face first

face first (comparative more face first, superlative most face first)

more face first (comparative)
most face first (superlative)

She went face first into the back of a chair that didn't budge with the weight of the man sitting in it.

2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 32, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 164:


Shortened from "three hundred and sixty-five days a year".

They're open three sixty-five; they never close.

Every day of the year. Typically describes a business or service open or available every day, including holidays, such as a gas station, convenience store, ATM, hotline, or concierge service.


adulterately

en-adv

adulterately (comparative more adulterately, superlative most adulterately)

more adulterately (comparative)
most adulterately (superlative)


aerophotographically

In terms of or by means of aerophotography.


afortiori

afortiori (comparative more afortiori, superlative most afortiori)

more afortiori (comparative)
most afortiori (superlative)


microchemically

In a microchemical manner; with regard to microchemistry


rampaciously

rampaciously (comparative more rampaciously, superlative most rampaciously)

more rampaciously (comparative)
most rampaciously (superlative)


rabbitwise

[…] a starveling cat roasted rabbitwise, or a brace of sparrows deluged in parsley and butter, designated in the bill of fare as pigeons or chickens.

1844, Bentley's Miscellany, volume 15, page 53:

When headlights appeared, someone would reel in a black string from his hedge, causing a stuffed white sock in the opposite hedge to slide and jerk, rabbitwise, onto the road so that the driver would just catch a gleam of faltering white in his headlights.

1981, Beth Gutcheon, The New Girls, page 208:


regrettingly

regrettingly (comparative more regrettingly, superlative most regrettingly)

more regrettingly (comparative)
most regrettingly (superlative)


rhomboidly

rhomboidly (comparative more rhomboidly, superlative most rhomboidly)

more rhomboidly (comparative)
most rhomboidly (superlative)


roentgenologically

By means of, or in terms of, roentgenology.


rollingly

rollingly (comparative more rollingly, superlative most rollingly)

more rollingly (comparative)
most rollingly (superlative)


rowdyishly

rowdyishly (comparative more rowdyishly, superlative most rowdyishly)

more rowdyishly (comparative)
most rowdyishly (superlative)


amethodically

amethodically (comparative more amethodically, superlative most amethodically)

more amethodically (comparative)
most amethodically (superlative)


anacamptically

In an anacamptic manner; by reflection of sound.


anathematically

anathematically (comparative more anathematically, superlative most anathematically)

more anathematically (comparative)
most anathematically (superlative)


anacrustically

anacrustically (comparative more anacrustically, superlative most anacrustically)

more anacrustically (comparative)
most anacrustically (superlative)


antirachitically

antirachitically activated yeast


antiquarianly

antiquarianly (comparative more antiquarianly, superlative most antiquarianly)

more antiquarianly (comparative)
most antiquarianly (superlative)


antisocialistically

antisocialistically (comparative more antisocialistically, superlative most antisocialistically)

more antisocialistically (comparative)
most antisocialistically (superlative)


antitheistically

antitheistically (comparative more antitheistically, superlative most antitheistically)

more antitheistically (comparative)
most antitheistically (superlative)


quadrantly

That is, we assemble two of its quadrantly folded great circles to form one hemisphere and four of the quadrantly folded great circles to form the other hemisphere.

1982, R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, page 465:

Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]

1985, Charles L. Scott, The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision, page 80:


etymonically

etymonically (comparative more etymonically, superlative most etymonically)

more etymonically (comparative)
most etymonically (superlative)

Xu Shen's Explanation of Words and Characters divides the ways of making Chinese characters into six kinds: indicator graphs, pictographs, form and voice compounds, etymonic compounds, graphically and etymonically related pairs, and phonetic loan characters.

2018, Li Su, “Chapter 2: Ancient China's cultural constitution”, in Edmund Ryden, transl., edited by Yongle Zhang, The Constitution of Ancient China: Volume 9 of The Princeton-China Series, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 2021-03-21, page 83; republished as Daniel A. Bell, editor, (Please provide a date or year):

Giving weight to 'remnants' emphasises the fragmentation of the British; the suggestion is that they have been removed from a larger whole; they remain (reading etymonically through the translation), and they remain at least potentially negative.

2013, Aled Llion Jones, Darogan: Prophecy, Lament and Absent Heroes in Medieval Welsh Literature, University of Wales Press, →ISBN, retrieved 2021-03-21:

In an etymonic way; in a way based on etymons; as analyzed via etymons.

femoral head fracture
femoral neck fracture
hip fracture
pelvic fracture


symbiogenetically

In terms of, or by means of, symbiogenesis.


swervily

swervily (comparative more swervily, superlative most swervily)

more swervily (comparative)
most swervily (superlative)


polypragmatically

polypragmatically (comparative more polypragmatically, superlative most polypragmatically)

more polypragmatically (comparative)
most polypragmatically (superlative)


polysyndetically

polysyndetically (comparative more polysyndetically, superlative most polysyndetically)

more polysyndetically (comparative)
most polysyndetically (superlative)


poltroonishly

poltroonishly (comparative more poltroonishly, superlative most poltroonishly)

more poltroonishly (comparative)
most poltroonishly (superlative)


standingly

And Glavina, standingly, went on, “Ladies and gentlemen, fellow delegates, we need better publicity writers, ” he paused arrogantly.

1969, Bogomil Dubrovnik, Seven Keys to Hell, page 161:

A man who "fights and bites", "eats standingly" or "cannot control his hunger" would hardly merit comment. But when women do these things they trespass on domains and behaviour which are male.

1987, Bernhard Helander, Gender and Gender Characteristics as a Folk Model in Southern Somali Social Classification and Symbolism, page 8:

Standingly, the audience ovated.

2021 March 6, Sid Schwab, “Schwab: CPAC put death of the Republican Party on full display”, in The Daily Herald:

It seems that ( ii ) necessarily leads to the conclusion that a sentence is characterized as standingly true if it is true in all interpretations that do not falsify any sentence which is standingly true.

1992, Jaroslav Peregrin, Words and Worlds, page 33:

Yet even in the extreme situation of super anaesthesia my body could figure standingly, i.e., figure as the center of feeling. This standing way of figuring would then still be part of what makes my body "my" body.

2007, J. J. Valberg, Dream, Death, and the Self, page 275:

If we adopt such a principle, one substitution instance would be the following: S standingly thinks that p only if S is disposed to occurrently think that p.

2015, Uriah Kriegel, The Varieties of Consciousness, page 121:

Remaining in force or status; enduringly.


prejudiciously

prejudiciously (comparative more prejudiciously, superlative most prejudiciously)

more prejudiciously (comparative)
most prejudiciously (superlative)


for very shame's sake

For very shame’s sake I could hold out no longer,—and with a determined effort I broke the extraordinary dumb spell that had held me like a coward in silent hiding, and came forward boldly to confront my visitor.

1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 22:

for shame's sake
for shame's sake#English

Alternative form of for shame's sake (“Owing to a sense of shame”)


for shame's sake

he laughed at our poor blown beasts, that shook on every limb, and seemed like to push their spare, gaunt bones through the trappings with which, for shame's sake, we endeavored to cover them.

1857, Charles James Lever, Tom Burke of "Ours", volume II:


uninvidiously

uninvidiously (comparative more uninvidiously, superlative most uninvidiously)

more uninvidiously (comparative)
most uninvidiously (superlative)

From un- + invidiously or uninvidious + -ly.


metabiotically

In terms of, or by means of, metabiosis.


microcolorimetrically

In terms of, or by means of, microcolorimetry.


misadventurously

misadventurously (comparative more misadventurously, superlative most misadventurously)

more misadventurously (comparative)
most misadventurously (superlative)


mockfully

mockfully (comparative more mockfully, superlative most mockfully)

more mockfully (comparative)
most mockfully (superlative)


monkeyishly

monkeyishly (comparative more monkeyishly, superlative most monkeyishly)

more monkeyishly (comparative)
most monkeyishly (superlative)


trigly

trigly (comparative more trigly, superlative most trigly)

more trigly (comparative)
most trigly (superlative)

Ah! there in deepest solitude Sometimes I have wild nature wooed, When nought of living thing was nigh Except the Water-wag-tail shy, By nature's hand so trigly dight In speckled feathers, black and white, Which flew before from stone to stone, And hopped and bobbed thereupon;

1845, Thomas Lamb, The Bridal of Lord Douglas, page 7:

Meeting him one day when trigly dressed, the doctor broke out with, “Joe, can you tell me the difference between you and the devil? ”

1876, Centenary Memorial of the Planting and Growth of Presbyterianism in Western Pennsylvania and Parts Adjacent, page 32:

Coralie was the delight of the audience, who clasped in fancy that pretty waist so trigly tightened in her basque, or followed with their eyes the undulations of the skirt as it betrayed every movement of the hips.

1896, Honoré de Balzac, A great man of the provinces in Paris, page 189:

His head was still fine and trigly mustached, although grizzled, with the square bold cut of the man of adventure, tempered by the painter's considering eye.

1997, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Miriam Forman-Brunell, The Story of Rose O'Neill: An Autobiography, page 83:


hangtail

hangtail (comparative more hangtail, superlative most hangtail)

more hangtail (comparative)
most hangtail (superlative)

From hang + tail, from the way a dog will leave its tail drooping or hanging when frightened or sad.

The dog trotted hangtail away, and the prairie dog turned his head to check on a flush.

The dog dropped, hang-head, hang-tail.

1967, Joyce Stranger, Rex: A Novel, page 184:

At least a hundred hairless dogs, which had been barking fiercely, slunk hangtail through the ruptures that served these huts as doorholes.

1971, Douglas Woolf, Ya!: John-Juan; Two Novels, page 207:


molliently

molliently (comparative more molliently, superlative most molliently)

more molliently (comparative)
most molliently (superlative)


mollifiedly

mollifiedly (comparative more mollifiedly, superlative most mollifiedly)

more mollifiedly (comparative)
most mollifiedly (superlative)


mortiferously

mortiferously (comparative more mortiferously, superlative most mortiferously)

more mortiferously (comparative)
most mortiferously (superlative)


mortifiedly

mortifiedly (comparative more mortifiedly, superlative most mortifiedly)

more mortifiedly (comparative)
most mortifiedly (superlative)


oh so

His oh-so-witty (ugh) remarks on the loud hailer constitute one more proof that this instrument has minimal value on a pleasure boat.

1971 July–August, Capt. Jacque Cestlabote, “Restrain Sloan Wilson!”, in Boating, →ISSN, page 8:

He is, reputedly, a dashing Casanova and receives oh so many letters from oh so many femmes.

