unbeseemingly

unbeseemingly (comparative more unbeseemingly, superlative most unbeseemingly)

more unbeseemingly (comparative)
most unbeseemingly (superlative)


unreturningly

What seeks he? All that others seek / He casts away, like a vile weed / Which the sea casts unreturningly.

1818 August, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Rosalind and Helen”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 36:


extollingly

en-adv

extollingly (comparative more extollingly, superlative most extollingly)

more extollingly (comparative)
most extollingly (superlative)


writhingly

writhingly (comparative more writhingly, superlative most writhingly)

more writhingly (comparative)
most writhingly (superlative)

1822, uncredited author, “The Nightmare” (Review of Smarra, ou les Démons de la Nuit by Charles Nodier (1821), including free translations of passages from the novella), The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 4, p. 524,
[…] the monster sprang from her burning hand, turned writhingly and rapidly in the air, outspread his wildly-fashioned wings, uprose, sank down, expanded, shrunk […]

And now, just as he crossed the threshold of the closet, he writhingly strove to assume an expression intended to be not uncheerful […]

1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, New York: Harper, Book 25, Chapter 5, p. 473:

[…] Mr. Wrenn writhingly admitted that he had never heard of Shelley […]

1914, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 6, in Our Mr. Wrenn, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 71:

Heroically, the man at the stake now overcame the will of his antenna, spoke rapidly, writhingly.

1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 4, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, page 102:

[…] the most glaring problem about gauging the influence that van Mander’s rules had on subsequent generations is that they so very obviously describe his own output: classically statuesque at the beginning; elastically, writhingly mannerist at the end.

1999, Simon Schama, Rembrandt’s Eyes, New York: Knopf, Part 3, Chapter 5, p. 218:


succeedingly

succeedingly slower speeds


luringly

luringly (comparative more luringly, superlative most luringly)

more luringly (comparative)
most luringly (superlative)


effervescingly

effervescingly (comparative more effervescingly, superlative most effervescingly)

more effervescingly (comparative)
most effervescingly (superlative)


coolingly

coolingly (comparative more coolingly, superlative most coolingly)

more coolingly (comparative)
most coolingly (superlative)


rattlingly

rattlingly (comparative more rattlingly, superlative most rattlingly)

more rattlingly (comparative)
most rattlingly (superlative)

The carriage moved rattlingly through the cobbled streets.


retiringly

retiringly (comparative more retiringly, superlative most retiringly)

more retiringly (comparative)
most retiringly (superlative)


moulderingly

moulderingly (comparative more moulderingly, superlative most moulderingly)

more moulderingly (comparative)
most moulderingly (superlative)


vaultingly

vaultingly (comparative more vaultingly, superlative most vaultingly)

more vaultingly (comparative)
most vaultingly (superlative)

(figurative) With great scope or ambition.


rockingly

rockingly (comparative more rockingly, superlative most rockingly)

more rockingly (comparative)
most rockingly (superlative)

The train wound slowly, rockingly through the night.

1932, Walter Arnold Rukeyser, Working for the Soviets, page 101:

His playing is richly imaginative, often sensuous, and always rockingly rhythmic.

1955, Frederic V. Grunfeld, Music and Recordings, 1955, page 200:


half-hourly

Take this medicine half-hourly.

At intervals of a half-hour, every 30 minutes.


discretionally

discretionally (comparative more discretionally, superlative most discretionally)

more discretionally (comparative)
most discretionally (superlative)


deludedly

deludedly (comparative more deludedly, superlative most deludedly)

more deludedly (comparative)
most deludedly (superlative)


flaggingly

flaggingly (comparative more flaggingly, superlative most flaggingly)

more flaggingly (comparative)
most flaggingly (superlative)


driftingly

driftingly (comparative more driftingly, superlative most driftingly)

more driftingly (comparative)
most driftingly (superlative)

The clouds moved driftingly across the horizon.


forewarningly

forewarningly (comparative more forewarningly, superlative most forewarningly)

more forewarningly (comparative)
most forewarningly (superlative)

So as to forewarn; in a way that gives advance warning.


contendingly

contendingly (comparative more contendingly, superlative most contendingly)

more contendingly (comparative)
most contendingly (superlative)


twangingly

twangingly (comparative more twangingly, superlative most twangingly)

more twangingly (comparative)
most twangingly (superlative)


feigningly

feigningly (comparative more feigningly, superlative most feigningly)

more feigningly (comparative)
most feigningly (superlative)


unfittingly

unfittingly (comparative more unfittingly, superlative most unfittingly)

more unfittingly (comparative)
most unfittingly (superlative)

From Middle English unfittyngly, equivalent to unfitting + -ly.

In a way that is not fitting; inappropriately; unsuitably.


conqueringly

conqueringly (comparative more conqueringly, superlative most conqueringly)

more conqueringly (comparative)
most conqueringly (superlative)

E'en nature's boldest barriers he conqueringly assails.

1867, William T. Butler, “The Gathering On the Plains”, in Harper's Magazine:


faintingly

faintingly (comparative more faintingly, superlative most faintingly)

more faintingly (comparative)
most faintingly (superlative)

Newly rescued from the desert, she faintingly asked for water.


crowingly

crowingly (comparative more crowingly, superlative most crowingly)

more crowingly (comparative)
most crowingly (superlative)

1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Thyestes", Act V., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 135.
Wicked Atreus crowingly congratulates himself on his cruel revenge […]

So as to crow; with jubilation or schadenfreude.


scrutinisingly

scrutinisingly (comparative more scrutinisingly, superlative most scrutinisingly)

more scrutinisingly (comparative)
most scrutinisingly (superlative)


scrutinizingly

scrutinizingly (comparative more scrutinizingly, superlative most scrutinizingly)

more scrutinizingly (comparative)
most scrutinizingly (superlative)

So as to scrutinize; with close visual attention.


muddlingly

muddlingly (comparative more muddlingly, superlative most muddlingly)

more muddlingly (comparative)
most muddlingly (superlative)


unpretendingly

unpretendingly (comparative more unpretendingly, superlative most unpretendingly)

more unpretendingly (comparative)
most unpretendingly (superlative)


underlyingly

underlyingly (comparative more underlyingly, superlative most underlyingly)

more underlyingly (comparative)
most underlyingly (superlative)


jugglingly

jugglingly (comparative more jugglingly, superlative most jugglingly)

more jugglingly (comparative)
most jugglingly (superlative)


pursuingly

pursuingly (comparative more pursuingly, superlative most pursuingly)

more pursuingly (comparative)
most pursuingly (superlative)


deludingly

deludingly (comparative more deludingly, superlative most deludingly)

more deludingly (comparative)
most deludingly (superlative)


defacingly

defacingly (comparative more defacingly, superlative most defacingly)

more defacingly (comparative)
most defacingly (superlative)


interrogatingly

interrogatingly (comparative more interrogatingly, superlative most interrogatingly)

more interrogatingly (comparative)
most interrogatingly (superlative)

So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.


prattlingly

prattlingly (comparative more prattlingly, superlative most prattlingly)

more prattlingly (comparative)
most prattlingly (superlative)

(rare, dated) With prattle, or worthless talk.


drizzlingly

drizzlingly (comparative more drizzlingly, superlative most drizzlingly)

more drizzlingly (comparative)
most drizzlingly (superlative)


pipingly

pipingly (comparative more pipingly, superlative most pipingly)

more pipingly (comparative)
most pipingly (superlative)

The father said nothing, but the daughter pipingly suggested, "We could go and stay next door."


intreatingly

intreatingly (comparative more intreatingly, superlative most intreatingly)

more intreatingly (comparative)
most intreatingly (superlative)


discretionarily

discretionarily (comparative more discretionarily, superlative most discretionarily)

more discretionarily (comparative)
most discretionarily (superlative)


wanderingly

wanderingly (comparative more wanderingly, superlative most wanderingly)

more wanderingly (comparative)
most wanderingly (superlative)

I seem to remember talking wanderingly to myself during that last spurt.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 110:

In a wandering manner; without any particular direction.


crawlingly

crawlingly (comparative more crawlingly, superlative most crawlingly)

more crawlingly (comparative)
most crawlingly (superlative)

(figurative) In a humble or sycophantic manner.


drivingly

drivingly (comparative more drivingly, superlative most drivingly)

more drivingly (comparative)
most drivingly (superlative)

Keep her eyes, for the time, from her husband’s as she might, she soon found herself much more drivingly conscious of the strain on his own wit.

1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, Part 4, Chapter 34:

One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]


twiningly

twiningly (comparative more twiningly, superlative most twiningly)

more twiningly (comparative)
most twiningly (superlative)

The cap she selected for the occasion was one which owed almost all its Barnabian grace to a very magnificent wreath of crimson roses, which ran twiningly and caressingly round the front of it, […]

1843, Frances Trollope, chapter XXXII, in The Barnabys in America, or Adventures of the Widow Wedded, Paris: Published by A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani and Co., […], →OCLC, page 249:


southeastwardly

southeastwardly (comparative more southeastwardly, superlative most southeastwardly)

more southeastwardly (comparative)
most southeastwardly (superlative)


southwestwardly

southwestwardly (comparative more southwestwardly, superlative most southwestwardly)

more southwestwardly (comparative)
most southwestwardly (superlative)


noddingly

noddingly (comparative more noddingly, superlative most noddingly)

more noddingly (comparative)
most noddingly (superlative)

With a nodding motion, possibly expressing agreement.

You could name ten thousand goodish books that you might, without any pressing necessity, noddingly know; you might name a hundred authors that cultured persons would be expected to talk about.

1938, Ford Madox Ford, The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own, →ISBN, page 692:

You may find in the first few months that your budgeted estimates are only noddingly close to your actual expenses.

1990, Sylvia Field Porter, Sylvia Porter's your finances in the 1990s, page 25:

In the primary and secondary schools, the student is taught the rudiments of literacy and arithmetic; is introduced to history and literature; acquires the beginner's skills in mathematics; is noddingly acquainted with science; and in general, is given a perspective on the modern world and of his and her place in it.

1991, Robert A. Solo, Opportunity Knocks: American Economic Policy After Gorbachev, →ISBN:

Emma may claim to have copied that very poem out of Elegant Extracts, but Austen herself, and any reader even noddingly familiar with the anthology, would have known that David Garrick's 'A Riddle' from 1757 was far too saucy and laden with innuendo to have been admitted to Knox's edifying volume.

