieutically

But, however much to be despised gastronomically, the barbel halieutically, or in an angling point of view, amply makes up for his carnal insipidity and positive nastiness. He is essentially a game fish when hooked, and fights bravely to the last.

1877, John Jackson Manley, Notes on Fish and Fishing, page 267:

[…] perhaps the author himself, despite the hundred and fifty pages which he has filled, has been somewhat cramped by his attempt to be halieutically encyclopaedic.

1883, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:


sanctifiedly

sanctifiedly (comparative more sanctifiedly, superlative most sanctifiedly)

more sanctifiedly (comparative)
most sanctifiedly (superlative)


saccadically

saccadically (comparative more saccadically, superlative most saccadically)

more saccadically (comparative)
most saccadically (superlative)


serriedly

serriedly (comparative more serriedly, superlative most serriedly)

more serriedly (comparative)
most serriedly (superlative)


sedimentarily

Humus may accumulate both sedimentarily and sedentarily.

The characteristics noted here are not universal for conditions in Germany because the samples were obtained from petrographically and sedimentarily different aquifers and some sites are represented by only a single sample.

1992, Suzanne Lesage, Groundwater Contamination and Analysis at Hazardous Waste Sites:


serpentiningly

serpentiningly (comparative more serpentiningly, superlative most serpentiningly)

more serpentiningly (comparative)
most serpentiningly (superlative)

What if my words wind in and out the stone
As yonder ivy, the God's parasite?
Though they leap all the way the pillar leads,
Festoon about the marble, foot to frieze,
And serpentiningly enrich the roof,
Toy with some few bees and a bird or two,—
What then? The column holds the cornice up.

1871, Robert Browning, Balaustion's Adventure:


neuropsychopharmacologically

In terms of, or by means of, neuropsychopharmacology.


significatively

significatively (comparative more significatively, superlative most significatively)

more significatively (comparative)
most significatively (superlative)


spectrologically

In terms of, or by means of, spectrology.


spiritualistically

spiritualistically (comparative more spiritualistically, superlative most spiritualistically)

more spiritualistically (comparative)
most spiritualistically (superlative)


spleenfully

spleenfully (comparative more spleenfully, superlative most spleenfully)

more spleenfully (comparative)
most spleenfully (superlative)


hallucinogenically

hallucinogenically (comparative more hallucinogenically, superlative most hallucinogenically)

more hallucinogenically (comparative)
most hallucinogenically (superlative)


snoopingly

PARSON enters from L., goes to door of clubhouse and knocks. No answer. Knocks again. No answer. Knocks a third time. No answer. Tries door, but it is locked. Looks around snoopingly and listens for sounds of rolling dice, but hears none.

1921, Jeff Branen, The African Golf Club: A Blackface Farce, page 12:

I hid my own purchases for several days, no mean trick in a school where every drawer and cupboard was inspected, openly and snoopingly too, at least twice a week.

1983, M. F. K. Fisher, As They Were, page 34:

[…] I saunter snoopingly into his summer lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

2001, Vivien Marx, The Semen Book, page 89:


cruciately

Class 3 Ulvophyceae: flagella attached at anterior end of cell; motile cells have near-radial symmetry externally; flagella roots consist of four cruciately arranged microtubular roots and sometimes a rhizoplast […]

2008, Robert Edward Lee, Phycology, page 145:


nomenclaturally

Toward clarification of the systematics of this nomenclaturally and veterinarily important species, we map its polytene chromosomes and then use the macrogenomic information to prospect for hidden diversity, interpret the taxonomy, resolve evolutionary relationships, and gain insights into the drivers of its historic pest status and the pest status of black flies more generally.

2016 January 26, “Cryptic Biodiversity and the Origins of Pest Status Revealed in the Macrogenome of Simulium colombaschense (Diptera: Simuliidae), History’s Most Destructive Black Fly”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


hallucinatingly

hallucinatingly (comparative more hallucinatingly, superlative most hallucinatingly)

more hallucinatingly (comparative)
most hallucinatingly (superlative)


cosmogenically

Low background experiments need a suppression of cosmogenically induced events.

2016, K. Freund, R. Falkenstein, P. Grabmayr, A.Hegai, J.Jochum, M. Knapp, B. Lubsandorzhiev, F. Ritter, C. Schmitt, A.-K. Schütz, I. Jitnikov, E. Shevchik, M. Shirchenko, D. Zinatulina, “The Performance of the Muon Veto of the GERDA Experiment”, in arXiv:


consumably

consumably (comparative more consumably, superlative most consumably)

more consumably (comparative)
most consumably (superlative)

[…] the results of this study indicate that the material could be used non-consumably or consumably with the expectation of equally good results.

1976, {unattributed}, The Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, Volumes 47-49


agentically

agentically (comparative more agentically, superlative most agentically)

more agentically (comparative)
most agentically (superlative)


elongatedly

elongatedly (comparative more elongatedly, superlative most elongatedly)

more elongatedly (comparative)
most elongatedly (superlative)

"It is an impressive interior, very Bodleyish, with elongatedly polygonal piers, their arches dying into the imposts, a transparent triforium or passage half below the clerestory windows."

1969, Nikolaus Pevsner, South Lancashire: The Industrial and Commercial South:


pathbreakingly

pathbreakingly (comparative more pathbreakingly, superlative most pathbreakingly)

more pathbreakingly (comparative)
most pathbreakingly (superlative)


nonvolitionally

In a manner that is not volitional; not of one's own will.


malefically

malefically (comparative more malefically, superlative most malefically)

more malefically (comparative)
most malefically (superlative)


manneristically

manneristically (comparative more manneristically, superlative most manneristically)

more manneristically (comparative)
most manneristically (superlative)


unnaturalistically

unnaturalistically (comparative more unnaturalistically, superlative most unnaturalistically)

more unnaturalistically (comparative)
most unnaturalistically (superlative)


flourishly

flourishly (comparative more flourishly, superlative most flourishly)

more flourishly (comparative)
most flourishly (superlative)

I call to-morrow on the Huberts. I have not had time owing to Hospital engagements. Everything, including accounts, getting on flourishly.

1840, Francis Galston, letter to his father:

"He took her papers, sweeping his quick eyes over the receipts for show, nodded and began the tour of his inn himself gesturing flourishly."

(rare, nonstandard) In a flourishing way.


unmaterialistically

unmaterialistically (comparative more unmaterialistically, superlative most unmaterialistically)

more unmaterialistically (comparative)
most unmaterialistically (superlative)


undevotedly

undevotedly (comparative more undevotedly, superlative most undevotedly)

more undevotedly (comparative)
most undevotedly (superlative)

From the alliance has come forth a corrupt but forceful tyranny which undevotedly exploits its parents in order to maintain and extend untrammeled and arbitrary power.

1954, Thomas Ira Cook, Power through purpose: the realism of idealism as a basis for foreign policy, Johns Hopkins Press:


mindblowingly

mindblowingly (comparative more mindblowingly, superlative most mindblowingly)

more mindblowingly (comparative)
most mindblowingly (superlative)


differentiatedly

differentiatedly (comparative more differentiatedly, superlative most differentiatedly)

more differentiatedly (comparative)
most differentiatedly (superlative)

At first she could not move her tongue differentiatedly and moved it rather as a whole.

1988, Institution for Phonetic Sciences, University of Kyoto, Studia Phonologica, Issues 22-26


dupably

dupably (comparative more dupably, superlative most dupably)

more dupably (comparative)
most dupably (superlative)

I thought it particularly unfortunate, inappropriate, ill-conceived and dupably injudicious that the United States should have been cast in the leading role as prosecutors and implementators of the trials of German participants or principals.

