civilizedly

civilizedly (comparative more civilizedly, superlative most civilizedly)

more civilizedly (comparative)
most civilizedly (superlative)

They became, not civilly, but civilizedly dead.

1847, Washington M’Cartney, “Preliminary Lecture”, in The Origin and Progress of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa.: E. H. Butler & Co., page 27:

[…]; people looked at me half-civilizedly;

1855 November, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XLVI, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Samuel Hueston, page 546:

Yes, I expect to reach Devil’s Lake some time towards the last of this month, when the thermometers have learned to conduct themselves somewhat more civilizedly.

1886 April 10, “Bigots and Jobbers. Col. Donan Declares That Dakota is Suffering From Too Much Partisan Jackassery. Carpet-Bag Government Over-Riding the Just Demands of a Long-Suffering People. Political Knavery and Congressional Trickery Taking the Place of True Statemanship. The Territory Nevertheless Working Out Its Sublime Future--The South Enjoying a Boom.”, in St. Paul Daily Globe, volume VIII, number 100, Saint Paul, Minn., page 10:

How much superior to the inhabitants of Jackson, Miss., who fled from their city (1898) because three cases of yellow fever were discovered, were the inhabitants of Munich, Germany, who, in 1874, with 260 deaths from Cholera Asiatica in one day and 14,000 deaths during the ten weeks of epidemic, did not even close the schools, theaters, hotels, in fact continued on living as civilizedly and bravely as in normal times?

1898, C. Amryc, “Prevention or Cure?”, in Pantheism, the Light and Hope of Modern Reason, page 257:

So we will stick to the proprieties of our times, and civilizedly robe you for your bridal night.

1899, Mina Holt, The Satyr: A Novel of Love and Passion: Reflecting Modern Social Organization, London, New York, N.Y.: F. Tennyson Neely, page 317:

We may live civilizedly in the city, wear ties and read statistics, but we all carry our animal spirits within us.

2011, Tomas Sedlacek, “The History of Animal Spirits: The Dream Never Sleeps”, in Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street, Oxford University Press, part II (Blasphemous Thoughts), page 282:


hydrogeologically

By means of, or with reference to hydrogeology


distinctually

en-adv

distinctually (comparative more distinctually, superlative most distinctually)

more distinctually (comparative)
most distinctually (superlative)

As to Colours, they depend on the Situation of the Parts of the Bodies, and Light has no more Share in them than to brighten and diſtinctually to diſcover them to our Eyes;

1724, John Conrad Francis de Hatzfeld, The Case of the Learned, London: […] the Author, page 82:

And presently sure ’nough her legs begin falling distinctually to the ground.

1854 April 6, “Hillcox vs. Jawson”, in Fayetteville Observer, volume III, number 285, Fayeteville, N.C.:

His mama met the solium procession at the door, and after keerfully looking her orfspring over, she said, “My son, I see how it is distinctually. You ’ve been foolin’ round a Trashin Masheen. You went in at the place where they put the grain in, cum out with the straw, and you got up into the thingamyjig, and let the hosses tred on you, didn’t you, my son?”

1866 September 8, Artemus Ward [pen name; Charles Farrar Browne], “Artemus Ward in London”, in Punch, volume LI, London: […] the Office, page 101:

“Eyes—”[…]Charlie scribed directions. “Teeth —[…].” Charlie wrote. “Entire face—This show signs of dilapidation, elliptickle contortion & curviture of the smile. This need to be removed, stretched over portait of Apollo Belvedere and baked 4 hrs. at even temperature.” He pause slowly. I listen to his silence. “Are that all?” I pronounce distinctually. “All except your complexion,” he denote. “That of course should be bleached to match your new hair & eyes. I should snuggest the Wawaw Treatment.”

1924 March 23, Wallace Irwin, “Letters Of A Japanese Schoolboy: Togo Prefers His Own Style Of Beauty”, in The Sun, volume 24, number 12D, Baltimore, Md.:


cringily

cringily (comparative more cringily, superlative most cringily)

more cringily (comparative)
most cringily (superlative)

They exulted when they opened their copies of the Hahnemannian to read therein that Dr. Gould was “a tallow candle going out with a bad smell,” “not honest,” "not truthful,” and that he “cringily begs for mercy.”

1891 December 19, “The morals and amenities of medical controversy”, in Med. News, 59:716–717; quoted in James Eckman, “History of Medicine in Minnesota: Homeopathic and Eclectic Medicine in Minnesota”, in Minnesota Medicine: […], volume 24, number 7, the Minnesota State Medical Association, 1941 July, page 568:

Then, dancing dishonours having been equally shared by a fatarmed partially dusky hoor and a tiny earnest negroid tart (both immeasurably under wraps) emerges now 1 song, beginning and rebeginning with a moist dark tone; cringily climbing (tumbling; crazily, upyearning) collapsing: smoothly, and languidly, building…

1933, E. E. Cummings, EIMI, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press Inc., published 1958, →LCCN, page 209:

THE TOURIST TRAP (T). Repeat of the cringily captivating series in which candid cameras reveal how holidaymakers from different countries react to a series of provocations, raging from petty larceny to full-frontal nudity.

1999 May 13, “Television Guide”, in Evening Standard, London, page 40:

You know the truth: you’re no different to that ageing hippy pal of your dad’s who once barged into your bedroom while you and your mates were smoking a joint and cringily demanded: ‘Hey man, pass the vibes.’

2002 December 1, Damon Syson, “How old are you really? Forget what it says on your birth certificate, you’re only as young as your lifestyle”, in The Observer, page 42:

All the way with Paige Michalchuk doesn t have quite the same ring to it, but the new version is just as cringily awesome as the original and covers the same breadth of PSA-worthy topics at least, in its Canadian incarnation.

2006, Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, “Degrassi: The Next Generation”, in Television Without Pity: 752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) About TV, Philadelphia, Pa.: Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 76:

First, there’s NBC’s hit comedy The Office. NBC has already wisely figured out that the subject matter of the show – the cringily familiar misadventures of a pack of miserable office workers – naturally attracts an audience of miserable office workers;

2006 May 25, Tara Ariano, “More reasons to stay inside on a nice day; TV on the Web; This summer will have more than just Deadwood”, in National Post, volume 8, number 179, page AL5:

Her weatherbeaten face brightens at the sight of the pair of us, whom she always calls, just a little cringily, ‘my accomplished daughter and her lovely Nick’.

2008, Polly Williams, A Good Girl Comes Undone, Sphere, →ISBN, page 14:

Demi Moore’s recent self-taken Twitter snaps of herself in a bikini (inset) were cringily unnecessary – she is known for little else than looking unfeasibly good these days; no need to overdo it.

2010 September 12, Rhiannon Harries, “On my mind: Nothing says ‘Cheese!’ louder than those online self-portraits, says Rhiannon Harries”, in The Independent on Sunday, number 1,072, page 7:

Will just won’t accept that Lauren fancies Simon, and hangs around cringily in the background – even when she invites Simon to join her for their free time and they share a goodbye nuzzle.

2011, Charlotte Wilson, Inside the Inbetweeners: An Unofficial Guide, Hodder, page 17:

So far there had been a ranty poem about war that had gone on for twenty-two minutes, a cringily erotic poem from a woman who looked old enough to be her grandma, and now this.

2016, Siobhan Curham, chapter 3, in The Moonlight Dreamers, Walker Books, →ISBN, page 22:

“Okay,” I say, “and did you forget that once you announce the most senior officer on deck you don’t announce anyone else?” “I um, yeah uh,” he fumbles cringily, “it’s just I’m, I guess I thought-“

2019, P. D. York, Glaxsya, →ISBN, page 352:

Oliver’s little lectures are dotted with plenty of snarky asides and cringily millennial-friendly pop culture similes (the United States uncovering FIFA soccer corruption was “like finding out that Ke$ha arrested a group of bankers involved in commodities fraud!”), but they get results.

2018, Ken Jennings, “We Shall Overcomb”, in Planet Funny: How Comedy Ruined Everything, Scribner, published 2019, →ISBN, page 254:

He seems to know where he is in the professional ecosystem – there to join in but not to cringily attempt to be the last man standing, which means they like and respect him.

2019, Helen Whitaker, The School Run, Trapeze Books:

Samantha evaluated the size of my body thoughtfully, then proceeded to elicit donations for my going-out attire from Alison, the lone Chicagoan female, who also, as my mother would say, “carried her weight in her hips.” I thought of this expression cringily, as though gravity were wrapping around our bodies like a rope.

2019, Amy Feltman, Willa & Hesper, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:

As the night-take-backers applaud Steve, Laura runs out, and he follows to thank her for not delivering him to what he’d previously, cringily, called a “lynch mob.”

2020, Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, A Very Special 90210 Book: 93 Absolutely Essential Episodes from TV’s Most Notorious Zip Code, New York, N.Y.: Abrams Image, →ISBN:

To be totally and probably cringily honest, I was scared.

2020, Auriane Desombre, “The Rules of Comedy”, in Together, Apart, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 111:

I cringily jump up and down a few times to get the douchechills out of my spine.

2021, Mary H. K. Choi, Yolk, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 54:

Mostly early nineties dance, it’s a collection Will’s picked up from boot sales and eBay. It’s the music his mum and dad were into in what they cringily refer to as their ‘raving days’, which they were still listening to years after its time, providing the soundtrack to long car journeys when Will was a kid.

2022, James Goodhand, Man Down, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

What if I did meet someone and things got frisky and he was like, ‘You like what?’ The thought was too cringily awful to contemplate, never mind how sad it made me feel.

2022, Sophie Ranald, P.S. I Hate You, Bookouture, →ISBN:


climbingly

climbingly (comparative more climbingly, superlative most climbingly)

more climbingly (comparative)
most climbingly (superlative)

With ghastly faces ghastlier from the lamp, / That swung and flicker’d with its yellow flare, / And feebly stain’d their frighten’d features, damp / With chilly sweat and rigid with despair, / Or list’ning to the terrifying tramp / Of feet above the cabin where they were, / Or gazing, as they shrunk and huddled more / And more together on the shelving floor, / Upon the fierce irruption of the seas, / Which now had grown a formidable tide, / That climbingly increas’d by swift degrees, / The passengers were kneeling side by side, / Gentle and simple; but alarm did freeze / Their accents, and the pray’r unutter’d died / Within their lips, ’till fell the mast, and then / « Oh! God! » they cried, and straight were still again.

1844, Stephen Prentis, “The Cabin”, in The wreck of The Roscommon, Dinan: J.-B. Huart, pages 23–24:

Rig, w. to reach about climbingly.

1862, William Barnes, Tiw; or, A View of the Roots and Stems of the English as a Teutonic Tongue, London: John Russell Smith, page 180:

Like the beginners of all arduous under- and upper-takings, we set off at a round pace, and got on swimmingly, or rather climbingly.

