disingenuously

disingenuously (comparative more disingenuously, superlative most disingenuously)

more disingenuously (comparative)
most disingenuously (superlative)

candidly

antonym(s) of “in a manner that is not frank or open”

Instead of inquiring why the facts oppose the theory, and where the explanation is to be found for this remarkable discrepancy, he disingenuously endeavours to give reasons for "the causes which operated, and do commonly operate, to prevent these extraordinary drafts on the productive resources of the country from being so much felt as it might seem reasonable to expect."

1874, Governor Musgrave, “Capital: Mr. Mill's Fundamental Propositions”, in The Contemporary Review, 24: 745:

In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.

unredlicherweise

in a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively

The letter's false intent trumps any truths within, which one would expect of a woman who disingenuously calls herself Fidessa.

2009, Michael L. Stapleton, Spenser's Ovidian Poetics, page 98:

In an unnoble manner; in a manner unbecoming of true honor or dignity; unworthily.

unwürdig

in an unnoble manner; in a manner unbecoming of true honor or dignity; unworthily

Churchill, a month later, would memorably if disingenuously describe Lend-Lease as a matter of "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." Roosevelt, a few days earlier, had described it a bit more prosaically, but no less disingenuously, as the equivalent of lending a neighbor whose house was on fire a garden hose, expecting to get it back when the fire was out.

2005, John Steele Gordon, An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power, page 352:

In a manner that adopts a pose of naïveté, possibly to make a point or to deceive.

pokrytecky

in a manner that adopts a pose of naivete, possibly to make a point or to deceive


phlegmatically

en-adv

phlegmatically (comparative more phlegmatically, superlative most phlegmatically)

more phlegmatically (comparative)
most phlegmatically (superlative)

In a manner that is sluggish, without enthusiasm.


andantino

andantino (comparative more andantino, superlative most andantino)

more andantino (comparative)
most andantino (superlative)

From Italian andantino, the diminutive of andante.

(music) Of a tempo that is slightly faster than andante but slower than moderato.


phonically

In accordance with the principles of phonics.

Phonetically; in a manner related to the sound of a word rather than its spelling.


nose to tail

(British, of traffic) Moving slowly in this manner.

2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text
A vulture can wolf more than two pounds of meat in a minute; a sizable crowd can strip a zebra—nose to tail—in 30 minutes.


physiologically

In accordance with the science of physiology.

fisiològicament

in accordance with the science of physiology

In a manner pertaining to an organism's physiology.


pertly

pertly (comparative more pertly, superlative most pertly)

more pertly (comparative)
most pertly (superlative)

"Dearie, you aren't going to go and get peevish, are you?" She spoke pertly. He wanted to spank her.

TA pretty girl passed him on her way to work and he greeted her indulgently. She winked pertly back at him, proving for all time that she was not a watcher.

In a manner that is lively or high-spirited


phenomenally

phenomenally (comparative more phenomenally, superlative most phenomenally)

more phenomenally (comparative)
most phenomenally (superlative)

The tennis player's serve was phenomenally fast.

Network Rail developed and delivered the new crossover in just ten months - "phenomenally quickly", Mands says - and the work is included in the £20m build cost.

2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 40:

In a manner that is extraordinary or amazing.

The 'old-look' and the 'bald-pink-and-wrinkled-look' are, in this context at least, one and the same. Phenomenally speaking, that is, the predicates 'old' and 'bald, pink, and wrinkled' here are equivalent […]

2014, Berit Brogard, Does Perception Have Content?, page 97:


phonologically

phonologically (comparative more phonologically, superlative most phonologically)

more phonologically (comparative)
most phonologically (superlative)

(linguistics) In accordance with phonology.


pervasively

In a pervasive manner, such that a thing is present in all parts.


persuasively

persuasively (comparative more persuasively, superlative most persuasively)

more persuasively (comparative)
most persuasively (superlative)

The eloquent speaker persuasively stated her argument.

In a manner intended to convince or persuade.

persuasivament

in a manner intended to convince or persuade


unobtrusively

unobtrusively (comparative more unobtrusively, superlative most unobtrusively)

more unobtrusively (comparative)
most unobtrusively (superlative)

He felt not the slightest doubt in his mind that this was the girl who had written him, and, having given an order to the waiter, he started to study her face as unobtrusively as possible.

1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:

Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.

1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 12:

Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]

1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 40:

In an unobtrusive manner; in a manner that is not noticeable or blatant.


petulantly

petulantly (comparative more petulantly, superlative most petulantly)

more petulantly (comparative)
most petulantly (superlative)

`She loves the man, and he has been pleased to accept her love: where, then, is her sin?' `Truly, oh Holly, thou art foolish,' she answered, almost petulantly.

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

A wayward hen, too proud to roost with the other hens on the village church, had come to our coconut palm and was cluck-clucking petulantly, for halfway up the tree she had spied us occupying her roost.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 193:

Her tone was resentful, rejecting a burst of generous emotion on her behalf. She stood twisting and untwisting her bag, making the money jink petulantly, while her dark eyes and vermilion pout repudiated the painted replicas of herself tacked to the wall.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 233:


perplexedly

perplexedly (comparative more perplexedly, superlative most perplexedly)

more perplexedly (comparative)
most perplexedly (superlative)

She looked perplexedly at the raw meat her waiter had set in front of her.


weasellike

weasellike (comparative more weasellike, superlative most weasellike)

more weasellike (comparative)
most weasellike (superlative)


grudgingly

grudgingly (comparative more grudgingly, superlative most grudgingly)

more grudgingly (comparative)
most grudgingly (superlative)

In a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire.

неохотно

in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire


undeniably

undeniably (comparative more undeniably, superlative most undeniably)

more undeniably (comparative)
most undeniably (superlative)

From undeniable + -ly, equivalent to un- + deny + -ably.

[A]nd gaunt though his figure, and far from elegant though his dressing-robe, there was that about him which spoke undeniably of the grand seigneur— [...]

1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter III, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book tenth, page 115:

It created inter-city and intermodal services, which were genuinely world leading. And it undeniably pushed British Railways into the modern era.

2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 49:

In an undeniable manner, or to an undeniable extent.

The third movie was undeniably the best.

Used as a modal adverb to assert that that the indicated statement is undeniable.


pertinaciously

pertinaciously (comparative more pertinaciously, superlative most pertinaciously)

more pertinaciously (comparative)
most pertinaciously (superlative)

From pertinacious + -ly, from Latin pertināx, from per- (“very”) + tenāx (“tenacious”), from teneō (“I hold”).

Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously.

1601, William Barlow, A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion, Article 3, Answer, page 72:

They shall therefore suffer punishment who reject this heavenly Light, and continue pertinaciously fix'd in those deadly principles which extinguish all knowledge of Virtue.

1701, John LeClerc, edited by Samuel Buckley, The Harmony of the Evangelists, London, page 62:

No astronomical fallacy is more untenable, and none has been more pertinaciously adhered to, than that of the absolute illimitation of the Universe of Stars.

1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, page 100:

I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University.

1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter XLII, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC:

If the great comedian [Charlie Chaplin] wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome.

1952 September 29, “Names Make News: Charlie Chaplin”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-11-25:

In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.

September 2001, Waldemar Kowalski, “Converts to Catholicism and Reformed Franciscans in Early Modern Poland”, in Church History, volume 70, number 3, page 495:

In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.


trillionfold

The national debt has ballooned trillionfold in the past century.


as Gaeilge

The President will speak as Gaeilge on the need for reform.


pensively

pensively (comparative more pensively, superlative most pensively)

more pensively (comparative)
most pensively (superlative)


billionfold

multiply something a billionfold

magnify something a billionfold

it is a billionfold heavier than something else

In a billionfold way; by a billion degrees; on a scale of a billion


froglike

to hop froglike

In all our adventures I do not know that I have ever seen a more strange sight than this impassive and still dignified figure crouching frog-like upon the ground and goading to a wilder exhibition of passion the maddened hound, which ramped and raged in front of him, by all manner of ingenious and calculated cruelty.