1997, Hugh Aaron, Letters from the Good War: A Young Man's Discovery of the World, Stones Point Press, →ISBN, page 314:

[…]it’s truly incredible how similar the Finder’s behaviors are today to that oh-so-crude yet oh-so-amazing Finder of 1984

2011, Scott Granneman, Mac OS X Snow Leopard for Power Users: Advanced Capabilities and Techniques, Apress, →ISBN, page 51:


veneratively

veneratively (comparative more veneratively, superlative most veneratively)

more veneratively (comparative)
most veneratively (superlative)


somewhatly

Felt better. Then I tried some hot whiskey. Fine doctors. Rather like them both. Tried some more cold whiskey. It affected my head, somewhatly.

1870, Mark Mills Pomeroy, Nonsense: Or Hits and Criticisms on the Follies of the Day, page 125:


spankily

spankily (comparative more spankily, superlative most spankily)

more spankily (comparative)
most spankily (superlative)


spatteringly

We could hear the drizzle caught up in the gusts and driven spatteringly against the cardboard we had stuck in the empty window frames.

1948, Sidney Moss, Samuel Moss, Thy Men Shall Fall, page 209:


spinsterishly

spinsterishly (comparative more spinsterishly, superlative most spinsterishly)

more spinsterishly (comparative)
most spinsterishly (superlative)


squelchily

squelchily (comparative more squelchily, superlative most squelchily)

more squelchily (comparative)
most squelchily (superlative)


splendaciously

splendaciously (comparative more splendaciously, superlative most splendaciously)

more splendaciously (comparative)
most splendaciously (superlative)


stertoriously

stertoriously (comparative more stertoriously, superlative most stertoriously)

more stertoriously (comparative)
most stertoriously (superlative)


stultiloquently

stultiloquently (comparative more stultiloquently, superlative most stultiloquently)

more stultiloquently (comparative)
most stultiloquently (superlative)


strepitantly

strepitantly (comparative more strepitantly, superlative most strepitantly)

more strepitantly (comparative)
most strepitantly (superlative)


strengthlessly

strengthlessly (comparative more strengthlessly, superlative most strengthlessly)

more strengthlessly (comparative)
most strengthlessly (superlative)


suburbanly

suburbanly (comparative more suburbanly, superlative most suburbanly)

more suburbanly (comparative)
most suburbanly (superlative)


that's why

a statement to emphasise the reason or explanation just given


Quakerishly

Quakerishly (comparative more Quakerishly, superlative most Quakerishly)

more Quakerishly (comparative)
most Quakerishly (superlative)


Japanesquely

Japanesquely (comparative more Japanesquely, superlative most Japanesquely)

more Japanesquely (comparative)
most Japanesquely (superlative)


justifyingly

justifyingly (comparative more justifyingly, superlative most justifyingly)

more justifyingly (comparative)
most justifyingly (superlative)


vastily

vastily (comparative more vastily, superlative most vastily)

more vastily (comparative)
most vastily (superlative)


preacceptance

From pre- + acceptance or pre- + accept + -ance.

some requirements to be met preacceptance


postacceptance

From post- + acceptance or post- + accept + -ance.

some revisions to be made postacceptance


unmeritoriously

unmeritoriously (comparative more unmeritoriously, superlative most unmeritoriously)

more unmeritoriously (comparative)
most unmeritoriously (superlative)


unlovelily

unlovelily (comparative more unlovelily, superlative most unlovelily)

more unlovelily (comparative)
most unlovelily (superlative)


unoffendingly

unoffendingly (comparative more unoffendingly, superlative most unoffendingly)

more unoffendingly (comparative)
most unoffendingly (superlative)


unobsequiously

unobsequiously (comparative more unobsequiously, superlative most unobsequiously)

more unobsequiously (comparative)
most unobsequiously (superlative)


neglectedly

neglectedly (comparative more neglectedly, superlative most neglectedly)

more neglectedly (comparative)
most neglectedly (superlative)


neshly

neshly (comparative more neshly, superlative most neshly)

more neshly (comparative)
most neshly (superlative)


immeritoriously

immeritoriously (comparative more immeritoriously, superlative most immeritoriously)

more immeritoriously (comparative)
most immeritoriously (superlative)


indentwise

Cut so that the two cut pieces fit together in an interlocking fashion, like a traditional indenture document.


incircumspectly

incircumspectly (comparative more incircumspectly, superlative most incircumspectly)

more incircumspectly (comparative)
most incircumspectly (superlative)


individualizingly

individualizingly (comparative more individualizingly, superlative most individualizingly)

more individualizingly (comparative)
most individualizingly (superlative)


indevoutly

indevoutly (comparative more indevoutly, superlative most indevoutly)

more indevoutly (comparative)
most indevoutly (superlative)


impressedly

Transversely impressedly grooved, grooves narrow, very finely punctured; reddish chestnut, with conspicuous waved longitudinal white streaks.

1882, George Washington Tryon, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systematic, page 142:

In the manner of an impression or stamp.


integriously

integriously (comparative more integriously, superlative most integriously)

more integriously (comparative)
most integriously (superlative)


intermixtly

intermixtly (comparative more intermixtly, superlative most intermixtly)

more intermixtly (comparative)
most intermixtly (superlative)


investigatingly

After waving the candle to and fro several times, investigatingly, the door was closed.

1908, Frank Allaben, John Watts de Peyster, volume 1, page 161:


Italianately

Italianately (comparative more Italianately, superlative most Italianately)

more Italianately (comparative)
most Italianately (superlative)


Italianly

Italianly (comparative more Italianly, superlative most Italianly)

more Italianly (comparative)
most Italianly (superlative)


overcomplacently

overcomplacently (comparative more overcomplacently, superlative most overcomplacently)

more overcomplacently (comparative)
most overcomplacently (superlative)


aquilinely

aquilinely (comparative more aquilinely, superlative most aquilinely)

more aquilinely (comparative)
most aquilinely (superlative)

Nosed aquilinely, the skipper is finely
Snubbed by a cut from the gay Chasseresse.

1887, C. C. Rhys, “La Chasseresse”, in Minora Carmina, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, page 69:

On the pillow the fair head otherwise so aquilinely reminiscent of old Mendes on his deathbed grew clearer,

1969, Hortense Calisher, The New Yorkers, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 129:

He was relieved to be greeted by a quietly dressed, aquilinely beautiful woman, whose long dark hair fell freely over her silk-covered shoulders.

1992, Jackson Mac Low, Pieces o’ Six, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, X, page 53:


faithwise

Neither Abraham nor Moses compared with Daniel, faithwise.

1911, John Granville Woolley, Civic Sermons, volume 3, page 152:


famelessly

famelessly (comparative more famelessly, superlative most famelessly)

more famelessly (comparative)
most famelessly (superlative)


fastuously

fastuously (comparative more fastuously, superlative most fastuously)

more fastuously (comparative)
most fastuously (superlative)


favosely

favosely (comparative more favosely, superlative most favosely)

more favosely (comparative)
most favosely (superlative)


faultfully

faultfully (comparative more faultfully, superlative most faultfully)

more faultfully (comparative)
most faultfully (superlative)


femalely

femalely (comparative more femalely, superlative most femalely)

more femalely (comparative)
most femalely (superlative)


feelinglessly

feelinglessly (comparative more feelinglessly, superlative most feelinglessly)

more feelinglessly (comparative)
most feelinglessly (superlative)


finickingly

finickingly (comparative more finickingly, superlative most finickingly)

more finickingly (comparative)
most finickingly (superlative)


flaggily

flaggily (comparative more flaggily, superlative most flaggily)

more flaggily (comparative)
most flaggily (superlative)


bracketwise

In terms of brackets (in various senses).


cataphorically

Coordinate term: anaphorically


aeromedically

aeromedically (comparative more aeromedically, superlative most aeromedically)

more aeromedically (comparative)
most aeromedically (superlative)

aeromedically evacuated (evacuated by medics or for medical reasons via aviation)

In an aeromedical way; in a way pertaining to aeromedicine.


friendshiply

friendshiply (comparative more friendshiply, superlative most friendshiply)

more friendshiply (comparative)
most friendshiply (superlative)

1838: Supreme Court transcript
Q. How long have you known her
A. Fourteen years.
Q. Did you visit frequently?
A. Yes, through business, and after her brother died, friendshiply.

... a design to promote the study, and to facilitate comprehension of the Organon, now fraternally and friendshiply offers this "helping hand."

(rare, nonstandard) In the manner of friendship or of having friendship.


respectlessly

respectlessly (comparative more respectlessly, superlative most respectlessly)

more respectlessly (comparative)
most respectlessly (superlative)


resultfully

resultfully (comparative more resultfully, superlative most resultfully)

more resultfully (comparative)
most resultfully (superlative)


ridgewise

And he went therein a good two hour or more, until he saw upon his left side how the land rose up ridgewise like the back of a great hog: and for all that it was night, yet he saw the top of the ridge clearly, as it were a black line […]

1915, Sir Henry John Newbolt, Aladore, page 50:


gustfully

gustfully (comparative more gustfully, superlative most gustfully)

more gustfully (comparative)
most gustfully (superlative)


guardfully

guardfully (comparative more guardfully, superlative most guardfully)

more guardfully (comparative)
most guardfully (superlative)


gullishly

gullishly (comparative more gullishly, superlative most gullishly)

more gullishly (comparative)
most gullishly (superlative)

Volpone’s second and climactic attempt to seduce Celia is immediately followed by Lady Wouldbe’s deflating visit to the sickbed, when Volpone discovers his own desire not to be gullishly reduced by Lady Wouldbe to the role of a dying man but to live forever in triumphant projections of himself.

1995, Manley Lawrence, Literature and culture in early modern London, Cambridge University Press, page 460:


grudgefully

grudgefully (comparative more grudgefully, superlative most grudgefully)

more grudgefully (comparative)
most grudgefully (superlative)


wretchlessly

wretchlessly (comparative more wretchlessly, superlative most wretchlessly)

more wretchlessly (comparative)
most wretchlessly (superlative)


ambitionlessly

ambitionlessly (comparative more ambitionlessly, superlative most ambitionlessly)

more ambitionlessly (comparative)
most ambitionlessly (superlative)


specklessly

The little dory was specklessly clean.

