boastly

boastly (comparative more boastly, superlative most boastly)

more boastly (comparative)
most boastly (superlative)

But a significant phenomenon observed throughout the whole is that these poems underwent copious deletions and emendations by the hand of Blake, who, ten years later, boastly told of his "long Poem ... on One Grand Theme, Similar to Homer's Illiad^([sic]) or Milton's Paradise Lost"; […]

1953, A Bibliographical Study of William Blake's Note-Book, page 43:

The Lisu have a fictious^([sic]) relationship with the tiger (heme) and boastly say that they are never attacked by a tiger.

1993, Asim Maitra, Profile of a Little-known Tribe:

This council will immediately meet the parliamentary committe^([sic]) and say please bring this issue in the parliament and any how, you have two-third majority (you say day and night boastly, you can Stop the politics of Awami League!), reform the constitution and give tribals the recognition.

(rare, nonstandard) In a boastful manner; boastfully, boastingly.


rememberingly

The lady smiled at him rememberingly when finally he seated himself across the aisle from her, and without any serious motive Andy smiled back.

2011, B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand, page 10:


impassionately

en-adv

impassionately (comparative more impassionately, superlative most impassionately)

more impassionately (comparative)
most impassionately (superlative)


salutarily

salutarily (comparative more salutarily, superlative most salutarily)

more salutarily (comparative)
most salutarily (superlative)


wherewithout

[…]the conduits of water, wherewithout men cannot commodiously live, have now failed, and are dried up in those hills.

1562, John Jewel, Apologia ecclesiae Anglicanae:


unabatingly

unabatingly (comparative more unabatingly, superlative most unabatingly)

more unabatingly (comparative)
most unabatingly (superlative)

Without abating; ceaselessly; relentlessly.


afternoonish

I'll see you Wednesday afternoonish.

(informal) Around the time of afternoon.


unsententiously

unsententiously (comparative more unsententiously, superlative most unsententiously)

more unsententiously (comparative)
most unsententiously (superlative)


fearingly

fearingly (comparative more fearingly, superlative most fearingly)

more fearingly (comparative)
most fearingly (superlative)

[…] he fearingly and cautiously struggles to set his feet in the right way.

1840, The Gospel magazine, and theological review (series 5, volume 3, page 413)


unintendingly

unintendingly (comparative more unintendingly, superlative most unintendingly)

more unintendingly (comparative)
most unintendingly (superlative)


debilitatingly

debilitatingly (comparative more debilitatingly, superlative most debilitatingly)

more debilitatingly (comparative)
most debilitatingly (superlative)

a debilitatingly depressed state


unintendedly

unintendedly (comparative more unintendedly, superlative most unintendedly)

more unintendedly (comparative)
most unintendedly (superlative)

However, at a neutral section just after Curriehill station, the pantograph unintendedly dropped. This is believed to have prevented the Class 92's rheostatic brakes, which had provided most of the braking power until then, from working.

2020 June 17, Andrew Roden, “Network News: Brake pipe issue prompted Caledonian Sleeper runaway”, in Rail, page 12:


beratingly

beratingly (comparative more beratingly, superlative most beratingly)

more beratingly (comparative)
most beratingly (superlative)


faddily

faddily (comparative more faddily, superlative most faddily)

more faddily (comparative)
most faddily (superlative)


suspectly

suspectly (comparative more suspectly, superlative most suspectly)

more suspectly (comparative)
most suspectly (superlative)

From Middle English suspectly; equivalent to suspect + -ly.


undirectly

undirectly (comparative more undirectly, superlative most undirectly)

more undirectly (comparative)
most undirectly (superlative)

Consider the rules that define directly or undirectly the goal / and let X be a list of a(/) distinct variables. Since /(X) is free w.r.t. X by hypothesis, it is possible to rewrite the variables in the above rules so that they are a subset of X.

1997, Jan Małuszyński, Logic Programming: Proceedings of the 1997 International Symposium - Page 191:

Serotonin I0-*M 20mV Serotonin IO-*M (TTX) 20mV 60s Figure 8.2 On slices, MVN neurons could be either directly or undirectly depolarized by serotonin.

2000, Alvin J. Beitz, Ph.D., John H. Anderson, Neurochemistry of the Vestibular System - Page 171

Article I details the main obligations of states parties, who undertake: Never under any circumstances: (a) To develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile or retain chemical weapons, or transfer, directly or undirectly, chemical weapons to anyone [...]

2010, Catherine Rhodes, International Governance of Biotechnology:


cowardlily

cowardlily (comparative more cowardlily, superlative most cowardlily)

more cowardlily (comparative)
most cowardlily (superlative)

Whenever I hear of some unhappy individual ungratefully and cowardlily yielding to the temptations of despair, and flinging away the existence which he fancied for him was now grown bare of promise, […]

1842, Gerald Griffin, The Duke of Monmouth, page 23:


unfainly

unfainly (comparative more unfainly, superlative most unfainly)

more unfainly (comparative)
most unfainly (superlative)

Letter of Thomas Dudley to Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Plantation: — Good Sir, — I have received your letters by Captain Standish, and am unfainly glad of God's mercy towards you in the recovery of your health, [...]