1992, Institute for Historical Review, The Journal of Historical Review, Volume 12, Issue 2


figurally

figurally (comparative more figurally, superlative most figurally)

more figurally (comparative)
most figurally (superlative)

Furthermore, details of these laws foreshadow later parts of the narrative if interpreted figurally. By reading them figurally, the central subjects of each law […]

2009, David L. Stubbs, Numbers (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)


unbridgeably

unbridgeably (comparative more unbridgeably, superlative most unbridgeably)

more unbridgeably (comparative)
most unbridgeably (superlative)


discontinually

discontinually (comparative more discontinually, superlative most discontinually)

more discontinually (comparative)
most discontinually (superlative)

The same holds for space that is also homogenically and continually rather than heterogenically and discontinually organized and structured.

2013, Georg Northoff, Unlocking the Brain: Volume 2: Consciousness:

(nonstandard) Synonym of discontinuously


abyssally

abyssally (comparative more abyssally, superlative most abyssally)

more abyssally (comparative)
most abyssally (superlative)


intraperitonially

The effects were clear but not dramatic as high MPTP levels or many repeated exposures in wild type animals were lethal; intermediate MPTP concentrations had to be delivered intraperitonially to maximize the comparisons.

2015 October 10, “Klotho Protects Dopaminergic Neuron Oxidant-Induced Degeneration by Modulating ASK1 and p38 MAPK Signaling Pathways”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


postinfestation

Reinfestation was defined as a scabies diagnosis during 14–365 days from a previous scabies diagnosis; we used 14 days as a minimum to avoid counting return visits for the initial infestation, and 365 days as a maximum to ensure all records were followed for the same period postinfestation.

2015 October 13, “Scabies and Bacterial Superinfection among American Samoan Children, 2011–2012”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


fraudfully

fraudfully (comparative more fraudfully, superlative most fraudfully)

more fraudfully (comparative)
most fraudfully (superlative)


enragedly

enragedly (comparative more enragedly, superlative most enragedly)

more enragedly (comparative)
most enragedly (superlative)


disputatively

disputatively (comparative more disputatively, superlative most disputatively)

more disputatively (comparative)
most disputatively (superlative)


draconically

draconically (comparative more draconically, superlative most draconically)

more draconically (comparative)
most draconically (superlative)


dreadlessly

dreadlessly (comparative more dreadlessly, superlative most dreadlessly)

more dreadlessly (comparative)
most dreadlessly (superlative)


defilingly

defilingly (comparative more defilingly, superlative most defilingly)

more defilingly (comparative)
most defilingly (superlative)


cytotaxonomically

In terms of, or by means of, cytotaxonomy.


cryobiologically

In terms of, or by means of, cryobiology.


conceptualistically

conceptualistically (comparative more conceptualistically, superlative most conceptualistically)

more conceptualistically (comparative)
most conceptualistically (superlative)


collectivistically

collectivistically (comparative more collectivistically, superlative most collectivistically)

more collectivistically (comparative)
most collectivistically (superlative)


commonsensically

commonsensically (comparative more commonsensically, superlative most commonsensically)

more commonsensically (comparative)
most commonsensically (superlative)

Possessed of many thinly trafficked lines and dual-purpose assignments for engines, CPR commonsensically employed Pacifics as all-purpose engines, bought 4-6-2's until dieselization.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 114:


blandishingly

blandishingly (comparative more blandishingly, superlative most blandishingly)

more blandishingly (comparative)
most blandishingly (superlative)


intraphagosomally

The up-regulation of SahH expression in intraphagosomally growing mycobacteria as well as the maintenance of the functionalization of mycolic acids clearly imply the involvement of SahH hydrolase in mycobacterial pathogenesis.

2016 February 2, “Mycobacterium tuberculosis AtsG (Rv0296c), GlmU (Rv1018c) and SahH (Rv3248c) Proteins Function as the Human IL-8-Binding Effectors and Contribute to Pathogen Entry into Human Neutrophils”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


transabdominally

Fibroids were morcellated laparoscopically using a rotary cutting device or transvaginally and transabdominally using a scalpel.

2016 February 2, “A Retrospective Analysis of the Impact of Myomectomy on Survival in Uterine Sarcoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


malapertly

malapertly (comparative more malapertly, superlative most malapertly)

more malapertly (comparative)
most malapertly (superlative)

From Middle English malapertly; equivalent to malapert + -ly.


endochondrally

The pedicles of the arch largely consist of calcified cartilage and contain some endochondrally formed bone spicules (Fig 13B ).

2015 October 15, “Perinatal Specimens of Saurolophus angustirostris (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae), from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


posterodorsolaterally

With the flat basal region held horizontally, the spine extends posterodorsolaterally at an angle of 70 degrees to the horizontal.

2015 October 15, “The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


posteroventrolaterally

The vomers form the median borders of the internal nares, which are about 1 cm in diameter and open posteroventrolaterally […]

1962, Samuel Paul Welles, A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Colombia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs:

The articular surface of the right postzygapophysis is angled at around 20 degrees to the horizontal, facing posteroventrolaterally.


rostroventrolaterally

After giving off the mandibular artery, the temporoorbital artery courses dorsally through the caudal aspect of the laterotemporal fossa, then curves rostroventrolaterally along the medial aspect of the frontal-postfrontal-postorbital articulation, where it passes into the dorsotemporal fossa.

2015 October 15, “Vascular Patterns in Iguanas and Other Squamates: Blood Vessels and Sites of Thermal Exchange”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


confidantly

confidantly (comparative more confidantly, superlative most confidantly)

more confidantly (comparative)
most confidantly (superlative)

A story was some time back confidantly circulated in Paris amongst persons of the higher classes, that the minister of police had intercepted, and shown to the king, the correspondence of some members of his family, in which, reports were fabricated […]

1817, Lady Morgan (Sydney), Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, France, Volume 1

(of a rumor or information circulation) Among confidants.


uncompetitively

uncompetitively (comparative more uncompetitively, superlative most uncompetitively)

more uncompetitively (comparative)
most uncompetitively (superlative)


l8ly (comparative more l8ly, superlative most l8ly)

more l8ly (comparative)
most l8ly (superlative)

(text messaging) Informal form of lately.


gape-mouthed

gape-mouthed (comparative more gape-mouthed, superlative most gape-mouthed)

more gape-mouthed (comparative)
most gape-mouthed (superlative)

As much as we check in, we are checking out of our own lives and becoming voyeuristic, peering gape-mouthed into the sordid details of other people's lives in order to feel connected or entertained.

2014, Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto, →ISBN:

I paused at the entrance and stared, gape-mouthed.

2015, Tracy Weber, Karma's a Killer: A Downward Dog Mystery, →ISBN:

He tosses two twenties on the table and with a gentle nudge turns me away from Steve, who sits there, impotent, staring gape-mouthed at the cash.

2015, Julia Kent, Shopping for a Billionaire:


gapemouthed

gapemouthed (comparative more gapemouthed, superlative most gapemouthed)

more gapemouthed (comparative)
most gapemouthed (superlative)

Abreast of the first soldier, he too took in the round collar and halted gapemouthed.

1984, Fred Saberhagen, Machines That Kill, →ISBN, page 164:


witfully

witfully (comparative more witfully, superlative most witfully)

more witfully (comparative)
most witfully (superlative)

In a witful or conscious manner; knowingly


foolproofly

foolproofly (comparative more foolproofly, superlative most foolproofly)

more foolproofly (comparative)
most foolproofly (superlative)

(rare, nonstandard) in a foolproof manner


of'en

of'en (comparative more of'en, superlative most of'en)

more of'en (comparative)
most of'en (superlative)

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(sometimes eye dialect) Pronunciation spelling of often.


disappearingly

disappearingly (comparative more disappearingly, superlative most disappearingly)

more disappearingly (comparative)
most disappearingly (superlative)

The number was disappearingly small.