2015, Peter Sabor, The Cambridge Companion to ‘Emma', →ISBN, page 29:


contradistinctively

contradistinctively (comparative more contradistinctively, superlative most contradistinctively)

more contradistinctively (comparative)
most contradistinctively (superlative)


motionally

At the low-frequency end, one observes motionally narrowed spectra, whereas, at the high-frequency end, the spectra display very slow motion, almost at the rigid limit (due to the increased importance of the g tensor).

2001 January 12, P. P. Borbat et al., “Electron Spin Resonance in Studies of Membranes and Proteins”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI, pages 266–269:


neuropathologically

From neuropathologic + -ally or neuropathological + -ly.

Tissues were obtained from controls and neuropathologically confirmed AD and DS cases (12 ).

1998 January 9, Fred W. van Leeuwen et al., “Frameshift Mutants of {beta}?Amyloid Precursor Protein and Ubiquitin-B in Alzheimer's and Down Patients”, in Science, volume 279, number 5348, →DOI, pages 242–247:

In terms of, or by means of, neuropathology.


as far as I'm concerned

en-adverb

as far as I'm concerned (comparative more as far as I'm concerned, superlative most as far as I'm concerned)

more as far as I'm concerned (comparative)
most as far as I'm concerned (superlative)

According to me; in my opinion (sometimes dismissing those of others); in my view.

(in workflows and administration, regarding delineation of responsibilities) To the extent that the matter concerns my role; to the extent that I am obligated by my position/role/office to be involved (in a certain process).


bruskly

en-adv

bruskly (comparative more bruskly, superlative most bruskly)

more bruskly (comparative)
most bruskly (superlative)

"Ah, well now, of course," St. George conceded, "but if you have a mysterious boarder who talks Patagonian or something, and we think that perhaps we can talk with her, why then--" "It doesn't matter whether you can talk every language in South America," said the warden bruskly.

He rose bruskly and crossed the room.

1912, Eleanor M. Ingram, From the Car Behind:

I didn't expect to be conveyed to my hotel atop a white elephant, through streets lined with salaaming natives, but neither did I expect to make a wild dash through thoroughfares as crowded with traffic as Fifth Avenue, in a vehicle which unmistakably owed its paternity to Mr. Henry Ford, or to be bruskly halted at busy street crossings by the upraised hand of a helmeted and white-gloved traffic policeman.

1921, E. Alexander Powell, Where the Strange Trails Go Down:

Dohrn writes that she called the home school on Shaw's behalf and "was told bruskly that these girls were no longer eligible to be students at the home school because they resided out of district."

1992 July 3, Ben Joravsky, “Legal Assistance v. Board of Ed: Where should homeless kids go to school?”, in Chicago Reader:


oncet

If we could see the last of that man, Didenhover, oncet, I'd take hold of the plough myself, and see if I couldn't make a living out of it.

1854, Elizabeth Wetherell, Queechy, Volume I:

"I seen 'im oncet, in the spring, I s'pose," said Jim, "what there was left of 'im.

Jest tuk the best rooms in that new hotel, got a hoss and buggy, dressed ourselves, you and me, fit to kill, and made them Fort people take a back seat in the Lord's Tabernacle, oncet for all.

1889, Bret Harte, The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales:

Why, Judith, Granny Peavey, our maw's mother, told us oncet about a dumb supper that her and two other gals made when she was but sixteen year old, and her sweetheart away from her in Virginny, and she didn't know whar he was at, an' they brought her tales agin him."

1908, Alice MacGowan, Judith of the Cumberlands:

He meets oncet in a while people, Mr. Redman; while, with us, what is it?

1912, Montague Glass, Elkan Lubliner, American:

(Southern US, South Midland US, nonstandard) Once.


untalentedly

untalentedly (comparative more untalentedly, superlative most untalentedly)

more untalentedly (comparative)
most untalentedly (superlative)


talentlessly

talentlessly (comparative more talentlessly, superlative most talentlessly)

more talentlessly (comparative)
most talentlessly (superlative)


unlyrically

unlyrically (comparative more unlyrically, superlative most unlyrically)

more unlyrically (comparative)
most unlyrically (superlative)

The opening lines, moreover, are very direct, and are best declaimed, succinctly and unlyrically.

1980, Constantinos A. Patrides, Raymond B. Waddington, The Age of Milton, page 267:


saturninely

saturninely (comparative more saturninely, superlative most saturninely)

more saturninely (comparative)
most saturninely (superlative)


broadmindedly

broadmindedly (comparative more broadmindedly, superlative most broadmindedly)

more broadmindedly (comparative)
most broadmindedly (superlative)


saturatedly

saturatedly (comparative more saturatedly, superlative most saturatedly)

more saturatedly (comparative)
most saturatedly (superlative)

So as to be saturated; with complete immersion.


waterily

waterily (comparative more waterily, superlative most waterily)

more waterily (comparative)
most waterily (superlative)

/ˈwɔːtəɹɪli/

A reflection in which things wavered and vanished, waterily.

1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse:


epideictically

epideictically (comparative more epideictically, superlative most epideictically)

more epideictically (comparative)
most epideictically (superlative)


blubberingly

blubberingly (comparative more blubberingly, superlative most blubberingly)

more blubberingly (comparative)
most blubberingly (superlative)

[T]he bogan agrees blubberingly and waits the first bars of `How Am I Supposed To Live Without You' by Michael Bolton.

2010, Michael Jayfox, E. Chas McSween, Intravenus DeMilo, Enron Hubbard, Hunter McKenzie-Smythe, Flash Johnson, Things Bogans Like, Sydney: Hachette, page 151:

With blubbering sounds; with broken or noisy sobs.


cross-wise

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

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


evenward

evenward (comparative more evenward, superlative most evenward)

more evenward (comparative)
most evenward (superlative)

Heavily The day dragged evenward ere left of all The throng that late had battled with the Dane, A wretched skin-clad remnant, wounded sore, Stood 'mid a heap of slaughtered friends, [...]


equivocatingly

equivocatingly (comparative more equivocatingly, superlative most equivocatingly)

more equivocatingly (comparative)
most equivocatingly (superlative)


flailingly

flailingly (comparative more flailingly, superlative most flailingly)

more flailingly (comparative)
most flailingly (superlative)

I splashed flailingly around in the pool until the lifeguard dragged me out.


overhardly

overhardly (comparative more overhardly, superlative most overhardly)

more overhardly (comparative)
most overhardly (superlative)

Truely they have reason to require of the pacient an application of favourable confidence in them: which must necessarily be in good earnest, and yeelding to apply it self unto imaginations, overhardly to be believed.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) In an overhard way; by means which are too difficult.


ab absurdo

/ˌæbəbˈsɝˌdoʊ/

/ˌæˌbæbˈsɝˌdoʊ/

/ˌæˌbæbˈzɝˌdoʊ/

Learned borrowing from Latin ab absurdō (literally “away from harsh”), from ab (“of, from, by, since”) + absurdō (“silly, stupid”), ablative masculine/neuter of absurdus.


a baculo

Learned borrowing from Latin ā baculō (literally “by means of the rod”), from ā (“of, from”) + baculō (“sceptre, rod”), ablative singular of baculum.

Philonous’ reply is perhaps less interesting for its a baculo dismissal of the argument than for a nuance in its first sentence.

2018, William Boos, edited by Florence S. Boos, Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition, →ISBN, page 257:

(uncommon) Argued by means of force rather than logic.


gutwrenchingly

en-adv

gutwrenchingly (comparative more gutwrenchingly, superlative most gutwrenchingly)

more gutwrenchingly (comparative)
most gutwrenchingly (superlative)


carcinogenically

carcinogenically inactive metabolites


sparkingly

sparkingly (comparative more sparkingly, superlative most sparkingly)

more sparkingly (comparative)
most sparkingly (superlative)

[…] flint means held thereby to be frictionally sparkingly engageable with said wheel means […]

1959, Canadian Patent Office Record: Volume 87:


unregally

unregally (comparative more unregally, superlative most unregally)

more unregally (comparative)
most unregally (superlative)

Not regally; in a manner not befitting a king.


controllingly

controllingly (comparative more controllingly, superlative most controllingly)

more controllingly (comparative)
most controllingly (superlative)

In a controlling manner; so as to control.


geekishly

geekishly (comparative more geekishly, superlative most geekishly)

more geekishly (comparative)
most geekishly (superlative)

In a way or to an extent that is geekish.


restrainingly

restrainingly (comparative more restrainingly, superlative most restrainingly)

more restrainingly (comparative)
most restrainingly (superlative)

[…] Brown laid his hand restrainingly upon the gallant skipper's arm.


unidiosyncratically

unidiosyncratically (comparative more unidiosyncratically, superlative most unidiosyncratically)

more unidiosyncratically (comparative)
most unidiosyncratically (superlative)


supernationally

supernationally (comparative more supernationally, superlative most supernationally)

more supernationally (comparative)
most supernationally (superlative)

In a way that spans nations; above or beyond what is national.


unrepiningly

unrepiningly (comparative more unrepiningly, superlative most unrepiningly)

more unrepiningly (comparative)
most unrepiningly (superlative)


nigglingly

nigglingly (comparative more nigglingly, superlative most nigglingly)

more nigglingly (comparative)
most nigglingly (superlative)


piddlingly

piddlingly (comparative more piddlingly, superlative most piddlingly)

more piddlingly (comparative)
most piddlingly (superlative)

In a way that is piddling, obscure, or trivial.


untractably

untractably (comparative more untractably, superlative most untractably)

more untractably (comparative)
most untractably (superlative)


viperishly

viperishly (comparative more viperishly, superlative most viperishly)

more viperishly (comparative)
most viperishly (superlative)

Its lead editorial's response was mostly yes, noting viperishly that France was rather good at accommodating itself to any detestable status quo.

2003 March 19, John Vinocur, “France and Germany are left to wonder:Did they carry things too far?”, in The New York Times:


a bene placito

Borrowed from Italian a bene placito (“at pleasure”).


ab inconvenienti

Borrowed from New Latin ab inconvenientī.


betrayingly

betrayingly (comparative more betrayingly, superlative most betrayingly)

more betrayingly (comparative)
most betrayingly (superlative)

She hated the way that her voice croaked betrayingly and reached for the glass of wine that she had brought out with her, praying he would take her reaction as simply the effects of the sun.

2007, Kate Walker, Sicilian Husband, Blackmailed Bride, page 130:


encompassingly

encompassingly (comparative more encompassingly, superlative most encompassingly)

more encompassingly (comparative)
most encompassingly (superlative)


hormetically

"Wherefore the plastic nature, acting neither by knowledge nor by animal fancy, neither electively nor hormetically, must be concluded to act fatally, magically, and sympathetically."