1900, Augustine Jones, The Life and Work of Thomas Dudley:

Matho, although disappointed that I was not able to save his goat, was unfainly glad at my success and accepted gratefully the Rs. 15/- I gave him for his animal.

1965, Augustus Somerville, The passing of the forest gods:

[...] And draws me on like one unfainly dead.


this year

The current year. (This entry is a translation hub.)


mediumly

I enjoyed the farm on weekends during the school year and was very good academically at school and mediumly good in sports.

1979, Alfred Baker Lewis, A Political Odyssey, Alone and Together: Memoirs, page 16:


unmedically

unmedically (comparative more unmedically, superlative most unmedically)

more unmedically (comparative)
most unmedically (superlative)

Indeed so meagre is the matter, so flimsy the arguments, and so unmedically are they expressed, that I scarcely believe the work was written by a medical man at all.

1823, Joseph Joy Magee, “Letter to Doctor Cheyne”, in Collection of Nineteenth Century Pamphlets Relating to Various Trials and Court Procedure in Ireland, page 37:

When Robbie had his “sick attacks,” Mary explained unmedically, he had to be rushed to the emergency room.

2012, Linda Dahl, Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams:


anechoically

anechoically (comparative more anechoically, superlative most anechoically)

more anechoically (comparative)
most anechoically (superlative)


echoically

echoically (comparative more echoically, superlative most echoically)

more echoically (comparative)
most echoically (superlative)


for once and for all

once and for all
once and for all#English


unresolvably

unresolvably (comparative more unresolvably, superlative most unresolvably)

more unresolvably (comparative)
most unresolvably (superlative)

an unresolvably paradoxical argument


avowably

avowably (comparative more avowably, superlative most avowably)

more avowably (comparative)
most avowably (superlative)


superrationally

superrationally (comparative more superrationally, superlative most superrationally)

more superrationally (comparative)
most superrationally (superlative)


energizingly

energizingly (comparative more energizingly, superlative most energizingly)

more energizingly (comparative)
most energizingly (superlative)


laudingly

laudingly (comparative more laudingly, superlative most laudingly)

more laudingly (comparative)
most laudingly (superlative)


straw-clutchingly

straw-clutchingly (comparative more straw-clutchingly, superlative most straw-clutchingly)

more straw-clutchingly (comparative)
most straw-clutchingly (superlative)

In other words, any Scottish supporter who had straw-clutchingly hoped for a fitness crisis in the All Blacks game has been disappointed.

1999 October 22, Bryn Palmer, “Same again for men in black”, in The Scotsman:

However, in those heightened milliseconds of being able to circumnavigate the entire scene of her imminent destruction, Petra knows that her straw-clutchingly pathetic notion is far from the truth.

2007, Freya North, Pillow Talk, Sourcebooks Landmark, published 2011, →ISBN, page 105:

The half-hour show will be hosted by Zoe Ball and fans are already speculating that this could be a hint that we’re about to see the first female Doctor in the show’s 50-year history.
That might be a straw-clutchingly tenuous theory but the time is certainly right.

2013 August 2, Michael Hogan, “The time is right for a female Doctor Who”, in The Telegraph:

In a manner which involves clutching at straws


last thing

Denis Daviss agrees that practice session timing had a lot to do with it; this was a particular issue at Monaco due to the fact that the circuit was on public roads, so sessions were held first thing in the morning and last thing at night

2010, Michael Oliver, Tales from the Toolbox:


imperceivably

imperceivably (comparative more imperceivably, superlative most imperceivably)

more imperceivably (comparative)
most imperceivably (superlative)


unaccusingly

unaccusingly (comparative more unaccusingly, superlative most unaccusingly)

more unaccusingly (comparative)
most unaccusingly (superlative)

"You never really loved me," she said simply, unaccusingly.


suspensively

suspensively (comparative more suspensively, superlative most suspensively)

more suspensively (comparative)
most suspensively (superlative)


bemoaningly

bemoaningly (comparative more bemoaningly, superlative most bemoaningly)

more bemoaningly (comparative)
most bemoaningly (superlative)


coilingly

coilingly (comparative more coilingly, superlative most coilingly)

more coilingly (comparative)
most coilingly (superlative)


perspectivistically

perspectivistically (comparative more perspectivistically, superlative most perspectivistically)

more perspectivistically (comparative)
most perspectivistically (superlative)


upon the whole

My son writes me word that Mr. Vesey's family are angry with me for inserting some lines in the Legion Club touching him. Upon my soul, I never inserted one line in it; and upon the whole, I care not whether they believe me or not.