A disappearingly faint red oval appeared in front of him.

1993, David Poyer, The Circle: He Pledged To Serve With Duty And Honor. Instead He Fought ...:


repudiatingly

repudiatingly (comparative more repudiatingly, superlative most repudiatingly)

more repudiatingly (comparative)
most repudiatingly (superlative)

I fondled this thought sentimentally, and each time I still hoped for a possible succour I whispered repudiatingly: "You fool, you have already begun to die.".

1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part II”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 133:


sociographically

In terms of, or by means of, sociography.


otoacoustically

Figure 2 gives experimental examples of otoacoustically traced, acoustically induced, cochlear perturbations in a human and a guinea pig ear.

1988, H. Duifhuis, J. Wiebe Horst, Hero P. Wit, Basic Issues in Hearing: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Hearing, Paterswolde, Netherlands, April 5-9, 1988:


grottily

grottily (comparative more grottily, superlative most grottily)

more grottily (comparative)
most grottily (superlative)


gyrostatically

In terms of, or by means of, gyrostatics.


graphicly

graphicly (comparative more graphicly, superlative most graphicly)

more graphicly (comparative)
most graphicly (superlative)

Want of space forbids our extracting from these accounts, but it is really remarkable how completely he enters into the sort of thing, how clearly he understands the exact position of the Princes, and how graphicly, though in quite plain language, he describes the details of the different scenes.

1856, Calcutta Review, volume 27, page 288:


semiparasitically

an organism that lives semiparasitically


participatorily

participatorily (comparative more participatorily, superlative most participatorily)

more participatorily (comparative)
most participatorily (superlative)


signifyingly

signifyingly (comparative more signifyingly, superlative most signifyingly)

more signifyingly (comparative)
most signifyingly (superlative)

I looked at him signifyingly and he laughed, all rancor gone.


superconductively

superconductively (comparative more superconductively, superlative most superconductively)

more superconductively (comparative)
most superconductively (superlative)


burglarously

burglarously (comparative more burglarously, superlative most burglarously)

more burglarously (comparative)
most burglarously (superlative)

And about the hour of ten o'clock at night the same day, they did feloniously and burglarously break and enter with the intent to steal the goods and chattel of Hendrix […]

1996, Barbara Bernard, Scott Michael Long, Burning roses:


violatively

violatively (comparative more violatively, superlative most violatively)

more violatively (comparative)
most violatively (superlative)


exilically

exilically (comparative more exilically, superlative most exilically)

more exilically (comparative)
most exilically (superlative)

The argument implies that the recognised, and standing, name for the altar, throughout the Priestly Code, has become "the altar of burnt-offering," and that the use of this new name indicates how "the burnt-offering" had risen to prominence, post-Exilically.

1895, William Lang Baxter, Sanctuary and Sacrifice: A Reply to Wellhausen, page 415:

However, not all postmodernist films are diasporically or exilically accented, while all accented films are to some extent postmodernist.

2001, Hamid Naficy, An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking:


idlily

idlily (comparative more idlily, superlative most idlily)

more idlily (comparative)
most idlily (superlative)


platitudinally

platitudinally (comparative more platitudinally, superlative most platitudinally)

more platitudinally (comparative)
most platitudinally (superlative)

And they never wasted their energies in rolling out, platitudinally, such ideas as that "Christ is the Son of God in virtue of being himself uncreated," &c.

1866, The Evangelical Repository, volume 1, page 62:


textualistically

textualistically (comparative more textualistically, superlative most textualistically)

more textualistically (comparative)
most textualistically (superlative)


interiourly

interiourly (comparative more interiourly, superlative most interiourly)

more interiourly (comparative)
most interiourly (superlative)


misjudgingly

misjudgingly (comparative more misjudgingly, superlative most misjudgingly)

more misjudgingly (comparative)
most misjudgingly (superlative)


orthodoxically

orthodoxically (comparative more orthodoxically, superlative most orthodoxically)

more orthodoxically (comparative)
most orthodoxically (superlative)


orthopraxically

orthopraxically (comparative more orthopraxically, superlative most orthopraxically)

more orthopraxically (comparative)
most orthopraxically (superlative)


originalistically

originalistically (comparative more originalistically, superlative most originalistically)

more originalistically (comparative)
most originalistically (superlative)


passivistically

On the other hand, the opposite tendency of reducing creativeness to reflection is manifested, i. e. creativeness is deprived of all specificity and is interpreted passivistically, or reflection itself is conceived in a superactivistic way.

1973, Azari︠a︡ Prizenti Polikarov, Science and Philosophy:


gloomfully

gloomfully (comparative more gloomfully, superlative most gloomfully)

more gloomfully (comparative)
most gloomfully (superlative)


hypergamically

hypergamically (comparative more hypergamically, superlative most hypergamically)

more hypergamically (comparative)
most hypergamically (superlative)


homogamically

homogamically (comparative more homogamically, superlative most homogamically)

more homogamically (comparative)
most homogamically (superlative)


predatively

predatively (comparative more predatively, superlative most predatively)

more predatively (comparative)
most predatively (superlative)

Over the course of a day's driving in the vicinity of South Lake Tahoe, white and green law enforcement vehicles appear frequently — in our wake, in the oncoming lane, stationed predatively on the side of the road.

1998, Andrew Todhunter, Fall of the Phantom Lord: Climbing and the Face of Fear:


docilly

docilly (comparative more docilly, superlative most docilly)

more docilly (comparative)
most docilly (superlative)

They were not additions which she desired to make, but she had come prepared to listen docilly.

1904, New England Magazine; an Illustrated Monthly, Volume 31, Making of America Project:


dispossessively

dispossessively (comparative more dispossessively, superlative most dispossessively)

more dispossessively (comparative)
most dispossessively (superlative)


activistly

activistly (comparative more activistly, superlative most activistly)

more activistly (comparative)
most activistly (superlative)

(rare, nonstandard) In an activist fashion.


emasculatingly

emasculatingly (comparative more emasculatingly, superlative most emasculatingly)

more emasculatingly (comparative)
most emasculatingly (superlative)

Both characters are strangely, and emasculatingly, dependent on the objects of their fixation. Both bow rather mechanically to the pressures of "duty" at the expense of emotional and sexual fulfillment.

1998, Deborah Vlock, Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre, page 35:

"By whom?" Elspeth demanded in a tone so emasculatingly terrifying every Y chromosome in ear shot grafted on an extra leg in desperate hope not to be noticed.


cussingly

cussingly (comparative more cussingly, superlative most cussingly)

more cussingly (comparative)
most cussingly (superlative)

Likewise, Bill Milner plays Edward as a brooding young malcontent so cussingly caustic at times that when his smile finally appears, it is like a rainbow after a long, rainy day.

2009 May 15, Bruce DeMara, “Is Anybody There?: Magic realism”, in Toronto Star:

While cussing; with the use of profane language.


picayunely

picayunely (comparative more picayunely, superlative most picayunely)

more picayunely (comparative)
most picayunely (superlative)

Only under the most picayunely literal interpretation of rules can the thumping Kronwall laid on Havlat in Game 3 of the Western Conference final be considered interference.

2009 May 24, Rosie DiManno, “`Gutless' hit is still reverberating”, in Toronto Star:


archaizingly

archaizingly (comparative more archaizingly, superlative most archaizingly)

more archaizingly (comparative)
most archaizingly (superlative)


semirealistically

The material properties of the junk in Trash Panic are semirealistically modelled using the Havok physics engine […]

2009 July 4, Darren Zenko, “Take out the trash, Toronto”, in Toronto Star:


ununderstandably

ununderstandably (comparative more ununderstandably, superlative most ununderstandably)

more ununderstandably (comparative)
most ununderstandably (superlative)


spacewards

There's nothing to do but attempt the Hail Mary pass of shipping vast loads of humanity spacewards in the hope of finding more hospitable climes elsewhere in the galaxy.