1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:


pleasurelessly

pleasurelessly (comparative more pleasurelessly, superlative most pleasurelessly)

more pleasurelessly (comparative)
most pleasurelessly (superlative)


hypercorrectively

hypercorrectively (comparative more hypercorrectively, superlative most hypercorrectively)

more hypercorrectively (comparative)
most hypercorrectively (superlative)


gratulatorily

gratulatorily (comparative more gratulatorily, superlative most gratulatorily)

more gratulatorily (comparative)
most gratulatorily (superlative)


gratewise

In the manner of a grate; arranged as if in a grate.


globously

globously (comparative more globously, superlative most globously)

more globously (comparative)
most globously (superlative)


gleesomely

gleesomely (comparative more gleesomely, superlative most gleesomely)

more gleesomely (comparative)
most gleesomely (superlative)


gleeishly

gleeishly (comparative more gleeishly, superlative most gleeishly)

more gleeishly (comparative)
most gleeishly (superlative)


germinatively

In terms of, or at the time of, germination.


gargoylishly

gargoylishly (comparative more gargoylishly, superlative most gargoylishly)

more gargoylishly (comparative)
most gargoylishly (superlative)


galvanometrically

By means of, or in terms of, galvanometry.


galvanoplastically

By means of, or in terms of, galvanoplasty.


insurrectionally

In terms of, or by means of, insurrection.


rampingly

rampingly (comparative more rampingly, superlative most rampingly)

more rampingly (comparative)
most rampingly (superlative)

In Rome it appears to be a standing rule that every authenticated guide shall be a violent Socialist and therefore rampingly anticlerical in all his views.


anthumously

And the social problem will not worry us, so long as millionaires are creators rather than wasters; so long as they turn into philanthropists anthumously; so long as the son of a blacksmith may become wealthy, and President;

1957, Albert Guérard, Fossils and Presences, Stanford University Press, page 23:

[…]of whom are B. P. Hasdeu, Mihai Eminescu, Ion Luca Caragiale – with a thorough and telling pleading on the decisive impact of Eminescu’s poetry (anthumously and posthumously published) with its Romantic-type inherent sublimity.

1988, Romanian Review, page 77, column 2:

I will thus henceforth call “poetic collection” a collection of poems, in verse or in prose, published or at least created by one, or exceptionally more than one, poet, in principle before his death; a collection published posthumously but created anthumously, such as Vigny’s Destinées, strictly corresponds to this definition;

2005, “Fantasy Landscape”, in Dorrit Cohn, transl., Essays in Aesthetics (Stages; volume 20), translation of original by Gérard Genette, →ISBN, page 126:


prehumously

Prior to the coming event, the father of the as-yet-unborn Tristram is indulging in some serious speculations with the Doctor relevant to the site of the human soul. Tristram relates prehumously, one might say, the prevailing thoughts of his father:[…]

1926, Medical Life, volume XXXIII, page 270:

(Whenever my demise, I can assure you what I say today will not ever be published posthumously or even “prehumously” … )

1973, James C. Humes, Instant Eloquence: A Lazy Man’s Guide to Public Speaking, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 64:

Micky does not see the point of Harold’s choice to race the tide. Harold’s last words are ‘Well, you will some day.’ There is a point, then; Harold sees it immediately and prehumously, while Micky will see it posthumously. The literal meaning of ‘see’ lends spatial context to the ‘point,’ the temporal context of which is established by Harold’s last words. The mathematically literal meaning of ‘point’ is ‘position without extension.’

1976, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, page 198:

Announce death-defying journals & book—a style which can be published anytime. Maybe I should do a posthumous book out of journals prehumously.

1979, The Journals of A. H. Maslow, Monterey, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 868:

Even more evocative of the De Vulgari as a whole than Dante’s deceit is the extraordinary chronology of these sinners’ punishment: just as the De Vulgari is Dante’s prehumous Hell, so do these suffer Hell prehumously, their souls consigned there while their bodies yet live.

1981, Warman Welliver, Dante in Hell: The De Vulgari Eloquentia, Ravenna: A. Longo Editore, page 30:

We were pleased to note that a couple of our own were honored prehumously a few months ago for their contributions to dentistry.

1995, The Journal of the California Dental Association, page 70:


salpingoscopically

By means of, or in terms of, salpingoscopy.


omnisexually

Omnisexually voracious Catherine likes to provoke her lovers, so there are a tantalizing number of suspects with motive. One is Roxy (Leilani Sarelle), her jealous lesbian girlfriend.

1992, Peter Rainer, Love and Hisses, page 109:

In comparing Bellario to Hylas and Adonis, Megra cites two ancient and pervasive queer myths of the androgynously, omnisexually alluring young man.

2020, Christine Varnado, The Shapes of Fancy:


prevocationally

Before or in preparation for a vocation.


knightwise

(pertaining to moving over a square grid) Two steps in the vertical direction and one step in the horizontal direction, or vice versa, with each move, in the manner of a chess knight.

(pertaining to moving over a square grid, by extension) (Moving) with slope 2; (taking) 2n vertical steps and n horizontal steps (with n being some positive integer), or vice versa, with each move.


electrocutaneously

By means of an electric current that flows through the skin.


flecklessly

flecklessly (comparative more flecklessly, superlative most flecklessly)

more flecklessly (comparative)
most flecklessly (superlative)


underbrow

He looked underbrow at me.

1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, page 207:

He clasped his hands, looking at me, not exactly underbrow, but still accusingly.

1989, Richard Llewellyn, But We Didn't Get the Fox, page 271:


directively

Irony can be applied both directively and non-directively.

2006, Erik de Haan, Fearless Consulting, page 43:


tenthousandfold

The following is a Buddhist principle of law, but prob. existing only in theory:[…]divine or sacred objects are to be repaid or made good tenthousandfold, things or property of the clergy eightyfold, of ordinary men sevenfold, and besides the object itself, hence eightfold C.;

1881, H[einrich] A[ugust] Jäschke, “Tibetan-English Dictionary”, in A Tibetan-English Dictionary with Special Reference to the Prevailing Dialects. To Which is Added an English-Tibetan Vocabulary., London, page 175, column 1:

Ida. Wicked monster, how I hate you now! / More than I ever hated you before; / And more than you and all on earth can hate! / But ’tis in vain; therefore I go and leave / My curse tenthousandfold with you!

1892, Otto Frederick Schupphaus, The Plutocrat. A Drama in Five Acts., New York: A. Lovell & Co., act II, scene II, page 50:

But there is one exception, and that is London. London walking is a quite distinct and peculiar thing, utterly unlike any other town-walking. It is a unique branch of walking in general and solitary walking in particular: for all the circumstances which make town-walking solitary apply tenthousandfold in London.

1912, A. H. Sidgwick, “Walking Alone, with a Digression on London Walking”, in Walking Essays, London: Edward Arnold, page 257:

This procedure to him is “simply Borgiaism amplified tenthousandfold by the mechanical resources of modern war.”

1916 February, Eduard Bernstein, translated by John Mez, American Opinions of the World War as Seen by a German (International Conciliation), American Association for International Conciliation, page 23:

[…]in California grew from 8,786,330 barrels to 86,591,535 barrels, increasing tenfold, while in Oklahoma it shot up during the same period from 10,000 barrels to 97,915,243 barrels, increasing practically tenthousandfold.

1920, The Contemporary Review, page 676:

And had not his dear Lord Jesus Christ promised that it would be repaid tenthousandfold? that was the truth, friends.

1938, J. H. MacCallum Scott, Beaten Tracks, Travel Book Club, page 64:

Thalassa! Thalassa! / Greetings to thee, thou ocean everlasting! / Greetings from me, tenthousandfold / From heart exulting, / As once of old thou wast greeted / By tenthousand Grecian-hearts / Misfortune-assailed, homeland-yearning, / World-renowned Grecian-hearts. / —Heine, The North-sea.

1943, The Journal of the Polynesian Society, page 110:

The bounteous sun delights to drink the lakes, / But gives tenthousandfold the wealth he takes.

1956 March, “Bengal (1750-1800)”, in Calcutta Review, page 252:

The Pope did not, of course, go on to develop the truth he thus glimpsed – the age of power resources of coal, oil, electricity and nuclear fission, – the age of immense technological advance, of automation, the multiplication of man’s power to produce tenthousandfold – and yet, a world unfinished, still poverty stricken, wretched in its hunger, malnutrition, disease, and dreadful slums, of appalling rural misery, in spite of all the progress that has been made.

This idea was supported by the results of pulse-chase experiments, involving a labeling with (³H)-uridine for 3 min and subsequent suppression of further incorporation of radioactivity by addition of a large excess (tenthousandfold) of unlabeled uridine to the growth medium (Fig. 4).

1970, Jan Retèl, The Biosynthesis of Ribosomal RNA in Yeast, page 6:

The Apocalypse of Baruch is more exuberant: / The earth also shall yield its fruit tenthousandfold and on each vine there shall be a thousand branches, and each branch shall produce a thousand clusters, and each cluster shall produce a thousand grapes, and each grape shall produce a cor of wine. And those who have hungered shall rejoice. … (2 Baruch 29:5)

1971, Geoffrey Wainwright, Eucharist and Eschatology, published 2003, →ISBN, page 26:

movies^([sic]) get tenthousandfold more attention than they should.

May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty [tenthousandfold] of grain and wine (v. 28).

2007, Oskar Skarsaune, Reidar Hvalvik, editors, Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries, Hendrickson Publishers, →ISBN, page 331, column 2:


pentatonically

(music) In a pentatonic manner; using a pentatonic scale


in a brace of shakes

Synonym of in two shakes (“very quickly; without delay”)


aquaretically

aquaretically (comparative more aquaretically, superlative most aquaretically)

more aquaretically (comparative)
most aquaretically (superlative)

(physiology, medicine) In an aquaretic manner: in a way that promotes the excretion of water without loss of electrolytes.


like no other

Giuliana: Speak for yourself, Rancic. I can run in heels like no other; it's amazeballs!

2010, Bill Rancic, Giuliana Rancic, I Do, Now What?: Secrets, Stories, and Advice from a Madly-in-Love Couple, Ballantine Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 16:


as they come

"Has he got a pulse?"
"With that hole in his head? You kiddin', a pulse? Give me a break, will ya? He's about as dead as they come.

1997, Leonard B. Scott, Solemn Duty, New York: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 64:

My eight-year-old, as die-hard a Potterholic as they come, a kid who can probably remember Hogwarts minutiae that even JK has forgotten, walked out of the multiplex and gave it a five out of 10.

2001 November 25, Charlie Fletcher, “Has Potter movie magic lost its spell?”, in Scotland on Sunday:


adulatorily

adulatorily (comparative more adulatorily, superlative most adulatorily)

more adulatorily (comparative)
most adulatorily (superlative)


supraclavicularly

(anatomy) In a supraclavicular manner or direction


all of a heap

I walked straight in expecting to find her waiting for me in the front room, — I was struck all of a heap when I found she wasn’t there.

1916, Algernon Blackwood, The Dance of Death, first published in The Quest: A Quarterly Review
What caught me all of a heap was that million-dollar sense of beauty, youth, and happiness.

All of a sudden he remembered the spooks, and it knocked him all of a heap.

2012, Joseph Lewis French, Masterpieces of Mystery, page 218:

(colloquial, idiomatic) Into a sudden state of collapse or astonishment.


mousingly

Those who mousingly, or audaciously seek for places of public trust and power, are never worthy of them.

1881, Allyn E. Wolcott, "That's the Talk" for American Freemen, page 183:

[…] being intent mousingly on getting every last little cheesy crumb of detail, and peacefully unaware of deep, rich stores concealed in her own family.