1736 June 3, Thomas Sheridan, letter to Jonathan Swift:

With respect to my health, I may say that upon the whole it has been pretty good.

a. 1776, Joseph Baretti, “Dialogue the Fortieth”, in Easy Phraseology for the Use of Those Persons Who Intend to Learn the Colloquial Part of the Italian Language, 1835 edition, Turin: Joseph Bocca, page 222:

[…] but, upon the whole, it is my opinion, that the sands will continue to increase, […]

c. 1800, Joseph Huddart, Captain Huddart's Report, page 2:


full-faced

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

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

So God declines to show Moses His glory full-faced, but He promises to do something else: He will allow Moses to glimpse the glory that follows His presence and then to proclaim, or explain to him, His name — the name of the Lord.

2005, Richard L. Neil, The God You Thought You Knew:


alooflier

comparative form of aloofly: more aloofly


aloofliest

Distorted mirage, aloofliest of the plain, wherein the boxomeness of the bedelias9 makes hobbyhodge happy in his hole.2 The store and charter, Treetown Castle under Lynne.Rivapool? Hod a brieck on it!

2016, James Joyce, The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters - Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan's Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & More, e-artnow, Finnegans Wake - (unpaginated)

(nonce word) superlative form of aloofly: most aloofly


crystally clear

crystally clear (comparative more crystally clear, superlative most crystally clear)

more crystally clear (comparative)
most crystally clear (superlative)


crystally

crystally (comparative more crystally, superlative most crystally)

more crystally (comparative)
most crystally (superlative)

It is clear, yet not crystally transparent; and, though a deep colour, is neither green nor blue[…]

1820, Jane Waldie, Sketches descriptive of Italy in the years 1816 and 1817, volume 4, page 320:

25 April, 1861, George Eliot, letter to Charles L. Lewes
There is a crystally clear river flowing by Vidauban, called the Argent: it rushes along between a fringe of aspens and willows […]


full-handed

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

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

On this occasion the minister came full-handed. He told her, first, as appears from her notes and letters, that he had definitely decided to appoint a Sanitary Committee at the India Office. He read out the list of names;

2014, Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2:

The want met in this case was that of a delegate to go full-handed from the home to the field, who should in due time return again to the home with pledges from the absent ones;

1864, United States Christian Commission, for the Army and Navy Volume 2:

With full hands; bearing valuables or gifts.

One does not remember one's birth -- one has to be told. But with me it was different; life came to me full-handed and dowered me with all my faculties and powers.

O, Death, we come full-handed to they gate, Rich with strange burden of the mingled years

1893 January, Edith Wharton, “Experience”, in Scribner's Magazine:

As a wealthy person, having all that is needed.

By the promptings of religious instinct and principle, our churches have been built and our asylums founded, and charity full-handed has bestowed her lavish gifts upon the unfortunate.

1879, Albert Williams, A Pioneer Pastorate and Times: Embodying Contemporary Local Transactions and Events, page 184:

Art deals with what we see, it must first contribute full-handed that ingredient;

Can scribble, grasping crayon full-handed and awkwardly.

2013, Gardner, Smart and Smarter, →ISBN:

But if we must run, who are left to run? From Bull Run they ran full-handed. But we have fought until maimed soldiers, women, and children are all that remain to run.

2014, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Mary Chesnut's Diary, →ISBN:

...though in the case of the bakers and confectioners at Winnipeg, the shops and factories concerned are running full-handed and most of the employees affected have obtained employment elsewhere.

1903, The Labour Gazette - Volume 3, page 110:

Fully staffed or with all positions filled.

Language is also elemental: at the tender dawn of childhood, it enters life with laughing eyes and prattling lips; at maturity's noon, it moves full-handed and deep-voiced in all the concerns of men;

1922, North Carolina Education - Volume 17, page 3:


b'low

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


coordinatewise

(mathematics) By or with respect to coordinates or an individual coordinate.


junctionally

junctionally-transmitted growth inhibitors


ashily

ashily (comparative more ashily, superlative most ashily)

more ashily (comparative)
most ashily (superlative)

The window is full of the bare blue gloom,
And by the low hearth ashily sinking,
Half asleep, is a fairy winking.

1855, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, “The Fairies’ Child”, in Edward Hayes, editor, The Ballads of Ireland, volume 2, London: A. Fullarton, page 113:

A low exclamation of horror escaped from Nancy Dampier’s lips. She turned ashily pale.

1913, Marie Belloc Lowndes, chapter 6, in The End of Her Honeymoon, New York: Scribner, page 105:

A man was standing on top of the bluff, ashily silhouetted against the night sky.

1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 2, Chapter 49, pp. 318-319:


contentwise

Coordinate term: formwise

He advocated that the analyst not listen to only what the patient said logically or contentwise, but to employ an "even-hovering attention" to gain a more holistic perception of what the patient was expressing.