2009 September 25, Peter Howell, “Surrogates and Pandorum: Clones of sci-fi classics”, in Toronto Star:


midclick

This behavior makes it easy for users to change their minds midclick.

2003, Eric Eaton, Designing Web Site Interface Elements, page 77:

(computing) While the user is clicking something.


interoceptively

Previous study also argued that interoceptively or exteroceptivly oriented attention might exist in both EO and EC [49 ].

2015 October 16, “Investigating the Temporal Patterns within and between Intrinsic Connectivity Networks under Eyes-Open and Eyes-Closed Resting States: A Dynamical Functional Connectivity Study Based on Phase Synchronization”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


intracelomically

To ensure the presence of parasites in the hemolymph and salivary glands, insects were also infected intracelomically as described previously [25 ].

2015 October 16, “Revisiting Trypanosoma rangeli Transmission Involving Susceptible and Non-Susceptible Hosts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


cos.

Consul in the year —. (Used, similarly to fl., in dating Roman texts composed by authors whose year of consulship is known, but little else for dating purposes.)


unparallelly

unparallelly (comparative more unparallelly, superlative most unparallelly)

more unparallelly (comparative)
most unparallelly (superlative)

And in fact this revision has come to be practiced at last conforming to the reality of junior colleges unparallelly developing all over Japan.

1967, Education in Japan: Journal for Overseas, Volume 2:

(rare, nonstandard) In an unparalleled way.


neologistically

neologistically (comparative more neologistically, superlative most neologistically)

more neologistically (comparative)
most neologistically (superlative)

Patients who speak neologistically write neologistically. (However, the letters in neologistic words usually are grouped in clusters that are consistent with letter groupings for real words.)

2014, Robert H. Brookshire, Malcolm R. McNeil, Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders, page 196:


principledly

principledly (comparative more principledly, superlative most principledly)

more principledly (comparative)
most principledly (superlative)


unvaliantly

unvaliantly (comparative more unvaliantly, superlative most unvaliantly)

more unvaliantly (comparative)
most unvaliantly (superlative)


noncentrally

And even if the feds could be persuaded to approve a new construction site, the proposed I-park and garage at Kilbourn and Chicago would be so inconveniently, noncentrally located for the CTA that they would have to spend an extra $650,000 a year running their routes from that point.

1988 August 26, Ben Joravsky, “Risky business: Should the CTA get mixed up in a development deal?”, in Chicago Reader:


punditically

punditically (comparative more punditically, superlative most punditically)

more punditically (comparative)
most punditically (superlative)

But if, indeed, he indulges in half-truths they are often more persuading than most of what his fellow-dramatists punditically offer as truths of fuller blossom.

1950, George Jean Nathan, The Theatre Book of the Year:


windwards

windwards (comparative more windwards, superlative most windwards)

more windwards (comparative)
most windwards (superlative)

The sequence of the manoeuvre is the followingː Head up to close-hauled, cleat the jib, shoot up head to wind to slow down, bear away with jib backed, release mainsheet, steer windwards delicately til the boat settles down.

2015, Alexander Meyer, Learn to Sail with Captain Sailnator:


fallibilistically

fallibilistically (comparative more fallibilistically, superlative most fallibilistically)

more fallibilistically (comparative)
most fallibilistically (superlative)


predatorially

predatorially (comparative more predatorially, superlative most predatorially)

more predatorially (comparative)
most predatorially (superlative)


falsefully

falsefully (comparative more falsefully, superlative most falsefully)

more falsefully (comparative)
most falsefully (superlative)

Here, we identify that the syntactic reduction introduces an error and falsefully declares some specifications as unrealizable.

2011, Sharon Barner, Ian Harris, Daniel Kroening, Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 6th International Haifa ...:

(rare, nonstandard) In a falseful manner: falsely.


longtermly

longtermly (comparative more longtermly, superlative most longtermly)

more longtermly (comparative)
most longtermly (superlative)


nonmorbidly

Remember, the point of surgery is to level the playing field for my patients and give them the same tools that will work for you, the nonmorbidly obese individual.


long-termly

long-termly (comparative more long-termly, superlative most long-termly)

more long-termly (comparative)
most long-termly (superlative)

Improving the walking access to rural land required thinking long-termly.

2011, Pete McDonald, Foot-tracks in New Zealand: Origins, Access Issues and Recent Developments:

(rare, nonstandard) In a long-term manner.


outside in

With the outside surface turned to be on the inside


vincibly

This category was further subdivided into those vincibly ignorant and those invincibly ignorant. The vincibly ignorant were those people who had had an opportunity to hear the gospel but had rejected it.

1996, James A. Donahue, M. Theresa Moser, Religion, ethics & the common good, page 112:


powderily

powderily (comparative more powderily, superlative most powderily)

more powderily (comparative)
most powderily (superlative)

[…] into the lane and past black bushes of sloe powderily bloomed with blue fruit in the sun.

An obviously bleached blonde, thick pancake makeup flaking powderily off deep furrowed wrinkles on her face, confronted me.

1960, Harold Livingston, The Climacticon, page 98:


fanboyishly

fanboyishly (comparative more fanboyishly, superlative most fanboyishly)

more fanboyishly (comparative)
most fanboyishly (superlative)

From being fanboyishly intrigued with fatae when he first started, through to a deep distrust of them, Nicky now usually projected a very New Yorker attitude of “yeah, yeah, whatever.”

2011, Laura Anne Gilman, Tricks of the Trade:


heteroerotically

heteroerotically (comparative more heteroerotically, superlative most heteroerotically)

more heteroerotically (comparative)
most heteroerotically (superlative)


artistly

artistly (comparative more artistly, superlative most artistly)

more artistly (comparative)
most artistly (superlative)

There's Kirkup cocks his eye at her, not wickedly, but artistly, and declares she has the most beautiful eyes, forehead, nose, mouth, chin, cheeks, neck and all that, and such a figure, such a shape!

1966, Charles Armitage Brown, Jack Stillinger, Letters, Harvard University Press, 1966:


the shit out of

Not only was San Juan Joe somewhere out there — and it sure boiled the shit out of me to think of him — but there was something sad about the two of us.

1978, Michael Blankfort, Take the A train, page 183:

"[…] They expected you to be a snob, but you came across as a modest guy and charmed the shit out of them."

1996, Bruce Jay Friedman, A Father's Kisses, page 170:

Call your press conferences. Organize boycotts. Sue the shit out of me. You're gonna do for free what I would have paid you for, shit-for-brains.

2013, Stephen Humphrey Bogart, The Remake: As Time Goes By, Untreed Reads, →ISBN:

"[…] Besides, I'm pretty proficient with living the shit out of my life, thank you very much."

2015, J.L. Berg, The Ready Series: The Boxed Set::


breath-catchingly

breath-catchingly (comparative more breath-catchingly, superlative most breath-catchingly)

more breath-catchingly (comparative)
most breath-catchingly (superlative)

Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.

2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):

shockingly; so as to make one catch one's breath


defeatistly

defeatistly (comparative more defeatistly, superlative most defeatistly)

more defeatistly (comparative)
most defeatistly (superlative)

A battle is engaged between the electric light
And the daylight, defeatistly withdrawing.

1951, James Laughlin, New Directions in Prose and Poetry, volume 13:


equiangularly

For each scan, 1501 to 2001 projections equiangularly spaced over 180° were acquired, with an exposure time of 125–1250 ms per single projection.