1864 September 7, John Flint South, Charles Lett Feltoe (collector), Memorials of John Flint South, London: John Murray, published 1884, page 181:

We were refreshed with a night’s good rest, and our journey up went on swimmingly—or climbingly.

1872, H[enry] Perry Smith, chapter XXXVI, in The modern Babes in the Wood or Summerings in the Wilderness, Hartford, Conn.: Columbian Book Company; Syracuse, N.Y.: Watson Gill, page 229:

Youth no more, / Only age, / Yet mark the score / How it crowds the page, / How the leaves are thin, / Finger-worn, / Spotted and torn / Where you begin / To think the song / Is fading too, / As all along / The avenue / Of notes the blight / Is through and through / To tax the sight / And lip of you, / Till one full day / You shall hear / Your same notes play / New and clear, / Climbingly strong / As they were then, / For here is your song, / In the wind again!

1911, Frederick Fanning Ayer, “Adelyn, or, How to Win Her”, in Bell and Wing, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, page 553:

Of course the metal of the car wheels and the caliber of the baby must be topnotch to allow either of them to react upon grit climbingly.

1912 April 21, “Authority on Cranberries. How Lucian J. Fosdick of Dorchester Has Made His Way in Business---Once Sawed a Cord of Wood for a Dollar---His Avocation of Cranberry Growing---How to Cook Them. His Summer Home in Carver, a Plymouth County Town.”, in The Boston Sunday Globe, volume LXXXI, number 112, Boston, Mass., page 5:

One of the men, the slender fellow, walked climbingly out on the jib boom; and from there, leaped.

1920, Gordon Young, “Hurricane Williams”, in Adventure, page 78:

Eugene, the fortunate, the handsome, the gifted, the prize-winner of the season’s most noted beauty, utterly in love and climbingly successful, did not present the appearance, to those who knew him, of an indisputably happy man.

1924, Hughes Cornell, Born Rich, Philadelphia, Pa.: George W. Jacobs & Company, page 210:

From Ford Lahaye it is a three hours’ sail in a canoe, along a coast indented with green valleys that run back climbingly through fields of sugar cane.

1930, Alec Waugh, “La Martinique”, in Hot Countries, New York, N.Y.: The Literary Guild, page 119:

Everywhere the picture is one of mingled evil and good: insensitive men amassing wealth ruthlessly, idle women driving them on climbingly; rich men giving handsomely, beautifying cities, endowing research, financing medicine and opening new schools; instalment stimulating employment and intensifying ruin;[…]: how shall we ever generalize in the face of such obstinately individual facts? how shall we ever come to any simple conclusions?

1931, Will Durant, A Program for America, Simon and Schuster, pages 90–91:

Silence: low, clear, and sweet, begins a negro spiritual climbingly which wanders (groping) openingly radiates hope faith, love (hushing the song rebuilds) luminously (searching brightly) seeking (gloriously finding peace, trust, joy) deeply (again softly enters) whispering grows (mounting purely) sweetly (passionately ascending firmly) marching (seriously) toward a truly (toward a shining alive) only toward some unimagined Self—stopped suddenly voices do not sing—light

1935, E. E. Cummings, Tom, New York, N.Y.: Arrow Editions, page 26:

who(on this busily nowhere rollingest it)’s the dizzily he most him—the climbingly fallingest fool in this trickiest if?

1944, E. E. Cummings, 1 × 1, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page L:

everyone has seen a wave grow climbingly & topple to crash thundering in hugely racing snow

a. 1962, J[ennifer] Alison Rosenblitt, quoting E. E. Cummings, E. E. Cummings’ Modernism and the Classics: Each Imperishable Stanza, Oxford University Press, published 2016, →ISBN:

priplézati to climb towards, to reach climbingly

1962, Janko Kotnik, Slovene-English Dictionary, 5th edition, Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, page 480:

All the family’s collectibles — sculptures, pottery, photographs — are temptingly and climbingly within reach of the towheaded youngster.

1972 November 19, Tania Demchuk, “Life Has Been Good To The Patrick Tahaneys”, in Orlando Sentinel, volume 88, number 189, Orlando, Fla., pages 6—P:

Her fingers curled climbingly along the stem of her wine glass and Merrick noticed a slight tremble to their otherwise composed motion.

1985, Lynna Lawton, Glory’s Mistress, New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, page 47:

For the first time, Brooks’ ear-chewing tirades are madly, climbingly funny.

1985 May, James Wolcott, “Fish Story”, in Texas Monthly, page 178:

and there he was, a blackened sketch against a murky-milk sky its arms stretched out climbingly

1990 January 10, Leo E. McFadden, “Start the new year smelling the roses”, in Reno Gazette-Journal, Reno, Nev., page 2:

Even the most devoted husbands confessed that the adorable, irresistible, captivating loves of their lives at times drove them wall-climbingly, teeth-grindingly nuts.

1996, Merry Bloch Jones, Robert Llewellyn Jones, “I Love Her, But…”, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 12:

As one rises here, what vanish are distinctions, just as specific associations eventually disappear for Ishmael as he climbingly circumnavigates the whale in his chapter on whiteness.

2006, Bruce Kuklick, editor, Thomas Paine, Routledge, published 2018:

Relay ascending / Jumpingly ascending / Climbingly ascending

2007, Deyi Li, Yi Du, Artificial Intelligence with Uncertainty, Chapman & Hall/CRC, →ISBN, page 260:

For the slow or step-climbingly-challenged, the rocks and roots here make a perfect spot for the first sit-down water or snack break (you’re less than 20min. outside of Monterosso).

2011, Let’s Go European Riviera, Let’s Go Publications, →ISBN, page 80:

Your mother and another box of ashes—her ashes your ashes—and how, flashing, those last days passed climbingly drowningly

2014, Laura Kasischke, The Infinitesimals, Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, →ISBN, page 50:


villainly

villainly (comparative more villainly, superlative most villainly)

more villainly (comparative)
most villainly (superlative)

From Middle English vilenly; equivalent to villain + -ly.

And whan they vnderstode this they walked fast, & cam nigħ to the bridge, and sawe thre cristen that were 28 ouerthrawen on the bridge by strokkes of speerys. ‘Fourth,’ said then one of them, ‘we tary to longe / perceyue you not how this Dogges oppressen vylaynly these valyaunt & worthy crystens?’ / and anone they 32 bended þeir crosbowes, & shot ałł ones / and ouerthrewe doun on the bridge fro theire horses with that first shotte xxiiᵗⁱ paynemys.

c. 1500, “How Uryan & Guyon tooke leue of theire moder Melusyne and entred theire ship”, in A. K. Donald, editor, Melusine. Compiled (1382-1394 A.D.) by Jean d’Arras; Englisht about 1500. Edited from a Unique Manuscript in the Library of the British Museum, part I (Text, Notes, and Glossary), London: Publisht for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., published 1895, page lines 26–35, page 130:

My fortune them withstands, and I lykewyse may destnies vouche / To kyl that cursyd brood, and for my spouse vproote them quyte. / Nor not alone this grief doth Agamemnons kindred byte: / Nor Greeks haue onely cause for wedlock spoyle them selfs to arme. Yet had it bin ynough to stroy them ones, if but one harme / Suffized had their sinne, and not with spyte all female kinds / Thus villaynly disdain? what? doth this half trench puff their mynds?

a. 1560, Virgill, Thomas Phaër, transl., “The Ninth Booke of the Aeneidos of Uirgil”, in The Whole .xii. Bookes of the Æneidos of Virgill, London: […] Wyllyam How, for Abraham Veale, published 1573:

Law, boaſts it’s pillars upright, liberal, great! Abilities, enhanc’d by virtues rare! Who villainly hurl headlong from it’s ſeat, / And ſuffering merit make their ſpecial care.

1793, J[ames] C[artwright] Cross, The Insolvent Debtor: A Simple Pathetic Tale, Founded on Facts. To Which Is Added, a Small Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry., Salisbury: Printed for […], page 4:

Ah, noble king, for God’s sake refrain your courage, ye have the name of sovereign noblesse, therefore now do not a thing that should blemish your renown, not to give cause to some to speak of you villainly.

1936, Arthur Stanley, The Testament of Man: An Anthology of the Spirit, Victor Gollancz, page 249:

This divine site of the nativity has been villainly usurped by the schismatic Greeks, and now the Catholic priest is forbidden to say Mass thereat.

1960, Impresiones de un viajero: viaje por varios paises del Oriente, Europa, Tierra Santa y Norteamerica, 1958, Jaro, Iloilo City: Catholic Publishing House, page 206:

[…]and the characters around the handsome samurai Nagoya Sanza and his rival, the villainly attractive Fuwa Banzaemon.

You, our sons, appear to be Russian people, but you serve the Yids. The same Yids who villainly destroyed His Majesty the Emperor, together with the Empress, their innocent daughters, and the adolescent heir to the throne.

2007, N. N. Shneidman, Double Vision: The Jew in Post-Soviet Russian Literature (1991-2006), Mosaic Press, →ISBN, page 63:

“You are a villain for villainly were you created. To torment, inflict pains, sorrows, rival and attack great destinies is your lot”, he croaked, paused and bellowed.”

2008, Marcel D. Chukwubueze Ugwumadu, The Fiendish Triangle, Cel-Bez & Co. Publishers, →ISBN, page 1:

Your latest diabolical plan, a magnum opus of sheer terror and villainly villainous villainy, has been thwarted by a motley ragtag band of untrained and untried castoffs including an orphan, a luckless thief, and a prince whose parents perished at your hand decades ago.

2014, Joseph J. Bailey, “Failure is NOT the Only Option”, in Nemesis: A Good Guide for Bad Guys: Being an Exceedingly Practical Manual to Achieving Eminence as an Archenemy, Villain, Evil Overlord, & Antihero, 2nd edition, →ISBN:


unafraidly

unafraidly (comparative more unafraidly, superlative most unafraidly)

more unafraidly (comparative)
most unafraidly (superlative)

He was, I should say, unafraidly conscious of his own lack, and he put back the finer thing when he might have grasped it, because he would not—and here he showed the nobler gleam—see its beauty suffer from an alien touch.

1903 January, May Harris, “Whom the Gods Love”, in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, volume CVI, number DCXXXII, page 235:

Not the least observance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed here, but, like Sulzer, unafraidly, perched upon the desk-top flat, perched there where the copper at his blotter calmly sat—a Lasiurus Pruinosus (which is Latin for a bat).

1913 February 28, “Bat in Police Station Cause of Excitement. “Lasiurus Pruinosus” Invades Precincts Which Others are Afraid Of. Perched upon Blotter. Night Stick Waves Frantically Until Intruder is Finally Landed.”, in The Knoxville Sentinel, volume XXVII, number 51, Knoxville, Tenn., page 15:

How long since they had taken hands and lightly, unafraidly, tripped along life’s path?

It was as his clear eyes looked steadily, unafraidly, into the angry steel ones of the man that his young face hardened, his warrior-chin took a firm set, and the light in his face was deadened by a stab of pain.