1923, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man”, in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, London: Murray, published 1927:


rambunctiously

rambunctiously (comparative more rambunctiously, superlative most rambunctiously)

more rambunctiously (comparative)
most rambunctiously (superlative)


rampantly

rampantly (comparative more rampantly, superlative most rampantly)

more rampantly (comparative)
most rampantly (superlative)


raffishly

raffishly (comparative more raffishly, superlative most raffishly)

more raffishly (comparative)
most raffishly (superlative)


rapturously

rapturously (comparative more rapturously, superlative most rapturously)

more rapturously (comparative)
most rapturously (superlative)


ragingly

ragingly (comparative more ragingly, superlative most ragingly)

more ragingly (comparative)
most ragingly (superlative)


rebelliously

rebelliously (comparative more rebelliously, superlative most rebelliously)

more rebelliously (comparative)
most rebelliously (superlative)

"Hold on a minute there," he said, and while they hung rebelliously on the step, looked them over at his leisure.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21:


redoubtably

redoubtably (comparative more redoubtably, superlative most redoubtably)

more redoubtably (comparative)
most redoubtably (superlative)


remorsefully

remorsefully (comparative more remorsefully, superlative most remorsefully)

more remorsefully (comparative)
most remorsefully (superlative)


remorselessly

remorselessly (comparative more remorselessly, superlative most remorselessly)

more remorselessly (comparative)
most remorselessly (superlative)

Without remorse; in a remorseless manner.


rakishly

rakishly (comparative more rakishly, superlative most rakishly)

more rakishly (comparative)
most rakishly (superlative)

The stair carpets are hanging on lines in the back garden, and Susanna, with her cap rakishly on one side, is always to be seen polishing the stair rods.

1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 8, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

Wearing a suit the colour of a London bus, a rakishly tilted flat cap and carrying a walking cane, he resembles an eccentric country squire out for a ramble: the Day Tripper.

2005, Dorian Lynskey, Dr John: Barbican, London, in: The Guardian, January 13 2005


riotously

riotously (comparative more riotously, superlative most riotously)

more riotously (comparative)
most riotously (superlative)

The overpowering sense of somebody beyond reach who lived in a world riotously happening only in his own mind.

1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 138:

In a manner that causes or involves uncontrollable laughter.


rancorously

rancorously (comparative more rancorously, superlative most rancorously)

more rancorously (comparative)
most rancorously (superlative)


ritualistically

ritualistically (comparative more ritualistically, superlative most ritualistically)

more ritualistically (comparative)
most ritualistically (superlative)

For fifty years, ritualistically, he had been repeating the same jokes, laughing at them because they were so infantile and stupid

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 376:

Done as though following a ritual; in a ritualistic manner.'


patriotically

patriotically (comparative more patriotically, superlative most patriotically)

more patriotically (comparative)
most patriotically (superlative)

In fifteen years, you can bring up thy country And make your people work in a full symmetry With their cultureful socialist revolutionary And learn how to read, write and speak freely Know that their ideas are costlier than jewellery And work for their motherland patriotically

2017, Nadwan Rosetta, The Great Crush, page xl:


redundantly

redundantly (comparative more redundantly, superlative most redundantly)

more redundantly (comparative)
most redundantly (superlative)


recognizably

recognizably (comparative more recognizably, superlative most recognizably)

more recognizably (comparative)
most recognizably (superlative)

The body was badly burned, but still recognizably human.


vigoroso

Borrowed from Italian vigoroso. Doublet of vigorous.


lizardlike

(rare) Like a lizard, in a lizardlike way.


behindhand

behindhand (comparative more behindhand, superlative most behindhand)

more behindhand (comparative)
most behindhand (superlative)


polygonally

polygonally (comparative more polygonally, superlative most polygonally)

more polygonally (comparative)
most polygonally (superlative)


bloodthirstily

bloodthirstily (comparative more bloodthirstily, superlative most bloodthirstily)

more bloodthirstily (comparative)
most bloodthirstily (superlative)


boastfully

boastfully (comparative more boastfully, superlative most boastfully)

more boastfully (comparative)
most boastfully (superlative)

Nixon boastfully called the seven days he spent on the Chinese mainland "the week that changed the world"–without, however, specifying whether the change was for the better or for the worse. The way he humbled himself before Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai reminded me of the tribute-bearing foreign emissaries of the previous centuries who went to Peking to pay homage at the Chinese Imperial Court. Nixon's hosts must have laughed in their sleeves at his behavior during their meetings.

1983, James C. H. Shen, “Beginnings of Endings”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:


polymorphically

polymorphically (comparative more polymorphically, superlative most polymorphically)

more polymorphically (comparative)
most polymorphically (superlative)

In a polymorphic manner; having multiple manifestations.


polymorphously

polymorphously (comparative more polymorphously, superlative most polymorphously)

more polymorphously (comparative)
most polymorphously (superlative)


grandioso

grandioso (comparative more grandioso, superlative most grandioso)

more grandioso (comparative)
most grandioso (superlative)

Borrowed from Italian grandioso, from Latin grandis (“great, grand”) (English grand). Doublet of grandiose.


in specie

Borrowed from Latin in + specie, ablative singular form of species (“kind, form; type”).

Although the power of a king is lesser in degree than an emperor, it is the similar in specie.

(law, finance) In the actual form, especially in the context of a distribution of assets or a loan repayment.

"The estate of £500 a-year I have given to you, Mr Jones: and as I know the inconvenience which attends the want of ready money, I have added £1000 in specie."

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

(law, finance) In coin or monetary metal, in contrast to fiat currency or other paper.


dovelike

dovelike (comparative more dovelike, superlative most dovelike)

more dovelike (comparative)
most dovelike (superlative)

Montanus
Phoebe's eyes Dovelike mild


bastardly

bastardly (comparative more bastardly, superlative most bastardly)

more bastardly (comparative)
most bastardly (superlative)


kitchenward

My thoughts turned kitchenward as he spoke of his grandmother's recipes.


palatially

In a manner or style befitting a palace.


domineeringly

domineeringly (comparative more domineeringly, superlative most domineeringly)

more domineeringly (comparative)
most domineeringly (superlative)


bluffly

bluffly (comparative more bluffly, superlative most bluffly)

more bluffly (comparative)
most bluffly (superlative)

"Sarch away, squire," said Shackle bluffly, as he placed the mugs on the floor and turned the wooden spigots.

2016, George Manville Fenn ·, Cutlass and Cudgel, page 78:


fifty-fifty

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

I'll handle production, you handle sales, and we'll split profits fifty-fifty.

Throughout our discussions and searching inquiries one object figured ever more prominently—the moon. We learned that it was technologically possible to develop a program to reach the moon, and we came to realize that since the Russians did not then have the ability to reach the moon any more than we did, we had at least a fifty-fifty chance of beating them there. Moreover, a moon-landing goal would give a dramatic focus to a space program designed to develop our skills and capacities on a broad technological front.

1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 281:

In half: in two equal parts, shares, etc.


blackly

blackly (comparative more blackly, superlative most blackly)

more blackly (comparative)
most blackly (superlative)

Here and there, sun glanced off water, and slick surfaces shone blackly orange in the morning light.

2011, T. J. Forrester, Miracles, Inc., page 37:

Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.

1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

One of the most interesting — and confusing — vampire stories to deal with questions of morality in the postmodern context is the blackly comic film Vampire's Kiss (dir. Robert Bierman, 1988), which tells of a despicable yuppie named Peter Low — played in completely over-the-top fashion by Nicholas Cage — and his encounter at a singles bar with the vampire Rachel.

1997, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture:

He knew himself for a lost soul, and all that he loved in the world was out in the tides. There, at any rate, he could go, too, and give back that gift of life he had so blackly misused.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

Maya Angelou's ecomium^([sic])/tribute set the tone for all that followed because she spoke so passionately, personally, and Blackly about her love for Baldwin. She said that it's easy for a woman to find a lover, that she could stand on any street corner or even sit in any church pew and do that, but that brothers were much harder to come by.

1987 December 20, Barbara Smith, “We Must Always Bury Our Dead Twice”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 23, page 10:

In accordance with black cultural sensibility.


six ways to Sunday

He will fry me six ways to Sunday for sending daughters and young mothers off to war—and, quite possibly, for bringing them back in body bags.

1997, David Twohy, Danielle Alexandra, G.I. Jane:

If she chips so much as one of my porcelain piggies, I'll sue her six ways to Sunday!

2004, Sam Johnson, Chris Marcil, “The Ann Who Came to Dinner”, in Frasier, season 11, episode 13:

I'm not lying, Sally. I had Jeannine Lock six ways to Sunday all over this White House. And after some soul searching on all of our parts I think my constituents are going to forgive me for it

2013, Heather Mitchell, “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner”, in Scandal, season 3, episode 2, spoken by President Fitzgerald Grant:

(idiomatic, colloquial) Thoroughly, completely, in every way imaginable.


broodingly

broodingly (comparative more broodingly, superlative most broodingly)

more broodingly (comparative)
most broodingly (superlative)

But he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.