2015 October 22, “A Fungal-Prokaryotic Consortium at the Basalt-Zeolite Interface in Subseafloor Igneous Crust”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


suborally

They differ from the other species in the subgenus by the small, oval, suborally placed avicularia.

2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


contentually

To be sure, all judgment—no matter whether it is contentually analytic or synthetic—is based on synthesis.

2007 November 23, Günter Zöller, “Kant and the problem of existential judgment: critical comments on Wayne Martin’s Theories of Judgment”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 1, →DOI:

With regard to content (rather than context)


periconceptually

(biology) Around the time of conception.


objectually

objectually (comparative more objectually, superlative most objectually)

more objectually (comparative)
most objectually (superlative)

I quantify it substitutionally, not objectually (120–1).

2007 August 15, Wayne A. Davis, “Replies to Green, Szabó, Jeshion, and Siebel”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 3, →DOI:


behavioristically

And in their place, he offers behavioristically characterized substitutes.

2007 April 27, Peter W. Ross, “Common sense about qualities and senses”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, →DOI:


nê

From Afrikaans nè, probably short for newaar (“isn't that true?”), colloquial variant of nie waar.

Then you are not come as a recruit to our ranks, but have already ducked your head to a bullet, nê?

1900, Harold Blore, An Imperial Light Horseman:

No, we like this place, exotic for us whites, nê.

2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 21:

(South Africa, colloquial) As interrogative particle: "isn't that the case?"; also used with emphatic effect.


veritically

If there were several fake sparrows in the tree surrounding the real sparrow in whose direction the agent’s attention is focused—fakes the agent cannot distinguish from the real one—the agent’s true belief would be veritically lucky, an instance of world luck, because neither sensitive nor safe.

2007 June 7, Kelly Becker, “Epistemic luck and the generality problem”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 3, →DOI:


noninferentially

1 It is an empirical question as to which beliefs will satisfy the reliabilist’s criterion for being noninferentially justified.

2008 November 22, Richard Fumerton, “Luminous enough for a cognitive home”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI:


assertorily

Given that a speaker who successfully and felicitously assertorily utters a sentence S aims at representing the actual world as a world with respect to which S is evaluated as true (Searle and Vanderveken 1985 ), and given that, as pointed out in Sect.

2007 November 27, Stefano Predelli, “Towards a semantics for biscuit conditionals”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:


nonexperientially

It does not follow that their mathematical knowledge is not a priori unless Mill can rule out the possibility of epistemic overdetermination—i. e., the possibility that their mathematical beliefs are justified both experientially and nonexperientially.

2008 November 28, Albert Casullo, “Analyzing a priori knowledge”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI:


ineliminably

But suppose that I am wrong; suppose these notions are really ineliminably modal.

2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:


anæsthetically

anæsthetically (comparative more anæsthetically, superlative most anæsthetically)

more anæsthetically (comparative)
most anæsthetically (superlative)


bedraggledly

bedraggledly (comparative more bedraggledly, superlative most bedraggledly)

more bedraggledly (comparative)
most bedraggledly (superlative)

And there goes the other happy poet bedraggledly back to New York which struck him all of a sheepish never-sleeping heap at first […]

2006, Chambers Book of Speeches, Chambers:


right quick

I’m just gonna run to the store right quick.

Could you help me right quick?

(Southern US) used to soften a statement or request by suggesting it won’t take much time


toploftily

toploftily (comparative more toploftily, superlative most toploftily)

more toploftily (comparative)
most toploftily (superlative)


toyishly

toyishly (comparative more toyishly, superlative most toyishly)

more toyishly (comparative)
most toyishly (superlative)


tuftily

tuftily (comparative more tuftily, superlative most tuftily)

more tuftily (comparative)
most tuftily (superlative)


Christocentrically

Christocentrically (comparative more Christocentrically, superlative most Christocentrically)

more Christocentrically (comparative)
most Christocentrically (superlative)


theocentrically

theocentrically (comparative more theocentrically, superlative most theocentrically)

more theocentrically (comparative)
most theocentrically (superlative)


tigrishly

tigrishly (comparative more tigrishly, superlative most tigrishly)

more tigrishly (comparative)
most tigrishly (superlative)


midshock

The current in biphasic waveforms flows in a bidirectional pattern between the paddles (i.e., the direction of current flow reverses midshock as opposed to the unidirectional pattern seen with monophasic waveforms), resulting in a lower defibrillation threshold.

2011, Bruno Bissonnette, Pediatric Anesthesia:

[...] short-duration shock via two large electrodes or paddles coated with conducting jelly or a gel pad, positioned over the upper right sternal edge and the apex. Modern units deliver a biphasic shock, during which the shock polarity is reversed mid-shock.

2013, Brian R. Walker, Nicki R Colledge, Stuart H. Ralston, Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine:

Occurring during or at the midpoint of shock


foxishly

foxishly (comparative more foxishly, superlative most foxishly)

more foxishly (comparative)
most foxishly (superlative)

He introduced me to the bartender, Michel, dark and foxishly thin.

2014, Hilary Reyl, Lessons in French: A Novel, page 63:

"When he was twenty three, and already a senior master in the Antwerp guild, Rubens set out for adventure. I suppose like any young man today who has received their formal education, he was looking for a bit of excitement." He winked foxishly at Alex, "So where should a young man run to, who has a passion for art? Or indeed in those years a passion for just about anything. Indeed yes, he went to Italy to see for himself. He didn't go by himself though. He took along a young lad who had been a constant companion and was actually his first pupil." Here, he pointed to his audience.

2002, Mike A. Baker, Mike Baker, Abiding Legacy, page 142:

He looked like a Barbary ape as his shrunk jaws masticated the kernels he fed to his mouth with shaking claws; something deep and foxishly cunning peered forth below his bristling red eyebrows.

1900, Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 168, page 867:


awrack

By the time the storm had blown over the ship was lying awrack on the craggy rocks, all of her crew dead.

So Dan, by dint of noise, obtains a peace, And with his natural untender knack, By new distress, bids former grievance cease, Like tears dried up with rugged huckaback, That sets the mournful visage all awrack ;

1866, Thomas Hood, Poems of Wit and Humour, page 54:

But hard blew the winds, and his ship was awrack; His ship it was awrack!

1885, Linn N. Chapin, “AULD ROBIN GRAY”, in The Crown Book of the Beautiful, the Wonderful, and the Wise, page 487:

Now falls thy kingdom, Morgan, all awrack, For Uther dies, and England waits a king.

1893, Ralph Adams Cram, Excalibur: An Arthurian Drama:

Sometimes it almost seems that the writer takes a perverse delight in finding the times out of joint, finding everything awrack and awry.

His mighty weapon trailing at his back, His gilded five-hued streamers all awrack.

1995, Guanzhong Luo, Moss Roberts, Three kingdoms - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 93:


superpositionally

In terms of, or by means of, superposition.


not likely

“Look,” George said. “If we get pregnant, I will take the baby and raise him on my own.”
“Not likely!” cried Alice.

2015, Betty Christian, Alice Wonders: Because There Are Some Things Money Cannot Buy:

(idiomatic, informal) Absolutely not; under no circumstances; no way.


algally

The clotted, peloidal microfabric of these laminae is characteristic of algally bound carbonate.

1985, Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Volumes 106-107:


antipatriarchally

antipatriarchally (comparative more antipatriarchally, superlative most antipatriarchally)

more antipatriarchally (comparative)
most antipatriarchally (superlative)


emolliently

emolliently (comparative more emolliently, superlative most emolliently)

more emolliently (comparative)
most emolliently (superlative)


toe to toe

Coordinate term: face to face

(literal) Positioned facing another, with the toes touching.

standing toe to toe

(figurative, of skill etc.) At the same level as someone else.

go toe to toe with someone

It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.