1916, Grace Livingston Hill, The Finding of Jasper Holt, Philadelphia, Pa., London: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 142:

Give unafraidly, without counting the cost, except as you have the means and he who receives has need.

1920, Caroline A[lathea] Stickney Creevey, At Random, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, page 212:

His topic was personal hygiene, and he unafraidly told the sex he was addressing that as a sex they had many virtues, but included among them was not the cleanliness of body that man is noted for.

1920 April 25, “Personal Cleanliness”, in Dayton Daily News, volume VI, number 5, Dayton, Ohio, society section, page 5:

For, when he was through, Margaret touched his hand of her own accord, touched it soothingly, unafraidly.

1920 May, Anne O’Hagan, “Making a Man of J. J.”, in Smith’s Magazine, volume 31, number 2, chapter IV, page 187:

It is told with the consecutive details in orderly array, and through it all there is the idea implanted in Miss Verinder’s breast that scandal is a thing abhorred by the English of good family, hence she hides the details unafraidly loves through the many years lest an open attachment should ruin his fame.

1922 September 10, Dayton Daily News, volume XXXVII, number 20, Dayton, Ohio:

What rancors the colonel is that Mr. Davis in his Sea Girt address directly and unafraidly denounced the invisible influence by name and called upon President Coolidge to do the same—which, by-the-way, he has not done.

1924 September 7, “Ghost Scares Harvey”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVII, number 88, Atlanta, Ga.:

This is a party government, and by all means party responsibility should always be placed where it belongs—directly and unafraidly upon the shoulders of the controlling party.

1924 November 22, “Recalling Hanna’s Day”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVII, number 163, Atlanta, Ga., page eight:

When leading Georgians become more frank with each other and seek to correct errors and weaknesses by first finding and unafraidly appraising them, then Georgia will come properly into her own.

1925 March 29, “Frank and Forceful”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVII, number 289, Atlanta, Ga., page two:

I know the authorities of Habersham will do their full duty, unafraidly and without restraint as the circumstances may justify.

1925 September 15, James A. Hollomon, “Just in Passing”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVIII, number 94, Atlanta, Ga., page four:

The thing to do is to remedy these weak points. That should be fundamental in any advertising campaign begun. We can remedy them only by first realizing their existence, frankly and unafraidly, and then by proceeding in a sane, sensible method to the work of elimination.

1925 December 22, “Advertising That Harms!”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVIII, number 192, Atlanta, Ga., page eight:

You are a wise counselor, unafraidly eyeing the future with the steady consciousness of safe moorings and well-beaten trails.

1926 March, “To Chocorua”, in The Founders’ Four-Folder, volume 2, number 6, the American Youth Foundation, page twenty-two:

It is a welfare movement—made as openly and unafraidly as the appeals for the community chest to carry aid to the suffering of Atlanta—that deserves not only Catholic support but the support of every individual, who believes in the eternal justice, and Christ-like religion of the golden rule.

1927 February 24, “An Intolerable Attitude”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LIX, number 255, Atlanta, Ga., page six:

In other words, are we of this generation unafraidly frank or are we guilty of bad taste in submitting such questions as that put forth in the letter printed below?

1927 April 7, Virginia Lee, “Frankness and Bad Taste”, in Progress-Bulletin, volume XXIX, number 6, Pomona, Calif., page four:

And they chose the governor-elect as a man who would fairly represent all the people, unafraidly and with their best interests at heart.

1927 April 25, James A. Hollomon, “Just in Passing”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LIX, number 315, Atlanta, Ga., page four:

Coming down to the particular portion of the south known as Florida, it can unafraidly be said that the republican party, as exemplified in the last two national administrations, has not been its friend.

1928 November 3, “Sure—But”, in The Tampa Daily Times, thirty-fourth year, number 228, Tampa, Fla., page four-A:

MANSFIELD’s torso was now fully out over the ledge; his eyes stared unafraidly at the circular pit, which now looked so dreadfully close.

1934 June, Milton R. Peril, “The Lost City”, in Amazing Stories, volume 9, number 2, chapter XIV (Doomed), page 32:

Let all who love freedom, suspect, question, and combat every attempt to restrict the spread of information. Already those who thrive by the suppression of truth are showing alarm. There is talk of danger for the young in looking unafraidly at facts.

1934 August 10, Lynn Doyle, “The Freedom Of The Press”, in Long Eaton Advertiser, volume LII, number 2,741, page 4:

It is a tale of birth, death, love, hate, mating—(treated unafraidly by both the author of the book and last night’s lecturer in his polished review)—of overbearing lords, of days of early American slavery, of economic conditions of early and later America, of the simpering dames of Napoleon’s period, and the passionate women of the luxurious and seductive age of the Roman Empire.

1935 March 6, “Society, Club, And Church Women’s Groups Have Many Pre-Lenten Affairs”, in The News-Palladium, Benton Harbor, Mich., page four:

She was unafraidly frank, but never unkind.

1937 February 8, Victor Murdock, “Passing of Julia King Vail with Thoughts About Her and Her Part in Wichita: Her Life and Influence in This Community During a Period Which Covered Over Fifty Years of Its Formative Stages”, in The Wichita Eagle, volume 10, number 271, Wichita, Kan., page one:

He doesn’t use the orthodox forked limb in his snake-killing pursuits, but just takes an ordinary stick and unafraidly flays the reptile.

1937 April 21, “12-Year-Old Boy is Death To Rattlers”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel, volume 95, number 95, Santa Cruz, Calif., page three:

A rabbit hops and nibbles unafraidly in and out from the bushes.

1938 June, Nell Flatt Goodman, “Mostly About Mrs. Ira Honnald and Her Flowers”, in The Illinois Agricultural Association Record, volume 16, number 6, page 12:

In turn the men, now unafraidly speaking out loud about how the basement should be fitted up for attractiveness, awoke to why the women folks had “taken on so” about radiators—the room they required, their unattractiveness.

1940 August, L. W. C. Tuthill, “We Discuss Heating”, in Arts & Decoration Combined with The Spur, volume LII, number 3, Artspur Publications, Inc., page 46:

Meet your days courageously and tell unafraidly of your discoveries.

1944 July 31, “Lehighton Pastor Speaks at Park Service”, in The Morning Call, volume 109, number 25, Allentown, Pa., page 10:

The little boy showed no fear of the iron man, of the helmet with its heavy plumes, but unafraidly stuck its tiny fingers into the eyes and nostrils of the mighty giant.

1946, Hermann Kesten, Ferdinand and Isabella, New York, N.Y.: A. A. Wyn, Inc., page 178:

We must unafraidly call the world around to heed eternal ways, and find in the following of them eternal peace and consequently build on foundations that are abiding.

1946, Miriam McGaw Benade, quoting Augustine Ralla Ram, Toward New Horizons in India, page 54:

I used to think husbands snored maliciously, but now I feel that snoring is a true symbol of democracy. When I hear clear, strong snores unafraidly shaking the walls, I say to myself: “There is an American whose spirit is not shackled by dictatorship and secret police, who sleeps the loud, happy sleep of the brave and the free.”

1948 August 30, Gracie Allen, “Snoring is Symbol Of Democracy—Loud, Long and Free”, in Telegram-Tribune, 80th year, number 5, San Luis Obispo, Caif., page eight:

Those who follow Christ need a courage that comes only from God, courage to speak unafraidly against the abuses that everywhere prevail, courage to live and act in accordance with the commandments of God, courage which stems from the Bread of the Strong.

1956 April, “Eucharist Piety”, in Tabernacle and Purgatory, volume 51, number 12, Clyde, Mo.: the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, page 355:

We could hear the birds, unconcerned about revealing their whereabouts, whistling unafraidly one to another.

1957 December 10, Walter Amann, Jr., “Outdoors Around Here”, in The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tenn., page 11:

It has been a long, long time since “we” (Evansville high school basketball) could walk unafraidly among the state’s net giants.

1959 December 19, Dick Anderson, “Week Before Christmas”, in The Evansville Press, fifty-fourth year, number 147, Evansville, Ind., page 4:

She stared unafraidly at her brother.

1962, Clarence Cooper, Jr., “Not We Many”, in Black!: Three Short Novels, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997, →ISBN, chapter five, page 316:

More, much more, space should be reclaimed from personal lives for all the unfair tax tricks that would never have been forced on us if the newspapers had unafraidly fought tax parasitism continuously as they did until World War II.

1962 April 16, Raymond F. Smith, “Predict New Drive to Hike Sales Tax”, in Shreveport Journal, volume 68, page eight:

It makes no noise, the crickets and frogs are still unafraidly creaking and croaking in the dark.

1963, Rosemary Millington, A Nation of Trees: Australian Rites, New Authors Limited, page 225:

Yet it can surely be said that he made his own luck and his own redoubtable reputation simply by being doggedly, unafraidly on the side of the people, regardless of the odds against him.

1963 August 12, “Kefauver Was No Man’s Pet Coon”, in The Courier-Journal, volume 218, number 43, Louisville, Ky., page 8:

Like, also, the Vietnamese marine who, captured and asked to switch allegiance to the will-’o-the-wisp Vietcong government, unafraidly refused, stoically endured torture and calmly faced execution.

1965, Far Eastern University Faculty Journal, page 35:

By the way, other executives and employees of his company had already interestedly and unafraidly expressed their reactions by participating in the study.

1965, Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the Interamerican Society of Psychology, page 366:

We need large-hearted, large-minded men and women at the United Nations, with vision not obscured by diplomat’s blinkers, men and women who can see the truth and act upon it unafraidly.

1965, The Illustrated Weekly of India, page 7:

Sudhir had been unafraidly adventurous.

She glared down at the peaceful face of a three-year-old boy, who, finger in mouth, stared unafraidly back at her.

1971, Helen Forrester [pen name; June Bhatia], The Latchkey Kid, Longman Canada Limited, page 179:

What this nation (or any nation) needs are leaders and citizens who believe their programs and ideas are for the common good, but still unafraidly say “I could be wrong.”

1976 June 7, Samuel Whitman, “What we need”, in Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif., page B-2:

The subjects which Human Nature unafraidly proposes to cover already have been staked out by Psychology Today, Natural History, Human Behavior and, to a lesser degree, Scientific American and Smithsonian.

1977 November 29, “Another publication shores up America’s magazine-rich fame”, in Messenger-Inquirer, volume 103, number 334, Owensboro, Ky., page 4A:

California candy-store window, unafraidly naked garish conscious-subconscious Jack Barron day dream, sugarplum reality that money made real.

1983, Colin Greenland, “Footholds in the head: inner space fiction”, in The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British ‘New Wave’ in Science Fiction, London, Boston, Melbourne, Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 60:

For so many nights and days, Fidel watched his child sleeping in that crib, with a joy, he attributed, unafraidly, to God s, God watching His creation in a ball of time.

1987, Simplicio A. Reyes, In the Land of 13 Months of Sunshine, Lucena: Impression Enterprises, page 22:

Sloka 6.23 Nirvinna - Unafraidly cheerful.