1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 4, in World so Wide […], New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 35:


brokenly

brokenly (comparative more brokenly, superlative most brokenly)

more brokenly (comparative)
most brokenly (superlative)

—Something I said,
But faint and brokenly of former days,
When in the paths of science and of hope,
We walk'd, twin-hearted.—Then there came a peal
Of vacant laughter from those bloated lips,
And the swoll'n hand with trembling haste was stretch'd
For friendship's grasp.

1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Intemperence, page 155:

It split and melted and splayed its contents brokenly.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 125:

It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 83:

Upon which, you slink out, bathed in shame and confusion, and Upjohn thanks me brokenly and says if there is anything he can do for me, I have only to name it.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

(Of speech) with gaps between words so that normal flow or fluency is affected, as due to emotion; disjointedly.


unassisted

unassisted (comparative more unassisted, superlative most unassisted)

more unassisted (comparative)
most unassisted (superlative)

Imagine if children never got any feedback, such as praise and encouragement, as they learnt to walk and only received it when they could walk unassisted.

2006, Diane Louise Szarkowicz, Observations and Reflections in Childhood, →ISBN, page 4:

[…] he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.

1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:


unappealingly

unappealingly (comparative more unappealingly, superlative most unappealingly)

more unappealingly (comparative)
most unappealingly (superlative)


edgily

edgily (comparative more edgily, superlative most edgily)

more edgily (comparative)
most edgily (superlative)


effervescently

effervescently (comparative more effervescently, superlative most effervescently)

more effervescently (comparative)
most effervescently (superlative)


elusively

elusively (comparative more elusively, superlative most elusively)

more elusively (comparative)
most elusively (superlative)


elatedly

elatedly (comparative more elatedly, superlative most elatedly)

more elatedly (comparative)
most elatedly (superlative)


encouragingly

encouragingly (comparative more encouragingly, superlative most encouragingly)

more encouragingly (comparative)
most encouragingly (superlative)


enjoyably

enjoyably (comparative more enjoyably, superlative most enjoyably)

more enjoyably (comparative)
most enjoyably (superlative)


endearingly

endearingly (comparative more endearingly, superlative most endearingly)

more endearingly (comparative)
most endearingly (superlative)


endogenously

endogenously (comparative more endogenously, superlative most endogenously)

more endogenously (comparative)
most endogenously (superlative)


enterprisingly

enterprisingly (comparative more enterprisingly, superlative most enterprisingly)

more enterprisingly (comparative)
most enterprisingly (superlative)


engagingly

engagingly (comparative more engagingly, superlative most engagingly)

more engagingly (comparative)
most engagingly (superlative)


enticingly

enticingly (comparative more enticingly, superlative most enticingly)

more enticingly (comparative)
most enticingly (superlative)


enchantingly

enchantingly (comparative more enchantingly, superlative most enchantingly)

more enchantingly (comparative)
most enchantingly (superlative)


unaccountably

unaccountably (comparative more unaccountably, superlative most unaccountably)

more unaccountably (comparative)
most unaccountably (superlative)

After all that hard work, he unaccountably failed to take out the patent.

The jury was unaccountably slow to reach a verdict. He was clearly innocent.

The number 392, very unaccountably, was never filled, and two of the sets of parts never appear to have been assembled at all, and were presumably kept as spares.

1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Maunsell Moguls in Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:

Not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable.

inexplicablement

not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable


envyingly

envyingly (comparative more envyingly, superlative most envyingly)

more envyingly (comparative)
most envyingly (superlative)


entertainingly

entertainingly (comparative more entertainingly, superlative most entertainingly)

more entertainingly (comparative)
most entertainingly (superlative)


equably

equably (comparative more equably, superlative most equably)

more equably (comparative)
most equably (superlative)


erectly

erectly (comparative more erectly, superlative most erectly)

more erectly (comparative)
most erectly (superlative)


excusably

excusably (comparative more excusably, superlative most excusably)

more excusably (comparative)
most excusably (superlative)

In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree


excitably

excitably (comparative more excitably, superlative most excitably)

more excitably (comparative)
most excitably (superlative)


expansively

expansively (comparative more expansively, superlative most expansively)

more expansively (comparative)
most expansively (superlative)


existentially

existentially (comparative more existentially, superlative most existentially)

more existentially (comparative)
most existentially (superlative)


endemically

endemically (comparative more endemically, superlative most endemically)

more endemically (comparative)
most endemically (superlative)

Malaria occurs endemically, epidemically, pandemically, or sporadically.

1886, Hermann Ludwig Eichhorst, Handbook of Practical Medicine, page 168:


excitingly

excitingly (comparative more excitingly, superlative most excitingly)

more excitingly (comparative)
most excitingly (superlative)


efficaciously

efficaciously (comparative more efficaciously, superlative most efficaciously)

more efficaciously (comparative)
most efficaciously (superlative)


equivocally

equivocally (comparative more equivocally, superlative most equivocally)

more equivocally (comparative)
most equivocally (superlative)


embarrassingly

embarrassingly (comparative more embarrassingly, superlative most embarrassingly)

more embarrassingly (comparative)
most embarrassingly (superlative)

He stumbled embarrassingly about the dance floor.

He soon became not merely tipsy, but embarrassingly drunk.

He was presented with an embarrassingly long list of options.

To the point of embarrassment; to an extreme or bewildering degree.

Embarrassingly to me, my companion soon got drunk.


exuberantly

exuberantly (comparative more exuberantly, superlative most exuberantly)

more exuberantly (comparative)
most exuberantly (superlative)


entrancingly

entrancingly (comparative more entrancingly, superlative most entrancingly)

more entrancingly (comparative)
most entrancingly (superlative)

Maisie, quitting Sir Claude, went over to them and, clasped in a still tenderer embrace, felt entrancingly the extension of the field of happiness.


equidistantly

In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree


exotically

exotically (comparative more exotically, superlative most exotically)

more exotically (comparative)
most exotically (superlative)


equitably

equitably (comparative more equitably, superlative most equitably)

more equitably (comparative)
most equitably (superlative)


effeminately

effeminately (comparative more effeminately, superlative most effeminately)

more effeminately (comparative)
most effeminately (superlative)


expediently

expediently (comparative more expediently, superlative most expediently)

more expediently (comparative)
most expediently (superlative)

Call it expediently located irony, or convenient rationalization, but I was keeping the money.

2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 289:


exhaustively

exhaustively (comparative more exhaustively, superlative most exhaustively)

more exhaustively (comparative)
most exhaustively (superlative)

While dictionaries might aspire to be exhaustively comprehensive, or even completist, it is doubtful whether any dictionary ever truly attempts to cover the entirety of the flora and fauna of a living language due to the overwhelming number of entries this would necessitate.

2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:


offscreen

Outside the frame of the cinema or television screen


enviably

enviably (comparative more enviably, superlative most enviably)

more enviably (comparative)
most enviably (superlative)

In an enviable manner or to an enviable degree


edgewise

edgewise (comparative more edgewise, superlative most edgewise)

more edgewise (comparative)
most edgewise (superlative)

From edge + -wise. Compare English edgeling (“edgeways”) and edgelong.

By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.

2013 November 11, Claus-Dieter Brauns, “Food and Clothing”, in Mru: Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh, Basel: Birkhäuser, page 131:

Once his boss got started, Jim just couldn’t get a word in edgewise.


edgeways

With the edge facing in the direction of movement.


extrinsically

extrinsically (comparative more extrinsically, superlative most extrinsically)

more extrinsically (comparative)
most extrinsically (superlative)


explosively

explosively (comparative more explosively, superlative most explosively)

more explosively (comparative)
most explosively (superlative)


elastically

elastically (comparative more elastically, superlative most elastically)

more elastically (comparative)
most elastically (superlative)


undemocratically

undemocratically (comparative more undemocratically, superlative most undemocratically)

more undemocratically (comparative)
most undemocratically (superlative)

In an undemocratic manner; not democratically.


expressively

expressively (comparative more expressively, superlative most expressively)

more expressively (comparative)
most expressively (superlative)


extortionately

extortionately (comparative more extortionately, superlative most extortionately)

more extortionately (comparative)
most extortionately (superlative)

In an extortionate manner; in a manner that greatly exceeds what is reasonable or moderate.


enviously

enviously (comparative more enviously, superlative most enviously)

more enviously (comparative)
most enviously (superlative)

in an envious manner or to an envious degree


expensively

expensively (comparative more expensively, superlative most expensively)

more expensively (comparative)
most expensively (superlative)

Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance; after that it costs them ten cents a time. I can work out expensively, particularly with the heightened tempo of war.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:

The room was expensively furnished.