2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in The A.V. Club:

Mr. Harris said he was confident he could go toe to toe with any skeptic; he bragged that he’d recently schooled some crypto haters from Vice News.

2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

It’s a grim stalemate that has taken on the rhythms of a heavyweight title bout, with each side going toe to toe in one of the longest-running battles of the war.

2023 January 9, Andrew E. Kramer, Nicole Tung, “Without Hesitation, Ukraine Goes Toe to Toe With Russia in Bakhmut”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


intradenominationally

Missionary activity may occur interdenominationally or intradenominationally between competing persuasions advocating different degrees of religiosity or variant belief systems.

1974, B. Zvi Sobel, Hebrew Christianity: The Thirteenth Tribe, page 347:

Even intradenominationally, each church community develops its own ideal mode of ritual enactments.

1992, Jerrilyn M. McGregory, "There are Other Ways to Get Happy": African-American Urban Folklore:

From these early splits, many more splits occurred intradenominationally and continue to occur as of 2004 with the splitting of the Grace Apostles from their parent church.

2014, Auvo Kostiainen, Finns in the United States: A History of Settlement, Dissent, and Integration:


bigotly

bigotly (comparative more bigotly, superlative most bigotly)

more bigotly (comparative)
most bigotly (superlative)

I can only say, it may savour too much of Novelty to be bigotly zealous for it; [...]

1722, John Arbuthnot, Mr. Maitland's Account of Inoculating the Small Pox:

So bigotly cemented has been the medical profession that any member who gave to the public truths it should know was considered unethical, pushed aside and stigmatized as one seeking notoriety.

1915, William Lee Howard, Sex Problems in Worry and Work - Page 61:

(rare or archaic) In a bigoted manner; like a bigot


ophthalmodynamometrically

In terms of, or by means of, ophthalmodynamometry.


stereoelectroencephalographically

From stereoelectroencephalographic + -ally.

In terms of, or by means of, stereoelectroencephalography.


invariously

The sensory distress is invariously described as clawing, grabbing, pulling, or as tension which never lets loose and fatigue which does not disappear after rest.

1915, Transactions of the American Neurological Association: Annual Meeting 1914:

In 'life events' analysis, it is assumed that individuals and social units are subject to occasional (perhaps regular and frequent) social shocks and that these contribute to stress with which they invariously cope.

2013, Charles Crothers, Social Structure:


quaffably

quaffably (comparative more quaffably, superlative most quaffably)

more quaffably (comparative)
most quaffably (superlative)

a quaffably fruity wine


near as damn it

as near as makes no difference
as near as makes no difference

(colloquial) Very nearly; as near as makes no difference.


twenty-firstly

In the twenty-first place; twenty-first in a row.


awreet

Pronunciation spelling of all right, representing Scottish and Northern England English.


downily

downily (comparative more downily, superlative most downily)

more downily (comparative)
most downily (superlative)


undoubtlessly

undoubtlessly (comparative more undoubtlessly, superlative most undoubtlessly)

more undoubtlessly (comparative)
most undoubtlessly (superlative)

“Now, little girl,” he says, with a fatherly smile (he'll soon be twenty-six), “tell me just what your difficulty is, and undoubtlessly we'll fix it up in a jiffy!”

1920, American Magazine, volume 90, page 70:

(nonstandard) Synonym of without a doubt


awfy

awfy (comparative more awfy, superlative most awfy)

more awfy (comparative)
most awfy (superlative)


veinously

veinously (comparative more veinously, superlative most veinously)

more veinously (comparative)
most veinously (superlative)

Breasts are rarely pert, self-sustaining, in these pictures; they droop and sag, veinously overabundant, from bodies marked by the dimples and creases and stretchmarks of time.

1996, Anne Glyn-Jones, Holding Up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline:


uninhabitedly

uninhabitedly (comparative more uninhabitedly, superlative most uninhabitedly)

more uninhabitedly (comparative)
most uninhabitedly (superlative)

The procuratorial palace of Aquincum was declining uninhabitedly from the end of the IIIrd century on.

1973, Akadémiai Kiadó, Archaeology, Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Volume 21

This morning before she'd left the house, she had carefully tidied away everything she had brought with her into its appropriate shelves and drawers until the room was once more almost uninhabitedly neat.

2010, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ghostlight:

(rare) In an uninhabited fashion; without inhabitants.


uninhabitedly

Therefore, the tendency of man to breed uninhabitedly must be curbed.

1986, K. L. Bhowmik, Current Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives: Man:


persnicketily

persnicketily (comparative more persnicketily, superlative most persnicketily)

more persnicketily (comparative)
most persnicketily (superlative)

Claudee Cremer, you amaze me with your absolutely persnicketily perfect work.

2012, Debra Greenway, Pre-Cut Combo Quilts: 14 Quilts That Blend Jelly Rolls, Layer Cakes ...:

(rare) With a great attention to details and precision; in a persnickety fashion.


is all

All you have to do is ask it the right question is all.

2011, Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods, And Other Stories 2013, p. 128

“Rat poison. Mmm. A nice lingering death!” added Burt with a breathy laugh. “They just taste a bit funny afterwards, is all.”

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

(Canada, US, colloquial) That is all; only, just and nothing more.


unpolitically

unpolitically (comparative more unpolitically, superlative most unpolitically)

more unpolitically (comparative)
most unpolitically (superlative)


supervisedly

The performance in object detection of features extracted from the CFN is the highest (51.8%) among unsupervisedly trained features, and very close to that of supervisedly trained features (56.5%).

2016, Mehdi Noroozi, Paolo Favaro, “Unsupervised Learning of Visual Representations by Solving Jigsaw Puzzles”, in arXiv:


unmagnanimously

unmagnanimously (comparative more unmagnanimously, superlative most unmagnanimously)

more unmagnanimously (comparative)
most unmagnanimously (superlative)


transpedicularly

The Dynesys screws were then placed transpedicularly via the Wiltse paraspinal approach without destruction of the facet joints.

2016 January 30, “Comparison of the Dynesys Dynamic Stabilization System and Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Lumbar Degenerative Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


onomasiologically

In an onomasiological manner or context.


truthly

truthly (comparative more truthly, superlative most truthly)

more truthly (comparative)
most truthly (superlative)

The spirit of music serves such tragic insights because it speaks truthly to and of the disassociated emotions of the alienated mind and body that patriarchy psychologically inflicts on men and women.

2004, David A. J. Richards, Tragic manhood and democracy: Verdi's voice and the power of musical art:

(nonstandard, proscribed) In accordance with truth; honestly, without deceit; truthfully.


igneously

igneously (comparative more igneously, superlative most igneously)

more igneously (comparative)
most igneously (superlative)

It is lighter and he sees that the gravel is studded with pieces of broken iron, old spikes, nameless, igneously puddled metals, dropped like scales from the underside of passing trains.

2013, David Treuer, The Hiawatha: A Novel:


aerogenically

aerogenically (comparative more aerogenically, superlative most aerogenically)

more aerogenically (comparative)
most aerogenically (superlative)

In contrast, only half of aerogenically immunized animals challenged with 100 infectious doses of B. melitensis by aerosol were protected.

2007, Luther E. Lindler, Biological Weapons Defense: Infectious Disease and Counterbioterrorism:

Nevertheless, our study clearly showed that the protective efficacy in terms of bacterial burden against this Mtb strain was significantly enhanced when irradiated BCG was used to aerogenically boost the response three times.