1908, Mary Stewart Cutting Jr, The Wayfarers, page 147:

(archaic) In a prying or meddlesome manner.


kinda of

Non-native confusion of kind of and kinda.


heterically

(linguistics, obsolete) In a heteric manner.


Hudibrastically

Hudibrastically (comparative more Hudibrastically, superlative most Hudibrastically)

more Hudibrastically (comparative)
most Hudibrastically (superlative)


hootingly

hootingly (comparative more hootingly, superlative most hootingly)

more hootingly (comparative)
most hootingly (superlative)


hyperbolicly

hyperbolicly (comparative more hyperbolicly, superlative most hyperbolicly)

more hyperbolicly (comparative)
most hyperbolicly (superlative)

(less common) Alternative form of hyperbolically


feckfully

feckfully (comparative more feckfully, superlative most feckfully)

more feckfully (comparative)
most feckfully (superlative)


cricketly

cricketly (comparative more cricketly, superlative most cricketly)

more cricketly (comparative)
most cricketly (superlative)

Saturday, atmospherically and cricketly began badly and ended worse[.]

1876 November 23, The Launceston Examiner, Tasmania, page 3, column 5:


viscometrically

By means of, or in terms of, viscometry.


vomitingly

Being too vomitingly drunk to be sent home, and too important to sleep in anything but the best bed, he is installed in the marital bed while the bride and groom make do with a tabletop.

2015, Ra Page, Sara Maitland, Sean O'Brien, Morphologies: Short Story Writers on Short Story Writers:


voidly

voidly (comparative more voidly, superlative most voidly)

more voidly (comparative)
most voidly (superlative)

Whitely (that is, purely, blankly, and voidly), the moon cleanses the world of human industry — almost.

2008, Clayton Eshleman, The Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader, page 417:


valleywise

The Bhotia population is primarily seggregated^([sic]) valleywise; each valley-based group exhibits apparent customary characterstics^([sic]) which, in effect, help to register these valleys as being unique social constituencies […]

1981, Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, Asian Highland Societies in Anthropological Perspective, page 255:


preferrably

preferrably (comparative more preferrably, superlative most preferrably)

more preferrably (comparative)
most preferrably (superlative)

It was likewiſe propos’d to ſend the Duke de la Rochefoucault thither, and the Prince deſir’d it for ſeveral Reaſons, but he declin’d it, imagining, either that the Peace was already concluded between Monſieur and the Court under-hand by Chavigny, without the Prince’s participation, or that it would not be concluded at that time, not only becauſe the Prince’s Pretenſions were too great, but likewiſe becauſe the Duke of Rohan and Chavigny would ſecure their own preferrably to all the reſt.

1693, The Life of Lewis of Bourbon, Late Prince of Conde. […], London: […] Tim. Goodwin […], book V, page 101:

(a) Power: 120 volts, 60 hertz, 20 amperes, single phase, (b) Horsepower: approximately 1/2 H.P., preferrably more, (c) Running current: approximately 7 amperes, preferrably less, (d) Starting current: approximately 15 amperes, preferrably less,[…]

1988, Design Automation Conference Proceedings 1988, →ISBN, page 637:

Other Switches / Call button switches are preferrably 1.10 m above floor / Call button switches are preferrably 1.35 m above floor / Call button switches are preferrably 1.10 m above floor

2007 December 24, Official Gazette, National Printing Office, page 8603:


close at hand

close at hand (comparative more close at hand, superlative most close at hand)

more close at hand (comparative)
most close at hand (superlative)

As I writer, I always keep a dictionary close at hand.

The time to board the plane was close at hand.


kinglily

kinglily (comparative more kinglily, superlative most kinglily)

more kinglily (comparative)
most kinglily (superlative)


kissingly

A method of proofing a flexible printing plate without the use of a test sheet including holding the reverse face of said plate against a flat surface, kissingly contacting the highs only of said plate […]

1945, Canadian Patent Office Record (volume 73, part 1, page 48)

Parties given by the flamboyant rancher from Texas had been more crowded, more informal, more unpredictable, more lavish in the buffet, and more kissingly cordial.

1993, Betty Beale, Power at Play, page 165:

So as to kiss, or make contact as if kissing.


Machiavellianly

Machiavellianly (comparative more Machiavellianly, superlative most Machiavellianly)

more Machiavellianly (comparative)
most Machiavellianly (superlative)


Whiggishly

Whiggishly (comparative more Whiggishly, superlative most Whiggishly)

more Whiggishly (comparative)
most Whiggishly (superlative)


whensomever

From Middle English whansomever, when-somever, whensomever, when som evur; equivalent to when + somever.


overnite

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Everyone wanted to go to Randy's when done eating & I knew J planned on staying there overnite & spending Sunday there so I asked to be taken back to Sam's, saying I just didn't feel like crashing yet.


half-jokingly

I wrote a piece, half-jokingly, for The Independent suggesting that it was all part of a cunning plan by ministers to deter people from using the railways. […] I now suspect this was rather closer to the truth than I had thought.

2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42:

With an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest.

tra il serio e il faceto

with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest


immechanically

(obsolete) In a manner that is not mechanical.


impardonably

impardonably (comparative more impardonably, superlative most impardonably)

more impardonably (comparative)
most impardonably (superlative)


inflamedly

inflamedly (comparative more inflamedly, superlative most inflamedly)

more inflamedly (comparative)
most inflamedly (superlative)


injuredly

injuredly (comparative more injuredly, superlative most injuredly)

more injuredly (comparative)
most injuredly (superlative)


pyromaniacally

pyromaniacally (comparative more pyromaniacally, superlative most pyromaniacally)

more pyromaniacally (comparative)
most pyromaniacally (superlative)


thespically

thespically (comparative more thespically, superlative most thespically)

more thespically (comparative)
most thespically (superlative)


Jacobinically

Jacobinically (comparative more Jacobinically, superlative most Jacobinically)

more Jacobinically (comparative)
most Jacobinically (superlative)

From Jacobinic + -ally or Jacobinical + -ly.


Johnsonianly

Johnsonianly (comparative more Johnsonianly, superlative most Johnsonianly)

more Johnsonianly (comparative)
most Johnsonianly (superlative)


Jovianly

Jovianly (comparative more Jovianly, superlative most Jovianly)

more Jovianly (comparative)
most Jovianly (superlative)


waterishly

waterishly (comparative more waterishly, superlative most waterishly)

more waterishly (comparative)
most waterishly (superlative)


wadingly

[…] the shallow water, through which I crawled wadingly […]

1856, Mary Cowden Clarke, Kit Bam's Adventures: Or, The Yarns of an Old Mariner, page 127:


whyfor

An' if the folks that finally bumped him off knew he didn't aim to tell what he knew, whyfor did they figure they had to get rid of him?

2019, William MacLeod Raine, Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story:


subeditorially

In a subeditorial manner; as or like a subeditor.


too soon

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see too, soon.

You're making jokes about yesterday's ferry accident? That's too soon, people died there!

In a taboo or otherwise inappropriate manner due to timing; inappropriately related to a tragic or unpleasant recent event.


cognatically

With regards to, or in terms of, a cognate.


thick and fast

He sobbed[…]but he forgave them. Then the sobs came thick and fast.

1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 13, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 113–114:

[…] in view of the many events which were crowding thick and fast in Paris just then[…]

1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March 1912, →OCLC:

There were three or four inches of fresh snow on the ground, and the flakes were falling thick and fast.

1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter XIX, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:

It links the time when single-wheelers were still being used on crack expresses to our modern streamline age, when up to the outbreak of war developments both at home and overseas were following thick and fast upon each other.

1941 February, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part 1—G.N.R. 1911-1914”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:


uproarishly

uproarishly (comparative more uproarishly, superlative most uproarishly)

more uproarishly (comparative)
most uproarishly (superlative)


retardingly

retardingly (comparative more retardingly, superlative most retardingly)

more retardingly (comparative)
most retardingly (superlative)


Romishly

Romishly (comparative more Romishly, superlative most Romishly)

more Romishly (comparative)
most Romishly (superlative)


vilifyingly

vilifyingly (comparative more vilifyingly, superlative most vilifyingly)

more vilifyingly (comparative)
most vilifyingly (superlative)


vindicatively

vindicatively (comparative more vindicatively, superlative most vindicatively)

more vindicatively (comparative)
most vindicatively (superlative)


laborously

laborously (comparative more laborously, superlative most laborously)

more laborously (comparative)
most laborously (superlative)


laboursomely

laboursomely (comparative more laboursomely, superlative most laboursomely)

more laboursomely (comparative)
most laboursomely (superlative)


labyrinthally

labyrinthally (comparative more labyrinthally, superlative most labyrinthally)

more labyrinthally (comparative)
most labyrinthally (superlative)


lordlily

lordlily (comparative more lordlily, superlative most lordlily)

more lordlily (comparative)
most lordlily (superlative)


loathfully

loathfully (comparative more loathfully, superlative most loathfully)

more loathfully (comparative)
most loathfully (superlative)


cenobitically

cenobitically (comparative more cenobitically, superlative most cenobitically)

more cenobitically (comparative)
most cenobitically (superlative)


caselessly

[…] even though the original capturing subpattern is matched caselessly.

2001, Philip Hazel, Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent, page 562:

(computing) In a case-insensitive manner.


chancefully

chancefully (comparative more chancefully, superlative most chancefully)

more chancefully (comparative)
most chancefully (superlative)

From Middle English chaunsfullyche, equivalent to chanceful + -ly.

Would it not be wiser, even more manly, for him twice her years — to leave her alone with her secret, and so pass out of her innocent young life as chancefully as he had entered it?

1895, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills, page 145:


superproficiently

superproficiently (comparative more superproficiently, superlative most superproficiently)

more superproficiently (comparative)
most superproficiently (superlative)


abreactively

abreactively (comparative more abreactively, superlative most abreactively)

more abreactively (comparative)
most abreactively (superlative)


someone's ass off

someone's arse off
someone's arse off#English

(American spelling) Alternative form of someone's arse off.


someone's arse off

I've been working my arse off all day for a measly few quid.

What a gig! The band played their arses off.

We partied our arses off all night long.

I didn't notice – I was too busy laughing my arse off!

(reflexive) With great effort, vigour or gusto, or to the point of excess.

I remember how we were all sweating our arses off during that heatwave.

I could be sitting on a beach somewhere rather than freezing my arse off in this dump.

(reflexive) Used as a general negative intensifier: to an extreme degree.

The boss has been working our arses off all week.

He may be 50 years old, but he could still run your arse off.

(non-reflexive) So as to rigorously exercise or exhaust someone.


as sin

Generalization of previous similes, e.g. evil as sin, common as sin, imputable as sin.

There is no way you'll lift it yourself, it's heavy as sin.