1992, Indian Management: Journal of the All India Management Association, page 49:

If she is writing about husbands, lovers, mothers, fathers, children, other women … or directly about her inner world, to describe internal landscapes, writing her mind, her body, her senses, unafraidly, seeing in poetry an honest means of expressing her own private experiences, expressing the best way she can, from that burning in her groins to that kind of burning in her soul.

“[…]Ostro unafraidly sought to find new impulses until so hastily and tragically his life was taken”.

1998, Himalayan and Central Asian Studies: Journal of Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation, page 53:

Here is love poetry as I want it written, wish it to be written—love expressed haltingly, unafraidly, body and soul, love as sacrament and curse, a touching of pain’s raw nerves, each poem a homespun net of pain, love breathless, soundless, words withering inside the mouth, textural feel all over, sheer fluid texture, the joys however of unbodied love, bursting in all colors and details, the secret ecstasies of physical need and release, love overwhelming in whatever guise, contrasts finely juxtaposed and resolved: prayer and profanity, pardon and obloquy, predator and penitent…

2000, J. Neil Carmelo Garcia, The Sorrows of Water, Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, →ISBN:

Knowing it or he – so let’s just say he – was still there my eyes were unafraidly drawn evermore away panning over the mini wardrobe with all but a couple of things left on top to be packed away in the morning.

2011, Eddie Horton, “The Catechizing”, in Just Compass, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 162:

I listen to my argument being read through the court reader, me walking unafraidly and moving towards the Bar, and beginning my debate with a certain manner as I answer the court's inquiries with a sense of balance and maintaining my balance throughout and yet getting at the end of the day, being bombarded by difficult questions; completing the court's requirements and shaping them in my head how I speech; the tone of my speech; my expressions and so on.

2021, Dennis Collins, Crystals: Your Beginners Guide to Crystals and Healing Stones: The Ultimate and Unique Manual for Learning How to Use Gemstone in Manifesting Ritual, →ISBN:


unladylikely

unladylikely (comparative more unladylikely, superlative most unladylikely)

more unladylikely (comparative)
most unladylikely (superlative)

Mother looked as if she onged to be a man for just one minute while she expressed herself strongly and unladylikely.

1917 August 17, “Mother Has New Idea: And Then Another Which Involve Family Eating; But It All Comes Out Right After a Troublesome Time of Tribulation”, in The Salina Daily Union, volume XX, number 58, Salina, Kan., page five:

In the first place the headgear did not fuly^([sic]) conceal the stubbly chins of the women, and they had a general tread that was not stately enough to bespeak them as “nice girls,” so there was no acceptance of the challenge, but my, O me, they did have a lot of fun out of it before it was over, for a nine of men was made up, and they went after the skirts quite unladylikely.

1919 September 2, Lebanon Daily News, 46th year, number 355, Lebanon, Pa., page five:

“Omigosh,” I gasped, unladylikely.

1925 June 28, Antoinette Donnelly, “Spending Hundreds for Hosiery: Grandma Owned One Best Pair of Stockings; the Modern Woman Buys Them by the Dozen”, in Sunday News, volume 5, number 10, page 15:

Why, when I got your letter, I just danced, very unladylikely, all over the room!

1926 April 1, The Youth’s Companion, volume 100, number 13, page 259:

“I can’t be a sponsor anymore.” she wept unladylikely.

1928 April 26, “To-Day’s Youngest Tragedy”, in The Watchtower, volume V, number 26, Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.:

The only time that she forgets she went to the Spence school is when Mr. Gilhooley affectionately chokes her (and a good thing too) and then she dies so gorgeously and so unladylikely that the audience cheers right up and thinks maybe she got what she wanted.

1931, Bulletin, American Women’s Club of Paris, page 605:

The two of them began to laugh; they did this uproariously, unladylikely;

1940, Los Angeles School Journal, page 25:

AND what is Saturday? Why, Valentine’s Day, of course. The day when you wear your heart on your sleeve boldly and unladylikely (almost, that is).

1942 February 12, “Shopping With Anne: Do Justice to Those St. Valentine’s-Flowers-for-Your-Hair by Having Your Curls Arranged at Edmonton’s Smart New Beauty Salon”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page thirteen:

Vickie's version of what happened when a certain vampire tried to openly, wantonly, unladylike-ly snare Rusty—Vickie's most exclusive property…

1947 March, Miss America, volume 5, number 5, Chicago, Ill.: Miss America Publishing Corporation, page 31:

We shouted very unladylikely from one end of the corridor to the other; went out with GI’s, unchaperoned; had an occasional dance in our dining room with completely strange men!

1950 September, Dorothy Mallory, “The Open Door”, in Catholic Digest, volume 14, number 11, page 95:

Up until the time I became the intrigued owner of this book I thought cheese-cake was what you got when a newspaper photographer persuaded a glamor puss to raise her skirts unladylikely high. Little did I know. Why, cheese-cake is won-der-ful! Particularly if it’s cottage cheese-cake,[…].

1952 June 12, Penny Wise, “Penny Learns Angle On New Cheesecake”, in The Vancouver Sun, volume LXVI, number 212, Vancouver, B.C., page 26:

I found him peeping through the bars of the gate just as he used to peep—ten inches high. So what could I do but behave unladylike-ly, and ask him to come in.

1955, Walter de la Mare, “A Beginning”, in A Beginning and Other Stories, London: Faber and Faber, page 235:

Middle Harbour feature shingles mine to make a French authoress behave unladylikely.

1955 March 8, “Crossword Puzzle No. 1827 and Solution to 1826”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 36,570, Sydney, N.S.W., page 14:

‘[…]Children who attend my school must behave like ladies; otherwise I cannot have them here.’ Kate spoke up, excitedly and clumsily, because she was frightened: ‘Sue didn’t behave unladylikely. She didn’t do anything and you didn’t ought to blame her. And Miss Baber’s people didn’t mind at all.’

1976, Margaret Dunnett, “High Jinks”, in Ladies and Gentlemen, André Deutsch, →ISBN, page 135:

She picked up her knife and fork and carried an unladylikely-large piece of vinegar-soaked cod to her mouth.

2001, Connie Monk, chapter 3, in Echo of Truth, Piatkus, →ISBN, page 43:

Well, when feminism got reborn, it urged literary women to raise their voices, to yell unladylikely, to shoot for parity.

2004, Ursula K. Le Guin, “Off the Page: Loud Cows: A Talk and a Poem about Reading Aloud”, in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, Boston, Mass.: Shambhala, →ISBN, page 120:

Barbra Streisand kicked off her first tour in 12 years with a bang. On the third night of her 20-city cross-country jaunt, the liberal crooner stopped the show to banter with a George Bush impersonator onstage. The skit garnered some kvetching from the crowd. Mrs. S. stopped the show when one heckler wouldn’t play along with the meant-for-entertainment action onstage. Turning to the unknown loudmouth, Streisand unceremoniously, and certainly unladylike-ly, said “Shut the (expletive) up! Shut up if you can’t take a joke!” The celebrity-dotted audience delighted in her unladylike action and the show moved on without a hitch.

2006 October 13, Kimberley McGee, “Hopefully she’s a good actress”, in Southern Utah’s Entertainment Guide, section “Diva Antics”, page 34:

‘Bitch troll!’ snarled her Inner Slapper, most unladylikely.[…]‘Pompous twat,’ muttered Elizabeth, most unladylikely.

2012, William Codpiece Thwackery [psueudonym], Fifty Shades of Mr Darcy: A Parody, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, →ISBN, pages 47 and 159:

I tried to turn myself round unladylikely, with my bum in the air, and Roxster started giggling as he hoisted me back up onto the bed, whispering, ‘Please don’t fart.’

2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad about The Boy, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 206:


alongsides

From alongside + -s (adverbial suffix), probably on the model of besides.


mutatis mundi

mutatis mutandis
mutatis mutandis#English


night in, night out

(idiomatic) During every night; continuously.


month in, month out

(idiomatic) During every month; continuously.


week in, week out

(idiomatic) During every week; continuously.


"The Abused Child is:
2fold more likely to have poor health
3fold more likely to have life-threatening obesity
2fold more likely to be depressed
8fold more likely to attempt suicide..."

1996 October 9, anon...@anon.twwells.com, “Rehi...”, in alt.support.abuse-partners (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-23:

This is all application server stuff, all I know on webserver is you guys say guru black magic stuff, learn to tune it, read 1000 pages, etc...when I installed bsdi & apache & it increased my capasity on the same box 2fold.

1998 January 28, Shawn, “Netscape: FREE! - MS's repsonse?? (was Netscape: FREE!)”, in alt.destroy.microsoft (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-24:

Anyone willing to help get me started with the cdr collection? I will kindly B&P for high qual dead and phish and will return 2fold as my collection grows.

1999 November 18, JGBWSP, “Newbie Plextor CDR! Help get me started!”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-23:


veganically

veganically grown produce


glueyly

glueyly (comparative more glueyly, superlative most glueyly)

more glueyly (comparative)
most glueyly (superlative)

And now the cake was behaving very curiously, for while the bottom was burning and sending out a black smoke the top was rising and falling glueyly with a series of little explosions.


warningfully

warningfully (comparative more warningfully, superlative most warningfully)

more warningfully (comparative)
most warningfully (superlative)

Quickly, warningfully Buck Mulligan bent down

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

“I guess everything that comes out of the human mouth is poison,” said Doc warningfully.


Yiddishly

Yiddishly (comparative more Yiddishly, superlative most Yiddishly)

more Yiddishly (comparative)
most Yiddishly (superlative)


snuffily

snuffily (comparative more snuffily, superlative most snuffily)

more snuffily (comparative)
most snuffily (superlative)


mattedly

mattedly (comparative more mattedly, superlative most mattedly)

more mattedly (comparative)
most mattedly (superlative)

And his egotism and conceit were not to be borne; and then he was both tawdry and dirty in his person; more greasily, mattedly unkempt than even a really successful pianist has any right to be, even in the best society.


beamishly

beamishly (comparative more beamishly, superlative most beamishly)

more beamishly (comparative)
most beamishly (superlative)

The mayor smiled beamishly at the resultant cheers, and repeated, “The city welcomes you!”

2019, Zachary Michael Jack, March of the Suffragettes, page 33:


bassly

bassly (comparative more bassly, superlative most bassly)

more bassly (comparative)
most bassly (superlative)

He bellowed as bassly as his youthful voice would allow.

1993, R. C. House, Spindrift Ridge, page 215:


relentfully

relentfully (comparative more relentfully, superlative most relentfully)

more relentfully (comparative)
most relentfully (superlative)


kingward

From Middle English Kyng ward; equivalent to king + -ward.

All ye that scruple to believe, untill / Your sight convince your Reason ’gainst your will, / Go see your King do things all sence above, / And tell me then if that your hearts don’t move / Kingward, and whether you not think that He / Participates much of Divinity.