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 77:


unacceptably

unacceptably (comparative more unacceptably, superlative most unacceptably)

more unacceptably (comparative)
most unacceptably (superlative)

The levels of lead in marine hull paints are still unacceptably high.

Your comments are unacceptably provocative.

Network Rail has started an 18-month recovery plan from "unacceptably poor" performance on its Western route between London Paddington and Reading.

2024 March 6, Paul Clifton, “Network News: NR launches Reading-Paddington recovery operation”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 6:

Not within the limits of what is generally considered to be acceptable.


energetically

energetically (comparative more energetically, superlative most energetically)

more energetically (comparative)
most energetically (superlative)

In an energetic manner; with great energy.

Reiki attempts to heal the body energetically.


breakneck

I ran breakneck another hundred yards.

2009, Carlos Reid, Stalking the Warden, page 165:


entreatingly

entreatingly (comparative more entreatingly, superlative most entreatingly)

more entreatingly (comparative)
most entreatingly (superlative)

"Master," she said, in a low voice, with her eyes attentively and entreatingly fixed upon him. "Don't!"

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VII, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 113:


excruciatingly

excruciatingly (comparative more excruciatingly, superlative most excruciatingly)

more excruciatingly (comparative)
most excruciatingly (superlative)

The gunshot wound was excruciatingly painful.

My hunger was now tormenting me excruciatingly, and gave me no rest.

1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part II”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 92:

In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great anguish or pain.

straziantemente

in a manner causing great pain or anguish


every which where

(idiomatic, informal, emphatic) everywhere


expeditiously

expeditiously (comparative more expeditiously, superlative most expeditiously)

more expeditiously (comparative)
most expeditiously (superlative)

For the convenience of Charlotte and her child, they were to be more than two days on their journey, and Mr. Palmer, travelling more expeditiously with Colonel Brandon, was to join them at Cleveland soon after their arrival.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XLII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general pretence of being asleep.

1859, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:


unsafely

unsafely (comparative more unsafely, superlative most unsafely)

more unsafely (comparative)
most unsafely (superlative)

In an unsafe way; without regard to safety; carelessly.


emptily

emptily (comparative more emptily, superlative most emptily)

more emptily (comparative)
most emptily (superlative)


ex facie

From Latin ex facie (“out of the face”).

(law) Of contempt of court, not committed directly in court in the presence of the judge.


unilaterally

unilaterally (comparative more unilaterally, superlative most unilaterally)

more unilaterally (comparative)
most unilaterally (superlative)


expectantly

expectantly (comparative more expectantly, superlative most expectantly)

more expectantly (comparative)
most expectantly (superlative)

The cat looked expectantly at the mouse.

Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.[…]She looked around expectantly, and recognizing Mrs. Cooke's maid[…]Miss Thorn greeted her with a smile which greatly prepossessed us in her favor.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Professor Challenger was on his feet. His appearance and manner are peculiarly arresting, and as he raised his hand for order the whole audience settled down expectantly to give him a hearing.

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


mischievously

mischievously (comparative more mischievously, superlative most mischievously)

more mischievously (comparative)
most mischievously (superlative)

From Middle English mischevously, myschevously, equivalent to mischievous + -ly.


puckishly

puckishly (comparative more puckishly, superlative most puckishly)

more puckishly (comparative)
most puckishly (superlative)

At the start of lockdown, some puckishly predicted that all those couples locked away together would set off a pandemic baby boom.

2021 April 13, Tom Whyman, “Why, Despite Everything, You Should Have Kids (if You Want Them)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


pugnaciously

pugnaciously (comparative more pugnaciously, superlative most pugnaciously)

more pugnaciously (comparative)
most pugnaciously (superlative)

From pugnacious + -ly. Attested since the early 19th century.


prissily

prissily (comparative more prissily, superlative most prissily)

more prissily (comparative)
most prissily (superlative)

In a prissy manner; in a manner that is excessively prim or proper.


pridefully

pridefully (comparative more pridefully, superlative most pridefully)

more pridefully (comparative)
most pridefully (superlative)


primitively

primitively (comparative more primitively, superlative most primitively)

more primitively (comparative)
most primitively (superlative)

Peter had been an adept with tilts, as old Stein had said so often that morning, while he, Palmer, and Gus, had dubiously laboured at this elusive task. But Peter would rig no more tilts, and primitively old Stein and Gus lamented this, as they missed his services.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 253:


hereinafter

/ˈhɪɹɪnˈæftɚ/

/ˈhɪəɹɪnˈɑːftə/

In the parts of this document, statement, or book that follow; after this


ad nauseum

From ad nauseam, with influence from the common Latin ending -um.

If Miss McFlimsey has neat ankles, she can wear short dresses: if she has clumsy ones she can wear a trail; if she is inclined to be (pardon the word) “scrawny,” she can indulge in expensive skirts and protuberant “panniers;” if inclined to embonpoint, she can discard these and “gore” her robes; if her neck and arms are exquisitely moulded, she can undrape their dazzling charms; if bone predominates over plumpitude, she can cover them from the gaze of flying eyes; if she has a disease of the spine, she need not sport “the Grecian bend;” if she is unfortunately healthy, she can call in the aid of that modern deformity—and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.

1869 January 10, “The Dress Question”, in Daily Missouri Republican, volume XLVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo., page [2], column 3:


throatily

throatily (comparative more throatily, superlative most throatily)

more throatily (comparative)
most throatily (superlative)

His heart sank at the vision on the veranda: Syed Omar, in newspaper shirt, making a spectacular entrance, crooning throatily.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 487:


unimaginatively

unimaginatively (comparative more unimaginatively, superlative most unimaginatively)

more unimaginatively (comparative)
most unimaginatively (superlative)

Done in a unimaginative manner; not creatively.


imaginatively

imaginatively (comparative more imaginatively, superlative most imaginatively)

more imaginatively (comparative)
most imaginatively (superlative)

From Middle English ymaginatyfliche; equivalent to imaginative + -ly.

In an imaginative manner; showing creativity.


parrot fashion

He failed the tests because he could only recite the lessons parrot-fashion.

In the manner of a parrot; with thoughtless repetition of what others have said.


piggyback

A corruption of pickaback, itself a corruption of pick-pack, like a pack.

to ride piggyback


straight out of the chute

straight out of the chute (not comparable)

Taken from rodeo routines: the bucking bronco, or bull, or the calf for the calf-roping contest is kept in a narrow pen, a chute, before being released.

His ride on Bold Lancer started out just like he thought it would. The bull bucked straight out of the chute and slowly came around to the left. Clay remained in position, forward on his bull rope, spurs raking the bull’s side. It looked as if it was going to be an easy ride, albeit a low-scoring one. Bold Lancer had other ideas.

(US, idiomatic) immediately, from the very outset.


long ago

long ago (comparative longer ago, superlative longest ago)

longer ago (comparative)
longest ago (superlative)

There was a Roman fort here long ago.

How long ago did she die? It's not that long ago that she did.

That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

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

Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 2017-05-11:

At a time in the past, especially the distant past.


endways

endways (comparative more endways, superlative most endways)

more endways (comparative)
most endways (superlative)


bumblingly

bumblingly (comparative more bumblingly, superlative most bumblingly)

more bumblingly (comparative)
most bumblingly (superlative)


as of late

In the idiomatic sense, a relatively recent and uncommon blend of as of and of late. See also as of yet.

You seem to be quite busy as of late.


down to the wire

From horse racing: approaching the wire that marks the winning line.

He was almost done with the paper, but tomorrow's due date meant it would come down to the wire.

Liverpool created a host of chances and had a Joel Matip goal ruled out for a foul and offside in an incident-packed game that went right down to the wire before Jurgen Klopp's side prevailed.

2022 February 27, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-0 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

(idiomatic) At the very end of a process or project, especially one with a fast-approaching deadline.


excursively

excursively (comparative more excursively, superlative most excursively)

more excursively (comparative)
most excursively (superlative)


expertly

expertly (comparative more expertly, superlative most expertly)

more expertly (comparative)
most expertly (superlative)

This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.