1995, Samuel Slipp, The Freudian Mystique, page 165:


relentingly

relentingly (comparative more relentingly, superlative most relentingly)

more relentingly (comparative)
most relentingly (superlative)

The lady in the mirror gazed at the lady in the room, reproachfully at first, then — for were they not sisters? — relentingly, then pityingly.


sub voce

under the word or heading that has been specified


unrhythmically

unrhythmically (comparative more unrhythmically, superlative most unrhythmically)

more unrhythmically (comparative)
most unrhythmically (superlative)

In an unrhythmic or unrhythmical manner.


orgastically

If we are interested in perpetuating the present sexual regime, in which the majority of people are orgastically impotent, in which neuroses, perversions and sexual crimes are rampant, then it is only logical that children should not “indulge in sex play.”

1944, Theodore P Wolfe, “A Sex-economist answers, part 2”, in International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research, volume III, number 1:

In an orgastic sense; as regards sexual orgasm.


blasphemingly

blasphemingly (comparative more blasphemingly, superlative most blasphemingly)

more blasphemingly (comparative)
most blasphemingly (superlative)


callowly

callowly (comparative more callowly, superlative most callowly)

more callowly (comparative)
most callowly (superlative)


unselectively

From un- + selectively or unselective + -ly.


ekistically

ekistically (comparative more ekistically, superlative most ekistically)

more ekistically (comparative)
most ekistically (superlative)


judderingly

judderingly (comparative more judderingly, superlative most judderingly)

more judderingly (comparative)
most judderingly (superlative)


resolvably

resolvably (comparative more resolvably, superlative most resolvably)

more resolvably (comparative)
most resolvably (superlative)


destroyingly

destroyingly (comparative more destroyingly, superlative most destroyingly)

more destroyingly (comparative)
most destroyingly (superlative)

Tho' Ruin now Love's shadow be, / Following him, destroyingly, / On Death's white and winged steed, / Which the fleetest cannot flee, [...]

1818–1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 58:

the voice of a storm that sweeps destroyingly over forest and mountain


zippily

zippily (comparative more zippily, superlative most zippily)

more zippily (comparative)
most zippily (superlative)


chestily

chestily (comparative more chestily, superlative most chestily)

more chestily (comparative)
most chestily (superlative)


multifractally

From multi- + fractally or multifractal + -ly.


premortem

Coordinate term: perimortem


worshippingly

worshippingly (comparative more worshippingly, superlative most worshippingly)

more worshippingly (comparative)
most worshippingly (superlative)

She saw that he loved Ethel Churchill, utterly, worshippingly: that the withered flower which Ethel flung from her was to him a treasure.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 42:


yern

From Middle English yern (“willing, eager”), from Old English ġeorn (“eager”), from Proto-West Germanic *gern, from Proto-Germanic *gernaz.
Cognate with Danish gerne (“gladly”), Dutch gaarne (“with pleasure, gladly”), German gern (“willingly, gladly”), Icelandic gjarn (“willing, keen, eager”), Icelandic gjarna (“willingly, readily, gladdly”), Swedish gärna (“willingly, gladly”). See also yearnful and yearnfully.

cog

I am not afraid of death, and when my time comes I'll go yern.

Who was so hardie and so stern? Tel me now, I pray you yern

1865, Frederick James Furnivall, A Royal Historie of the Excellent Knight Generides:

All the people cried yernː God Master, now defend thy bairn.

c. 1515, unknown, The Buke of the Sevyne Sagis:

The black swarm ower the fields walks yerne

(obsolete) eagerly, heartily, gladly, willingly, earnestly.


thievingly

en-adv

thievingly (comparative more thievingly, superlative most thievingly)

more thievingly (comparative)
most thievingly (superlative)

Living compassionately, not taking more than your share or dirtying the earth more than you must, means that you are living more truthfully, more honestly, less thievingly[…]

2000, Daniel C. Maguire, Sacred Energies, page 61:


poststructurally

poststructurally (comparative more poststructurally, superlative most poststructurally)

more poststructurally (comparative)
most poststructurally (superlative)


compressedly

compressedly (comparative more compressedly, superlative most compressedly)

more compressedly (comparative)
most compressedly (superlative)

Stamens polyadelphous, in three sets, upright, a little higher than the tube of the corolla, the lower portion of the filaments of each set compressedly tubular for more than half the length[…]

1817, The Botanical Register, volume 3, page 196:


differentiably

(mathematics) In a differentiable manner


antidiuretically

an antidiuretically potent drug


suspectingly

suspectingly (comparative more suspectingly, superlative most suspectingly)

more suspectingly (comparative)
most suspectingly (superlative)


broilingly

broilingly (comparative more broilingly, superlative most broilingly)

more broilingly (comparative)
most broilingly (superlative)

a broilingly hot day


nonproductively

From non- + productively or nonproductive + -ly.