1660, Henry Oxinden, Charls Triumphant, &c., London, page 28:

The K-K-koon shaft in their wrestle with a cranky pump and weak-kneed engine won the last fall, giving them two best in three, and they are again heading jack king[-]ward at a 2.40 gait.

1885 April 25, “Town Talk”, in Short Creek Republican, volume IV, number 20, Galena, Kan.:

It is not literature that speaks kingward, priestward, nobleward, systemward, formward; but it is literature which throws off all these things and issues as a winged creature from the shell of the past.

1891 July 7, “Literature Makes for Human Brotherhood”, in The Indianapolis News, volume XXII, Indianapolis, Ind., page 5:

But our nabobs are buried at public expense; their widows are supported in royal style at the public treasury; our tax[-]payers are buried in pottersfield, and we are traveling kingward.

1891 October 17, “What Fools These These Mortals Be”, in Caldwell Tribune, number 94, Caldwell, Ida.:


queenward

The cloth was so large it covered both the form, and all the ground within the King’s travers, or large cloth of estate, “which was open both afore and behind, and the side to the queenward, and close at the wall, and it was all of the same purple velvet, embroidered with flower de lysys of gold.”

1527?, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and Elsewhere, published 1965, page 1443:

It is a letter in which, courtward and Queenward, Sir Robert uses very strong language, calling the statement of Vanity Fair “a very impudent expression of the latest development of the ridiculous imperialism of the present day;” “a clear breach of privilege, recalling the most stupid exhibitions of royal misconduct.”

1879 June 28, “Beaconsfield and Peel”, in The Evening Star, volume 53, number 8,186, Washington, D.C.:

What had been the comrades’ talk? The Queen. Whither had all their hopes winged? Queenward.

1963, Norah Lofts, Here Was a Man: A Novel of Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth I, Simon & Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN, page 228:

At spring’s bright urging, they left aseptic hive and clovered field to play the game bees must play once; surging queenward, they balled the fast warming air, reeled once, then dropped.

In case A, O-O-O is pretty much ironclad safe for Black; the c-file is full open, but a single line does not a successful attack make (unless defensive forces are congested, but Black's strength points Queenward), and there is no way, if Black's a and b pawns are unmoved, for White to force open any additional lines (3v3 can open a file by force, but 2v2 cannot).

2005 October 9, Amarande, “Oppsite-side castling”, in rec.games.chess.analysis (Usenet):

The conjoined pawns, an impenetrable knot, begin to roll queenward, leaving Black hopelessly uncoordinated.

2012, Cyrus Lakdawala, “Kramnik on Defence”, in Kramnik: Move by Move, Everyman Chess, game 20 (V.Kramnik-L.Aronian, Zürich Chess Challenge 2012, Four Knights Game):

He turned his attention back to the radio he'd confiscated from Tatiana Morozova’s flat. Right now it was plugged into the mains under his desk, its back cover laid carefully on the desk, a screwdriver and four screws sitting queenward of a forlorn king’s bishop.

2016, Ian Tregillis, Radio Free Tresmigistus (The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, season one, episode 07)), Serial Box, →ISBN:

Begin walking ant queenward people.

2017, Tom Kennedy, Sapphire the Dragon, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:


heartlier

comparative form of heartly: more heartly


heartliest

superlative form of heartly: most heartly


unquaveringly

unquaveringly (comparative more unquaveringly, superlative most unquaveringly)

more unquaveringly (comparative)
most unquaveringly (superlative)


uncivilizedly

uncivilizedly (comparative more uncivilizedly, superlative most uncivilizedly)

more uncivilizedly (comparative)
most uncivilizedly (superlative)


bespokely

bespokely (comparative more bespokely, superlative most bespokely)

more bespokely (comparative)
most bespokely (superlative)


gluggily

gluggily (comparative more gluggily, superlative most gluggily)

more gluggily (comparative)
most gluggily (superlative)


gloppily

gloppily (comparative more gloppily, superlative most gloppily)

more gloppily (comparative)
most gloppily (superlative)


overcredulously

overcredulously (comparative more overcredulously, superlative most overcredulously)

more overcredulously (comparative)
most overcredulously (superlative)


overwillingly

overwillingly (comparative more overwillingly, superlative most overwillingly)

more overwillingly (comparative)
most overwillingly (superlative)


oversystematically

oversystematically (comparative more oversystematically, superlative most oversystematically)

more oversystematically (comparative)
most oversystematically (superlative)


tight-assed

When he’d stopped at a saloon for a glass of skullbuster, the bar-keep had been so tight-assed snotty about serving him that he’d taken the one drink in a gulp and then cleared out.

1975, Theodore V. Olsen, chapter 3, in Track the Man Down, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 35:

they take themselves too tight-assed serious here

1978, Norma Fox Mazer, Harry Mazer, chapter 1, in The Solid Gold Kid,, New York: Dell, page 7:

(informal, derogatory) In an uptight or fastidious way.


boustrophedonally

boustrophedonally (comparative more boustrophedonally, superlative most boustrophedonally)

more boustrophedonally (comparative)
most boustrophedonally (superlative)

The words of those verses which are regarded as containing a peculiar recondite meaning are ranged in squares in such a manner as to be read either vertically or boustrophedonally, beginning at the right or left hand.

1877, William Smith, Henry Wace, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being a Continuation of ‘The Dictionary of the Bible’, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 361:

This method causes the words to be arranged in a sort of diagram something like a cryptographical scale, in which the words are to read from right to left, from left to right, horizontally, perpendicularly, angularly, boustrophedonally, circumlocutorally, till some hidden and estoric sense is squeezed out to form the essence of the Kabbalah.

1879, complied and collected by Philip Abraham, הנסתרת והנגלתר: Curiosities of Judaism. Facts, Opinions, Anecdotes, and Remarks Relative to the Hebrew Nation, London: […] the Author, page 266:

The Chinese read from top to bottom, and early Greek inscriptions were read boustrophedonally—that is, alternately from left to right and right to left, as furrows are made in plowing a field.

1910 October 29, The Knoxville Sentinel, volume XXIV, number 257, Knoxvile, Tenn.:

[…]read boustrophedonally as follows:[…]

1911, C. H. Emerson, Psychocraft: Being the Art of Following the Lead of Instinct Which Uses Human Organic Mechanisms with Giant Strength or Ariel Touch to Avert Disaster, Create Genius, Prophetic Insight, or Verify Faith with Superorganic Intuitions; Incidentally Introducing a New Idea of the Principle of Onwardness […]; The Oracle of Aaron’s Breastplate Carefully Worked Out and Practically Applied as Herein Presented in the Elegant and Infallible Oracle of Ellu, page 177:

The Latin text of the inscription in characters still closely resembling the Greek ones and arranged boustrophedonally (from top to buttom^([sic]) and back from bottom to top) should not be dated later than the middle of the V century B. C. (though according to some it could be dated as far back as the VI century B. C.) concerns a law, possibly relating to ceremonies held in this spot by the rex sacrificulus, or to the sacred character particular to the spot itself.

1955, Pietro Romanelli, The Roman Forum, page 29:

The arrangement indicates that the series of six pictures is to be read boustrophedonally, beginning at the lower right:[…]

2005, Karl Anton Nowotny, translated by George A. Everett and Edward B. Sisson, Tlacuilolli: Style and Contents of the Mexican Pictorial Manuscripts with a Catalog of the Borgia Group, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 221:


closer to one's heart

close to one's heart
close to one's heart#English

comparative form of close to one's heart: more close to one's heart


closest to one's heart

superlative form of close to one's heart: most close to one's heart


renably

renably (comparative more renably, superlative most renably)

more renably (comparative)
most renably (superlative)

(obsolete) In a renable manner or fashion.


connectably

In a connectable manner; so that it can be connected.


genically

To this extent the synonymous mutation, although localized in a segment we decide to call a gene (i.e. it is genically located), can be viewed as functionally “non-genic.”

2016, Donald R. Forsdyke, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, page 224:

In a genic manner; on or relating to a gene.


twenty-four hours a day

en-adverb

twenty-four hours a day (not comparable)

twenty-four seven
twenty-four seven#English


immediatly

And they immediatly left the shippe and their father, and followed him.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:22:


occultically

en-adv

occultically (comparative more occultically, superlative most occultically)

more occultically (comparative)
most occultically (superlative)


overspeedily

overspeedily (comparative more overspeedily, superlative most overspeedily)

more overspeedily (comparative)
most overspeedily (superlative)


overstrongly

overstrongly (comparative more overstrongly, superlative most overstrongly)

more overstrongly (comparative)
most overstrongly (superlative)


oversparingly

oversparingly (comparative more oversparingly, superlative most oversparingly)

more oversparingly (comparative)
most oversparingly (superlative)


oversolemnly

oversolemnly (comparative more oversolemnly, superlative most oversolemnly)

more oversolemnly (comparative)
most oversolemnly (superlative)


oversuspiciously

oversuspiciously (comparative more oversuspiciously, superlative most oversuspiciously)

more oversuspiciously (comparative)
most oversuspiciously (superlative)


overstudiously

overstudiously (comparative more overstudiously, superlative most overstudiously)

more overstudiously (comparative)
most overstudiously (superlative)


oversubtly

oversubtly (comparative more oversubtly, superlative most oversubtly)

more oversubtly (comparative)
most oversubtly (superlative)


overtightly

overtightly (comparative more overtightly, superlative most overtightly)

more overtightly (comparative)
most overtightly (superlative)


overtenderly

overtenderly (comparative more overtenderly, superlative most overtenderly)

more overtenderly (comparative)
most overtenderly (superlative)


overgenerally

overgenerally (comparative more overgenerally, superlative most overgenerally)

more overgenerally (comparative)
most overgenerally (superlative)


overdaringly

overdaringly (comparative more overdaringly, superlative most overdaringly)

more overdaringly (comparative)
most overdaringly (superlative)


underivedly

(theology) Without having been derived from something else; originally.


gimpily

gimpily (comparative more gimpily, superlative most gimpily)

more gimpily (comparative)
most gimpily (superlative)


overgently

overgently (comparative more overgently, superlative most overgently)

more overgently (comparative)
most overgently (superlative)


overdiligently

overdiligently (comparative more overdiligently, superlative most overdiligently)

more overdiligently (comparative)
most overdiligently (superlative)


laddishly

laddishly (comparative more laddishly, superlative most laddishly)

more laddishly (comparative)
most laddishly (superlative)


dovishly

dovishly (comparative more dovishly, superlative most dovishly)

more dovishly (comparative)
most dovishly (superlative)


metacinematically

metacinematically (comparative more metacinematically, superlative most metacinematically)

more metacinematically (comparative)
most metacinematically (superlative)


frouzily

frouzily (comparative more frouzily, superlative most frouzily)

more frouzily (comparative)
most frouzily (superlative)


metapoetically

metapoetically (comparative more metapoetically, superlative most metapoetically)

more metapoetically (comparative)
most metapoetically (superlative)

In a metapoetic manner; in terms of metapoetry.


improgressively

improgressively (comparative more improgressively, superlative most improgressively)

more improgressively (comparative)
most improgressively (superlative)


in abundance

in abundance (comparative more in abundance, superlative most in abundance)

more in abundance (comparative)
most in abundance (superlative)


undeliberately

undeliberately (comparative more undeliberately, superlative most undeliberately)

more undeliberately (comparative)
most undeliberately (superlative)

Leichtsinnig handeln leichtsinniger weiſe, oder unbedachtsam, verfahren, to proceed raſhly, lightly, temerariously, unadviſedly, unconſiderately, unpremeditately, undeliberately, unwiſely, ſottiſhly, fooliſhly.