CAPTAIN: I understand, and I'll patronize you. I'll take every ticket, and pay you cash, and Jedidah shall come and see the beautiful rival. / JEDIDAH: Beautiful! She's as homely as sin.

1864, O. E. [Oliver Everett] Durivage, The Stage-Struck Yankee:

As for Janie, she stood there, petrified, and now her face had become as ugly as sin, and as vicious, and as malevolent.

The clouds covered a liquid surface black as sin.

2015, John C. Wright, The Architect of Aeons, 1st edition, New York:

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


superextraordinarily

superextraordinarily (comparative more superextraordinarily, superlative most superextraordinarily)

more superextraordinarily (comparative)
most superextraordinarily (superlative)

Almost everything boys read, watch, wear or listen to has to be not just action filled and awesome but also superextraordinarily awesome.

2009, Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., Sharon D. Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown, Mark B. Tappan, Mark Tappan, Ed.D., Packaging Boyhood, Saving Our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 5:

I think it might be "extremely superextraordinarily". When the morpheme 'mente' comes at the end of a word it is normally an adverb.

2010 October 28, checkacheck, “TIL superextraordinarísimamente (“extremely superextraordinary”) is the longest Spanish word”, in reddit.com:

Note that the image on the right is described to be a high resolution imaging of stripes acquired in another friendly lab at ultrahigh vacuum conditions and at a temperature of 77K. UHV and 77 K operation should give rise to insanely good instrumental stability and provide superextraordinarily clear images of stripes.

2013 November 18, Professor Moriarty, “The Villain’s New Stripes”, in fakeraphazlab.wordpress.com, archived from the original on 2021-08-09:

A cyclist being killed on the roads in the UK is still a very rare event. Ranting about a specific case won't improve the risk from extraordinarily low to superextraordinarily low.

2020 January 28, Cycleops, “Is this what a life is worth?”, in www.cyclechat.net, archived from the original on 2021-08-09:


metri causa

From Latin metrī causā (literally “for the sake of poetic metre”).


cadgily

en-adv

cadgily (comparative more cadgily, superlative most cadgily)

more cadgily (comparative)
most cadgily (superlative)


carkingly

carkingly (comparative more carkingly, superlative most carkingly)

more carkingly (comparative)
most carkingly (superlative)

(archaic) In a carking manner; so as to weary or distress.


cautelously

cautelously (comparative more cautelously, superlative most cautelously)

more cautelously (comparative)
most cautelously (superlative)


catchingly

catchingly (comparative more catchingly, superlative most catchingly)

more catchingly (comparative)
most catchingly (superlative)

[…] to uncover for the listener its infectious tunes and rhythms. After a few spirited and catchingly rhythmic introductory measures, in which fragments of two melodies are contained, there comes the song "El Mosco" […]

1962, Milton Cross, David Ewen, Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, page 184:


chirognomically

In terms of, or by means of, chirognomy.


charmfully

charmfully (comparative more charmfully, superlative most charmfully)

more charmfully (comparative)
most charmfully (superlative)


chattingly

chattingly (comparative more chattingly, superlative most chattingly)

more chattingly (comparative)
most chattingly (superlative)

The youngest and brightest of the three told me very chattingly what she wished to do.

1875, Gilbert Haven, Our Next-door Neighbor: A Winter in Mexico, page 276:


causticly

causticly (comparative more causticly, superlative most causticly)

more causticly (comparative)
most causticly (superlative)


choosingly

choosingly (comparative more choosingly, superlative most choosingly)

more choosingly (comparative)
most choosingly (superlative)

Then he stepped choosingly over the ground until he picked out a spot of loose pebbly soil on the arroyo bank, where he began to scoop out a grave, using his hunting knife and his hands.

1926, Rose Lucile Ellerbe, Ropes of Sand, page 16:


humblie

humblie (comparative more humblie, superlative most humblie)

more humblie (comparative)
most humblie (superlative)


electrosynthetically

By means of, or in terms of, electrosynthesis.


eidently

eidently (comparative more eidently, superlative most eidently)

more eidently (comparative)
most eidently (superlative)

(Scotland, Ireland) Busily, industriously, diligently.


superimmensely

superimmensely (comparative more superimmensely, superlative most superimmensely)

more superimmensely (comparative)
most superimmensely (superlative)


supraphysically

supraphysically (comparative more supraphysically, superlative most supraphysically)

more supraphysically (comparative)
most supraphysically (superlative)


superoverwhelmingly

superoverwhelmingly (comparative more superoverwhelmingly, superlative most superoverwhelmingly)

more superoverwhelmingly (comparative)
most superoverwhelmingly (superlative)

Sterling echoes this. “The word magical is so corny, especially in a Disney context, but it truly is magical that I have these lifelong friends just because people love Disney,” she says. “The power of fandom is really, super-overwhelmingly emotional for me. I don’t know what my life making Disney content and participating in fan culture would be like without [Mink].”

2019 November 18, Carlye Wisel, “It’s Not ‘Weird’ to Be an Adult Woman Who Loves Disney”, in www.glamour.com, archived from the original on 2021-02-03:


superferociously

superferociously (comparative more superferociously, superlative most superferociously)

more superferociously (comparative)
most superferociously (superlative)


successantly

en-adverb

successantly (comparative more successantly, superlative most successantly)

more successantly (comparative)
most successantly (superlative)

Saturnius: Then go successantly, and plead to him.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 116:

(nonce word, rare) Synonym of successively; in order or succession.


Dreckly

en-adv

Dreckly (comparative more Dreckly, superlative most Dreckly)

more Dreckly (comparative)
most Dreckly (superlative)

Local/dialectal phonetic spelling of direct + -ly.

"You know, pretty quick, soon — dreckly!" She said in frustration

1999, Janice Tate, Ken Tate, Good Old Days Remembers the Little Country Schoolhouse, page 45:

I'll be over there dreckly ' '; which could mean in the next hour or two , or "I'll be down in a bit". It's a real Cornish thing.

2006, Simon Elmes, Talking for Britain: A Journey Through the Voices of a Nation, page 13:

(Cornwall, Devon, US) Soon; next; when it becomes convenient.

(Cornwall, Devon, Humorous) No time soon.


dreckly

dreckly (comparative more dreckly, superlative most dreckly)

more dreckly (comparative)
most dreckly (superlative)


superbrilliantly

superbrilliantly (comparative more superbrilliantly, superlative most superbrilliantly)

more superbrilliantly (comparative)
most superbrilliantly (superlative)


extinctively

extinctively (comparative more extinctively, superlative most extinctively)

more extinctively (comparative)
most extinctively (superlative)

A study of the experiments which have been made to determine the composition of atmospheres, which act extinctively upon flame, shows that in many cases the atmosphere under examination was in contact with water.

1894, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, page 2:


tubercularly

(biology) In a tubercular (tuberculate) manner.


front and centre

The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, is putting climate change front and centre in a speech committing his party to cooperating with Labor and turfing out a government that “don’t deserve to govern”.

2018 September 2, Richard Parkin, “Morning mail: Greens put climate change front and centre”, in The Guardian:

front and center
front and center#English

Alternative spelling of front and center


rightly so

1966, Insight and Outlook
The causes of student unrest, both here and in Europe, have been probed by many; critics bewail, and rightly so, the effects of a generation of permissiveness and Spockery.

[…] having been ironically reprimanded for inventing ingenuous errors, [he] will have to allow the errors of others to pass, when what he is tempted to do, and rightly so, is to fill the margins of the page with a flurry of indignant deleaturs […]

2011, José Saramago, History of the Siege Of Lisbon, page 32:

Italy's progress throughout Euro 2020 has been gathering momentum from their opening win against Turkey and after overcoming Belgium and Spain in the knockout stage they will fear no-one and rightly so.

2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport:


obreptitiously

obreptitiously (comparative more obreptitiously, superlative most obreptitiously)

more obreptitiously (comparative)
most obreptitiously (superlative)

...although they state facts evidently false or controverted , which would allow the charge of their having been surreptitiously or obreptitiously obtained...

1906, Pope Adrian IV, a Friend of Ireland, page 33:


irreptitiously

irreptitiously (comparative more irreptitiously, superlative most irreptitiously)

more irreptitiously (comparative)
most irreptitiously (superlative)

A quadrant is a curvilinear angle traversing round and at an equal distance from a given point, called a centre, no two points in the curve being at the same angle, but irreptitiously graduating from 90 to 60.

1972, Augustus De Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan, page 255:


in idea

[A]n acquaintance she soon after formed with Henry Mortimer, realized the object she had long dwelt on in idea.

1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 4, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume I:

In thought or imagination as opposed to in reality; as an abstract concept; conceptually.


overmasteringly

overmasteringly (comparative more overmasteringly, superlative most overmasteringly)

more overmasteringly (comparative)
most overmasteringly (superlative)


superexplosively

superexplosively (comparative more superexplosively, superlative most superexplosively)

more superexplosively (comparative)
most superexplosively (superlative)


Hegelianly

Hegelianly (comparative more Hegelianly, superlative most Hegelianly)

more Hegelianly (comparative)
most Hegelianly (superlative)


etherially

etherially (comparative more etherially, superlative most etherially)

more etherially (comparative)
most etherially (superlative)


aetherially

aetherially (comparative more aetherially, superlative most aetherially)

more aetherially (comparative)
most aetherially (superlative)


joggingly

joggingly (comparative more joggingly, superlative most joggingly)

more joggingly (comparative)
most joggingly (superlative)

So it was to Diana; and all the miles of that long drive, joggingly pulled along by Prince, she rode in a chariot […]


blightedly

blightedly (comparative more blightedly, superlative most blightedly)

more blightedly (comparative)
most blightedly (superlative)


likeways

And herein also her forebeam to which her bowsprit was fastened, cracked clean insunder; and some of her timbers likeways in the hold we found defective.

1634 July 13, Thomas Young, Letter of Captain Thomas Young to Sir Toby Matthew:


lovesomely

lovesomely (comparative more lovesomely, superlative most lovesomely)

more lovesomely (comparative)
most lovesomely (superlative)


loafingly

loafingly (comparative more loafingly, superlative most loafingly)

more loafingly (comparative)
most loafingly (superlative)

Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]

1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137:


loamily

loamily (comparative more loamily, superlative most loamily)

more loamily (comparative)
most loamily (superlative)

The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; […]

1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:

Loamily dark the soil is, / Nourished by the dews of the heaven / Cultivated by the fertility / Of the edible falling angels' wings […]

2009, Eberekpe Whyte, Songs of Hearts, page 56:


heavenishly

heavenishly (comparative more heavenishly, superlative most heavenishly)

more heavenishly (comparative)
most heavenishly (superlative)


heavenwardly

heavenwardly (comparative more heavenwardly, superlative most heavenwardly)

more heavenwardly (comparative)
most heavenwardly (superlative)


hedgewise

With that away she went, and he, dismounting, caught sight of her disappearing from among the shining magnolia-trees that were planted hedgewise round the lawn.