1876 January 5, “The Philosophy of Pessimism”, in The Westminster Review, page 68:

The hormetic pharmacy will also enlighten physicians and patients about the possibility of hormetically induced adverse effects for the spectrum of drugs that enhance the proliferation of harmful microbes, viruses, tumor cells, and other tissues, which could lead to various pathologies.

2009, Mark P. Mattson, Hormesis: A Revolution in Biology, Toxicology and Medicine, page 195:

Curcumin has shown in vitro the ability to hormetically stimulate wound healing of human fibroblasts, and to be effective in the treatment of burn wounds in rats and humans.

2016, Marco Malavolta, Molecular Basis of Nutrition and Aging: A Volume in the Molecular Nutrition Series:


mezza voce

From Italian mezza voce, from mezza (feminine of from mezzo (“middle, half”)) + voce (“voice”).


rectilinearly

rectilinearly (comparative more rectilinearly, superlative most rectilinearly)

more rectilinearly (comparative)
most rectilinearly (superlative)


publiquely

publiquely (comparative more publiquely, superlative most publiquely)

more publiquely (comparative)
most publiquely (superlative)


vandalistically

vandalistically (comparative more vandalistically, superlative most vandalistically)

more vandalistically (comparative)
most vandalistically (superlative)


politiquely

politiquely (comparative more politiquely, superlative most politiquely)

more politiquely (comparative)
most politiquely (superlative)


froliquely

froliquely (comparative more froliquely, superlative most froliquely)

more froliquely (comparative)
most froliquely (superlative)


catholiquely

catholiquely (comparative more catholiquely, superlative most catholiquely)

more catholiquely (comparative)
most catholiquely (superlative)


authentiquely

authentiquely (comparative more authentiquely, superlative most authentiquely)

more authentiquely (comparative)
most authentiquely (superlative)


impolitickly

impolitickly (comparative more impolitickly, superlative most impolitickly)

more impolitickly (comparative)
most impolitickly (superlative)


reliquely

reliquely (comparative more reliquely, superlative most reliquely)

more reliquely (comparative)
most reliquely (superlative)


rectilineally

rectilineally (comparative more rectilineally, superlative most rectilineally)

more rectilineally (comparative)
most rectilineally (superlative)

Synonym of rectilinearly In a rectilineal fashion.


phænomenally

phænomenally (comparative more phænomenally, superlative most phænomenally)

more phænomenally (comparative)
most phænomenally (superlative)


tranquillizingly

tranquillizingly (comparative more tranquillizingly, superlative most tranquillizingly)

more tranquillizingly (comparative)
most tranquillizingly (superlative)


tranquilizingly

tranquilizingly (comparative more tranquilizingly, superlative most tranquilizingly)

more tranquilizingly (comparative)
most tranquilizingly (superlative)


cohomologically

a cohomologically trivial envelope


extrovertedly

extrovertedly (comparative more extrovertedly, superlative most extrovertedly)

more extrovertedly (comparative)
most extrovertedly (superlative)


introvertedly

introvertedly (comparative more introvertedly, superlative most introvertedly)

more introvertedly (comparative)
most introvertedly (superlative)

Mind is not always in act, either toward the outer world, or, introvertedly, toward its own states.

1857, Isaac Taylor, chapter 15, in The World of Mind, London: Jackson and Walford, page 217:

[…] a person would sit within and against the encircling walls, introvertedly sheltered and alone, looking toward the open sea.

1959, Theodora Kroeber, The Inland Whale, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pages 162–163:

But there was little joy for him in Alfredo’s musicality. The boy – the man now – played introvertedly, for nobody’s pleasure but his own.

2010, Howard Jacobson, chapter 2, in The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, page 60:


hemorrhagically

hemorrhagically (comparative more hemorrhagically, superlative most hemorrhagically)

more hemorrhagically (comparative)
most hemorrhagically (superlative)


sternally

(anatomy) In terms of, or upon, the sternum.


deliquescently

deliquescently (comparative more deliquescently, superlative most deliquescently)

more deliquescently (comparative)
most deliquescently (superlative)


mollifyingly

mollifyingly (comparative more mollifyingly, superlative most mollifyingly)

more mollifyingly (comparative)
most mollifyingly (superlative)


softeningly

softeningly (comparative more softeningly, superlative most softeningly)

more softeningly (comparative)
most softeningly (superlative)


accustomedly

accustomedly (comparative more accustomedly, superlative most accustomedly)

more accustomedly (comparative)
most accustomedly (superlative)


subductively

subductively (comparative more subductively, superlative most subductively)

more subductively (comparative)
most subductively (superlative)


above the line

(bridge) In the part of the score sheet in bridge that is reserved for honors, penalty, and premiums; a score that does not count towards game.

(accounting) Classified as an ordinary expense or revenue item, or a current asset.

(marketing) Having a broad reach rather than targeting a specific demographic.

(film) Who guide and influence the creative direction, process, and voice of a given narrative in a film, such as the screenwriter, producer, director, and actors.

(television) Of expenses: paid per project to creative personnel such as writers and actors.


above-line

above-line (comparative more above-line, superlative most above-line)

more above-line (comparative)
most above-line (superlative)


homœopathically

IT is significant how precisely the various tubercle preparation conform to the law of isopathy, and how persistently they refuse to act homœopathically in the tuberculous conditions.

1908, author uncertain, The British Homœopathic Review, page 14:


whilemeal

whilemeal (comparative more whilemeal, superlative most whilemeal)

more whilemeal (comparative)
most whilemeal (superlative)

From Middle English whilmele; equivalent to while + -meal.

(archaic) By turns; by courses; at a time.


later on

At some time in the future; subsequently; later.


ten to the dozen

nineteen to the dozen
nineteen to the dozen#English


nineteen to the dozen

He was talking nineteen to the dozen; it was almost impossible to follow what he was saying.


areally

We propose in this paper to use the comparison of genetically and areally unrelated languages in the study of universals of semantic change

1985, Jacek Fisiak, Historical Semantics, Historical Word Formation, page 59:


horologically

horologically (comparative more horologically, superlative most horologically)

more horologically (comparative)
most horologically (superlative)

Synonym of chronometrically, in a horological way or by means of a horologium.


absolutistically

absolutistically (comparative more absolutistically, superlative most absolutistically)

more absolutistically (comparative)
most absolutistically (superlative)


probly

probly (comparative more probly, superlative most probly)

more probly (comparative)
most probly (superlative)

I should probly keep my eyes on the road.

La Bruyere, a late celebrated writer among them, makes use of many new terms, which are not to be found in any of the common dictionaries before his time. But the English tongue is not arrived to such a degree of perfection, as to make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay; and if it were once refined to a certain standard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at least till we were invaded and made a conquest by some other state; and even then our best writings might probly be preserved with care, and grow into esteem, and the authors have a chance for immortality.

1712, Jonathan Swift, “A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue” (also titled “A letter to the Lord High Treasurer”), in The Works, Volume IV (of VIII), A. Donaldson (1761), page 349

A Bill was brought in there for the Purpose mentioned in the Title of this Bill; that Bill which was first brought in, (I think I may mention it, because it was printed) was even there acknowledged to be wrong, and therefore in the Committee they amended it in such a Manner as to make it, in a great Measure, a new Bill; this Hurry occasioned even that new Bill, which is the Bill we now have before us, to be extremely defective, and if we proceed in the same Manner, we may probly fall into the same Error; for I think it impossible to make a proper Bill of that we have now before us, without altering the whole, which, according to our Methods of Proceeding, cannot be done in the Committee; […]

1737, “Debates and Proceedings in the House of Lords, on the Tithe-Bill”, in The Historical Register, Volume XX, Number 86, J. Meres (1737), page 269

“Cawmniss! Ooo-woo. If I call a po-lice a cawmniss, my ass be in Angola right now for sure. […] They probly let you go,” the sunglasses said. “Me, they probly gimma a little talk think it scare me, even though they know I ain got them cashews. They probly try to prove I got them nuts. They probly buy a bag, slip it in my pocket. Woolsworth probly try to send me up for life.”

a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN, page 13:

― You come in when I point the baton right at you, and you come in playing the Rhinegold motif. Now what was that you think you just played?
― The Call to the Colors, anybody knows that. Besides I don’t even know this here Rhinegold thing and my father said I probly should play this anyway because it’s the best thing I can play.

1975, William Gaddis, J R, Knopf, page 33:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(colloquial, slang) Pronunciation spelling of probably.


freehanded

freehanded (comparative more freehanded, superlative most freehanded)

more freehanded (comparative)
most freehanded (superlative)

...they waved aside the tumblers of wine the young officer was pourin' out for 'em so freehanded, and said they should rather be excused.

2000, Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories, →ISBN:

Herrera and I were handicapped in the sense that we couldn't use the sight on our M-79s...We had to aim freehanded

2010, Jack Solitario, One Avenue of Approach, →ISBN, page 99:

I am ordered over there with a few others. We all shoot standing and freehanded...This regained freedom of action makes us unable to feel the danger we are in.

2007, Professor Alan Kramer, Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War., →ISBN:


rejectingly

rejectingly (comparative more rejectingly, superlative most rejectingly)

more rejectingly (comparative)
most rejectingly (superlative)

One way of achieving this goal is to select partners who are likely to act rejectingly, such as someone who is unlikely to show sustained relationship satisfaction or commitment.

2004, Harry T. Reis, Caryl E. Rusbult, Close Relationships: Key Readings, page 544:


labyrinthically

labyrinthically (comparative more labyrinthically, superlative most labyrinthically)

more labyrinthically (comparative)
most labyrinthically (superlative)

In a labyrinthic or mazy fashion; with twistings or confusion.


venturingly

venturingly (comparative more venturingly, superlative most venturingly)

more venturingly (comparative)
most venturingly (superlative)


impedingly

impedingly (comparative more impedingly, superlative most impedingly)

more impedingly (comparative)
most impedingly (superlative)


vapouringly

vapouringly (comparative more vapouringly, superlative most vapouringly)

more vapouringly (comparative)
most vapouringly (superlative)


hedgingly

hedgingly (comparative more hedgingly, superlative most hedgingly)

more hedgingly (comparative)
most hedgingly (superlative)

"Do you like my new dress?" she asked, twirling around in it.
"Well, the colour is all right," he replied hedgingly.

So as to hedge; without making a firm commitment.


wamblingly

wamblingly (comparative more wamblingly, superlative most wamblingly)

more wamblingly (comparative)
most wamblingly (superlative)

In a wambling manner; shakily; unsteadily.


inspectingly

inspectingly (comparative more inspectingly, superlative most inspectingly)

more inspectingly (comparative)
most inspectingly (superlative)

He observed his companion place his hand in one of the beds which trembled, and look inspectingly around.