photomicroscopically

photomicroscopically observable features


misfortunately

misfortunately (comparative more misfortunately, superlative most misfortunately)

more misfortunately (comparative)
most misfortunately (superlative)


floppingly

floppingly (comparative more floppingly, superlative most floppingly)

more floppingly (comparative)
most floppingly (superlative)


unfunnily

unfunnily (comparative more unfunnily, superlative most unfunnily)

more unfunnily (comparative)
most unfunnily (superlative)


swarmingly

swarmingly (comparative more swarmingly, superlative most swarmingly)

more swarmingly (comparative)
most swarmingly (superlative)


pottily

pottily (comparative more pottily, superlative most pottily)

more pottily (comparative)
most pottily (superlative)


warmingly

warmingly (comparative more warmingly, superlative most warmingly)

more warmingly (comparative)
most warmingly (superlative)

[…] he felt the liquor pass warmingly through his body […]

1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight/Part II Chapter III:


unrespectfully

unrespectfully (comparative more unrespectfully, superlative most unrespectfully)

more unrespectfully (comparative)
most unrespectfully (superlative)


wallowingly

It was nothing less than Leoville de Vinchelez's strange catapult-carrying catamaran, barely under control and listing to port as it sailed wallowingly towards the headland […]

2007, Sinclair Forrest, The Dragon of Angur, page 346:

She had stormed dramatically off and got on the first train she saw at Waterloo station and rode it the whole way down to Brighton, taking a room in a seedy B and B. But then, after a nap, still feeling wobbly and also wallowingly sorry for herself, Diantha climbed off the bed and sat down at the desk to write Charles some operatic note of farewell.

2009, Jane Pattison, Charles and Diantha, page 327:


redemptively

redemptively (comparative more redemptively, superlative most redemptively)

more redemptively (comparative)
most redemptively (superlative)


chintzily

chintzily (comparative more chintzily, superlative most chintzily)

more chintzily (comparative)
most chintzily (superlative)


saddeningly

saddeningly (comparative more saddeningly, superlative most saddeningly)

more saddeningly (comparative)
most saddeningly (superlative)


marmoreally

marmoreally (comparative more marmoreally, superlative most marmoreally)

more marmoreally (comparative)
most marmoreally (superlative)

marmoreally pale


inquisitionally

inquisitionally (comparative more inquisitionally, superlative most inquisitionally)

more inquisitionally (comparative)
most inquisitionally (superlative)


inducingly

[…] she has a professional makeup artist give her cuts and bruises and blood clogging her fake broken nose. The results are disturbing and depressing and yet oddly, guilt-inducingly, sexual.

2005, Lisa Crystal Carver, Drugs Are Nice:

[…] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.


strainingly

strainingly (comparative more strainingly, superlative most strainingly)

more strainingly (comparative)
most strainingly (superlative)

He sat up after a few moments, and threw back his head, listening strainingly for outside sounds.

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 36:

So as to strain; with a straining action.


dualistically

dualistically (comparative more dualistically, superlative most dualistically)

more dualistically (comparative)
most dualistically (superlative)


riten.

(musical notation) Abbreviation of ritenuto.


genderwise

The statistics on gifted children were presented agewise and genderwise.


gematrically

In a gematric or gematrical fashion; in terms of, or by means of, gematria.


for the ages

Little did Mr. Quiney think, when he wrote that letter, that he was writing for the ages.

1916, Elbert Hubbard, “William Shakespeare”, in Little Journeys Vol. 1: Good Men and Great:

Some men build hastily and quickly so that their work serves only its transient purpose, and is soon forgotten. Others build for the ages.

1947 Feb. 28, "Quality Endures" (advertisement), Ellensburg Daily Record, p. 3 (retrieved 12 Sept 2013)

President Franklin Roosevelt loved Camp Pendleton, and decreed that the old ranch house . . . should be preserved for the ages.

1968 March 12, John Chamberain, “The People's General Risks His Stars”, in Evening Independent, retrieved 2013-09-12:

Day-Lewis lets us see how the war and the presidency have aged Lincoln while teaching him to think for the ages.

2012 November 8, Ty Burr, “Movie Review: ‘Lincoln’ carries the weight of history”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 2013-09-12:

(idiomatic) In a manner that produces long-lasting effects; for posterity; for a very long duration.


slurredly

slurredly (comparative more slurredly, superlative most slurredly)

more slurredly (comparative)
most slurredly (superlative)

In a slurred manner; with a slurred voice.


barmily

barmily (comparative more barmily, superlative most barmily)

more barmily (comparative)
most barmily (superlative)


unconceitedly

unconceitedly (comparative more unconceitedly, superlative most unconceitedly)

more unconceitedly (comparative)
most unconceitedly (superlative)


brushingly

His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance.

With a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.


for a start

He can't be staring at you. For a start, he's asleep.