2015 October 29, “Repeated Aerosolized-Boosting with Gamma-Irradiated Mycobacterium bovis BCG Confers Improved Pulmonary Protection against the Hypervirulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain HN878 in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


hyperexcitably

hyperexcitably (comparative more hyperexcitably, superlative most hyperexcitably)

more hyperexcitably (comparative)
most hyperexcitably (superlative)


morphotactically

(linguistics) In terms of morphotactics.


unconsolingly

unconsolingly (comparative more unconsolingly, superlative most unconsolingly)

more unconsolingly (comparative)
most unconsolingly (superlative)


minionly

minionly (comparative more minionly, superlative most minionly)

more minionly (comparative)
most minionly (superlative)


minionlike

minionlike (comparative more minionlike, superlative most minionlike)

more minionlike (comparative)
most minionlike (superlative)

In the manner of a minion; finely; daintily


revelatorily

revelatorily (comparative more revelatorily, superlative most revelatorily)

more revelatorily (comparative)
most revelatorily (superlative)

But however exactly the relationship is to be defined, it would be the sublimest oddity were God to be involved revelatorily in the Hebrew era and then in the Christian, and for this reality not to be reflected in both Testaments.

2013, Professor Robert P Gordon, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Versions: Selected Essays of Robert P. Gordon:


storably

Also, both hydrogen and helium (the next-lightest gas) would require weighty cooling systems to keep them storably liquid.

1997, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents
A container for storably receiving an ink jet cartridge including a recording head section for discharging ink from a plurality of ink discharging orifices and an ink storing section having ink to be fed to said recording head section […]


disirregardless

disirregardless (comparative more disirregardless, superlative most disirregardless)

more disirregardless (comparative)
most disirregardless (superlative)


undisirregardless

undisirregardless (comparative more undisirregardless, superlative most undisirregardless)

more undisirregardless (comparative)
most undisirregardless (superlative)

You tell me what sort of notion you've got for fixing it, then I'll know whether we can try it or we need to keep on doin' what we're doin' undisirregardless of whether anybody likes it.

2004, Harry Turtledove, Return Engagement: Settling Accounts, Book One:


fungibly

fungibly (comparative more fungibly, superlative most fungibly)

more fungibly (comparative)
most fungibly (superlative)

It is not as if one relationship has fungibly replaced the other, but rather that one romantic relationship has followed another, and both of them have their harmonies and their virtues.

2004, Robert C. Solomon, In defense of sentimentality:


in the same vane

in the same vein
in the same vein#English


unflirtatiously

unflirtatiously (comparative more unflirtatiously, superlative most unflirtatiously)

more unflirtatiously (comparative)
most unflirtatiously (superlative)


pervertly

pervertly (comparative more pervertly, superlative most pervertly)

more pervertly (comparative)
most pervertly (superlative)

The radio, however, was most pervertly used during the expulsion of Asians in 1972 when news broadcasts carried daily statements on their fate.

1993, Zie Gariyo, The Media, Constitutionalism, and Democracy in Uganda:

(proscribed, nonstandard, rare) Of, befitting, or characteristic of a pervert.


religionlessly

Although some people are religionlessly religious, others are not.

2015, Robert Cummings Neville, Religion: Philosophical Theology, Volume Three:


joblessly

From jobless + -ly. Attested since the 20th century.

Thus the unfortunate languish joblessly or end up accepting temporary employment in which they are less likely to use their formal training or education.

1995, Elleni Tedla, Sankofa: African Thought and Education, page 198:


occlusively

occlusively (comparative more occlusively, superlative most occlusively)

more occlusively (comparative)
most occlusively (superlative)


condemnably

[…] yet if they be not guilty of gross faileur of Duty in Mind, Will and Meaning, they are so far from being villainous, wicked, nefarious and condemnably Criminal, that they are highly commendable for their unstain'd Integrity and Faithfulness.

1706, Richard Brocklesby, An Explication of the Gospel-Theism and the Divinity of the Christian Religion:

While in most departments of conduct there is a wide neutral ground between the right and the condemnably wrong, there are matters of business in which there seems to be no such intermediate territory, but in, which what is fair, honorable, and even necessary, is closely contiguous to dishonesty.

1873, Andrew P. Peabody, A Manual of Moral Pholosophy, page 138:

But just because the court freed them was not reason enough for the police to close the case file as lamentably and condemnably as they did.

2005, The Herald, volume 36, numbers 4-6:


multiorgasmically

But they also are raped a lot, multiorgasmically, which has brought Rogers strong criticism. Romantic fiction such as this reportedly ranks among the top ten items sold at supermarkets across the United States […]


specialistically

specialistically (comparative more specialistically, superlative most specialistically)

more specialistically (comparative)
most specialistically (superlative)

Each specialist group, then, has its own limited perspectives, its unique "attentional attitude," its carved-out province with its special presuppositions or "quasi-realities." When functioning specialistically, it restricts itself to but a limited amount of the available complex of events.

1973, Jerome Frank, Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice, page 400:


sememically

In a sememic way; with respect to sememes.


diastolically

Diastolically augmented coronary venous retroperfusion.

2013, S. Meerbaum, Myocardial Perfusion, Reperfusion, Coronary Venous Retroperfusion:


counterfeitingly

Shakespeare's Double-Dealing Comedies discusses the Jailor's crazy nymphOpheliac daughter and other aspects of this counterfeitingly cheerful play.

2010, Myron Stagman, Shakespeare’s Greek Drama Secret:


systolically

systolically (comparative more systolically, superlative most systolically)

more systolically (comparative)
most systolically (superlative)

In the ensuing diastole, these arteries would tend to retract, thus “thinning” the systolically thickened chamber walls.

2009, Ares Pasipoularides, Heart's Vortex: Intracardiac Blood Flow Phenomena:


antsily

antsily (comparative more antsily, superlative most antsily)

more antsily (comparative)
most antsily (superlative)

Stop laughing, yes I can be patient, but really it was more like I waited antsily.

2016, Danielle Dignin, Moonlight & Maxipads:


pro domino

/pɹəʊ ˈdɒmɪnəʊ/

Borrowing from Latin prō (“as, like; as befitting”) + dominō (“owner of a residence; the master of its servants and slaves; lord”).

[…] as of right and pro domino to occupy […]

1892, J. D. Sheil, editor, “Cape Times” Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the Supreme Court, during the Year 1892, volume II, Cape Town: Cape Times, →OCLC:

[W]hen the Natal Native Trust became Trustee, he held lot 52 no longer permissively but pro domino; […]

1920, A. E. Carlisle, T. B. Horwood, editors, South African Law Reports. Natal Provincial Division. Decisions of the Supreme Court of South Africa (Natal Provincial Division) (including the Durban and Coast Local Division), volume 40, Pietermaritzburg: Incorporated Law Society of Natal, →OCLC, page 186:

Pro domino or otherwise? M. C. Bosman states that D. S. du Toit possessed as owner and I accept his evidence on this point too, corroborated as it is by the circumstances and the probabilities.

1957, South African Law Reports, volume I, Cape Town: Juta & Co., →OCLC, page 505:

(law) In the capacity of a master or an owner; having dominion over a person, property, or a right.


subhumanly

subhumanly (comparative more subhumanly, superlative most subhumanly)

more subhumanly (comparative)
most subhumanly (superlative)

In a subhuman way, or to a subhuman extent.


ab invito

(law) Against one's will; not of one's invitation.


intralymphatically

Fareed et al. analyzed the immune response of patients immunized intralymphatically with tumour cells and found patients exhibiting tumour regression had a measurable titre of antibodies against a 38 kDa protein [9 ].

2015 October 30, “The Mycoplasma hyorhinis p37 Protein Rapidly Induces Genes in Fibroblasts Associated with Inflammation and Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


supraliminally

supraliminally (comparative more supraliminally, superlative most supraliminally)

more supraliminally (comparative)
most supraliminally (superlative)

One possibility is that the difference in time-course is a consequence of priming among experimental group participants, who were exposed to the same scene cue twice, once subliminally and then again supraliminally.