1841, Frederick William Thomas, Howard Pinckney, page 123:


socioreligiously

socioreligiously (comparative more socioreligiously, superlative most socioreligiously)

more socioreligiously (comparative)
most socioreligiously (superlative)

the socioreligiously forbidden black or brown woman

2009, Julie Malnig, Ballroom, boogie, shimmy sham, shake, page 151:


disobligingly

disobligingly (comparative more disobligingly, superlative most disobligingly)

more disobligingly (comparative)
most disobligingly (superlative)


discomposingly

discomposingly (comparative more discomposingly, superlative most discomposingly)

more discomposingly (comparative)
most discomposingly (superlative)


sociopsychologically

sociopsychologically (comparative more sociopsychologically, superlative most sociopsychologically)

more sociopsychologically (comparative)
most sociopsychologically (superlative)

E. A. Havelock interpreted Plato's attacks on poetry (which had in the meantime been written down and were therefore sociopsychologically more difficult to control) in this sense[…]

1988, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer, Materialities of communication, page 51:


intoningly

intoningly (comparative more intoningly, superlative most intoningly)

more intoningly (comparative)
most intoningly (superlative)

Even the Quakers, although they allow not music, yet preach intoningly, in a singsong way. Music is the natural outlet of devotion.

1887, George Dana Boardman, Divine Man from the Nativity to the Temptation:


witchingly

witchingly (comparative more witchingly, superlative most witchingly)

more witchingly (comparative)
most witchingly (superlative)

And his voice, although mournfully solemn, / Was tender and witchingly sweet.

1877, Kate Harrington, “Rosemary Hill”, in Centennial and Other Poems, page 230:


rippingly

rippingly (comparative more rippingly, superlative most rippingly)

more rippingly (comparative)
most rippingly (superlative)

The boys got along rippingly.

By the time Suddenly truly hits its stride about halfway through, my assumed resentment had given way entirely to admiration for Burnard's rippingly good characters and the deep intelligence with which she treats her ostensibly difficult subject.

2009 September 27, Emily Donaldson, “Of life and dying”, in Toronto Star:


trimmingly

trimmingly (comparative more trimmingly, superlative most trimmingly)

more trimmingly (comparative)
most trimmingly (superlative)

Well, really, I think when one looks about Europe,
One may say that matters are going on swimmingly
For a party who likes to give fools and knaves due rope,
And then seize the opening to lecture them trimmingly.

(colloquial, dated) With reprimand or chastisting.

The French carry it trimmingly, and direct every thing to their main point of the Spanish succession. In all probability they will favour that party which gives them the best assurances in that particular[…]

1841, James Vernon, George Payne Rainsford James, Letters Illustrative of the Reign of William III, volume 3, page 57:

(dated) So as to trim, or switch between favouring different parties.


propaedeutically

In the role of, or with the intention that a thing serve as, a propaedeutic.


propaedeuticly

A value analysis, especially around Weber’s “value relevance,” may function propaedeuticly.

1998, Samuel Z. Klausner, “E. Digby Baltzell: Moral Rhetoric and Research Methodology”, in Sociological Theory, XVI, № 2 (July 1998), page 149, abstract:


cascadingly

cascadingly (comparative more cascadingly, superlative most cascadingly)

more cascadingly (comparative)
most cascadingly (superlative)

In a cascade; as if falling one after the other.


toilingly

toilingly (comparative more toilingly, superlative most toilingly)

more toilingly (comparative)
most toilingly (superlative)


callingly

callingly (comparative more callingly, superlative most callingly)

more callingly (comparative)
most callingly (superlative)

Last night his car horn down at the head of the cove had sounded patiently, callingly, for most of an hour.


insidely

insidely (comparative more insidely, superlative most insidely)

more insidely (comparative)
most insidely (superlative)

You say something outsidely rude and insidely civil about its being my choice to edit; […]

1843, John Warden Robberds, Robert Southey, Sir Walter Scott, A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor:

That is mentally—outsidely, but not insidely. You have not relaxed down through your body at all.

1920, Willard Carver, Psycho-bio-physiology:

Five new members in the Connecticut club were taken on a selling campaign, over the hurdles of a couple of shrewd, hard boiled, insidely informed partners in a paint and wallpaper store — one of the roughest trips the quintet ever […]

1922, Painting & Decorating Contractors of America, National painters magazine:

And all it means: yet it begins "outsidely", like any other day; even "insidely" — oh, yes, deep inside one, it is different.

1986, Harley Granville-Barker, Eric Salmon, Granville Barker and his correspondents:

In an inside or internal manner; internally.


tunably

tunably (comparative more tunably, superlative most tunably)

more tunably (comparative)
most tunably (superlative)

I sang them the old hunting-song, and they said I did it tunably, […]

1884, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 8, in The Armourer's Prentices:


scurfily

scurfily (comparative more scurfily, superlative most scurfily)

more scurfily (comparative)
most scurfily (superlative)


anights

[I]s a trobled with the cough a the Lunges ſtill? does he hawke anights ſtill?

c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:


enfoldingly

enfoldingly (comparative more enfoldingly, superlative most enfoldingly)

more enfoldingly (comparative)
most enfoldingly (superlative)

1943, Ernie Pyle, article
The smoke didn't obscure the rainbow. Rather it seemed to rise enfoldingly around it, like honeysuckle climbing a porch column.


unsinningly

unsinningly (comparative more unsinningly, superlative most unsinningly)

more unsinningly (comparative)
most unsinningly (superlative)


attainably

attainably (comparative more attainably, superlative most attainably)

more attainably (comparative)
most attainably (superlative)


stalagmitically

stalagmitically (comparative more stalagmitically, superlative most stalagmitically)

more stalagmitically (comparative)
most stalagmitically (superlative)

Like a stalagmite; accumulating from floor to ceiling.


erewhiles

We sit down to our meals, suspect not the intrusion of armed uninvited guests, who erewhiles, we know, were wont to surprise us.

1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:


nitwittedly

nitwittedly (comparative more nitwittedly, superlative most nitwittedly)

more nitwittedly (comparative)
most nitwittedly (superlative)


utilitarianly

utilitarianly (comparative more utilitarianly, superlative most utilitarianly)

more utilitarianly (comparative)
most utilitarianly (superlative)

In a utilitarian manner; practically; functionally


bickeringly

bickeringly (comparative more bickeringly, superlative most bickeringly)

more bickeringly (comparative)
most bickeringly (superlative)


relationshiply

I think I've mentioned that although I'm relationshiply retarded, I'm pretty good at the friend thing.

2007, It's either this or therapy.: Goodbye, 2007

Relatively raw, relationshiply raw, as explained in the second paragraph of this chapter.

2009, John Llewelyn, Margins of Religion:

I think one of my friends is relationshiply interested in me.

(nonstandard, rare) In a manner concerning a relationship or relationships; relationally.


Anno Hegirae

From the Latin annō Hegirae (“in the year of the Hijra”), from annō (“in the year”) (the ablative of annus (“year”)) + Hegirae (“of the Hijra”) (genitive of Hegira (“the Hijra”)). Formed in imitation of the Christian Anno Domini.

uder

This valuable manuscript was copied Anno Hegirae 1100 (a.d. 1688).

1859, Guillaume Libri, Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of splendid manuscripts, page 154:

In the year of the Hijra (counted by the Islamic calendar).


wery

en-adv

wery (comparative more wery, superlative most wery)

more wery (comparative)
most wery (superlative)

'Wery,' says my father. — ' You must have a bad mem'ry Mr. Weller,' says the gen'l'm'n, — 'Well, it is a wery bad 'un,' says my father.

1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, page 176:

There was thomething about it tho wery pekooliar!

1837, William Burton, Burton's comic songster, page 59:

It was jest sich a night as this— wery cold — wery. ... It's a good while past sunset with me; and what makes it worse, it's wery cloudy — wery. ... I come and stood on this 'ere wery corner, and asked myself if I should take the watch back.

1844, Lawrence Ladree, Lyman Grubbs: An Autobiography of a Lamp-Post, page 25:


sixtiethly

In the sixtieth place; sixtieth in a row.


fiftiethly

In the fiftieth place; fiftieth in a row.


vitriolically

vitriolically (comparative more vitriolically, superlative most vitriolically)

more vitriolically (comparative)
most vitriolically (superlative)


thrustingly

thrustingly (comparative more thrustingly, superlative most thrustingly)

more thrustingly (comparative)
most thrustingly (superlative)


unsufferably

unsufferably (comparative more unsufferably, superlative most unsufferably)

more unsufferably (comparative)
most unsufferably (superlative)


antiapoptotically

antiapoptotically (comparative more antiapoptotically, superlative most antiapoptotically)

more antiapoptotically (comparative)
most antiapoptotically (superlative)

proteins which act antiapoptotically


unmindfully

unmindfully (comparative more unmindfully, superlative most unmindfully)

more unmindfully (comparative)
most unmindfully (superlative)

Near-synonyms: mindlessly, thoughtlessly

In an unmindful fashion; without mindfulness.


basinward

basinward (comparative more basinward, superlative most basinward)

more basinward (comparative)
most basinward (superlative)


slinkingly

slinkingly (comparative more slinkingly, superlative most slinkingly)

more slinkingly (comparative)
most slinkingly (superlative)

When he got among the familiar streets he went slinkingly, hurrying round corners, avoiding glances.


monosemically

In a monosemic manner; with a single meaning.


seventeenthly

In the seventeenth place; seventeenth in a row.


entomologically

It is not my purpose, in this paper, to more than refer in general to the peculiarities of the year 1868, entomologically considered […]

1869, Missouri. State Board of Agriculture, Annual report of the State Board of Agriculture: Volume 4, page 517:


polysemically

polysemically (comparative more polysemically, superlative most polysemically)

more polysemically (comparative)
most polysemically (superlative)

Even though some names or words polysemically carry sexual meanings, this does not automatically mean that every usage of them in literary texts, even those of a pornographic nature, has a sexual meaning, either explicitly or punningly.

2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 113:

(semantics) In a polysemic manner; with multiple meanings.


otherwhiles

(archaic) At another time, or other times.

At pleasure here we lie near Orleans;
Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts,
Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.

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


enunciatively

enunciatively (comparative more enunciatively, superlative most enunciatively)

more enunciatively (comparative)
most enunciatively (superlative)


ravenly

ravenly (comparative more ravenly, superlative most ravenly)

more ravenly (comparative)
most ravenly (superlative)

E'en now from starry Gerizim or Ebal's cloudy crown We call the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down." There is an optimism which boasts in its own strength and there is a pessimism which ravenly invites the woes it dreads.