For one thing; as one rebutting factor among many.


darkeningly

darkeningly (comparative more darkeningly, superlative most darkeningly)

more darkeningly (comparative)
most darkeningly (superlative)

In addition, he wore […] a soft black hat that hung darkeningly over his eyes.

Up from the floor, from the depths of the corners, […] along the tin-pipe reaching into the ceiling, crept the summer darkness. Only at a blotch of sunlight did it hesitate, tentative as a leaf-flicker on the whitewashed plaster, then moment by long moment it seeped in darkeningly.

1962, Rudy Wiebe, Peace Shall Destroy Many:


intervenably

intervenably (comparative more intervenably, superlative most intervenably)

more intervenably (comparative)
most intervenably (superlative)


dolesomely

dolesomely (comparative more dolesomely, superlative most dolesomely)

more dolesomely (comparative)
most dolesomely (superlative)


Buddhistically

as a Buddhist, in a manner of a Buddhist


malitiously

malitiously (comparative more malitiously, superlative most malitiously)

more malitiously (comparative)
most malitiously (superlative)


vitiously

vitiously (comparative more vitiously, superlative most vitiously)

more vitiously (comparative)
most vitiously (superlative)


pretiously

pretiously (comparative more pretiously, superlative most pretiously)

more pretiously (comparative)
most pretiously (superlative)


craniolaterally

craniolaterally (comparative more craniolaterally, superlative most craniolaterally)

more craniolaterally (comparative)
most craniolaterally (superlative)


misdirectedly

misdirectedly (comparative more misdirectedly, superlative most misdirectedly)

more misdirectedly (comparative)
most misdirectedly (superlative)

In a misdirected manner; in the wrong direction.


quailingly

quailingly (comparative more quailingly, superlative most quailingly)

more quailingly (comparative)
most quailingly (superlative)


at the very least

After all, if we think of the Vatican as a vast and hugely successful multinational corporation, then this interview would appear to be the equivalent of a profits warning. At the very least, it would seem to be tinkering with the formula of the biggest spiritual brand in the world, analogous to Coca-Cola changing its famous recipe in 1985.

2013 September 20, Martina Hyde, The Guardian:

(idiomatic) at least; as an absolute minimum; emphatic form of at the least.


gallopingly

gallopingly (comparative more gallopingly, superlative most gallopingly)

more gallopingly (comparative)
most gallopingly (superlative)


unbrookably

unbrookably (comparative more unbrookably, superlative most unbrookably)

more unbrookably (comparative)
most unbrookably (superlative)

Life is reduced to the encompassing and perfectly adequate nourishing Mother and the unbrookably demanding Self.

1963, Julian N. Hartt, The Lost Image of Man, Louisiana State University Press, page 122:

If the main problem Weimar had faced was an unbrookably divergent national community that, given the additional burdens of reparations and depression, could not be politically represented with coherence, then the Federal Republic, by virtue above all of division and expropriations in the East, became a society sufficiently homogeneous for stability to be realized.

1989, German Politics and Society, numbers 16-18, page 7:

And while we get this real sense of the kind of respect that is not earned but runs unbrookably deep, the simple fact that “he is my father”; and these sneaking ideas that the dislocation between father and son; there is also the feeling that Thomas is slightly trepidatious of getting deep, perhaps wary of the power of representation he wields here over the old patriarch.

2012 August 3, Daniel B. Yates, “Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro! at Traverse Theatre”, in Exeunt:


consideredly

consideredly (comparative more consideredly, superlative most consideredly)

more consideredly (comparative)
most consideredly (superlative)


neurocomputationally

In terms of, or by means of, neurocomputation.


guns blazing

The champions came out (with) all/both guns blazing.


slurpily

slurpily (comparative more slurpily, superlative most slurpily)

more slurpily (comparative)
most slurpily (superlative)


unboastfully

unboastfully (comparative more unboastfully, superlative most unboastfully)

more unboastfully (comparative)
most unboastfully (superlative)


thwackingly

thwackingly (comparative more thwackingly, superlative most thwackingly)

more thwackingly (comparative)
most thwackingly (superlative)


masteringly

masteringly (comparative more masteringly, superlative most masteringly)

more masteringly (comparative)
most masteringly (superlative)

She would not let him elude her; and her stained cheeks and her trembling on his arm pleaded most pressingly and masteringly.

1875, George Meredith, Beauchamp's Career:


unzealously

unzealously (comparative more unzealously, superlative most unzealously)

more unzealously (comparative)
most unzealously (superlative)


somewhere over the rainbow

somewhere over the rainbow (not comparable)

Popularized from the song Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland, written by Harold Arlen (music) and E. Y. Harburg (lyrics) for the film The Wizard of Oz

Perhaps somewhere over the rainbow there is a land where equality and justice are colorblind, where no one is the other, where no one by virtue of race, gender, or sexual orientation is an outcast or an anomaly.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

(idiomatic) In an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.