1745, Teutsch⸗Englisches Lexicon, Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, column 1143:

Neither ſtratagem nor ſurprize will be able totally to defeat it; it goes on fix’d and ſteady principles, does nothing undeliberately, and without attentively conſidering whether ſuch a thing be conſiſtent with its main purpoſes, and therefore is in a good poſture of defence againſt the ſpiritual enemy.

1754, William Davies, Sermons on Religious and Moral Subjects, Calculated for the Use of Families; Particularly a Sermon on the Fifth Commandment; Two Sermons on Religious Education; and Several Others at the Request of Many of the Subscribers, Bristol: […] the Author, page 240:

Therefore either in Miſery’s, or Deſpair’s manſion, the road of Pleaſure, through which you have undeliberately travelled, is terminated.

1771 August 1, Philos, The London Magazine: Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XL, page 396:

You are creating either deliberately or undeliberately—that is our free will.

2014 June 6, “Janie Morado to present Sunday’s lesson at Unity of the Valley”, in The Monitor, volume 105, number 314, page 5D:


arachnologically

The district of Hanover, he said, and indeed, practically, the whole high Karoo plateau, was unexplored arachnologically;

1903, S. C. Cronwright Schreiner, “Some Arachnids at Hanover, Cape Colony”, in The Popular Science Monthly, New York, N.Y.: The Science Press, page 145:

Arachnologically Filey is almost terra incognita.

The following Monograph gives an account of the Drassid spiders of South Africa. The term South Africa is meant to apply to the region south of the 15° latitude and not to political South Africa. Even so, the boundary is an artificial one arachnologically, for, as far as can be seen from the distribution of the species at present known, certain Cape Province species occur in South-West Africa, and others spread northwards to the East African equatorial region, and certain Abyssinian species spread south to the same region.

1923, R. W. E. Tucker, “The Drassidae of South Africa (Arachnida)”, in Annals of the South African Museum, volume XIX, page 251:

It would be natural to compare at first the spider faunas of Newfoundland and Labrador, but unfortunately this part of Canada is very little known arachnologically.[…]The areas compared are, of course, of different size and studied arachnologically in different degrees.

1954, Acta Zoologica Fennica, pages 33 and 42:

[…]arachnologically[…]deals with Spiders.

1955, The British Journal of Photography, page 383:

Mention must also be made of those investigations into each regional spider fauna conducted not by individuals as in the past but by museums of natural history, research institutes for natural resources, universities and colleges on a large scale and in areas hitherto unexplored arachnologically.

1957, Takeo Yaginuma, “A Historical Review of Studies on Japanese Spiders”, in Acta Arachnologica, page 47:

Nevertheless, O. acuta has remained species inquirenda, though it was proposed with a detailed description in a famous work in common use, its type locality being situated in an arachnologically well known part of Europe.

1975, K. Thaler, “The genus Opistoxys Simon – a new synonym in Linyphiid spiders”, in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, page 142:

In the whole Palearctic region there are few countries arachnologically less explored than Iran;

1980, Paolo Marcello Brignoli, “A new Harpactea from Iran (Araneae, Dysderidae)”, in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, page 95:

Sphingius vivax and punctatus are widely distributed, the other species appear to be local, but may have their range extended into neighbouring regions, which for the time being are poorly known arachnologically.

2001, Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold, Forest Spiders of South East Asia, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 492:

Arachnologically, the Arabian Peninsula is poorly known, and it is only recently that there has been an effort to collect this fauna.

(It may be too much to hope that there will arise a new positive role model on the order of what Charlotte’s Web provided to earlier generations. Perhaps we will have to settle for Spiderman,^([sic]) a fairly positive—if arachnologically correct—spider-based role model.)

2006, American Entomologist, volume 52, Entomological Society of America, page 238:

NGC 6302 lies about 4,000 light-years away in the arachnologically correct constellation Scorpius.

2006, Jerry T. Bonnell, Robert J. Nemiroff, Astronomy: 365 Days, New York, N.Y.: Abrams, page 7:

“[…]Arachnologically speaking, cobwebs are irregular strands of spider silk, and coppe is the old English word for spider. Coppe web became cobweb.” Kate looked at her cousin in disgust. “Arachnologically speaking, I have arachnophobia.[…]”

2011, Nancy Sanderson, Horse of the Four Winds, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

Arachnologically Madagascar, the Seychelles, and the Mascarene are so different from the African continent that they deserve the rank of region pairing with Africa.

2018, Petar Beron, Zoogeography of Arachnida (Monographiae Biologicae 94), Springer International Publishing AG, →ISBN, page 727:


firmament-wards

Then she flew firmament-wards to circle it, as was her custom, and met an Ifrit on the wing who saluted her and she said to him, "Whence comest thou?"

1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 211:

In the direction of the sky or the heavens.


fvck

Fvck no!! So much fun and revelations concerning wacko will be revealed that i can"t wait

2004 August 14, andy, “Jackson may have personal reason to be in court Monday: Sneddon”, in alt.music.michael-jackson (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-18:

fvck yeah!

2013 February 14, J.R.R. Bob Dobbs EPV, “does unifarva feel the need for speed?”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-18:

The salary for a lifeguard here on the beaches of southern California is over $100k plus $400+ of stipend for fvcking sun tan lotion. Do the lifeguards know even Newton's first law? Fvck no! If you really want to make money, getting a phd in physics is not a good approach. Try to be an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley or someone able to sell snake oil.

2015 April 13, Koobee Wublee, “Rationale for contributing to sci.physics.relativity.”, in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-18:


streaklessly

In the streaklessly clean windows of the dining room there was chaos.

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:


frr

Alternative form: FRR


learnèdly

learnèdly (comparative more learnèdly, superlative most learnèdly)

more learnèdly (comparative)
most learnèdly (superlative)

Low were the whispers, manifold the rumours: / Some said he had been poison’d by Potemkin; / Others talk’d learnèdly of certain tumours, / Exhaustion, or disorders of the same kin;

1854, Lord Byron, “Don Juan”, in The Illustrated Byron, London: Henry Vizetelly, part VIII, canto X, stanza XL, page 293:

Great Mountjoy! were that name sincerely scann’d, / Mysterious hieroglyphics would explain; / Each letter’s allegory grace the hand / By whom the sense should learnèdly be drawn, / To stop the dull conceits of wits profane; / Diving into the depth of hidden art, / To give but due to each deserving part.

1869, John Ford, “Fame’s Memorial”, in The Works of John Ford, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, volume III, London: James Toovey, page 287:

When, however, it is quite undeniable that the vast body of the clergy of the Establishment, with very few isolated exceptions,—such exceptions must always obtrude themselves while the world is a fallen world,—are energetically pursuing their sacred calling as the pastors of all the parishes; when it is matter, and increasingly, of daily notice, that they are diligently seeking the highest welfare of the flocks committed to their care; that they are doing this studiously, learnèdly, prayerfully, devotedly, “in labours, in watchings, in much patience; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness; by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned; by the Word of Truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left; through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report:”[…]

1874, “The Two Views of Life”, in The Scramble of New Lights: One of the Hundred Frustrates of the Peek Prize Essay Competition, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Salisbury: Brown & Co., page 166:

Rather wolde God our love than all our witte, / Faith than Philosophie, / The inarticulate pray’r that liftes with it / The soule eternallie, / Than Schoolmen’s lytell thought learnèdly writte.

1893, Henry Binns, “Pico Della Mirandola”, in The British Friend, page 91:

While he went on, and learnèdly perplext / The genuine Meaning of his chosen Text, / I cast my Eyes above him, and explor’d / The Dove-like Form upon the Sounding-board.

1895, “An Answer to some Enquiries concerning the Author’s opinion of a Sermon preached at ⸺⸺ upon the Operation of the Holy Spirit”, in Adolphus William Ward, editor, The Poems of John Byrom (Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester; volume 34), volume II (Sacred Poems), part I, Manchester: […] the Chetham Society, stanza II, page 279:

Say, wilt thou follow me to my high house, / Whose silence hears the nibbling of a mouse, / And, with one finger at thy temple, sit / Learnèdly when the shaded lamp is lit, / Exiled and happy in the fireside nook, / Calm idol with thy elbows on the Book / And one hand on its clasp?

1912, Contemporary French Poetry, page 129:

A German Privatdozent would discover in it sixteen allegories, all different, and many mutually exclusive, preface his exegesis with an elaborate and learnèdly documented essay on the parallel between der reine Thor and the Muscovite Innocent.

Was it not carried learnèdly?

1983, Ben Jonson, edited by R. Brian Parker, Volpone, or The Fox (The Revels Plays), Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 258:

Much / He spoke, and learnèdly, for life; but all / Was either pitied in him or forgotten.

1987, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “Henry VIII”, in The Contemporary Shakespeare Series, →ISBN, act II, scene I, page 264:

Much / [line 28] He spoke, and learnedly, for life, but all / Was either pitied in him or forgotten.[…]28 learnedly three syllables (learnèdly)

2000, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, edited by Gordon McMullan, King Henry VIII, The Arden Shakespeare, →ISBN, act II, scene I, page 268:

The noun ակն/ական (akn/akan), best glossed ‘*eye,’ but also ‘spring, opening, gem, and (-) Sun,’ has been well observed and studied descriptively, and long, attentively, learnèdly, and admirably known and studied philologically and historically.

2008, Between Paris and Fresno: Armenian Studies in Honor of Dickran Kouymjian, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, Inc., page 303:


acc

(text messaging, Internet slang) Abbreviation of account.

On now-deleted Instagram stories, he posted two separate updates, expressing his annoyance over the current situation. / One read: ‘Indiyah just friendzoned Ikenna?? What was the point man? it’s acc a joke.’

2022 June 21, Charlotte Manning, “Love Island’s Remi Lambert fuming after Indiyah Polack pies off Ikenna – hours after he was brutally dumped”, in Metro:

(text messaging, Internet slang) Abbreviation of actually.


in any way, shape or form

in any way, shape or form (not comparable)

in any way, shape, or form
in any way, shape, or form#English

Alternative form of in any way, shape, or form


howbout

how to improve the mind, the memory and the manners. Say not, lookerhere, howbout—gittinsotre—notforgittertall.