1906, Edward Mark Deems, Holy-days and holidays:

Something in the scornful accent and the deep voice aroused the suspicions of the verger, though the words were spoken in English. "Our treasury, M'sieur," croaked he, more ravenly than ever, "is rich — rich in episcopal jewels; […]

2006, Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, In the Days of My Youth. Volume 1:

All rose to their feet as Tros entered; all eyed him curiously, each in turn acknowledging his stately bow but not one of them taking the trouble to return Pkauchios' ravenly solemn greeting.


eye-to-eye

eye-to-eye (comparative more eye-to-eye, superlative most eye-to-eye)

more eye-to-eye (comparative)
most eye-to-eye (superlative)

So in time Mother learned to perceive me through the mirror. Even to smile at me. (Not eye-to-eye! Never.)

2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde, page 30:

There seemed to be a tacit understanding that the prisoners and the unit supervisor should not look at one another...at least not eye-to-eye.

2002, James D. Truax, The Cake-Eater Conspiracy, page 44:

But it does find these two adversaries speaking face to face, if not eye to eye, about the kinds of labor issues that don't often make it to the multiplex.

2005, Emily Schultz, Michael Moore: a biography, page 139:


overskies

(science fiction) Between planets (in the same or different system).


neoplastically

With reference to neoplasm or neoplasia.


rifely

rifely (comparative more rifely, superlative most rifely)

more rifely (comparative)
most rifely (superlative)


genderlessly

genderlessly (comparative more genderlessly, superlative most genderlessly)

more genderlessly (comparative)
most genderlessly (superlative)

All of them were dressed vaguely, genderlessly alike, in loose, flowing pants or willowy skirts, wide-sleeve shirts, long hair and sandals, and a variety of homemade jewelry.

2003, Elise Juska, Getting Over Jack Wagner, page 91:

Without gender; with no specific gender.


incliningly

incliningly (comparative more incliningly, superlative most incliningly)

more incliningly (comparative)
most incliningly (superlative)


subchronically

subchronically (comparative more subchronically, superlative most subchronically)

more subchronically (comparative)
most subchronically (superlative)


designlessly

designlessly (comparative more designlessly, superlative most designlessly)

more designlessly (comparative)
most designlessly (superlative)

Without design or intention; inadvertently.


laboringly

laboringly (comparative more laboringly, superlative most laboringly)

more laboringly (comparative)
most laboringly (superlative)


potteringly

potteringly (comparative more potteringly, superlative most potteringly)

more potteringly (comparative)
most potteringly (superlative)

So as to potter; in a slow and aimless manner.


riddlingly

riddlingly (comparative more riddlingly, superlative most riddlingly)

more riddlingly (comparative)
most riddlingly (superlative)


depreciatingly

depreciatingly (comparative more depreciatingly, superlative most depreciatingly)

more depreciatingly (comparative)
most depreciatingly (superlative)

June 18, 1827, Thomas Moore, Diary
Never heard him speak of any one otherwise than depreciatingly, but the next moment after abusing a man, he would go any length to serve him.


siftingly

siftingly (comparative more siftingly, superlative most siftingly)

more siftingly (comparative)
most siftingly (superlative)


jibingly

jibingly (comparative more jibingly, superlative most jibingly)

more jibingly (comparative)
most jibingly (superlative)


gluttingly

gluttingly (comparative more gluttingly, superlative most gluttingly)

more gluttingly (comparative)
most gluttingly (superlative)

What could he do with the money so gluttingly and harshly wrenched from our hands?

1838, “Man without Money”, in The Hesperian, volume 2, page 201:


sterlingly

sterlingly (comparative more sterlingly, superlative most sterlingly)

more sterlingly (comparative)
most sterlingly (superlative)

Of all the books which have been published on India, this, perhaps, is the most sterlingly valuable.

1837, advertisement in The Foreign Quarterly Review (page 532)


stintingly

stintingly (comparative more stintingly, superlative most stintingly)

more stintingly (comparative)
most stintingly (superlative)


failingly

failingly (comparative more failingly, superlative most failingly)

more failingly (comparative)
most failingly (superlative)

I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]

2007, Edward F. Mooney, On Søren Kierkegaard, page 195:


temporisingly

temporisingly (comparative more temporisingly, superlative most temporisingly)

more temporisingly (comparative)
most temporisingly (superlative)


grazingly

grazingly (comparative more grazingly, superlative most grazingly)

more grazingly (comparative)
most grazingly (superlative)

The big mongrel, in agony, snarled and made a lunge at his irritatingly dancing tormentor. His teeth dug grazingly into the terrier's withers; and, with an impatient toss, he flung the little beast to one side.

1922, Albert Payson Terhune, Further Adventures of Lad:

So as to graze, or brush closely against.


freewheelingly

freewheelingly (comparative more freewheelingly, superlative most freewheelingly)

more freewheelingly (comparative)
most freewheelingly (superlative)

In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.


complyingly

complyingly (comparative more complyingly, superlative most complyingly)

more complyingly (comparative)
most complyingly (superlative)

So as to comply; compliantly; obediently.


grovellingly

grovellingly (comparative more grovellingly, superlative most grovellingly)

more grovellingly (comparative)
most grovellingly (superlative)

With grovelling or self-abasement; obsequiously.


designingly

designingly (comparative more designingly, superlative most designingly)

more designingly (comparative)
most designingly (superlative)

The vilest, most designingly wicked men our century knows.

1886, Merrill Edwards Gates, Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, volume 17:


playingly

playingly (comparative more playingly, superlative most playingly)

more playingly (comparative)
most playingly (superlative)

From Middle English pleiingli, equivalent to playing + -ly.

In play; without seriousness; playfully.


labouringly

labouringly (comparative more labouringly, superlative most labouringly)

more labouringly (comparative)
most labouringly (superlative)

Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, / Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, / Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled height, / And four lives paid for what the seven had won.

1901, Thomas Hardy, Zermatt to the Matterhorn:


maddingly

maddingly (comparative more maddingly, superlative most maddingly)

more maddingly (comparative)
most maddingly (superlative)


spellingly

spellingly (comparative more spellingly, superlative most spellingly)

more spellingly (comparative)
most spellingly (superlative)

Jeames read the morning paper to the ladies; not spellingly and with hesitation, as many gentlemen do, but easily and elegantly, speaking off the longest words without a moment's difficulty.

1869, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lords ad Liveries:


grovelingly

grovelingly (comparative more grovelingly, superlative most grovelingly)

more grovelingly (comparative)
most grovelingly (superlative)


skimpingly

skimpingly (comparative more skimpingly, superlative most skimpingly)

more skimpingly (comparative)
most skimpingly (superlative)

Montague had served Edward well, but had been only skimpingly rewarded.

1995, John Fines, Who's who in the Middle Ages, page 81:

So as to skimp; stingily; insufficiently.


scamblingly

scamblingly (comparative more scamblingly, superlative most scamblingly)

more scamblingly (comparative)
most scamblingly (superlative)


jawbreakingly

jawbreakingly (comparative more jawbreakingly, superlative most jawbreakingly)

more jawbreakingly (comparative)
most jawbreakingly (superlative)

In a way that is very difficult to say or pronounce.


lumpingly

lumpingly (comparative more lumpingly, superlative most lumpingly)

more lumpingly (comparative)
most lumpingly (superlative)


reekingly

reekingly (comparative more reekingly, superlative most reekingly)

more reekingly (comparative)
most reekingly (superlative)


divaricatingly

divaricatingly (comparative more divaricatingly, superlative most divaricatingly)

more divaricatingly (comparative)
most divaricatingly (superlative)

In a way that divaricates or diverges; branchingly.


smatteringly

smatteringly (comparative more smatteringly, superlative most smatteringly)

more smatteringly (comparative)
most smatteringly (superlative)

[W]e task ourselves / To learn a language known but smatteringly / In phrases here and there at random, [...]

1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 73:


dabblingly

dabblingly (comparative more dabblingly, superlative most dabblingly)

more dabblingly (comparative)
most dabblingly (superlative)

He almost fell on top of her, his mouth dabblingly seeking hers.

artists […] dabblingly pursuing a kind of formalist mannerism merely in the interest of careerism

1984, Rasheed Araeen, Guy Brett, Making myself visible:

As a dilettante or amateur; superficially.


louringly

louringly (comparative more louringly, superlative most louringly)

more louringly (comparative)
most louringly (superlative)


spankingly

spankingly (comparative more spankingly, superlative most spankingly)

more spankingly (comparative)
most spankingly (superlative)

She is both wetting and getting up a fresh topsail on her after-mast — I see them crossing the yard even now. By my honour, she is a charming, lively creature, and goes through it spankingly.

1843, John Howell, The man-o'-war's man, by Bill Truck, page 159:

a modern and spankingly clean subway system

2005, Lark Ellen Gould, Los Angeles Off the Beaten Path:

In a spanking manner; vigorously; freshly.


lurkingly

lurkingly (comparative more lurkingly, superlative most lurkingly)

more lurkingly (comparative)
most lurkingly (superlative)

[…] when the Feat of the Loose-Coat Skirmish happeneth to be done under-hand and privily, between two well-disposed, athwart the Steps of a Pair of Stairs, lurkingly, and in covert, behind a Suit of Hangings, or close hid and trussed upon an unbound Faggot, it is more pleasing to the Cyprian Goddess […] than to perform that Culbusting Art, after the Cynick manner, in the view of the clear Sunshine, or in a rich Tent, under a precious stately Canopy […]

1653, François Rabelais, chapter XVIII, in Thomas Urquhart, transl., Gargantua and Pantagruel, volume II, London: David Nutt, published 1900, page 99:

1872, The Law Magazine and Review, New Series, Vol. I, London: Butterworths, p. 819, https://books.google.ca/books?id=KlhNAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Either openly obscene, and barely, but at the same time ingeniously, escaping the clutches of the law; or lurkingly depraved, or ridiculously sentimental and unreal, there is often enough in any one of the papers we now refer to to corrupt the youth of a generation, and to sap all manly and womanly virtues.

Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.

1924, Herman Melville, chapter 5, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:

The despondency of the situation led to the feeling which then lurkingly dominated many other minds, viz. that, after all, it was better to be with Gandhi in the new movement and trim it if possible from within rather than stand out of it and let it spread without control or hindrance.

1958, M. R. Jayakar, The Story of My Life, volume 1, Asia Publishing House, page 376:


thoroughgoingly

thoroughgoingly (comparative more thoroughgoingly, superlative most thoroughgoingly)

more thoroughgoingly (comparative)
most thoroughgoingly (superlative)

Our feelings are not transferable. My world may have points of identity with other people's worlds. How thoroughgoingly we view matters in the same way is nevertheless very hard for us to tell.