Harold Arlen
Judy Garland
Over the Rainbow
Yip Harburg


neuroradiographically

By means of, or in terms of, neuroradiography.


uncircumstantially

uncircumstantially (comparative more uncircumstantially, superlative most uncircumstantially)

more uncircumstantially (comparative)
most uncircumstantially (superlative)


overbroadly

overbroadly (comparative more overbroadly, superlative most overbroadly)

more overbroadly (comparative)
most overbroadly (superlative)


poncily

poncily (comparative more poncily, superlative most poncily)

more poncily (comparative)
most poncily (superlative)


azurely

azurely (comparative more azurely, superlative most azurely)

more azurely (comparative)
most azurely (superlative)


branchingly

branchingly (comparative more branchingly, superlative most branchingly)

more branchingly (comparative)
most branchingly (superlative)


by the sly

I read Plutarch, and Shakespeare, and Don Quixote by the sly, and supplied myself in that way with wandering thoughts, while my tutor was assuring me that "an improved man, as distinguished from an ignorant one, was a man who knew the reason why water ran downhill."


persuadingly

persuadingly (comparative more persuadingly, superlative most persuadingly)

more persuadingly (comparative)
most persuadingly (superlative)


guidably

(engineering) In such a way that its movement can be guided.


saprotrophically

saprotrophically (comparative more saprotrophically, superlative most saprotrophically)

more saprotrophically (comparative)
most saprotrophically (superlative)


consciencelessly

consciencelessly (comparative more consciencelessly, superlative most consciencelessly)

more consciencelessly (comparative)
most consciencelessly (superlative)


herbivorously

herbivorously (comparative more herbivorously, superlative most herbivorously)

more herbivorously (comparative)
most herbivorously (superlative)


Portuguesely

Portuguesely (comparative more Portuguesely, superlative most Portuguesely)

more Portuguesely (comparative)
most Portuguesely (superlative)


yeppity

Bingo, I thought. Hoho haha, yep yeppity yes.

2003, Cathy Hopkins, Mates, Dates, and Sequin Smiles, Simon Pulse, published 2004, →ISBN, page 160:

Yeppity, sir. You're exactly the kind of lucky guy who does OK by this plan.

2007 November 2, Mark Lane, “Another tax plan, more FAQ”, in The Daytona Beach News-Journal:

“But it says five—whoa. You mean five hundred thousand?“
“Yeppity."

2011, Caprice Crane, With a Little Luck, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 272:


yuppity

>and she's got it to work properly now,
Yuppity! =)

2000 May 27, Adeline, “Re: Matthew Perry in car accident?”, in alt.tv.friends (Usenet):

>The rule you quote here would match any From: line that had something
>after From: and outside the angle brackets. According to the Turnpike
>Help File - which you really ought to read if you intend to embark upon
>this sort of exercise:
Yuppity!

2003 October 20, Wm… [username], “Re: What is a "reverse path"”, in demon.ip.support.turnpike (Usenet):

>Bob Dylan.
Yuppity. Dat's de guy.

2004 August 31, John Hatpin, “Re: Biography quiz III”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):


extrapyramidally

extrapyramidally active dopamine antagonists

Relative to the extrapyramidal pathways.


deprecatorily

deprecatorily (comparative more deprecatorily, superlative most deprecatorily)

more deprecatorily (comparative)
most deprecatorily (superlative)


ophthalmologically

ophthalmologically (comparative more ophthalmologically, superlative most ophthalmologically)

more ophthalmologically (comparative)
most ophthalmologically (superlative)

With reference to, or by means of ophthalmology.


soppingly

soppingly (comparative more soppingly, superlative most soppingly)

more soppingly (comparative)
most soppingly (superlative)

soppingly wet clothes

So as to be wet to the point of dripping.


soppily

soppily (comparative more soppily, superlative most soppily)

more soppily (comparative)
most soppily (superlative)


Arabically

Arabically (comparative more Arabically, superlative most Arabically)

more Arabically (comparative)
most Arabically (superlative)

They mostly wore the skirts and hats of Paris, and if the scene of the fountain was Arabically oriental the promenade was almost Americanly occidental.

1913, William Dean Howells, Familiar Spanish Travels:


neutralistically

neutralistically (comparative more neutralistically, superlative most neutralistically)

more neutralistically (comparative)
most neutralistically (superlative)


oneirically

oneirically (comparative more oneirically, superlative most oneirically)

more oneirically (comparative)
most oneirically (superlative)


isolationistically

isolationistically (comparative more isolationistically, superlative most isolationistically)

more isolationistically (comparative)
most isolationistically (superlative)


palatally

a palatally impacted canine tooth


consonantally

consonantally (comparative more consonantally, superlative most consonantally)

more consonantally (comparative)
most consonantally (superlative)

as a consonant, in a manner of a consonant


bicamerally

Not only the voices of gods, but also of dead kings, could still be heard bicamerally, as we have earlier suggested was the origin of gods themselves.