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


nonchalantly

nonchalantly (comparative more nonchalantly, superlative most nonchalantly)

more nonchalantly (comparative)
most nonchalantly (superlative)

Smoke a gold leaf, I hold heat nonchalantly

1995, “Verbal Intercourse”, in Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, performed by Raekwon ft. Nas:

I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.

2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:


autogenously

autogenously (comparative more autogenously, superlative most autogenously)

more autogenously (comparative)
most autogenously (superlative)


pacifically

pacifically (comparative more pacifically, superlative most pacifically)

more pacifically (comparative)
most pacifically (superlative)

The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:

To arrange and compose pacifically, the differences which may arise between the Federal States; and, should the same not succeed, to point out to the Supreme Chief the measures which should be adopted to re-establish peace and harmony […]

1828, British and Foreign State Papers, page 962:


fanatically

fanatically (comparative more fanatically, superlative most fanatically)

more fanatically (comparative)
most fanatically (superlative)

In a fanatical manner; with extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm.


argal

A corruption of the Latin ergō (“therefore, thus”).

And an act hath three branches—it is to act, to do, to perform. Argal, she drowned herself wittingly.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], lines 11-13:

He thought: 900 pesos=100 bottles of whiskey=900 ditto tequila. Argal: one should drink neither tequila nor whiskey but mescal.

1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 77:


goodhumoredly

goodhumoredly (comparative more goodhumoredly, superlative most goodhumoredly)

more goodhumoredly (comparative)
most goodhumoredly (superlative)


goodheartedly

goodheartedly (comparative more goodheartedly, superlative most goodheartedly)

more goodheartedly (comparative)
most goodheartedly (superlative)


goodnaturedly

goodnaturedly (comparative more goodnaturedly, superlative most goodnaturedly)

more goodnaturedly (comparative)
most goodnaturedly (superlative)


gorily

gorily (comparative more gorily, superlative most gorily)

more gorily (comparative)
most gorily (superlative)


unofficially

unofficially (comparative more unofficially, superlative most unofficially)

more unofficially (comparative)
most unofficially (superlative)


apocalyptically

Aerial warfare and the atomic bomb, which he “invented” in The War in the Air (1908) and The World Set Free (1914), have proved as apocalyptically destructive as he prophesied.

1834, William Rose Benet, The Reader's Encyclopedia Second Edition, page 1082:

I hope I appear not to speak too apocalyptically in saying that the problem is still there to minister to our interest and perhaps even a little to our anxiety.

1893, Henry James, Essays in London and Elsewhere, Harper & Brothers, page 185:

Juxtaposing a secular vision of an earth apocalyptically destroyed through the activities of a Euro-American culture devoted to exploiting resources in every possible way with an equally apocalyptic, sacred vision of the age of the coming of the fifth world in which the culture of destruction will pass away, Silko depicts a world in which apocalypse saturates the everyday, undoing the realism of the nuclear complex by positioning it in a different timeline that has a different past, a different future, and a different present to anything that the nuclear state might think to contain in even its most totalizing attempts to model the world.

1929, American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism and Bibliography, Duke University Press, page 773:

The Hobo of the Ideal disappeared from my life as apocalyptically as he had come. He stood with me in front of the window of the Press, pointed to a bulletin saying that the Chicago anarchists had been hanged, and whispered to me, “The time has come!”

1931, The American Mercury 1931-05: Volume 23, Issue 89, Sunway Media, page 104:

The protagonist of Shame is a retarded, completely innocent girl who becomes a universal emotional surrogate, absorbing the shame for the acts of the power-hungry characters around her and turning into a monstrous and apocalyptically destructive force.

1986, Current Biography Yearbook, H. W. Wilson Company, page 481:

In a manner portending future disaster, devastation, and doom.


grandiosely

grandiosely (comparative more grandiosely, superlative most grandiosely)

more grandiosely (comparative)
most grandiosely (superlative)


groggily

groggily (comparative more groggily, superlative most groggily)

more groggily (comparative)
most groggily (superlative)


grubbily

grubbily (comparative more grubbily, superlative most grubbily)

more grubbily (comparative)
most grubbily (superlative)


grouchily

grouchily (comparative more grouchily, superlative most grouchily)

more grouchily (comparative)
most grouchily (superlative)


gregariously

gregariously (comparative more gregariously, superlative most gregariously)

more gregariously (comparative)
most gregariously (superlative)


gruesomely

gruesomely (comparative more gruesomely, superlative most gruesomely)

more gruesomely (comparative)
most gruesomely (superlative)


gorgeously

gorgeously (comparative more gorgeously, superlative most gorgeously)

more gorgeously (comparative)
most gorgeously (superlative)

Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves "Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century."

1885 July 9, The Hamilton Spectator, page 4:

What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?

2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:


gratingly

gratingly (comparative more gratingly, superlative most gratingly)

more gratingly (comparative)
most gratingly (superlative)

So as to grate or jar; in a tiresome or irritating manner.


antecedently

antecedently (comparative more antecedently, superlative most antecedently)

more antecedently (comparative)
most antecedently (superlative)

The History of Brute and the Brutans setteth forth. Principally and antecedently their persons, & in them sheweth the geneallogy or issue which they had, artes which they studied, actes which they did.

1593, Richard Harvey, Philadelphus, London: John Wolfe:

[…] it does not at all appear, that all Mixtures must be of Elementary Bodies; but it seems farr more probable, that there are divers sorts of compound Bodies, even in regard of all or some of their Ingredients, consider’d Antecedently to their Mixture.

1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, Part 4, pp. 214-215:

[…] nothing is ever present to the mind but perceptions, and […] all ideas are deriv’d from something antecedently present to the mind;

1739, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon, Volume 1, Part 2, Section 6, p. 123:

She had never antecedently regarded this occupation of his as any objection to having him for a husband.

1896, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales, New York: Harper, page 4:

The case of envy just described is one in which we feel joy or sadness at the sadness or joy of one we antecedently hate.

2008, Michael Della Rocca, chapter 4, in Spinoza, London: Routledge, page 161:


greasily

greasily (comparative more greasily, superlative most greasily)

more greasily (comparative)
most greasily (superlative)


graphically

graphically (comparative more graphically, superlative most graphically)

more graphically (comparative)
most graphically (superlative)

England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.

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


gracelessly

gracelessly (comparative more gracelessly, superlative most gracelessly)

more gracelessly (comparative)
most gracelessly (superlative)

From Middle English gracelessly; equivalent to graceless + -ly.

The French, in his whole language, hath not one word that hath his accent in the last syllable, saving two, called antepenultima; and little more, hath the Spanish, and therefore very gracelessly may they use dactiles.

1595, Philip Sidney, An Apologie for Poetrie:

Barabbas jumped down the eroded slope towards the water and slipped the last few feet gracelessly on his arse.

1965, Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters, New York: Africana Publishing, published 1972, Part One, Chapter 8, p. 116:

As he finished he heard the footsteps of the woman who daily came to work for him. They were slow, dragging footsteps implying the bulk they gracelessly shifted.

1968, William Trevor, “The General's Day”, in Collected Stories, Penguin, published 1992, page 30:


grandly

grandly (comparative more grandly, superlative most grandly)

more grandly (comparative)
most grandly (superlative)

This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

But whether or not Sumner was the most typical man of his native commonwealth, he certainly does take a representative place on the bede-roll of her great sons. And on a wider field he does especially and grandly represent the Puritan spirit and the Pilgrim idea, and so the peculiar ethical and political idea of our whole nation.

1892, Anna Laurens Dawes, Charles Sumner, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 2:

The world had appreciated what he had done, and had put much to his credit, and he was prepared to draw upon this grandly.

1899, Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline, Harper & Brothers, page 2:

Thus happily unfolding his plans, his work enlarged grandly. He was living in high hopes of spending uninterruptedly the greater part of his life in China.

1902, William Elliot Griffis, A Maker of the New Orient: Samuel Robbins Brown, Pioneer educator in China, America, and Japan: The Story of His Life and Work, F.H. Revell, page 102:


good-heartedly

good-heartedly (comparative more good-heartedly, superlative most good-heartedly)

more good-heartedly (comparative)
most good-heartedly (superlative)


greenly

greenly (comparative more greenly, superlative most greenly)

more greenly (comparative)
most greenly (superlative)

But within this swarded circle, into which the lime-walk brings us —
Whence the beeches rounded greenly, stand away in reverent fear;
I will let no music enter, saving what the fountain sings us […]

1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Geraldine's Courtship:

Sylvia loved dancing, and knew "wall flowers" only by sight; therefore she was busy; her lover's gift shone greenly in bosom, hair, and fleecy skirts[…]

1865, Louisa May Alcott, Moods, page 131:

What was that gleaming greenly on Mother's hand? A ring . . . Dad's present.