[1860, The Age of Words and Phrases. A Book for Persons Who Undervalue Themselves and Overvalue Others., Boston, Mass.: […] Alfred Mudge & Son, page 1:

Howbout place crosstreet?

“Howbout that Orange Sunshine one time,” says a third trucker, chiming in from behind.

1977, Terry Cook, Vans and the Truckin’ Life, Abrams, page 33:

Howbout I give you a ring tomorrow—tomorrow afternoon—and we talk about maybe getting together for lunch or coffee this week.

1998, William F[loyd] Weld, Mackerel by Moonlight, Simon & Schuster, page 138:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


miasmatically

miasmatically (comparative more miasmatically, superlative most miasmatically)

more miasmatically (comparative)
most miasmatically (superlative)


mesenterically

In terms of, or by means of, the mesentery.


Miltonically

Miltonically (comparative more Miltonically, superlative most Miltonically)

more Miltonically (comparative)
most Miltonically (superlative)


partizanly

partizanly (comparative more partizanly, superlative most partizanly)

more partizanly (comparative)
most partizanly (superlative)


unpridefully

unpridefully (comparative more unpridefully, superlative most unpridefully)

more unpridefully (comparative)
most unpridefully (superlative)


tentively

tentively (comparative more tentively, superlative most tentively)

more tentively (comparative)
most tentively (superlative)

From Middle English tentifly, or by surface analysis, tentive + ly.

We have a Saviour, tell it out among the heathen, that all the nations of the earth may partake of the gift, whose radient eye brightens tentively on such a subject as this, who are under the domination of the sensual affections and appetites

1795, Uzal Ogden, Antidote to Deism. The Deist Unmasked; […], volume 1, Newark: John Woods, page 50:

For the three days following her first visit her temperature varied form 99.2 to 100 in the mornings, and from 100.2 to 102 in the evenings. At the first visit she was treated tentifly, her throat being thoroughly cleansed, and a 15 per cent. solution of nitrate of silver was applied to the ulcerated surface

1901, “Case of Primary Syphilitic Lesion of the Faucial Tonsil”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume XXXVII, number 15, Chicago Illinois, Clinical Report, page 979:


shapelily

shapelily (comparative more shapelily, superlative most shapelily)

more shapelily (comparative)
most shapelily (superlative)

[…]in 1593, Sir Hugh Platt, of Lincolne’s Inne, Gentleman, produced his “Dyvers Soyles for manuring Pasture and Arable Land;” in 1594, his “Jewel-house of Art and Nature, containing divers rare and profitable Instructions, together with sundry new Experiments in the Art of Husbandry, distillation, and moulding;” and “Divers Chimicall conclusions;” a book which by Martin is thought to have been really the work of several hands, and to have been edited merely by Platt, who in his preface extols his “Conceyted book of Gardening, wherein he has set downe sundrie observations, which neither M. Tusser, though he have written shapelily, nor Master Hill though he have written painfully, nor Master Barnabe Googe though he have written soundlye, applying himself in his whole discourse both to our Soyle and Clymate, hath as yet discovered to the world.”

1594?, preface; quoted in “Garden Literature”, in The Bookseller: A Handbook of British and Foreign Literature, with Which Is Incorporated Bent’s Literary Advertiser, Established in the Year 1802, number CXLVII, London, 1870 April 1, pages 317–318:

Ulysses meets in the mansion of Hades, not Hercules, who has been promoted to Olympus, and to “Hebe shapelily ankled,” but a phantom exactly resembling him.

1861 December 14, “Buti’s Commentary on Dante”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 320, number 12, London, page 614:

Yet its meaning was such as might have accounted for a little irregularity and quite justified whatever emotional emphasis the appropriately placed ob! ah! and helas! always so neatly written, and with the interjectional point so shapelily marked, might be taken to convey.

1864, Cecil Home [pen name; Augusta Webster], “The Sermon at the Oratoire”, in Lesley’s Guardians, volume III, London, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., page 56:

The stump-rooted carrots carrots must be grown, and an intermediate (half-long) parsnip; but a long beetroot will grow shapelily, the roots of this vegetable growing upwards as well as downwards.

1920 December 18, “Our Garden Circle. Allotment and Kitchen Gardens. Preparing the Plot.”, in The Hamilton Advertiser, 65th year, number 3309, page 3:

The beet of medium length (an intermediate variety) will grow shapelily in shallowly-dug or stony ground.

1925 April 15, “Food Paragraphs”, in Derby Daily Telegraph, volume LXXV, number 14,153, page 6:

It would, therefore, never do to encourage these so shapelily and chromatically meritorious dears to follow out the dictates of womanly confidence and generosity to the point where they could bleat about it.

1927, James Branch Cabell, “Wives at Caer Omn”, in Something About Eve: A Comedy of Fig-leaves, London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, part four (The Book of Dersam), page 78:

She was dressed, for he had never made any attempt to Westernize her, in a short blue silk jacket that fell shapelily over a gold and scarlet sinn;

1928, Alec Waugh, The Last Chukka: Stories of East and West, page 278:

Do not plant the bulbs of the onion family so that they are covered with more than an inch of soil, or the bulbs will not grow shapelily.

1944 March 24, “In Your Garden: Odd Onions”, in The Lichfield Mercury, volume 76, number 5619, page 8:

The Tennessee football Vols won’t make any public appearances on New Year’s Day, but the drum majorettes who supported them so gallantly and shapelily will.

1953 December 17, Tom Anderson, “From Up Close”, in The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tenn., page 15:

[…]and slowly, shapelily, reduce it little by little till it stood at the beautiful answer:[…]


extracurricularly

Outside of, or in addition to, the normal academic curriculum.


Brahmanically

Brahmanically (comparative more Brahmanically, superlative most Brahmanically)

more Brahmanically (comparative)
most Brahmanically (superlative)


demonstratably

demonstratably (comparative more demonstratably, superlative most demonstratably)

more demonstratably (comparative)
most demonstratably (superlative)

It seems demonstratably clear, therefore, that the possession of the Charleston Road, would advance the interests of our Company, and would tend to facilitate the extension of a road through the centre of the State towards the West.

1837, Proceedings of the Stockholders of the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail-Road Company, at Their Second Meeting, Held at Flat Rock, No. Ca., on the 16th October, 1837; with the First Annual Report of the President & Directors, the Report of the Chief and Associate Engineers, and the By-Laws, Charleston: […] A. E. Miller, page 17:

Here is a large property transferred at once from Mohammedanism—not certainly to Christianity, but to what is even more opposed to its essential nature—the support of modern science and literature, in conjunction with which it is well known, Mohammedanism cannot possibly exist; from the fact, that the Korân has given a system of philosophy demonstratably false.

1840, William Buyers, “Connexion of Government with Native Superstitions”, in Letters on India: With Special Reference to the Spread of Christianity, London: John Snow, pages 210–211:

Each sickle cell program shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the State Director of Health Services that the availability of follow-up care for medical and social problems uncovered during the screening process, and the input of the medical and allied health professions with respect to such follow-up care, has been ensured by a documented liaison with a hospital, clinic, medical school, medical society, demonstratably committed group of community physicians, or some other similar arrangement.

1978 March 22, Senate Bill, number 1866, pages 8–9:


geolectally

geolectally (comparative more geolectally, superlative most geolectally)

more geolectally (comparative)
most geolectally (superlative)


spellingwise

Although to a certain degree he had read the language “spellingwise,” he still recognized many words by familiar combinations of letters and by the sense.

1896 October 6, B. Onuf, “A Contribution to the Study of Motor Aphasia”, in George F[rederick] Shrady, editor, Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 50, New York, N.Y.: William Wood and Company, published 24 October 1896, page 607:

Two things have helped to produce that monstrosity of the schoolroom—the word-pronouncer; the first is the lack of mastery of the word so that the child is forced to read spelling[-]wise.

1897, Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities:

The varying enunciation of the same combination of consonants, or of vowels, or of both, make it impossible to read English only spellingwise.

1900, Psychological Monographs, page 47:

Reading notes spellingwise is fatal to expressing feeling through song or instrument. It is like deciphering in reading or transverbalizing in translating a foreign language.

1946, B. Marian Brooks, Harry Alvin Brown, Music Education in the Elementary School, page 55:


niggardlily

niggardlily (comparative more niggardlily, superlative most niggardlily)

more niggardlily (comparative)
most niggardlily (superlative)

Snea´kingly, pitifully, poorly, niggardlily.

1736, N[athan] Bailey, Dictionarium Britannicum: Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English dictionary than Any Extant, the second edition, London: […] T. Cox:

It is the certainty of this that reconciles the Doctrinaires, and even M. Persil, to the amnesty. They will grant it, rather than have it forced upon them by M. Dupin. But they will grant it as late as possible, and as niggardlily as possible, unless the more generous sentiment of Marshal Gerard prevail.

1834 October 11, The Morning Chronicle, number 20,319, London:

Japan, niggardlily endowed by nature in natural resources looks to China for supply of necessary industrial materials, selling her manufactures to China.[…]the poorer element of whom, as things stand, are only niggardlily provided for in a financial sense, the Railway Company has been tempted to offer the long-missed facility[?] to such Chinese as may be in want thereof.

1927, The Manchuria Daily News, pages 1 and 5:

Let us not make them help us niggardlily with clenched teeth, in a mood that might make them gloat over our reverses and our losses, as much as the enemy and his friends.

1963 April, “Indian Periodicals”, in Kedar Nath Chatterji, editor, The Modern Review, volume CXIII, number 4 (whole 676), Calcutta, page 332:


counterly

3 He beareth Azure a Bordure counter-componed: Or, and Guiles; which is as much to say, as Compounded of these two Colours counterly placed. Note that Countercompony consisteth euermore of two tracts onely and no more.

1611, John Guillim, John Barkham, A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a More Easie Accesse to the Knowledge Thereof Then Hath Beene Hitherto Published by Any, Through the Benefit of Method, Whereinto it is Now Reduced by the Industry of Joh. Gwillim Pursuiuant of Armes, page 18:

N. 23. Gules, a cherub, having three pair of wings, whereof the uppermost and lowermost are counterly crossed, and the middlemost displayed or, name, Buocafoco.

1829, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ...: The Whole Forming a Complete Manual of Rank and Nobility, page 48:

(heraldry, rare) In a way that is counter to something else, for example in colour (being divided, as a field, bordure, etc, into different colours), or placement (facing different directions, or crossed).


contrawise

Contrawise, there are cases in which the longer text has the earmarks of conflation.

2013, Jack R. Lundbom, Writing Up Jeremiah: The Prophet and the Book, page 3:


oversensitively

oversensitively (comparative more oversensitively, superlative most oversensitively)

more oversensitively (comparative)
most oversensitively (superlative)


overripely

overripely (comparative more overripely, superlative most overripely)

more overripely (comparative)
most overripely (superlative)


overpassionately

overpassionately (comparative more overpassionately, superlative most overpassionately)

more overpassionately (comparative)
most overpassionately (superlative)


forceably

forceably (comparative more forceably, superlative most forceably)

more forceably (comparative)
most forceably (superlative)


warlikely

warlikely (comparative more warlikely, superlative most warlikely)

more warlikely (comparative)
most warlikely (superlative)

Thus warlikely accoutred she rode immediately to Blois, where Forces and Provisions lay for the Relief of Orleans, with which she and the Marshal and Admiral of France entred.