2015 October 30, “Relational Memory Is Evident in Eye Movement Behavior despite the Use of Subliminal Testing Methods”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


ventrolingually

The two teeth preserved in the maxilla have conical morphology and are pointed and slightly curved ventrolingually.

2015 November 5, “New Crocodyliforms from Southwestern Europe and Definition of a Diverse Clade of European Late Cretaceous Basal Eusuchians”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


sagittaly

A thin sagittaly elongate groove between the pterygoids extends anteriorly from the choana.


extrametrically

By means of, or in terms of, extrametricality.


pedantly

pedantly (comparative more pedantly, superlative most pedantly)

more pedantly (comparative)
most pedantly (superlative)

Gloucester, the hive of industry, the delicious village pedantly named city, with its loom and shuttle music; and how does the glorious Philadelphia look from this point?

1855, Maturin Murray Ballou, The Turkish Spies:

Till she was twenty - eight years she paid most attention to art , and though one can hardly say she was ever a great artist , she at least realised the ideals of her age , and produced the pedantly accurate transcripts of life as it appeared at the time.

1910, The Bookseller, volume 53, page 23:

It seems that there is not much effect if the model is followed pedantly (the bars with R, viz. Researcher).

2001, Julie A. Jacko, CHI ... Conference Proceedings:

I'm kneeling in front of the open suitcase, sinking elbow-deep into the pedantly folded clothes, when I spot the two pairs of leather shoes beside me.

2021, Renata W. Müller, The Protector 2:


humdrumly

humdrumly (comparative more humdrumly, superlative most humdrumly)

more humdrumly (comparative)
most humdrumly (superlative)


unwindingly

All along her unwindingly pallid body, this tidal index to a madness spaced with art, were further traces of this beaten life of hers, bruises here, broken skin, indentations.


illiquidly

illiquidly (comparative more illiquidly, superlative most illiquidly)

more illiquidly (comparative)
most illiquidly (superlative)

Alternatively, if the asset 5 is traded, but only illiquidly, it is possible to imagine that the agent can make a one-off hedge in 5 at the start of the option.


quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper

quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper (not comparable)

faster than a minnow can swim a dipper#English

Alternative form of faster than a minnow can swim a dipper


faster than a minnow can swim a dipper

faster than a minnow can swim a dipper (not comparable)


tiptoeingly

tiptoeingly (comparative more tiptoeingly, superlative most tiptoeingly)

more tiptoeingly (comparative)
most tiptoeingly (superlative)

On top of this came burglars, tiptoeingly creeping from room to room, hunting for her.

[…] a suntan disappears tiptoeingly into his trance […]

2000, Edward Locke, One scowl upon sunlight:


documentably

To some extent, it is for you to determine what might go on in someone's mind when that person makes a documentably false statement.

2012, Serge Lang, The File: Case Study in Correction (1977–1979)


in flying colors

with flying colors
with flying colors#English


telically

telically (comparative more telically, superlative most telically)

more telically (comparative)
most telically (superlative)


atelically

atelically (comparative more atelically, superlative most atelically)

more atelically (comparative)
most atelically (superlative)


deadass

From dead + -ass (“used to intensify an adjective”). Apparently originating in New York and popularized around the late 1990s–2000s.

suf

As he started inside, thinking only of fresh water and bed, Frenchy said, "Hurry back and I'll help you fix the baits." / "We're not through?" / "Oh, man, Joe keeps his pots at work, not deadass on deck."

1979, William McCloskey, Highliners, Guilford, C.T.: Lyons Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 257:

I slapped the Mexican on the helmet— that was the signal to fire—and whoosh! that 106 round hit dead ass on top of the gooks. Whooo, the first time! The other guys scrambled up out of that trench and jumped all over us.

1990, James R. Wilson, Landing Zones, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 197:

"Sometimes," he observed seriously, "you can't tell truth when it's staring you deadass in the face. But if it's truth, that's it, that's a fact, you know it's truth, you can't hide from it, you pull that shit and it'll get you every time 'cause truth clicks with this way deep."

1991, Jacquelyn Holt Park, A Stone Gone Mad, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 140–141:

I was deadass starving.

"Im positively deadass tired,' she says, rushing over to us. "Babies, there just aint no one at the 1-2-3—someone's been spreading rumors that theres so much junk being sold there that the cops are gonna knock it over any day!"

1963, John Rechy, City of Night, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 142:

Given Embiid's history of trolling and quotable moments, the internet interpreted Embiid's comments as a joke. But the big man later reaffirmed his intentions on The Ringer NBA Show with Kevin O'Connor. "Yeah, deadass. I'm really serious," Embiid said. "I feel like I can do anything on a basketball court."

2018 January 11, Mike O'Connor, “Sixers Set of the Week: A brief history of Joel Embiid playing point guard”, in The Athletic, archived from the original on 2021-09-27:

i will deadass take my own soap to somebody house😂

2023 July 21, @fineassnayyyy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-23:

(US, slang) Really, seriously, actually.


unrelaxingly

en-adv

unrelaxingly (comparative more unrelaxingly, superlative most unrelaxingly)

more unrelaxingly (comparative)
most unrelaxingly (superlative)


flexoelectrically

In particular, I identify a gauge invariance in the theory, whereby the energies associated to strain-gradient elasticity and flexoelectrically induced electric fields are individually reference-dependent, and only when summed up they yield a well-defined result.

2016, Massimiliano Stengel, “Unified ab initio formulation of flexoelectricity and strain-gradient elasticity”, in arXiv:


dogward

Another burgher, interrupted in her reading of Goethe, might fling open her second-floor shutter and toss a panful of hot water dogward, cursing in a guttural German.

They turned and ran dogward while I, motivated by their scorn, moved off lethargically through the vines, thorns, and creepers, a caricature of lethal determination.

2015, Herb Payson, Blown Away, page 115:


communicatingly

communicatingly (comparative more communicatingly, superlative most communicatingly)

more communicatingly (comparative)
most communicatingly (superlative)

Each heat exchanger set comprises two pairs of heat exchangers, with each pair communicatingly connected with the other pair, and respectively disposed at diametrically opposing edges of the disc.

1974, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office: Patents, Volume 918, Issues 3-5:


coinductively

coinductively (comparative more coinductively, superlative most coinductively)

more coinductively (comparative)
most coinductively (superlative)


pervily

pervily (comparative more pervily, superlative most pervily)

more pervily (comparative)
most pervily (superlative)

Stella whistles pervily, and I race to get away before I start shooting my mouth off.


buttass

At least he isn't butt-ass ugly. He was probably the shit during his time. Look at him in his multi-colored, polyester suit. He's sharper than a tack.

2015, Teresa D. Patterson, Wolf in the Pulpit, page 194:

(Canada, US, slang, vulgar) Synonym of very


like a bitch

My shoulder itches like a bitch!


eutrophically

eutrophically (comparative more eutrophically, superlative most eutrophically)

more eutrophically (comparative)
most eutrophically (superlative)

In some cases, there has been decoupling of algal growth responses to river P loading in eutrophically impaired rivers, and recovery trajectories may be non-linear and characterised by thresholds and alternative stable states […]

2015, John C. Rodda, Mark Robinson, Progress in Modern Hydrology: Past, Present and Future:


sociotherapeutically

In terms of, or by means of, sociotherapy.


stadially

By, or in terms of, developmental stages.


veeery

You were sick for five days, and now you have a suntan? That's veeery interesting.


radiopharmaceutically

In terms of or by means of radiopharmaceuticals.


when heck freezes over

when Hell freezes over
when Hell freezes over#English

Euphemistic form of when Hell freezes over.


with one's thumbs up one's ass

with one's thumbs up one's ass (not comparable)

(vulgar) Idly, doing nothing important in a situation that requires it.