1871, Margaret Hosmer, Blanche Gilroy: A Girl's Story, page 279:


Hellenically

Hellenically (comparative more Hellenically, superlative most Hellenically)

more Hellenically (comparative)
most Hellenically (superlative)


haughtly

haughtly (comparative more haughtly, superlative most haughtly)

more haughtly (comparative)
most haughtly (superlative)

But the Pope […] haughtly rejected the proposals of submission, which were first brought before him by the Emperor's friends […]

1853, Johann Carl Ludwig Gieseler, Compendium of Ecclesiastical History, volume 1, pages 40–41:


hobbyhorsically

hobbyhorsically (comparative more hobbyhorsically, superlative most hobbyhorsically)

more hobbyhorsically (comparative)
most hobbyhorsically (superlative)


hushfully

hushfully (comparative more hushfully, superlative most hushfully)

more hushfully (comparative)
most hushfully (superlative)


unhonestly

unhonestly (comparative more unhonestly, superlative most unhonestly)

more unhonestly (comparative)
most unhonestly (superlative)

From Middle English unhonestly (“disgracefully”); equivalent to un- + honestly.

inh

[…]and was fond on her excedingly, ſo that for the loue of her he was ſicke: becauſe wheras ſhe was a virgin, it ſemed vnto him had hard to doe any thing vnhoneſtly with her.

1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 2 Kinges 13:2, page 658:

Vnhoneſtly, oneerbaerlijck, oftefameusſelijck.

1675 [1647], Henry Hexham, edited by Daniel Manly, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary […] , Rotterdam, page 435:

Now the Carline remembered the coming of the said merchant, and how he had cast his love on the Maiden unhonestly and lustfully.

1898, William Morris, “LIII: They Come to Wethermel, and the Carline Begins a Tale”, in The Sundering Flood, Longmans, Green, and Company, →ISBN, page 294:


a fair bit

(informal, UK) a little bit, somewhat, kind of; a good amount


manglingly

en-adv

manglingly (comparative more manglingly, superlative most manglingly)

more manglingly (comparative)
most manglingly (superlative)


A. D.

The founder of the Min dynasty (A. D. 1368) declares of him, “He descended repeatedly from heaven to be the imperial teacher; generation after generation he ceased not, but men knew him not. History, which has recorded every thing which could be of interest about Confucius, even to the minutest details of his daily life, failed to hand down the daily acts of a man who, for character and grasp of thought, far transcends his contemporary, Confucius.”

1884, Virgil C. Hart, “Taoism”, in John Morrison Reid, editor, Doomed Religions, New York: Phillips & Hunt, →OCLC, →OL, page 298:

In a corner of Mongolia near Turkestan, at Turpan, in an excavation, old boots have been found which were repaired with kid palimpsests of the third century, A. D., — a literal example of the truth marching into benighted Cathay.

1909, John Stuart Thomson, The Chinese, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 371:

The Edict of Diocletian (A. D. 301) lists all manner of dalmaticae in fine wool, silk, wool and silk union fabric, and linen, for men and women.


as the gull flies

From the fact that whilst gulls fly to their source of food, their flight bypasses obstacles like rivers and terrain. Compare beeline.

It is 240 miles as the gull flies.

(UK, Ireland, idiomatic) In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.


roundedly

roundedly (comparative more roundedly, superlative most roundedly)

more roundedly (comparative)
most roundedly (superlative)

The radiale is broadly rectangular, rounded or roundedly triangular (text-fig. 36).

2012, Z.V. Spinar, Tertiary Frogs from Central Europe, page 138:


anthelmintically

anthelmintically (comparative more anthelmintically, superlative most anthelmintically)

more anthelmintically (comparative)
most anthelmintically (superlative)


superambiently

superambiently (comparative more superambiently, superlative most superambiently)

more superambiently (comparative)
most superambiently (superlative)


superformidably

superformidably (comparative more superformidably, superlative most superformidably)

more superformidably (comparative)
most superformidably (superlative)


midshoot

The director died midshoot.


obedientially

obedientially (comparative more obedientially, superlative most obedientially)

more obedientially (comparative)
most obedientially (superlative)


occlusocervically

In the occlusocervical dimension or orientation.


obstructingly

obstructingly (comparative more obstructingly, superlative most obstructingly)

more obstructingly (comparative)
most obstructingly (superlative)


obscuredly

obscuredly (comparative more obscuredly, superlative most obscuredly)

more obscuredly (comparative)
most obscuredly (superlative)


elementalistically

elementalistically (comparative more elementalistically, superlative most elementalistically)

more elementalistically (comparative)
most elementalistically (superlative)


embraceably

embraceably (comparative more embraceably, superlative most embraceably)

more embraceably (comparative)
most embraceably (superlative)

Alice Lon, the featured soloist and "Champagne Lady," is spry and pretty, with an embraceably slim waist and gleaming legs under a froth of petticoats.

1956, The American Magazine, volumes 161-162, page 102:


ventriloquistically

By means of, or in terms of, ventriloquism.


enlightenedly

enlightenedly (comparative more enlightenedly, superlative most enlightenedly)

more enlightenedly (comparative)
most enlightenedly (superlative)


unenlightenedly

unenlightenedly (comparative more unenlightenedly, superlative most unenlightenedly)

more unenlightenedly (comparative)
most unenlightenedly (superlative)


ensnaringly

And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.

1893, E. Werner, Clear the Track!, page 94:


endorsingly

endorsingly (comparative more endorsingly, superlative most endorsingly)

more endorsingly (comparative)
most endorsingly (superlative)

CORNELIA. Why, I naturally went straight to that shanty town near the river.
GEORGE [Endorsingly]. The proper place to find one.

1942, Frank Vreeland, My Man Godfrey, page 15:

Although he does not comment on the success of Tornado, he quotes, presumably approvingly and endorsingly, the remarks by the Chairman of Panavia, saying what a wonderful project it is […]

1978, Western European Union, Proceedings - Assembly of Western European Union, page 138:


encasserole

Vegetable broth with tomatoes, cooked asparagus, shredded raw carrots and onions, encasserole.

1930, R. W. Bennett, Diet & Vision, page 50:

Spinach, broccoli, and cauliflower cease to be mere vegetables and become adventures in the land of goodies when they are cooked encasserole with this new cheese-food.

1933, Mothers' Activities, volume 14, page 25:

For moist cookery such as stews, encasserole or any fashion where water is used, select either top or bottom round.

1931, Claire Sugden, The Romantic and Practical Side of Cookery, page 173:

Steaming vegetables is excellent but the best method is baking encasserole.

1947, Horace Wendell Soper, Health: Mental, Moral and Physical, page 92:


eucharistically

eucharistically (comparative more eucharistically, superlative most eucharistically)

more eucharistically (comparative)
most eucharistically (superlative)


expensefully

expensefully (comparative more expensefully, superlative most expensefully)

more expensefully (comparative)
most expensefully (superlative)


expatiatingly

So as to expatiate; speaking or writing at length.


expostulatively

expostulatively (comparative more expostulatively, superlative most expostulatively)

more expostulatively (comparative)
most expostulatively (superlative)


Eucharistically

Eucharistically (comparative more Eucharistically, superlative most Eucharistically)

more Eucharistically (comparative)
most Eucharistically (superlative)

Alternative letter-case form of eucharistically


gleamily

gleamily (comparative more gleamily, superlative most gleamily)

more gleamily (comparative)
most gleamily (superlative)


unconsideredly

unconsideredly (comparative more unconsideredly, superlative most unconsideredly)

more unconsideredly (comparative)
most unconsideredly (superlative)


klutzily

klutzily (comparative more klutzily, superlative most klutzily)

more klutzily (comparative)
most klutzily (superlative)


bacchanalianly

bacchanalianly (comparative more bacchanalianly, superlative most bacchanalianly)

more bacchanalianly (comparative)
most bacchanalianly (superlative)


balancewise

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

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

Embolden the company name. Balancewise, the company name could do with standing out more.

2012, Craig Grannell, Victor Sumner, Dionysios Synodinos, The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design, page 337:


beaconwise

Like a beacon; in the manner of a beacon.


behovingly

In a way that behoves; fittingly; suitably.


bleatingly

bleatingly (comparative more bleatingly, superlative most bleatingly)

more bleatingly (comparative)
most bleatingly (superlative)

a film that is bleatingly American

1999 September 17, Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto International Film Festival Group, The Films of Joyce Wieland, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 175:

flagrantly, visibly and to a great extent.


bobbishly

bobbishly (comparative more bobbishly, superlative most bobbishly)

more bobbishly (comparative)
most bobbishly (superlative)


meowingly

meowingly (comparative more meowingly, superlative most meowingly)

more meowingly (comparative)
most meowingly (superlative)


mooingly

mooingly (comparative more mooingly, superlative most mooingly)

more mooingly (comparative)
most mooingly (superlative)


brigandishly

brigandishly (comparative more brigandishly, superlative most brigandishly)

more brigandishly (comparative)
most brigandishly (superlative)


whole-handedly

I always knew that a cactus was dangerous, so I said to myself, “'Tis these great spikes one must avoid," and threw myself whole-heartedly and whole-handedly into stroking the beautiful green spaces between.

It must, however, be remembered that Dekker and Day had “collaborated: on more than one occasion, and it is open to a generous critic to assume that one of the two writers put his work whole-handedly at the disposal of the other.

1924, Arthur Henry Bullen, Elizabethans:

[…] and when touched are grabbed whole-handedly. A friend who is an expert says there is more skill in this than in fishing with fly, but I fancy that those who use rod and line will not agree.

Indeed, the record convinces the court that the government whole-handedly controls and blatantly influences EMMES' action with respect to disclosure of the documents.

1999, Access Reports/freedom of Information:

Naïve, with the grace of a virgin playing at stirring up the flowers of an almond tree, she raised, whole-handedly, the scented froth of her intimate apparel. A wave of painful joy ran through Duvauchelle.