1722, Isaac Kimber, The History of England, page 470:

The man, in whom the state, or his own genius, destroys the balance of powers for the advantage of one, will always bring this overlaying influence to education: the soldier will educate warlikely; the poet poetically; […]


whencesoe'er

(dialectal, poetic) Contraction of whencesoever.


strumously

strumously (comparative more strumously, superlative most strumously)

more strumously (comparative)
most strumously (superlative)


end of the day

Don't get me wrong la, it's lovely what he's trying to do and that but, end of the day, a lad's got his pride to consider, hasn't he?

at the end of the day
at the end of the day#English


appetently

appetently (comparative more appetently, superlative most appetently)

more appetently (comparative)
most appetently (superlative)

[…] began to think appetently of the cold turkey which Arthur had said Sarah would bring out as supper.

1919, Clifford Raymond, One of Three, page 45:


in the same vain

in the same vein
in the same vein#English


startledly

startledly (comparative more startledly, superlative most startledly)

more startledly (comparative)
most startledly (superlative)


unamenably

unamenably (comparative more unamenably, superlative most unamenably)

more unamenably (comparative)
most unamenably (superlative)


unadmittedly

Unconsciously and unadmittedly the really insane realize that they are in some way inferior to the sane; they fear the attendants far more from a mental than a physical stand-point.

1994, Marle Woodson, William W. Savage, James H. Lazalier, Behind the Door of Delusion, page 57:


unimpressibly

unimpressibly (comparative more unimpressibly, superlative most unimpressibly)

more unimpressibly (comparative)
most unimpressibly (superlative)


unamorously

unamorously (comparative more unamorously, superlative most unamorously)

more unamorously (comparative)
most unamorously (superlative)


unavertibly

unavertibly (comparative more unavertibly, superlative most unavertibly)

more unavertibly (comparative)
most unavertibly (superlative)

Jesus wept not only because these were his people who were lurching so unavertibly toward the abyss.

1966', Helmut Thielicke, Life Can Begin Again: Sermons on the Sermon on the Mount (page 5)

Such that it cannot be averted; unavoidably; inexorably.


unintently

unintently (comparative more unintently, superlative most unintently)

more unintently (comparative)
most unintently (superlative)

My eyes stare out the window unintently.

1983, Peace Corp Information Collection & Exchange, NAVAMAGA: Training Activities for Group Building, Health and Income Generation, page 59:


importably

importably (comparative more importably, superlative most importably)

more importably (comparative)
most importably (superlative)


overdeeply

overdeeply (comparative more overdeeply, superlative most overdeeply)

more overdeeply (comparative)
most overdeeply (superlative)


overlargely

overlargely (comparative more overlargely, superlative most overlargely)

more overlargely (comparative)
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overlogically

overlogically (comparative more overlogically, superlative most overlogically)

more overlogically (comparative)
most overlogically (superlative)


overminutely

overminutely (comparative more overminutely, superlative most overminutely)

more overminutely (comparative)
most overminutely (superlative)

Excessively minutely; in too much fine detail.


overreadily

overreadily (comparative more overreadily, superlative most overreadily)

more overreadily (comparative)
most overreadily (superlative)


overprominently

overprominently (comparative more overprominently, superlative most overprominently)

more overprominently (comparative)
most overprominently (superlative)


overstrictly

overstrictly (comparative more overstrictly, superlative most overstrictly)

more overstrictly (comparative)
most overstrictly (superlative)


overparticularly

overparticularly (comparative more overparticularly, superlative most overparticularly)

more overparticularly (comparative)
most overparticularly (superlative)


prefixedly

This is because when a name is applied prefixedly to an argument, the default interpretation is that this is function application syntax.

1994, Bryan Ratcliff, Introducing Specification Using Z: A Practical Case Study Approach, page 129:


preferredly

preferredly (comparative more preferredly, superlative most preferredly)

more preferredly (comparative)
most preferredly (superlative)

Their locations being preferredly correct, the plaintiffs were at liberty to read the patent in evidence, the concession of the defendant being, that there is no disagreement between the courses and distances as located and the supposed calls.

1856, Oliver Miller, editor, Maryland Reports, Containing Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, volume VIII, Annapolis, Md.: Robert F. Bonsall, page 66:

The ordinary woven felting or other flat wicking may be used, and preferredly is taken while yet in the web, and by passing it through rolls or other suitable mechanical device for printing or stamping, it is stamped or printed so as to form lines or marks across the wick, as shown at a a a in the drawing.

1876 May 23, William Y. A. Boardman, “177,796. Lamp-Wicks.”, in Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office for May, 1876, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 1008:

Blackberries and Raspberries are preferredly planted in the fall, as they make such an early start in the spring, that the shoots may get broken.

1879 September, The American Agriculturist. For the Farm, Garden, and Household., volume XXXVIII, numbers 9; new series—number 392, New York, N.Y.: Orange Judd Company, page 329:

(non-native speakers' English) preferably


foreva

It was made an finish in de name of God, foreva and eva, Amen.

1980, Laura Davidson Tanna, The Art of Jamaican Oral Narrative Performance, page 61:

Iss water, water all the way foreva.

1980, Dale Worsley, The Focus Changes of August Previco, The Vanguard Press, Inc.:

I’d stay foreva if only he’d love me.

An sumthing feels foreva lost.

1995, Christopher P. Wilson, The Wurd, Flamingo, page 31:

Butch can bring my ashes back, so we going be here foreva and eva.

2000, Edward Sakamoto, “Introduction”, in Aloha Las Vegas and Other Plays, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 20:

Gonna love you foreva, neva gonna stop.

2013, Lucy Hepburn, 2 Busy 4 Love, Diversion Books, →ISBN:


fullheartedly

fullheartedly (comparative more fullheartedly, superlative most fullheartedly)

more fullheartedly (comparative)
most fullheartedly (superlative)


full-heartedly

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

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


sippingly

sippingly (comparative more sippingly, superlative most sippingly)

more sippingly (comparative)
most sippingly (superlative)

Because there is nothing sottish about you; and you throw down your wine like a man that wants to get a certain quantity down in order to drown care, and not like one who drinks it because he likes the taste of it,—that is, slowly and sippingly.

1816, [Amelia] Opie, chapter I, in Valentine’s Eve, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Wells and Lilly; Philadelphia, Pa.: M. Carey, pages 4–5:

I have long observed, as I doubt not have many of you, that the condition here described is often alleviated in the most striking manner by the use of exclusively liquid nourishment—such as milk or milk-gruel, given in small portions sub-continuously, or sippingly, as it were, throughout the waking hours—the patient being never permitted to take a distinct meal, nor a particle of solid food.

1880, W[illia]m Roberts, “Lecture III”, in On the Digestive Ferments and the Preparation and Use of Artificially Digested Food; Being the Lumleian Lectures for the Year 1880. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians., London: Smith, Elder, & Co.; Manchester: J. E. Cornish, page 106:

He might ignore it for three months and then, one midnight, drink sippingly and methodically from a water glass, lying back on the cot an hour later with the world all closed down, nothing left of it but a terminal throbbing ache in his forebrain.

2011, Don DeLillo, “The Starveling”, in Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, number 117, Granta Publications, →ISBN:


spittingly

spittingly (comparative more spittingly, superlative most spittingly)

more spittingly (comparative)
most spittingly (superlative)

Through taut mouth-slit, in a very low voice, but spittingly, she said, “Don’t touch me.”[…]Her posture didn’t alter, but her lips arched and the words were spat out: “Why don’t you strap me and stick pins in me? They used to do that.”

1952, Fritz Leiber, “Conjure Wife”, in Witches Three, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, Inc., page 28:

‘My God, I was a fool to marry you,’ she spat out.[…]‘There was no need,’ she continued slowly, spittingly, deliberately, ‘to throw my father’s gold cuff-links in the Thames.’

1981, A. N. Wilson, Who Was Oswald Fish?, Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 305:

‘Come on then, spit it out!’[…]And he began to speak, spittingly. ‘Dammit, son, you can’t change history, you can’t change the will of God, understand this![…]’

2007, Kimon S. Neophyte, Torn, Houdini Publishers, →ISBN, page 133:

In a spitting (uttering something violently) manner.


overbrilliantly

overbrilliantly (comparative more overbrilliantly, superlative most overbrilliantly)

more overbrilliantly (comparative)
most overbrilliantly (superlative)


overbrightly

overbrightly (comparative more overbrightly, superlative most overbrightly)

more overbrightly (comparative)
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premorally

McCormick and other ethicists, however, leave room for the possibility that some homosexual acts, while they may be premorally evil, are not morally evil and may, indeed, be morally good.

2018, Todd A. Salzman, Michael G. Lawler, Virtue and Theological Ethics: Toward a Renewed Ethical Method:

In a premoral manner; before the development of a sense of morality.


oversweetly

oversweetly (comparative more oversweetly, superlative most oversweetly)

more oversweetly (comparative)
most oversweetly (superlative)


overgratefully

overgratefully (comparative more overgratefully, superlative most overgratefully)

more overgratefully (comparative)
most overgratefully (superlative)

"Thanks a lot," she said instead, overgratefully.


overjoyfully

overjoyfully (comparative more overjoyfully, superlative most overjoyfully)

more overjoyfully (comparative)
most overjoyfully (superlative)

You would wait and dote on them hand and foot and overjoyfully be at their every beckoned call^([sic]). And just give and give and give, whatever you possibly could, until their presence finally faded, no longer to receive, never to relive.


possessedly

There is a sweet secret in true religion; and if the poor sinner cannot feel it possessedly in his breast, it is all empty work.

1872, The Gospel Standard, or Feeble Christian's Support, page 253:


transrationally

transrationally (comparative more transrationally, superlative most transrationally)

more transrationally (comparative)
most transrationally (superlative)


subcategorically

Relating to, or divided into, subcategories.


shapedly

All of the branches entered the trigeminal cavity and spread fan-shapedly to supply the maxillary and mandibular cell groups and part of the ophthalmic cell group from their posterior side.

1984, Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica, page 206:

A pneumatic tire comprises a tread with a plurality of sipes, in which one of opposed wall faces of the sipe is a concave face arc-shapedly curved over a whole of the sipe in a depth direction thereof and the other wall face thereof is a convex face just fitted to the above concave face, and a curvature of each of the concave and convex faces is substantially constant over a full length in a longitudinal direction of the sipe.

1998 January 15, Masahiro Moriya, Pneumatic tire and vulcanization mold used for the manufacture thereof, US Patent 6,202,725 B1:

The subcostal vein is very short, club-shapedly widened at the apex.