1877, Ernest Carroll Moore, What is education?, page 171:

Step by step, as he fared forward, he collated, weighed, and measured, and registered thi results to which the best ascertained facts and straightforward logic necessitated him. He subverts, it must be granted, more than he establishes ; and yet, even where he is most thoroughgoingly destructive, he has, as a rule, something weighty to offer in suggestion, constructively.

1879, The Nation 1879-12-04: Volume 29, Issue 753, Nation Company L.P., page 390:

But especially it is the privilege of America to advance herself at one giant stride to the forefront of the world, not only in politics, but also in practical intelligence, by adopting consistently and thoroughgoingly that metric and numerical system which, once introduced, must surely and speedily subdue all others to itself. What other conceivable feat, either of peace or of war, could so glorify our intelligence and civilization as a people?

1891, Educational Review 1891-11: Volume 2, Society for the Advancement of Education, page 356:

Ted Bundy wasn’t particularly Lynchian, but good old Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victim’s various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian.

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

The thoroughgoingly ironic environmentalist laughs at herself, not just at others.

2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 45:


flexographically

a flexographically printed logo


thaumaturgically

thaumaturgically (comparative more thaumaturgically, superlative most thaumaturgically)

more thaumaturgically (comparative)
most thaumaturgically (superlative)

They cleared a maize plantation by the aid of magical tools and otherwise distinguished themselves thaumaturgically.

1930, Lewis Spence, Magic and Mysteries of Mexico:


Masoretically

Masoretically (comparative more Masoretically, superlative most Masoretically)

more Masoretically (comparative)
most Masoretically (superlative)


neuroectodermally

neuroectodermally derived tumours


batteringly

batteringly (comparative more batteringly, superlative most batteringly)

more batteringly (comparative)
most batteringly (superlative)

The rain came down batteringly against the roof.


salivatingly

salivatingly (comparative more salivatingly, superlative most salivatingly)

more salivatingly (comparative)
most salivatingly (superlative)

He tore off her pants, looked salivatingly at her blond pussy as he thrust her legs open, his thing throbbing and hard.

While salivating, or as if salivating; with greed or lust.

Hungarian waffles […] are aromatic, not overly sweet, popular, and salivatingly delicious.

2007, Dante Mena, Adventure Guide to Hungary, page 51:

So as to induce salivation; deliciously.


marginalistically

marginalistically (comparative more marginalistically, superlative most marginalistically)

more marginalistically (comparative)
most marginalistically (superlative)

This was mainly due to the activities of the marginalistically inclined political economist Warming.

1967, Joosep Nõu, Studies in the development of agricultural economics in Europe, page 388:


but good

Ryder rode beside her, pleased at her pleasure, knowing that he'd surprised her but good.

1992, Catherine Coulter, The Hellion Bride, →ISBN:

[T]he debate is a sublime mismatch: He's expected to whip this guy, but good.

2000 October 2, Jessica Reaves, Frank Pellegrini, “For Bush, It's an Expectations Game; For Gore, It's Learning From His (Few) Mistakes”, in Time:

Dr. Gerald Bortolazzo, or Doc, as he is known, has some story to tell about a horse, his new career as a horseman and how he, if he did not exactly cheat death, fooled it but good.

2011 August 16, Joe Drape, “Postcards From Saratoga Springs: There’s a Doctor in the Paddock”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-08-16:

(idiomatic) To a high degree; very thoroughly; in a most definite manner.


incubously

[…] such as in the Lepidoziaceae (with primarily incubously inserted leaves […]

1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 481:

(botany) In an orientation such that distal (anterior) parts of older leaves overlap the proximal (posterior) parts of younger ones.


succubously

[…] and the Trichocoleaceae (with predominantly succubously inserted leaves but Eotrichocolea with the leaves incubous; […]

(botany) In an orientation such that proximal (posterior) parts of older leaves overlap the distal (anterior) parts of younger ones.


surveyingly

surveyingly (comparative more surveyingly, superlative most surveyingly)

more surveyingly (comparative)
most surveyingly (superlative)


stayedly

stayedly (comparative more stayedly, superlative most stayedly)

more stayedly (comparative)
most stayedly (superlative)


Eurocentrically

Eurocentrically (comparative more Eurocentrically, superlative most Eurocentrically)

more Eurocentrically (comparative)
most Eurocentrically (superlative)


tivy

And lest our leap from the sky should prove too far,
We slide on the back of a new-falling star.

1670, John Dryden, Songs: 1, from Tyrannick Love, Act 4, Scene 1, 1995 [Pearson Education], Paul Hammond (editor), The Poems of John Dryden: Volume 1: 1649-1681, 2014, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 229, In the bright moonshine while winds whistle loud, Tivy, tivy, tivy, we mount and we fly, All racking along in a downy white cloud

With great speed; a huntsman's word or sound.


palinspastically

palinspastically (comparative more palinspastically, superlative most palinspastically)

more palinspastically (comparative)
most palinspastically (superlative)

If reconstructed palinspastically for 300 km of right lateral movement on the San Andreas fault, these strata would lie west to northwest of Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic strata in Sonora.

2005, Thomas Howard Anderson, The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis, page 211:


paraconsistently

paraconsistently (comparative more paraconsistently, superlative most paraconsistently)

more paraconsistently (comparative)
most paraconsistently (superlative)


heterocyclically

heterocyclically substituted benzylsulfonamides


gaggingly

gaggingly (comparative more gaggingly, superlative most gaggingly)

more gaggingly (comparative)
most gaggingly (superlative)

And have you clocked the billions of pounds they are making in profits? No company, no matter how much their gaggingly overpaid managers whine about the bulk of their investors being your pension, funds should be making this much.

2007, Robert MacGregor, I Can't Take Any More Crap!, page 10:

The thought of that relentless, cruel body that smelled of rancid oil, dung, and something more, something gaggingly sweet, almost made Olivia choke.

2011, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Blood Games: Saint-Germain: Book Three:


nothing but

Do you solemnly swear that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

In an attempt to lose weight and improve his relationship with food, Andrew Taylor has decided to eat nothing but potatoes for a year.

2016 February 18, Jennie Jackson, “What would happen if you only ate potatoes?”, in The Independent:

"It's because they're hos," she told Owens. "If you don't run out of the room and go, 'Excuse me, you don't do that to me,' and leave, but you stayed around because you're like, 'Well, I thought maybe he was going to give me a writing job,' well, you aren't nothing but a ho."

2019 March 3, Lena Grossman, quoting Roseanne Barr, “Roseanne Barr Goes After #MeToo Movement in Scathing Interview: "They're Nothing But Hos"”, in E! Online:


scasely

For it scasely ever chaunceth that the moste vertuous amonge vertuous

1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:

If a thing wanted regulating, he warn't a man to go browsing around after somebody to do it, but he would prance in and regulate it himself. He warn't a Catholic. Scasely. He was down on 'em. His word was, 'No Irish need apply!'

(obsolete or dialectal, colloquial, dated) scarcely; hardly


eather

We are marters, both of us, to prinsple; and every body who knows eather knows that we would sacrafice anythink rather than that.

1838, William Makepeace Thackeray, Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush:


eber

But wasn't I 'bout de sickest coon dat you eber seen?" "

Every time the Indians would make a charge at us, the darkeys would cry out: "Heah dey cum;" "Dey must be ten thousand ob 'em;" "De whole country is alive wid 'em;" "Massa Bill, does you tink we is eber agoin' to get out o' heah?" and many other similar expressions.

1879, William F. Cody, The Life of Hon. William F. Cody:

Pronunciation spelling of ever, representing African-American English.


palynologically

However, carbon isotopic values of leaf wax n-alkanes increased by up to 5 in the mid- and late Holocene, corresponding to a palynologically documented decline in trees and an increase in herbs.

2001 August 31, Y. Huang et al., “Climate Change as the Dominant Control on Glacial-Interglacial Variations in C3 and C4 Plant Abundance”, in Science, volume 293, number 5535, →DOI, pages 1647–1651:


liked to

Variant of like to or would have liked to.


like to

Re-analysis of like (to) (an adjective meaning "likely") as an adverb. (Forms like liked to and would have liked to are from re-analysis as a verb.)

And the wall facing the hall was almost all glass. It looked more like a store display window than a room. Rob didn't know about all this until a week later when she was back on her ward; but when she told him, he like to died.

1995, Elizabeth Kytle, The Voices of Robby Wilde, page 204:


inasfar

Variation of insofar probably influenced by inasmuch.


magnifically

magnifically (comparative more magnifically, superlative most magnifically)

more magnifically (comparative)
most magnifically (superlative)


unerotically

unerotically (comparative more unerotically, superlative most unerotically)

more unerotically (comparative)
most unerotically (superlative)


interlinearly

a book or play interlinearly translated


trisyllabically

She replied trisyllabically to my marriage proposal: "I love you."


epileptically

epileptically (comparative more epileptically, superlative most epileptically)

more epileptically (comparative)
most epileptically (superlative)

On that Wednesday night, I'd turned up to find a new neon sign installed over the door of Bromley Super Kebab, epileptically blaring the name in flashes of pink light across the High Street.

2009, James Foreman, Diet Croydon, page 71:

In an epileptic manner; with, or as if with, epilepsy.


hallucinatorily

hallucinatorily (comparative more hallucinatorily, superlative most hallucinatorily)

more hallucinatorily (comparative)
most hallucinatorily (superlative)


en creux

(engraving) In intaglio; by sinking or hollowing out the design.


inworld

inworld (comparative more inworld, superlative most inworld)

more inworld (comparative)
most inworld (superlative)

Midbie status was shaped not just by the absolute amount of time since the creation of an account, but by the cumulative amount of time spent inworld.

2008, Tom Boellstorff, Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

(roleplaying games) Inside the world of an MMORPG.


impolarily

being impolarily adjoined unto a more vigorous loadstone , it will in a short time exchange its poles

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

(obsolete, nonce word) Not according to or in the direction of the poles.


monarchically

a monarchically-governed society


splinteringly

splinteringly (comparative more splinteringly, superlative most splinteringly)

more splinteringly (comparative)
most splinteringly (superlative)

When the door finally, splinteringly gave way, he stumbled clear across the room beyond, fetched up against an instrument console, recovered his balance, and gaped.