1939, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside:

They […] proposed that we should join them in a plan to drench the president next morning with freezing water. We consented greenly enough.

1880, Robert W. Bigham, Thomas Osmond Summers, Wine and Blood, page 53:


self-evidently

self-evidently (comparative more self-evidently, superlative most self-evidently)

more self-evidently (comparative)
most self-evidently (superlative)


self-righteously

self-righteously (comparative more self-righteously, superlative most self-righteously)

more self-righteously (comparative)
most self-righteously (superlative)


self-consciously

self-consciously (comparative more self-consciously, superlative most self-consciously)

more self-consciously (comparative)
most self-consciously (superlative)


self-confidently

self-confidently (comparative more self-confidently, superlative most self-confidently)

more self-confidently (comparative)
most self-confidently (superlative)


good-naturedly

good-naturedly (comparative more good-naturedly, superlative most good-naturedly)

more good-naturedly (comparative)
most good-naturedly (superlative)

But here the woman saved me: I pretended a violent disorder of my head, and a feverish heat, that indisposed me too much to receive his embraces. He gave in to this, and good-naturedly desisted.

1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”

1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:


signally

signally (comparative more signally, superlative most signally)

more signally (comparative)
most signally (superlative)

She would have given anything to have kept her colour, but the more she tried to do so the more signally she failed.

1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 10:


discontentedly

discontentedly (comparative more discontentedly, superlative most discontentedly)

more discontentedly (comparative)
most discontentedly (superlative)


discourteously

discourteously (comparative more discourteously, superlative most discourteously)

more discourteously (comparative)
most discourteously (superlative)


upsettingly

upsettingly (comparative more upsettingly, superlative most upsettingly)

more upsettingly (comparative)
most upsettingly (superlative)


detrimentally

detrimentally (comparative more detrimentally, superlative most detrimentally)

more detrimentally (comparative)
most detrimentally (superlative)


discerningly

discerningly (comparative more discerningly, superlative most discerningly)

more discerningly (comparative)
most discerningly (superlative)


good-humoredly

good-humoredly (comparative more good-humoredly, superlative most good-humoredly)

more good-humoredly (comparative)
most good-humoredly (superlative)


decreasingly

decreasingly (comparative more decreasingly, superlative most decreasingly)

more decreasingly (comparative)
most decreasingly (superlative)

In a decreasing manner; progressively less.


discernibly

discernibly (comparative more discernibly, superlative most discernibly)

more discernibly (comparative)
most discernibly (superlative)


discordantly

discordantly (comparative more discordantly, superlative most discordantly)

more discordantly (comparative)
most discordantly (superlative)

Taking old William and Benny with me, I was soon camped in a little hut on the west point of Frigate Bird, in a grove of tall puka trees where the wind moans with a pleasing dolorousness and a dozen species of sea birds squawk discordantly from their perches in the branches.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 82:


gratuitously

gratuitously (comparative more gratuitously, superlative most gratuitously)

more gratuitously (comparative)
most gratuitously (superlative)

We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.

1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter 1, in Walden:

Freely; in the manner of a gift, without being earned.

Secondly, Mr. Browne concludes, apparently rather gratuitously, on page 441 as follows[…]

1881, Samuel Tolver Preston, “On Action at a Distance”, in Philosophical Magazine, 15:38-39:

In a manner not demanded by the circumstances, without reason, justification, cause, or proof.

gratuïtament

in a manner not demanded by the circumstances


digitally

digitally (comparative more digitally, superlative most digitally)

more digitally (comparative)
most digitally (superlative)

The film was shot digitally.


deviously

deviously (comparative more deviously, superlative most deviously)

more deviously (comparative)
most deviously (superlative)


discouragingly

discouragingly (comparative more discouragingly, superlative most discouragingly)

more discouragingly (comparative)
most discouragingly (superlative)


seismically

seismically (comparative more seismically, superlative most seismically)

more seismically (comparative)
most seismically (superlative)

Nabby Adams crumpled and crashed off his chair. The house rumbled seismically at the heavy fall.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 183:

In a seismic manner; with the qualities of an earthquake.


devastatingly

devastatingly (comparative more devastatingly, superlative most devastatingly)

more devastatingly (comparative)
most devastatingly (superlative)

Grimsby doesn’t ever wound quite as devastatingly as Borat or Brüno, but it’s a vital, lavish, venomously profane two fingers up at Benefits Street pity porn and the social division it fosters.

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


difficultly

difficultly (comparative more difficultly, superlative most difficultly)

more difficultly (comparative)
most difficultly (superlative)

In fact, we regard these efforts as insults on our understanding, and to such the pride of man is very difficultly brought to submit.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:


dazzlingly

dazzlingly (comparative more dazzlingly, superlative most dazzlingly)

more dazzlingly (comparative)
most dazzlingly (superlative)

Which would you rather be if you had the choice—divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"

1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Anne of Green Gables:

The sun was almost at zenith and the glare was dazzlingly intense.

1941, Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, London: Secker & Warburg, published 1945, Part One, p. 22:

1963, Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (1927), translated by Basil Creighton, revised by Walter Sorell, Penguin, 1964, p. 55,
And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty, the spray of their moment's happiness is flung so high and dazzlingly over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment.


decorously

decorously (comparative more decorously, superlative most decorously)

more decorously (comparative)
most decorously (superlative)

[…] below them, men and women, and boys and girls, sinners all, loitered; sometimes one of the church-members passed and saw them and waved. Then, for the moment that they waved decorously back, they were intimidated.

1965, James Baldwin, “The Rockpile”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial Press:


disadvantageously

disadvantageously (comparative more disadvantageously, superlative most disadvantageously)

more disadvantageously (comparative)
most disadvantageously (superlative)


disconcertingly

disconcertingly (comparative more disconcertingly, superlative most disconcertingly)

more disconcertingly (comparative)
most disconcertingly (superlative)

As it turned out, the itinerary was disconcertingly illogical, involving criss-crossing America in anything but a straight line.

2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 71:


determinedly

determinedly (comparative more determinedly, superlative most determinedly)

more determinedly (comparative)
most determinedly (superlative)


disdainfully

disdainfully (comparative more disdainfully, superlative most disdainfully)

more disdainfully (comparative)
most disdainfully (superlative)


discontinuously

discontinuously (comparative more discontinuously, superlative most discontinuously)

more discontinuously (comparative)
most discontinuously (superlative)

In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.


dingily

dingily (comparative more dingily, superlative most dingily)

more dingily (comparative)
most dingily (superlative)

Yonder dingily white remnant of a huge snowbank,—which will yet cumber the sidewalk till the latter days of March,—over or through that wintry waste must I stride onward.

1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Night Sketches, Beneath an Umbrella”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume 2, Boston: James Munroe & Co., page 273:

Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high,
Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen;

1871, Walt Whitman, “Bivouac on a Mountain Side”, in Leaves of Grass, New York: J.S. Redfield, page 277:

Gracie died just at the time when I had no emotion whatsoever to spend on her: dingily, surrounded by nurses and heartless starched blouses, in a Bournemouth nursing home.

1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book, New York: Pocket Books, published 1962, Book Three, pp. 169-170:


dictatorially

dictatorially (comparative more dictatorially, superlative most dictatorially)

more dictatorially (comparative)
most dictatorially (superlative)


diffusely

diffusely (comparative more diffusely, superlative most diffusely)

more diffusely (comparative)
most diffusely (superlative)


diagrammatically

Armstrong goes on [sic] discuss the psychologist Abraham Maslow's "hierarchy of needs", which he again presents diagrammatically, and again modified somewhat.

2009, D.M. Armstrong, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 6


diabolically

diabolically (comparative more diabolically, superlative most diabolically)

more diabolically (comparative)
most diabolically (superlative)

Two recent books, one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations.

1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Foreigner At Home”, in Memories and Portraits, New York: Charles Scribner, page 1:


diplomatically

diplomatically (comparative more diplomatically, superlative most diplomatically)

more diplomatically (comparative)
most diplomatically (superlative)

He dealt with the problem very diplomatically

Frito smiled diplomatically, but was suddenly stricken by a severe stomachache.

1969, The Harvard Lampoon (Henry N. Beard, Douglas C. Kenney), Bored of the Rings, Signet, page 30:

Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.