2004, Edward Bruce Ford, Jean Giono's Hidden Reality, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN:

(uncommon) With one's whole hand or hands; (figuratively) comprehensively.


proemially

As or in the manner of a proem; prefatorily.


scurryingly

scurryingly (comparative more scurryingly, superlative most scurryingly)

more scurryingly (comparative)
most scurryingly (superlative)


scarringly

scarringly (comparative more scarringly, superlative most scarringly)

more scarringly (comparative)
most scarringly (superlative)

Thus a child who had a scarringly painful family life may heal herself through becoming a welfare officer or a psychotherapist; a stammerer an orator; […]

2013, Mavis Klein, Live Issues: Reflections on the Human Condition:


charmedly

charmedly (comparative more charmedly, superlative most charmedly)

more charmedly (comparative)
most charmedly (superlative)


affrightfully

affrightfully (comparative more affrightfully, superlative most affrightfully)

more affrightfully (comparative)
most affrightfully (superlative)


affrightingly

affrightingly (comparative more affrightingly, superlative most affrightingly)

more affrightingly (comparative)
most affrightingly (superlative)


arborescently

arborescently (comparative more arborescently, superlative most arborescently)

more arborescently (comparative)
most arborescently (superlative)


pithlessly

pithlessly (comparative more pithlessly, superlative most pithlessly)

more pithlessly (comparative)
most pithlessly (superlative)


curelessly

curelessly (comparative more curelessly, superlative most curelessly)

more curelessly (comparative)
most curelessly (superlative)

Athens, the Queen of the Violet Crown, — the proud and peerless mistress of the world, was still curelessly corrupted by Persian Gold; […]

1854, William Henry Ryder, Our Country: Or, The American Parlor Keepsake, page 47:


termlessly

termlessly (comparative more termlessly, superlative most termlessly)

more termlessly (comparative)
most termlessly (superlative)

In a termless manner; without end; eternally.


covinously

covinously (comparative more covinously, superlative most covinously)

more covinously (comparative)
most covinously (superlative)


currentwise

As he gradually came to himself, his thoughts seemed to be borne currentwise in one direction, and that was against his Lora.


craunchingly

craunchingly (comparative more craunchingly, superlative most craunchingly)

more craunchingly (comparative)
most craunchingly (superlative)

At this point there was a pause, of which Mr. Folinsbee availed himself to walk very grimly and craunchingly down the gravel-walk toward the gate.

1872, Bret Harte, Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands:


picturably

picturably (comparative more picturably, superlative most picturably)

more picturably (comparative)
most picturably (superlative)


plagiaristically

plagiaristically (comparative more plagiaristically, superlative most plagiaristically)

more plagiaristically (comparative)
most plagiaristically (superlative)


Pickwickianly

Pickwickianly (comparative more Pickwickianly, superlative most Pickwickianly)

more Pickwickianly (comparative)
most Pickwickianly (superlative)


supraordinately

supraordinately (comparative more supraordinately, superlative most supraordinately)

more supraordinately (comparative)
most supraordinately (superlative)


therehence

His Lordship having left a ward there, the castle being wardable, the Lord Mountgarrett was put at liberty, and therehence [the Lord Lieutenant] marched to Limerick, […]

1899, Great Britain, Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Ireland ...: Apr. 1599-Feb. 1600, Public Record Office, page 134:


worshipingly

worshipingly (comparative more worshipingly, superlative most worshipingly)

more worshipingly (comparative)
most worshipingly (superlative)


wordishly

wordishly (comparative more wordishly, superlative most wordishly)

more wordishly (comparative)
most wordishly (superlative)


wishingly

wishingly (comparative more wishingly, superlative most wishingly)

more wishingly (comparative)
most wishingly (superlative)

Only look up, as they did that were wounded, weepingly, wishingly, pitifully, cravingly; see and sigh, look upon him whom you have pierced […]

1841, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey, Course of Lectures on the Scripture Types, page 305:


wreathingly

wreathingly (comparative more wreathingly, superlative most wreathingly)

more wreathingly (comparative)
most wreathingly (superlative)

The smoke rose wreathingly from the chimney.


noxally

noxally liable


electroosmotically

In terms of, or by means of, electroosmosis.


scathelessly

scathelessly (comparative more scathelessly, superlative most scathelessly)

more scathelessly (comparative)
most scathelessly (superlative)


objectlessly

objectlessly (comparative more objectlessly, superlative most objectlessly)

more objectlessly (comparative)
most objectlessly (superlative)


quotingly

"It must be so, Plato," quotingly added Mr. Gleely.

1852, Howard Paul, Dashes of American Humour, page 74:

Again I quotingly say, "Only the sky is the limit."

1920, United States Congress, Congressional Record, page 2754:


disharmonically

disharmonically (comparative more disharmonically, superlative most disharmonically)

more disharmonically (comparative)
most disharmonically (superlative)


disserviceably

disserviceably (comparative more disserviceably, superlative most disserviceably)

more disserviceably (comparative)
most disserviceably (superlative)


disquisitively

disquisitively (comparative more disquisitively, superlative most disquisitively)

more disquisitively (comparative)
most disquisitively (superlative)


disturbedly

disturbedly (comparative more disturbedly, superlative most disturbedly)

more disturbedly (comparative)
most disturbedly (superlative)


distendedly

distendedly (comparative more distendedly, superlative most distendedly)

more distendedly (comparative)
most distendedly (superlative)


docetically

In a docetic manner; in terms of docetism.


constipatedly

constipatedly (comparative more constipatedly, superlative most constipatedly)

more constipatedly (comparative)
most constipatedly (superlative)


bondedly

bondedly (comparative more bondedly, superlative most bondedly)

more bondedly (comparative)
most bondedly (superlative)

As they passed me they caught other's eye and so each smiled engagingly—chummily, congenially as well as bondedly— that I smiled, myself, in what I felt to be a corresponding sort of way.

2013, Roy Blount, Jr., Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story:

In a bonded manner; in a way that evinces the presence or existence of a bond.


next store

I knew my brother John lived upstairs with my aunt, uncle, and cousin. […] I knew my three older sisters Maura, Miara, and Gina lived next store with my other aunt and family.


Jacobitically

Jacobitically (comparative more Jacobitically, superlative most Jacobitically)

more Jacobitically (comparative)
most Jacobitically (superlative)


Jacobitishly

Jacobitishly (comparative more Jacobitishly, superlative most Jacobitishly)

more Jacobitishly (comparative)
most Jacobitishly (superlative)


joiningly

The drinks were in them dissolvingly, joiningly, now: […]

1952, Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, page 307:


unlikeably

unlikeably (comparative more unlikeably, superlative most unlikeably)

more unlikeably (comparative)
most unlikeably (superlative)


unlustfully

unlustfully (comparative more unlustfully, superlative most unlustfully)

more unlustfully (comparative)
most unlustfully (superlative)


unmotivatedly

unmotivatedly (comparative more unmotivatedly, superlative most unmotivatedly)

more unmotivatedly (comparative)
most unmotivatedly (superlative)


unpollutedly

unpollutedly (comparative more unpollutedly, superlative most unpollutedly)

more unpollutedly (comparative)
most unpollutedly (superlative)


unlikably

unlikably (comparative more unlikably, superlative most unlikably)

more unlikably (comparative)
most unlikably (superlative)


unpreferentially

The excited 23P0 atoms spontaneously decay unpreferentially to each Zeeman sublevel of the metastable 23S1 state.

2016, Michael J Haji-Sheikh, Subhas C Mukhopadhyay, Asaf Grosz, High Sensitivity Magnetometers, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 495, →ISBN:


unguiltily

unguiltily (comparative more unguiltily, superlative most unguiltily)

more unguiltily (comparative)
most unguiltily (superlative)


unguilefully

unguilefully (comparative more unguilefully, superlative most unguilefully)

more unguilefully (comparative)
most unguilefully (superlative)


unvindictively

unvindictively (comparative more unvindictively, superlative most unvindictively)

more unvindictively (comparative)
most unvindictively (superlative)


unsatisfiedly

We muſt pray for them unſatisfiedly, not content with anything elſe, nor without excellent degrees of them.

1699, William Bates, Spiritual Perfection, unfolded and enforced, from 2 Cor. VII. I, London: For Jonathan Robinson and Brabazon Aylmer, →OCLC, page 389:

He put them away unsatisfiedly and asked, “Is that all?”

2019, Dong Fangshaoshuai, Evil Sentimental Young Master, volume 2, Funstory, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:

“I didn't expect this woman to be so rich. If I had known earlier, I would have gotten more.” As he watched Lin Qingshan's retreating figure and then lowered his head to look at the gold coin in his hand, the young man muttered to himself unsatisfiedly.

2020, Qing LanZi, Peerless Queen, volume 2, Funstory, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:

Jiang Xiang said unsatisfiedly, "I received the news earlier in the day that the Mayor had committed suicide out of guilt. Just which act was he singing?"

2020 March, Luo TuoSheng, Super Useless System, volume 13, Funstory, →ISBN, →ISBN:

I can't be satisfied like this. Since Kunlun Wonderland is called Immortal Burial Ground, then there must be countless treasures or miracles. It's too early for us to not experience it." Ye Feng said unsatisfiedly.

2020, Xiao Fanzi, Tales of Ruffian in Fairyland, volume 5 (Fiction), Funstory, →ISBN, →ISBN:

Not satisfiedly; without satisfaction or contentment.


nonpreferentially

Those exemptions apply nonpreferentially to all religions.

2017 September, Edward A. Zelinsky, Taxing the Church: Religion, Exemptions, Entanglement, and the Constitution, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 220, →ISBN:

If government chose to support religion generally, if^([sic – meaning it]) must do so nonpreferentially.

2000 February, Frank Guliuzza, Over the Wall: Protecting Religious Expression in the Public Square, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 126, →ISBN:

The three species of sunbirds changed from specializing on clumps with large numbers of closed flowers to visiting flowers nonpreferentially at different relative frequencies of unopened flowers.

1980, Douglass H. Morse, Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59, →ISBN:


unhungrily

His eyes unhungrily saw shelves of tins, sardines, gaudy lobsters' claws.

1989 May, Dennis Brown, The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature: A Study in Self-Fragmentation, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84, →ISBN:

And it's the only way of eating that will keep you unhungrily slim for the rest of your life.

1981 December, Robert C. Atkins, Doctor Atkins' Diet Revolution, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 29, →ISBN:

Hazel sank wearily into her chair and sipped the milk unhungrily.

2019 Descember, Grace Livingston Hill, Finding Love in Wild West: 3 Western Romance Novels, Musaicum Books:

“I should-?” I sigh and reach into my pocket, biting down a candy bar unhungrily and tossing the wrapper.

2020 June, Jordan Wakefield, Waqas Ahmad, Conflux: The Lost Girls:


objectingly

Still Frantz's head moved objectingly.

1867, Giovanni Ruffini, A Quiet Nook in the Jura, Leipzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz, →OCLC, page 43:

When it was objectingly asked, “Then there are but five of you, are there?” she still insisted, “Yes, we are seven.”

1870, William Gelston Bates, The Westfield Jubilee: A Report of the Celebration at Westfield, Mass., on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town, October 6, 1869, with the Historical Address of the Hon. William G. Bates, and Other Speeches and Poems of the Occasion with an Appendix, Containing Historical Documents of Local Interest, Westfield, Massachusetts: Clark & Story, →OCLC, page 95:

Nor must any one here say to me, objectingly, “I have never so preached on the catechism nor have I so understood the duty.”