1963, Poul Anderson, Industrial Revolution:


nanolithographically

In terms of, or by means of, nanolithography.


stepmeal

From Middle English *stepmele, *stapmele, from Old English stæpmǣlum (“step by step; gradually, by degrees”), equivalent to step + -meal.

inh

He who would see it with his mind's eye must begin by very little, and then by little and little climb nigher and nigher, and stepmeal, as if he were climbing on a ladder, and would be up on some sea'cliff; […]

1852, Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great

One does not need to underline how, stepmeal, all this imitates Communist practice. This would be damaging enough. But the new rightist government has gone much further. It has laid strict control on the Greek Orthodox Church.

One step at a time; step by step; gradually; by degrees.


footmeal

From Middle English footmele, fotmelen, from Old English fōtmǣlum (“step by step, by degrees”), dative plural of Old English fōtmǣl (“a foot-measure, one foot”), equivalent to foot + -meal.

der

Grandees must covet condos, since they let bids rip, And "spaces" measured footmeal now reach record tops.

2001, Arnold Klein, Rangefinder & Powderhorn:

(rare) Step by step: incrementally, little by little, by degrees, one foot (measure) at a time.


peltately

en-adv

peltately (comparative more peltately, superlative most peltately)

more peltately (comparative)
most peltately (superlative)

peltately dilated at the base


arraswise

1870-1881, John Edwin Cussans, History of Hertfordshire
A pillow laid arraswise on another, and held by two kneeling angels, one on each side, supports her head, and her feet rest on two small dogs

Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; said of a rectangular form.


xenophobically

xenophobically (comparative more xenophobically, superlative most xenophobically)

more xenophobically (comparative)
most xenophobically (superlative)


unstraightforwardly

unstraightforwardly (comparative more unstraightforwardly, superlative most unstraightforwardly)

more unstraightforwardly (comparative)
most unstraightforwardly (superlative)

A great many complaints that workers are not being treated as persons can be traced not to the ways in which they may be straightforwardly or unstraightforwardly used, but to the degree to which contemporary employment practices make a point of treating workers uniformly, and so not as the particular persons that they are.

1989, Onora O'Neill, Constructions of Reason, Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, →ISBN, page 124:

In this response, it seems to me that you again express the same desire (albeit less straightforwardly), while at the same time denying that desire (again somewhat unstraightforwardly).

2002 February 21, Stewart/sna, “Re: I was a hero yesterday, Rockford style”, in alt.recovery.codependency (Usenet):

In reality, the exposed surface of an agglomerate is unstraightforwardly related to the number of spherules within it.

2008, Peter Eastwood, Particulate Emissions from Vehicles, Wiley, →ISBN, page 81:

In an unstraightforward manner; not straightforwardly; obliquely, indirectly.


rudimentarily

rudimentarily (comparative more rudimentarily, superlative most rudimentarily)

more rudimentarily (comparative)
most rudimentarily (superlative)

Håkan looked at his forearm, not knowing how he had hurt himself but noticing that the wound had been rudimentarily, yet efficiently, cleaned and bandaged.

2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 232:


eusocially

eusocially (comparative more eusocially, superlative most eusocially)

more eusocially (comparative)
most eusocially (superlative)

eusocially organized insect societies


homonormatively

homonormatively (comparative more homonormatively, superlative most homonormatively)

more homonormatively (comparative)
most homonormatively (superlative)


anticlockwisely

…the point z = e will move on the unit circle anticlockwisely and for λ → ∞ it will approach the point +1 of this circle from below….

1993, S. K. Godunov et al., Guaranteed Accuracy in Numerical Linear Algebra (translation of Гарантированная точность решения систем линейных уравнений в евклидовых пространствах), Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 346

Dorsal spine curved slightly proximally and distally straight and slightly twisted anticlockwisely.

2006, Špela Goričan et al., Catalogue and Systematics of Pliensbachian, Toarcian and Aalenian Radiolarian Genera and Species, ZRC Publishing, →ISBN, page 40:

In all the others, the design in one of the elements is moving clockwise while the one in the other element moves anticlockwisely but in (a), the design is moving anticlockwise in both the elements.

2007, Edgar Thorpe, Test of Reasoning for Competitive Examinations, 4th edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 2.308:


bat-crap

Leonard Hofstadter: Not to mention, Sheldon is bat-crap crazy.

2008 March 17, Chuck Lorre, Lee Aronsohn & Dave Goetsch, "The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization", episode 9-1 of The Big Bang Theory, 00:07:55-00:07:58


oceanically

oceanically (comparative more oceanically, superlative most oceanically)

more oceanically (comparative)
most oceanically (superlative)

In an oceanic manner; in a way that suggests or involves the ocean.


unescapably

unescapably (comparative more unescapably, superlative most unescapably)

more unescapably (comparative)
most unescapably (superlative)


clockwisely

When Near Brushholder and Top Field are Plus, Armature Rotates Clockwisely, and the Car moves to the left.

1907, Charles Remelius, “Shop Prints of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey”, in Street Railway Journal, volume XXX, page 1142:

…I can still name them — at least the major ones — clockwisely, from St. James Street side….

1967, Scott Symons, Combat Journal for Place D'Armes, Voyageur Classics, published 2010, page 82:

We can imagine that the Δ points in [Δ] are drawn clockwisely on a circle of circumference Δ, in the order 0, 1, 2, …, Δ − 1, such that every two adjacent points have distance 1 on the circle.

2012, Joshua Brody et al., “Space-Efficient Approximation Scheme for Circular Earth Mover Distance”, in David Fernández-Baca, editor, LATIN 2012: Theoretical Informatics, Springer, →ISBN, page 100:


unmilitarily

unmilitarily (comparative more unmilitarily, superlative most unmilitarily)

more unmilitarily (comparative)
most unmilitarily (superlative)

There has been something unmilitarily passive in you from the time of your passing the Schuylkill, and getting possession of Philadelphia, to the close of the campaign.

1776, Thomas Paine, The American Crisis:


counterclockwisely

By rotating 90 degrees counterclockwisely, each Type II configuration becomes a Type I configuration.

1993, Siu-Wing Cheng et al., "Optimal Rectilinear Steiner Tree for Extremal Point Sets", in K. W. Ng et al. (eds.), Algorithms and Computation: 4th International Symposium, ISAAC '93, Springer-Verlag, page 531

Hence when z goes along the real axis from −∞ to ∞, Z goes along the unit circle n times counterclockwisely.

1996, Hiroki Tanabe, Functional Analytic Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Marcel Dekker, Inc., page 219:

Every significant gravitational mass in this system moves around our counterclockwisely rotating star in the counterclockwise direction likewise!

2001 October 4, "sheep defender" (username), "Re: The Sun, all i can say is WOW!!, in alt.astronomy.solar, Usenet


batcrap

From bat + crap, as a euphemism for batshit.

That kind of behavior made me more certain than ever that, once he was pushed to batcrap-crazy extremes, he'd be forced to see the depth of his obsessions, and then he'd start to develop a more realistic perspective on the whole health nut thing.

2011, Gary Paulsen, Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception, Wendy Lamb Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 56:

(slang) Used as an intensifier, particularly for insane or synonyms.


batpoop

batpoop (comparative more batpoop, superlative most batpoop)

more batpoop (comparative)
most batpoop (superlative)

From bat + poop, as a euphemism for batshit.

Alicia Silverstone is upholding the time-honoured tradition of saddling celebrity kids with batpoop crazy names. She’s named her new son Bear Blu.

2011 May 9, Jen McDonnell, “Scandal Sheet: Rachel McAdams’ ring sparks engagement rumours”, in The National Post:


Britannically

Britannically (comparative more Britannically, superlative most Britannically)

more Britannically (comparative)
most Britannically (superlative)

With reference to Britain or Great Britain


draconianly

draconianly (comparative more draconianly, superlative most draconianly)

more draconianly (comparative)
most draconianly (superlative)


preaxially

preaxially (comparative more preaxially, superlative most preaxially)

more preaxially (comparative)
most preaxially (superlative)


rhymingly

rhymingly (comparative more rhymingly, superlative most rhymingly)

more rhymingly (comparative)
most rhymingly (superlative)


triboelectrically

triboelectrically charged particles

triboelectric effect
triboelectric effect


slappingly

slappingly (comparative more slappingly, superlative most slappingly)

more slappingly (comparative)
most slappingly (superlative)

She […] stepped out slappingly upon her pasterns.

1855, William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, The Odoherty papers, page 336:

In Cree, among friends, it [a vulgar postscript] is hysterically, thigh-slappingly, gut-bustingly funny.

2008, Drew Hayden Taylor, Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality, page 37:

He waved the ruler in the air and marched slappingly around the room, warbling a few bars from a song suitable for a king.

2010, Susan Troutt, The How-To Joke, page 59:


skiddingly

skiddingly (comparative more skiddingly, superlative most skiddingly)

more skiddingly (comparative)
most skiddingly (superlative)

Wabbling this way and that it wheeled skiddingly round a corner.

1919, Irvin S. Cobb, The Life of the Party:


lissomely

lissomely (comparative more lissomely, superlative most lissomely)

more lissomely (comparative)
most lissomely (superlative)


slicingly

slicingly (comparative more slicingly, superlative most slicingly)

more slicingly (comparative)
most slicingly (superlative)

The golfer swung his club slicingly through the air.


paragraphically

From paragraphic + -ally or paragraphical + -ly.

items paragraphically noted


abrest

Eleven hundred superb young fellows, marching four abrest, with bayonets fixed …

1885, John McElroy, The Red Acorn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:

… was designed to provide you with the information you need to keep abrest of current opportunities …

1994 February 28, “Networking Careers On-line”, in Network World, volume 11, number 9, IDG, →ISSN, page 56:

This day saw an appearance of a spacious harbour abrest the Ship, haul'd our wind …

1998, Bernard DeVoto, quoting Boit, 1792, The Course of Empire, Reprint edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:

He read the words scribbled under the star: "Stand abrest qurtsbolder bring in line with hill … "

2006, Helen Lee, Where in the World?: Stories from Everywhere, Review and Herald Pub Assoc, →ISBN, page 316:

Keeping abrest of technological developments requires a careful assessment …

2007, Nirali Prakashan, Corporate Planning and Strategic Human Resources Management, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 3.8:

(archaic or nonstandard) Alternative spelling of abreast


pantomimically

pantomimically (comparative more pantomimically, superlative most pantomimically)

more pantomimically (comparative)
most pantomimically (superlative)


chuffily

chuffily (comparative more chuffily, superlative most chuffily)

more chuffily (comparative)
most chuffily (superlative)


minatorily

minatorily (comparative more minatorily, superlative most minatorily)

more minatorily (comparative)
most minatorily (superlative)


absatively

Any old reels will do, comedies, tragedies, weekly reviews (dating back to the fall of Sumter)—“posalutely absatively” anything will do!