2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:

(domain) From the perspective of diplomacy


didactically

didactically (comparative more didactically, superlative most didactically)

more didactically (comparative)
most didactically (superlative)


diffidently

diffidently (comparative more diffidently, superlative most diffidently)

more diffidently (comparative)
most diffidently (superlative)

The author too keenly feels that he has no further claims than these, and he therefore most diffidently asks for his work the indulgence of his readers.

1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, preface:

The same evening John Rossitter wrote to the Bishop of Nawaub, and very humbly and diffidently offered himself, his young life, his health and his strength, his talents and energies, his younger son's portion, all that God had given him, for his Master's use;

1883, Evelyn Whitaker, Miss Toosey's Mission, page 85:

"May I see you sometimes?" he asked diffidently.

1902, Ellen Glasgow, The Voice of the People, page 193:

In a diffident manner; without confidence in oneself.

epävarmasti

in a diffident manner; without confidence in oneself


discursively

discursively (comparative more discursively, superlative most discursively)

more discursively (comparative)
most discursively (superlative)

If then I seem to step somewhat too discursively from point to point of my topic, let me suggest that I do so in the hope of thus the better keeping unbroken that chain of graduated impression by which alone the intellect of Man can expect to encompass the grandeurs of which I speak, and, in their majestic totality, to comprehend them.

1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, page 103:

There were certain things […] that pricked him to talk discursively and incautiously; but now he realized that he had only been talking like a character in a novel, and not a very good novel.

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

We are dealing in the Iliad with a commanding vision of man, articulate in every detail, not with a tale of adventure automatically or discursively carried forward.

1962, George Steiner, “Homer and the Scholars”, in Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman, New York: Atheneum, published 1986, page 176:

In that realm, which was discursively constructed and called the Orient, certain kinds of assertions could be made, all of them possessing the same powerful generality and cultural validity.

1978, Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vintage, published 2003, Chapter 2, part II, p. 148:


devilishly

devilishly (comparative more devilishly, superlative most devilishly)

more devilishly (comparative)
most devilishly (superlative)


dreamily

dreamily (comparative more dreamily, superlative most dreamily)

more dreamily (comparative)
most dreamily (superlative)

"There are no women like the Arab women," said Haji Zainal Abidin dreamily, lyrically.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 236:


no sweat

(informal) Without problems or difficulties.


sidewise

sidewise (comparative more sidewise, superlative most sidewise)

more sidewise (comparative)
most sidewise (superlative)


factitiously

factitiously (comparative more factitiously, superlative most factitiously)

more factitiously (comparative)
most factitiously (superlative)

'Well, darling, how are you? I am glad you have come in to see me,' said Miss Aldclyffe. 'You can unlock the bag this morning, child, if you like,' she continued, yawning factitiously.

1871, Hardy, Desperate remedies, part 11 chapter 6

A true Tartarean dignity sat upon her brow, and not factitiously or with marks of constraint, for it had grown in her with years.

1878, Hardy, The Return of the Native, book 1 chapter 7


substantively

substantively (comparative more substantively, superlative most substantively)

more substantively (comparative)
most substantively (superlative)

In a substantive manner, or to a substantive extent.

(grammar, of a word) Employed as a noun.


diversely

diversely (comparative more diversely, superlative most diversely)

more diversely (comparative)
most diversely (superlative)

Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]

1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068:


stylistically

stylistically (comparative more stylistically, superlative most stylistically)

more stylistically (comparative)
most stylistically (superlative)

The central painting, depicting Circe's palace, is compositionally and stylistically different than the rest of the frieze.

2009, Umberto Pappalardo, The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting, page 91:

Though rooted in jazz, Byron's music is stylistically eclectic.

2017 August 2, Seth Rogovoy, Don Byron and Friends to Explore Early Soul Music at Helsinki Hudson:


faithlessly

faithlessly (comparative more faithlessly, superlative most faithlessly)

more faithlessly (comparative)
most faithlessly (superlative)


farcically

farcically (comparative more farcically, superlative most farcically)

more farcically (comparative)
most farcically (superlative)


fancily

fancily (comparative more fancily, superlative most fancily)

more fancily (comparative)
most fancily (superlative)


facilely

facilely (comparative more facilely, superlative most facilely)

more facilely (comparative)
most facilely (superlative)


fastidiously

fastidiously (comparative more fastidiously, superlative most fastidiously)

more fastidiously (comparative)
most fastidiously (superlative)


fatefully

fatefully (comparative more fatefully, superlative most fatefully)

more fatefully (comparative)
most fatefully (superlative)


fascinatingly

fascinatingly (comparative more fascinatingly, superlative most fascinatingly)

more fascinatingly (comparative)
most fascinatingly (superlative)


southwestwards

southwestwards (comparative more southwestwards, superlative most southwestwards)

more southwestwards (comparative)
most southwestwards (superlative)


fallibly

fallibly (comparative more fallibly, superlative most fallibly)

more fallibly (comparative)
most fallibly (superlative)

Ultimately, these narratives encode for us the fundamental human hope that the mercy of the Almighty will envelop us all, erase all the failings that make us so fallibly human, and allow us to reach our fullest potential […]

2014, David Marshall, Lucinda Mosher, Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny:


factually

factually (comparative more factually, superlative most factually)

more factually (comparative)
most factually (superlative)


fatuously

fatuously (comparative more fatuously, superlative most fatuously)

more fatuously (comparative)
most fatuously (superlative)

Will they, like the fellows, judiciously bear a hand in sweeping the stable, or will they fatuously wait to be themselves swept with a besom of destruction?

1835, “Reform in the College of Physicians”, in Michael Ryan, editor, London Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. VII, page 153:

With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.


southeastwards

southeastwards (comparative more southeastwards, superlative most southeastwards)

more southeastwards (comparative)
most southeastwards (superlative)


faultlessly

faultlessly (comparative more faultlessly, superlative most faultlessly)

more faultlessly (comparative)
most faultlessly (superlative)


fatalistically

fatalistically (comparative more fatalistically, superlative most fatalistically)

more fatalistically (comparative)
most fatalistically (superlative)

Women like Mary and Susan, who have needed to deny their lesbianism in order to retain financial support and avoid physical abuse, fear additional calls. "Pamela," an out lesbian whose parents have not been telephoned, explained that she fatalistically waits, knowing her "deeply religious conservative Southern Baptist" parents would react strongly.

1985 December 21, Laurie Sherman, “Lesbian Students' Parents Getting Anonymous Calls”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 12:

Kyiv has also signaled that any counterattacks in Russia are simply part of a war Russia started, and asked, perhaps fatalistically, what more could Russia do to Ukraine?

2022 April 30, Andrew E. Kramer, “Ukrainian Official Outlines Intentional Ambiguity on Strikes Inside Russia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


southwestward

southwestward (comparative more southwestward, superlative most southwestward)

more southwestward (comparative)
most southwestward (superlative)


southwesterly

southwesterly (comparative more southwesterly, superlative most southwesterly)

more southwesterly (comparative)
most southwesterly (superlative)


falteringly

falteringly (comparative more falteringly, superlative most falteringly)

more falteringly (comparative)
most falteringly (superlative)

She spoke falteringly, and concluded with a heavy sigh.

1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

In a faltering manner; hesitantly, making pauses


southeastward

southeastward (comparative more southeastward, superlative most southeastward)

more southeastward (comparative)
most southeastward (superlative)


fecklessly

fecklessly (comparative more fecklessly, superlative most fecklessly)

more fecklessly (comparative)
most fecklessly (superlative)


faultily

faultily (comparative more faultily, superlative most faultily)

more faultily (comparative)
most faultily (superlative)


fetchingly

fetchingly (comparative more fetchingly, superlative most fetchingly)

more fetchingly (comparative)
most fetchingly (superlative)


appreciably

appreciably (comparative more appreciably, superlative most appreciably)

more appreciably (comparative)
most appreciably (superlative)

His fervour tempered her resistance appreciably.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 122:

If there are infinite universes, of course there’d be infinite universes where Rick isn’t the smartest person around. But we’ve never seen Rick end up in a place where other people are appreciably smarter than him.