1877, Talbot W. Chambers, Edward Tanjore Corwin, Centennial Discourses: A Series of Sermons Delivered in the Year 1876, New York: Board of publication of the Reformed Church in America, →OCLC, page 288:


unobjectingly

Once in two hours, night and day, Nora came to Dorothy's bedside and offered some delicate nourishment; Dorothy took it unobjectingly.

2004, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Constance Fenimore Woolson: Selected Stories and Travel Narratives, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 288, →ISBN:

The merchant unobjectingly began to drink his syrup.

2011 September 30, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Demons: A Novel in Three Parts, London: Vintage Digital, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 330, →ISBN:

It would have been well had he never broken it; for not only was there no lawful promise to him, such as he alleges, but, by his keeping silence at a time when, if ever, he ought to have spoken, and by his unobjectingly receiving payment of what was awarded him, he effectually barred his own way to a recovery of any more here.

1882, United States. Court of Claims, Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States at the ... with the Rules of Practice and the Acts of Congress Relating to the Court, Washington: W.H. & O.H. Morrison, →OCLC, page 246:

He knew his desires and ambition; and instead of passing unobjectingly, as he admits, into one plan or another, he should have asserted himself, and let Art claim her own.

1879, Harry Willard French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, Boston: Lee and Shepard, →OCLC, page 48:

Without objection or disagreement; not objectingly.


disagreeingly

The horse snorted disagreeingly.

2020 September 22, R. D. Arnold, Hero's Luck (Fiction):

[…] all the other foresaid authors, thought differently and disagreeingly, yet in most eager manner impugning the same […]

1843, The English Catholic Library. Vol. 1. A Search Made Into Matters of Religion, by F. Walsingham, London, →OCLC, page 283:

[…] respondents who would answer agreeingly to a question using the evaluation ‘good’, will answer disagreeingly when the evaluation ‘bad’ is used.

2000, Bregje Holleman, The Forbid/allow Asymmetry: On the Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Wording Effects in Surveys, Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5, →ISBN:

Not agreeingly; with disagreement or objection.


unIslamically

unIslamically (comparative more unIslamically, superlative most unIslamically)

more unIslamically (comparative)
most unIslamically (superlative)

In Allah's view, the greatest crime a human being can commit is shirk - which is worshipping an unIslamic God, or worshipping God unIslamically (assigning companions etc).

2012 February 1, Sentenced to die, The Express Tribune:

They similarly wanted to be excused from physical education which they claimed unIslamically exposed their bodies.

1986, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (Nigeria), Religious Disturbances in Nigeria, page 29:

Her arms and legs are unIslamically bare, and she is trailing an inevitable handbag.

1989, John Simpson, Behind Iranian Lines, page 80:

As one Jamaat-e-Islami member observed, the state may not have declared it as against Islam, but 'Pakistan's leaders and army [began] acting unIslamically so some people who go to wage jihad against America will realize they must fight Pakistan too because Pakistan is helping America'.

2015, Ravi Kalia, Pakistan's Political Labyrinths: Military, society and terror, page 96:

He was clean shaven but his armpits, I noticed, were unIslamically hairy.

2012 March 15, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, London: John Murray Press; Martin Yeoman (illustrator), →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:


un-Islamically

un-Islamically (comparative more un-Islamically, superlative most un-Islamically)

more un-Islamically (comparative)
most un-Islamically (superlative)

The hammams or Turkish saunas, decorated most un-Islamically with erotic mosaics, paintings, or statues, were a meeting point for many homosexuals.

2010 September 30, Ibn Warraq, Why I Am Not a Muslim, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, →ISBN:

The Imam said, “If you know that it is from an un-Islamically slaughtered animal, then do not pray in it.”

2014 September 17, Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi, The Ritual and Spiritual Purity, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33, →ISBN:

This is the Hadith which at times annoy many un-Islamically inclined youth.

2019 January 4, Najeeb A. Jan, The Metacolonial State: Pakistan, Critical Ontology, and the Biopolitical Horizons of Political Islam, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:


unislamically

unislamically (comparative more unislamically, superlative most unislamically)

more unislamically (comparative)
most unislamically (superlative)

There are of course many unislamically inclined thinkers who consider the sovereignty to belong to the Ummah and yet no one would dare say that those thinkers who advocated such views were not 'Islami' thinkers.

1987, Halil İnalcık, Muhammad Abdul-Rauf, Ismaʼil R. Al-Faruqi, S̲h̲arīʻah, Ummah, and K̲h̲ilāfah: Lectures, page 119:

The begetter of the idea of the Islamic state of Pakistān, now transformed somewhat unislamically into the Islamic Republic of Pakistān, has tersely […]

1989, Kapur Singh, Piāra Siṅgha, Madanjit Kaur, Pārāśarapraśna: An Enquiry Into the Genesis and Unique Character of the Order of the Khalsa with an Exposition of the Sikh Tenets, page 216:

However, he emphasizes unspecified other travels that Muslim women engage in, pointing out how they behave 'unislamically' by going where they should not be going, using various ways of transportation and mixing with men.

2020, Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Viola Thimm, Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond:


unsadistically

[…] yet at the same time frees us to view them lovingly, longingly, sympathetically, unsadistically, in a way that only film makes possible.

2019, William Rothman, Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 193, →ISBN:

He preserves them unsadistically, with no voluptuous delight.

1990, Patrick Grainville, The cave of heaven, Elmwood Park, Illinois: Elmwood Park, Illinois, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 167, →ISBN:


misspellingly

misspellingly (comparative more misspellingly, superlative most misspellingly)

more misspellingly (comparative)
most misspellingly (superlative)

The first two of these are misspellingly emblazoned “Rosenholtz” by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under whose supervision the discs were produced and who returned them to Germany between 2000 and 2003.

2009 September 10, East German Foreign Intelligence: Myth, Reality and Controversy, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 70, →ISBN:

People's minds run, misspellingly, to those Enid Blyton books with their Towers and jolly hockey sticks (1946-51) or further back to writers of Arthurian legend.

2020 July 16, Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary: A Winner of the 2021 Betty Trask Awards, London: Cornerstone Digital, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:


uncircuitously

uncircuitously (comparative more uncircuitously, superlative most uncircuitously)

more uncircuitously (comparative)
most uncircuitously (superlative)


nonhereditarily

Inveterate abuse of drinking in nonhereditarily disposed persons creates a degeneracy like the hereditary.

1893, Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education, page 133:


nonunderstandingly

Luis smiled nonunderstandingly and shook his head. “The English language is odd,” he observed.

1921, Emart Kinsburn, Gems of Promise, page 127:

They stared at one another nonunderstandingly. Then the Father started to laugh but strangled the gay note instantly.

1930, Leslie J. Swabacker, Shackles of Flesh, page 14:


Olympicly

Olympicly (comparative more Olympicly, superlative most Olympicly)

more Olympicly (comparative)
most Olympicly (superlative)


opiniatively

opiniatively (comparative more opiniatively, superlative most opiniatively)

more opiniatively (comparative)
most opiniatively (superlative)


otherhow

Well, but suppose after all I was to do without it? Or I don't mean do without it, for I must get it otherhow, if I don't have it from you. Suppose I was to forgive you the debt?

2019, M. H. James, Bogie Tales of East Anglia, page 99:


overburdeningly

overburdeningly (comparative more overburdeningly, superlative most overburdeningly)

more overburdeningly (comparative)
most overburdeningly (superlative)


overconservatively

overconservatively (comparative more overconservatively, superlative most overconservatively)

more overconservatively (comparative)
most overconservatively (superlative)


as sure as eggs is eggs

as sure as eggs is eggs (not comparable)

sure as eggs is eggs
sure as eggs is eggs#English

Alternative form of sure as eggs is eggs.


as sure as eggs are eggs

as sure as eggs are eggs (not comparable)


all one word

In Spanish, "neozelandés" is spelled all one word and in English "New Zealander" is two words.

The hosue is called Porthousekeeper (all one word) Mansion.


sure as death

"It was naething to make a wark about. It was just yon windy yonder in the library that is nae windy. And it was open as sure's death. You may laugh if you like. Is that a' she's wantin' wi' me?"

1896, Margaret Oliphant, The Library Window:


inutterably

inutterably (comparative more inutterably, superlative most inutterably)

more inutterably (comparative)
most inutterably (superlative)

Tyrion was inutterably weary, but there was no time for despair.

2003, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire), Random House, →ISBN:


And 2dly, ſince I myſelf have ſeen it, I have with no ſmall Probability been able to diſcover that the other Building in Pola [tho’ deſcribed as a Theatre, and accordingly delineated as ſuch by Serlio, and called ſo in the dark Ages, when ſuch Names were given at random] was in effect no Theatre at all, but a magnificent Palace.

1730, the Marquis Scipio Maffei, translated by Alexander Gordon, A Compleat History of the Ancient Amphitheatres. More peculiarly Regarding the Architecture of thoſe Buildings, and in Particular that of Verona., London: Harmen Noorthouck, Chap. XVI. This Treatiſe is here ended, by giving an Account of the Theatre of Pola, which till now has been taken for an Amphitheatre., page 398:

Abbreviation of secondly. Obsolete form of 2ndly.


When your spire is morphing construct an evolution chamber as this also allow spore colonies to counter enemy fliers, and then immediatly go for ling attack upgrade 1, and as soon as spire is finished, go for mutalisk armor upgrade 1. Reason why is long and technical, and I have replied to this be4, so by looking up some older posts you may very well find the answer to why.

2000 January 31, Demiurge[NaNo], “When to...”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14:

HAVE U NOT DONE IT BE4?
MY FRIEND HAS. SHE SAUD IT WAS GOOD AND SHE DOES IT ALL THE TIME AND HER MUM IS PUTTING HER ON THE PILL SO SHE DOESN'T GET A BABY IN HER BELLY

2001 May 20, Shell, “Morning Peeps”, in alt.fan.scarecrow (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14:

When trying to connect to a multiplayergame online, BF2 quits and i'm back at my desktop..... This problem has started recently, never had trouble with this be4.
Suggestions?
Cheers GR

2005 October 25, Geir, “BF2 trouble”, in alt.games.battlefield1942 (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14:

Like i saw this be4 but applied restraint, letting you Matures have your Old Space. I didn't pheel the phunny then and i don't now. we're either of you ever mid-young/pre-adult or did U go from 0 to carbunkled gnurls, pissy asstitudes and 60 years decrepit all in 1 gigantic leap year?

2008 November 28, Amanda Lynn, “Bear Bottoms Like Kicked In Krotch”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14:

(Internet slang, leetspeak) Abbreviation of before.


glazedly

glazedly (comparative more glazedly, superlative most glazedly)

more glazedly (comparative)
most glazedly (superlative)

Actors, technicians, announcers, all staring glazedly at the jumping needle that recorded both time and money.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 10:


aclatter

The wet sack collapsing aclatter on the ground.

1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, New York: Vintage, page 455:


ten ways from Sunday

six ways to Sunday
six ways to Sunday#English