1917 November, Fitzhugh Green, “Amusing Fifty Thousand Men: Another Avenue for Government Control”, in J. W. Greenslade, editor, United States Naval Institute Proceedings, volume 43, number 11, number 177, page 2538:

Worthingham Washington Lewis told me he was absatively, posolutely ready for us: “We've got the scenario, and my men are raring to go, Captain.”

1994, Richard Marcinko with John Weisman, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OL:

“No. Absatively out of the question.”

2005, Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys, →ISBN, →OL, page 278:


manywise

(archaic) In many different ways; variously.


telesmatically

telesmatically (comparative more telesmatically, superlative most telesmatically)

more telesmatically (comparative)
most telesmatically (superlative)


honest-to-God

She is honest-to-God brilliant.


propitiatingly

propitiatingly (comparative more propitiatingly, superlative most propitiatingly)

more propitiatingly (comparative)
most propitiatingly (superlative)


every bit

The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.

2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:


plantly

plantly (comparative plantlier or more plantly, superlative plantliest or most plantly)

plantlier (comparative)
more plantly (comparative)
plantliest (superlative)
most plantly (superlative)

[...] of new mind-powers which burst through its old fears and dislikes with a new creativeness and make forms which will be challenging and educative — something human, and finally divine, not merely plantly beautiful, and animally beautiful.


crowdedly

crowdedly (comparative more crowdedly, superlative most crowdedly)

more crowdedly (comparative)
most crowdedly (superlative)


pooseback

From papoose and back, with the form perhaps influenced by piggyback.

Poquannum, then, took it pooseback, and carried it rapidly fifty rods further, […]

1857, Putnam's Monthly, volume 10, page 228:

The hero who valiantly cudgeled his cruel Greek foes back,
While safely he brought off his aged old ancestor pooseback?

1870, A free and independent translation of the first and fourth books of the Aeneid, page 10:

(US, dialects, possibly dated) piggyback


circumlocuitously

circumlocuitously (comparative more circumlocuitously, superlative most circumlocuitously)

more circumlocuitously (comparative)
most circumlocuitously (superlative)


anywheres

(US, nonstandard, slang or dialectal) anywhere


paleontologically

paleontologically (comparative more paleontologically, superlative most paleontologically)

more paleontologically (comparative)
most paleontologically (superlative)


every day

every day of the week and twice on Sunday

It's not every day you see that kind of thing.


steply

steply (comparative more steply, superlative most steply)

more steply (comparative)
most steply (superlative)

It was also supposed by Clapp that the steply-dipping sandstones and shales exposed along the Chemainus river and forming the base of Mount Prevost were unconformably overlain by the gently dipping conglomerates […]

1914, Geological Survey of Canada, Summary report - Geological Survey Department:

Away to the southwest, beyond the patches of firwood and the gray, steply rolling land, there toned the far diapason of artillery; strings of army transport, Red Cross vehicles, and miscellaneous men straggled upon the road.

Crossbedding in the gray sandstones shows that it is now right side up, and in Flagstaff time it was therefore on the east flank of a steply folded anticline.

1949, Edmund Maute Spieker, The transition between the Colorado Plateaus and the Great Basin:

Some of the most significant Paleozoic inliers occur near Las Delicias in southwestern Coahuila, 480 km (300 miles) south of the Marathon region, where a thick sequence of marine Permian with volcanic components has been steply folded […]

1969, Geological Survey (U.S.), U.S. Geological Survey professional paper:

For an instance, the disadventages about the die CAD system are as the following: * CAD technique can only participate in the design process partially and steply.

1992, International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences. Congress, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS proceedings, 1992:

Step by step; gradually; in steps; stepwise.


strepitously

strepitously (comparative more strepitously, superlative most strepitously)

more strepitously (comparative)
most strepitously (superlative)

In a strepitous manner; boisterously; noisily


disquieteningly

disquieteningly (comparative more disquieteningly, superlative most disquieteningly)

more disquieteningly (comparative)
most disquieteningly (superlative)


airwards

airwards (comparative more airwards, superlative most airwards)

more airwards (comparative)
most airwards (superlative)


airward

airward (comparative more airward, superlative most airward)

more airward (comparative)
most airward (superlative)


half-assedly

half-assedly (comparative more half-assedly, superlative most half-assedly)

more half-assedly (comparative)
most half-assedly (superlative)

Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.

2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club:

In a half-assed manner; poorly or incompetently


wayupthere

[…] because when you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible – wayupthere, at any rate, changes took place in delirious actors that would have gladdened the heart of old Mr Lamarck […]

1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, page 6:

(rare, informal, nonstandard) on high; in the heavens


subregionally

Regionally and subregionally agreed sustainable development initiatives and programmes

2002, United Nations, Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, page 71:


consumeristically

consumeristically (comparative more consumeristically, superlative most consumeristically)

more consumeristically (comparative)
most consumeristically (superlative)


authigenically

Mixed-layer minerals can grow authigenically in sandstones.

In an authigenic manner; generated where it is found.


magnetochemically

The reaction was measured magnetochemically.


convergingly

convergingly (comparative more convergingly, superlative most convergingly)

more convergingly (comparative)
most convergingly (superlative)


taperwise

taperwise (comparative more taperwise, superlative most taperwise)

more taperwise (comparative)
most taperwise (superlative)


practively

practively (comparative more practively, superlative most practively)

more practively (comparative)
most practively (superlative)

The preacher and the people both, / Then practively did thrive.

1592, William Warner, Albions England: The Third Time Corrected and Augmented:


majoritively

majoritively (comparative more majoritively, superlative most majoritively)

more majoritively (comparative)
most majoritively (superlative)

The senate voted majoritively to pass the bill.

An alternative approach would be to create a board of mental health professionals and lawyers who would majoritively decide consent issues.

1982, Lisa Robbin Grossman, Capacity of schizophrencis to give informed consent:

It is the imagination that is majoritively full of bad images and makes us anxious and restricted in our abilities to choose.

1973, Brian P. Hall, Maury Smith, Value clarification as learning process: a handbook for religious educators:

Segal tried to make a case for identifying the redshifts predicted by the conformal group with the redshifts of the galaxies, denying that the latter are majoritively Doppler shifts due to the expansion of the Universe.

1980, Paul S. Wesson, Gravity, particles, and astrophysics: a review of modern theories of gravity and G-variability, and their relation to elementary particle physics and astrophysics:

(proscribed) Consisting of more than half (50%); predominantly.


stethoscopically

The patient was examined stethoscopically.


mucronately

mucronately (comparative more mucronately, superlative most mucronately)

more mucronately (comparative)
most mucronately (superlative)


from the heart

to come from the heart

to speak straight from the heart


loopingly

loopingly (comparative more loopingly, superlative most loopingly)

more loopingly (comparative)
most loopingly (superlative)


planktonically

planktonically (comparative more planktonically, superlative most planktonically)

more planktonically (comparative)
most planktonically (superlative)


root and branch

Long Parliament
Root and Branch petition

From the Bible. Used as a title for the Root and Branch petition presented to the Long Parliament on December 11, 1640.

"I can't help coming, sir," continued Mrs. Parker. "Where am I to go if I don't come? Mr. Lopez, sir, has ruined us root and branch,—root and branch."

1876, Anthony Trollope, chapter LV, in The Prime Minister. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

And far be it from me to deny that socialism is a menace. It is its purpose to wipe out, root and branch, all capitalistic institutions of present-day society.

1905 April, Jack London, “(please specify the page)”, in War of the Classes, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:


AEAP

(computing, rare) Initialism of as early as possible.


compartmentally

compartmentally (comparative more compartmentally, superlative most compartmentally)

more compartmentally (comparative)
most compartmentally (superlative)


craniodentally

With regard to the cranium and the teeth


plenarly

plenarly (comparative more plenarly, superlative most plenarly)

more plenarly (comparative)
most plenarly (superlative)

For now am I plenarely dysposed / To shewe you thynges that may not be disclosed.

1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:


a damn sight

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-a damn sight.wav

I'm a damn sight more clever than he is.

(mildly vulgar, colloquial) A lot; a great deal.


a fuck sight

(UK, Ireland, colloquial, vulgar) A lot; a great deal.


karyologically

By means of, or with reference to, karyology


world without end

The term world in this context is used in its archaic sense of time or age. The phrase was popular in the King James era and was used in the King James Bible. The phrase is still largely associated with Christian liturgy.

And life goes on and on anon, and death goes on, world without end.

Not a day passes when federal boots aren't on the ground in Noble's Holler, churning up every acre, and then going over it again, world without end, until I get I what I want.

2012, 20.51 of Episode 11, Season 3 of TV drama Justified


fershur

"They all say they like to fish, too," says Sandi. Well, this could revolutionize Park Cities social life, fershur.

1997 April 20, Helen Bryant, “The Dallas Morning News: Dallas opens its doors to Hollywood; and these friends deserve a standing ovation”, in Dallas Morning News:

Dave Stare was born in Wisconsin; Kim's grandfather lived most of his life in Columbus, Wis. And now the family makes seriously tasty wines, fershur.

2010 February 14, “Sailing along”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

It's fershur a nuisance. But you better hold on to it, cause if we run into Joe in that cave, we're gonna need all the weapons we can lay our hands on.

2011, Julius Raper, Deepest France: Mysterious Days: Paired Novels, page 57:

(US) Pronunciation spelling of for sure.


hugeously

hugeously (comparative more hugeously, superlative most hugeously)

more hugeously (comparative)
most hugeously (superlative)

From Middle English hugeousli, hugisly, equivalent to hugeous + -ly.


plashingly

plashingly (comparative more plashingly, superlative most plashingly)

more plashingly (comparative)
most plashingly (superlative)


splashingly

splashingly (comparative more splashingly, superlative most splashingly)

more splashingly (comparative)
most splashingly (superlative)


patteringly

patteringly (comparative more patteringly, superlative most patteringly)

more patteringly (comparative)
most patteringly (superlative)


subluminally

In a subluminal manner; slower than the speed of light.


doggishly

doggishly (comparative more doggishly, superlative most doggishly)

more doggishly (comparative)
most doggishly (superlative)

That was predictable, Even Kingsley Amis, a great admirer of the late Ian Fleming, spoke of "the over-all inferiority" of the writer's last novel, and this movie is doggishly faithful to its model.

1974 December 19, Nora Sayre, “Film: James Bond and Energy Crisis:'Man With Golden Gun' at Several Theaters The Cast Roger Moore Lacks Connery's Impudence”, in The New York Times:


plangently

plangently (comparative more plangently, superlative most plangently)

more plangently (comparative)
most plangently (superlative)

In a plangent manner: with a loud reverberating sound, or plaintively.