2021 September 6, Zack Handlen, “Rick And Morty ends its fifth season looking for an escape hatch”, in AV Club:

In an appreciable manner; to a large extent; considerably.


feasibly

feasibly (comparative more feasibly, superlative most feasibly)

more feasibly (comparative)
most feasibly (superlative)


felicitously

felicitously (comparative more felicitously, superlative most felicitously)

more felicitously (comparative)
most felicitously (superlative)

The house was not very felicitously titled, said many: it was no academic pharos.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 39:


feelingly

feelingly (comparative more feelingly, superlative most feelingly)

more feelingly (comparative)
most feelingly (superlative)

Vainly did he feelingly paint the perfumed love passages of the passionate pair.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 235:


fictionally

fictionally (comparative more fictionally, superlative most fictionally)

more fictionally (comparative)
most fictionally (superlative)


fishily

fishily (comparative more fishily, superlative most fishily)

more fishily (comparative)
most fishily (superlative)


fictitiously

fictitiously (comparative more fictitiously, superlative most fictitiously)

more fictitiously (comparative)
most fictitiously (superlative)


flaccidly

flaccidly (comparative more flaccidly, superlative most flaccidly)

more flaccidly (comparative)
most flaccidly (superlative)


flauntingly

flauntingly (comparative more flauntingly, superlative most flauntingly)

more flauntingly (comparative)
most flauntingly (superlative)


flabbily

flabbily (comparative more flabbily, superlative most flabbily)

more flabbily (comparative)
most flabbily (superlative)


flimsily

flimsily (comparative more flimsily, superlative most flimsily)

more flimsily (comparative)
most flimsily (superlative)


floridly

floridly (comparative more floridly, superlative most floridly)

more floridly (comparative)
most floridly (superlative)


fleetly

fleetly (comparative more fleetly, superlative most fleetly)

more fleetly (comparative)
most fleetly (superlative)


foolhardily

foolhardily (comparative more foolhardily, superlative most foolhardily)

more foolhardily (comparative)
most foolhardily (superlative)


floppily

floppily (comparative more floppily, superlative most floppily)

more floppily (comparative)
most floppily (superlative)


forthrightly

forthrightly (comparative more forthrightly, superlative most forthrightly)

more forthrightly (comparative)
most forthrightly (superlative)


foggily

foggily (comparative more foggily, superlative most foggily)

more foggily (comparative)
most foggily (superlative)


formlessly

formlessly (comparative more formlessly, superlative most formlessly)

more formlessly (comparative)
most formlessly (superlative)


fractionally

fractionally (comparative more fractionally, superlative most fractionally)

more fractionally (comparative)
most fractionally (superlative)

One twin was fractionally older than the other.


flagrantly

flagrantly (comparative more flagrantly, superlative most flagrantly)

more flagrantly (comparative)
most flagrantly (superlative)

Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]

1854, Robert Aitken, The teaching of the types, page 99:


flippantly

flippantly (comparative more flippantly, superlative most flippantly)

more flippantly (comparative)
most flippantly (superlative)

“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.

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


flamboyantly

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The entire tense, compact play takes place inside a subway car where an exchange between a flamboyantly loose blonde of about 30, Lula (Jennifer Mudge), and a conservatively dressed young black man, Clay (Dulé Hill ), escalates from surreally unsuppressed flirtation to violence and tragedy as all of Clay’s efforts toward assimilation are shown to be for naught.

2007 January 24, Ginia Bellafante, “’60s Prejudice and Capitalism as a Big Blond Metaphor”, in New York Times:


flashily

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The attacking three have also been allowed to bloom. Liberated from deep defensive duties Eden Hazard has become more expressive, more obviously, flashily complete.

2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:


festively

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frontally

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frustratingly

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In a frustrating manner; in a manner that causes frustration.


frowzily

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frenziedly

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fantastically

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He painted fantastically with everything as if in a dream.

"The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.

1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:

He was fantastically wealthy.

The provinces of Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Jilin are fantastically cold in winter, indeed one of the major tourist attractions for the hardy is the display of ice-carved figures in public parks (especially in Haerbin, Heilongjiang province). The long winters have average temperatures between — 20°C and — 27°C, although the short summers are hot.

1988, Frances Wood, “Town and Countryside”, in A Companion to China, 1st U.S. edition, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:

One must be especially careful when using Google to determine frequency as there is a very real risk of fantastically overestimating the frequency and subsequent importance of a term.

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 15:

To an extent only in fantasy; outrageously; ridiculously.


fittingly

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And Van Persie fittingly had the final word with seconds to go by escaping Chelsea's defence once more to thump high past Cech in front of Arsenal's joyous supporters.

2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:


frugally

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When they are at work they live most frugally, denying themselves every comfort and luxury till they have made a "pile."

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 192:


funereally

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We crawled funereally up the 1 in 100 to Blisworth and reduced speed to not more than 5 m.p.h. round the curve, [...].

1962 January, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 41:


frostily

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fruitlessly

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flatteringly

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From Middle English flateryngly, flateringli, alteration of earlier flaterandly. By surface analysis, flattering + -ly.


federally

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The solids would then be dumped at a federally approved toxics landfill.

1988 January 15, Paul Botts, “Environment: Waukegan's Toxic Waits”, in Chicago Reader:

White residents used Federal Housing Administration-insured loans to buy their way out of the projects and to move to shiny new middle-class subdivisions. […] The F.H.A.’s explicitly racist underwriting standards, which rated black and integrated neighborhoods as uninsurable, made federally insured home loans largely unavailable to black home seekers.

2016 June 9, Nikole Hannah-Jones, “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City”, in The New York Times Magazine:


fumblingly

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Fumblingly she groped and groped, till the burning blood gushed from her nose and mouth; then, mercifully, her tired senses swooned, and she fell with her head resting on the tree.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 299:


fluidly

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friskily

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fussily

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Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.

1946 January and February, 'Talisman', “Bückeburg to Aberayron”, in Railway Magazine, page 41:

There's actually not much to see. Tooth-billeds don't build elaborate structures, merely scratching out a space on the rainforest floor that they decorate fussily with soft green leaves.

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 212:


fraternally

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frenetically

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forgetfully

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fraudulently

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From Middle English fraudulently; equivalent to fraudulent + -ly.


fragrantly

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freakishly

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“King Homer” follows the story of King Kong closely, with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, where he is an initially impressive but ultimately rather limited Broadway attraction.

2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

"Certainly not freakishly small and certainly not enormous," Horwell said. "Not one of these witnesses can be relied upon."

2014 March 26, Richard Horwell QC, quotee, “Max Clifford's penis 'neither freakishly small nor enormous', lawyer tells court”, in The Guardian, sourced from Press Association, →ISSN:

Nicolas Cage’s performance in the freakishly great 1989 cult classic Vampire’s Kiss transcends language and exposes the limitations of human vocabulary, entering a space sometimes rationalised with the defeatist turn of phrase: “there are no words”.

2022 August 23, Luke Buckmaster, “Vampire’s Kiss: Nicolas Cage is unforgettable in this freakishly great cult classic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


fulsomely

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Inherited from Middle English fulsomly; equivalent to fulsome + -ly.

The traditional format produced more lively hearings -- with justices often interrupting each other -- and advocates unable to always respond fulsomely.

2021, Ariane de Vogue, SCOTUS revises oral argument format ahead of blockbuster term, in: CNN Online, September 21 2021


frivolously

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fuzzily

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forwardly

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femininely

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futilely

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My fingers clawed futilely at the unyielding portal, while my eyes sought in vain for a duplicate of the button which had given us ingress.

1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC:


formidably

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filthily

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[…] I waded through with some difficulty, and one of the footmen wiped me as clean as he could with his handkerchief, for I was filthily bemired; and my nurse confined me to my box, till we returned home […]

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):

I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. And they were filthily cold to the touch.

1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 6”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:

Could it be that he, Stephen Dedalus, had done those things? His conscience sighed in answer. Yes, he had done them, secretly, filthily, time after time, and, hardened in sinful impenitence, he had dared to wear the mask of holiness before the tabernacle itself while his soul within was a living mass of corruption.

1916, James Joyce, chapter 3, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:


flawlessly

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fortuitously

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[…] For the genetic constitution of the individual may determine only a range of possible behaviour. The actual behaviour of each individual is fortuitously dependent on the total environment, and this latter can include the actual group. For example, the tendency of birds to refrain from mating may prevent the group from exhausting its food supply.

2017 July 12, Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Sketching Theoretical Biology: Toward a Theoretical Biology, Volume 2, volume 2, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN:

In a fortuitous manner; in a manner of happening by chance; coincidentally; accidentally.

fortuïtament

in a fortuitous manner; in a manner of happening by chance; coincidentally; accidentally

(sometimes proscribed) In a fortuitous manner; in a manner of happening by a lucky chance; luckily; fortunately.

sortosament

in a fortuitous manner; in a manner of happening by a lucky chance; luckily; fortunately