1976, 1990, Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, page 327

In a bicameral manner; based on or indicating bicameral organization.


palatographically

By means of, or in terms of, palatography.


bilabially

The sound /b/ is produced bilabially.


sexistly

sexistly (comparative more sexistly, superlative most sexistly)

more sexistly (comparative)
most sexistly (superlative)

I may be the lion, the dominant male, only because I am the only male in this relationship admittedly, but lying is not part of my nature. Men may be deceivers ever as Ophelia put it so sexistly, but I will not tell a deliberate lie.

2007, David M. Addison, Sometime in Sorrento: A Sequel to An Italian Journey, page 18:

Rather than sexistly disregarding female labor and artistry, Randolph overvalues it, begrudging Zoo her life because it comes at the expense of his cherished quilt.

2007, Gary Richards, Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961:


feministly

feministly (comparative more feministly, superlative most feministly)

more feministly (comparative)
most feministly (superlative)

I would like to acknowledge […] Sue Wright for sharing her knowledge feministly […]

2000, Stephen Hussey, Paul Richard Thompson, The Roots of Environmental Consciousness:

So we have Hero writing not very feministly to Leander: 'I cannot be patient for Love! We burn with equal fires, but I am not equal to you in strength; men methinks must have stronger natures. […]

2013, John O'Connell, For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication:


numinously

numinously (comparative more numinously, superlative most numinously)

more numinously (comparative)
most numinously (superlative)


guffawingly

guffawingly (comparative more guffawingly, superlative most guffawingly)

more guffawingly (comparative)
most guffawingly (superlative)

'Good God, no,' Felicity guffawingly answered for him.

2012, Kathy Lette, Foetal Attraction, page 281:

a guffawingly funny book


crampingly

crampingly (comparative more crampingly, superlative most crampingly)

more crampingly (comparative)
most crampingly (superlative)


crampedly

crampedly (comparative more crampedly, superlative most crampedly)

more crampedly (comparative)
most crampedly (superlative)

a crampedly written signature


unfulfillably

unfulfillably (comparative more unfulfillably, superlative most unfulfillably)

more unfulfillably (comparative)
most unfulfillably (superlative)

an unfulfillably expansive vision of social reform

1999, Peter Baldwin, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930, page 320:


pulmonically

a pulmonically initiated plosive


phytotherapeutically

a phytotherapeutically valuable plant

In terms of, or by means of, phytotherapy.


herbally

herbally-enriched drinks

Catnip is used herbally to calm down the nervous system.


wholistically

wholistically (comparative more wholistically, superlative most wholistically)

more wholistically (comparative)
most wholistically (superlative)


chemotaxonomically

In terms of, or by means of, chemotaxonomy.


unparadoxically

unparadoxically (comparative more unparadoxically, superlative most unparadoxically)

more unparadoxically (comparative)
most unparadoxically (superlative)

In his view, the unity of the faith coexisted unparadoxically with heterogeneity of custom because the one church was governed and regulated by the one Holy Spirit.

1993, Stephen D. Benin, The Footprints of God:


oppositionally

oppositionally (comparative more oppositionally, superlative most oppositionally)

more oppositionally (comparative)
most oppositionally (superlative)

In terms of, or by means of, opposition.


jostlingly

jostlingly (comparative more jostlingly, superlative most jostlingly)

more jostlingly (comparative)
most jostlingly (superlative)

So as to jostle; in a way that is crowded, overly busy, etc.


factically

factically (comparative more factically, superlative most factically)

more factically (comparative)
most factically (superlative)


sallowly

sallowly (comparative more sallowly, superlative most sallowly)

more sallowly (comparative)
most sallowly (superlative)

Where the far chalk cliffs, to the left displayed,
Smile sallowly in the decline of day.

1914, Thomas Hardy, 'At a Watering-Place' in Satires of Circumstance, Macmillan, page 63


anterosuperiorly

anterosuperiorly (comparative more anterosuperiorly, superlative most anterosuperiorly)

more anterosuperiorly (comparative)
most anterosuperiorly (superlative)


registerially

Finally, in order to achieve this knowledge, it is essential to develop a means of registerially specifying texts, spoken and written, in terms of their social, historical and discursive functions and their linguistic structure.

1995, Helen Leckie-Tarry, Language and Context: A Functional Linguistic Theory of Register, page 5:

As a semiotic for reasoning, logic is registerially quite constrained: it operates under a number of connexional assumptions about valid reasoning.

1999, Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-based Approach to Cognition, page 37:

To explore the first question, we have compared the DaSciTex corpus with the registerially mixed FLOB corpus.

2010, Stefan Thomas Gries, Corpus-linguistic Applications: Current Studies, New Directions, page 235:

(linguistics) In terms of, or by means of, the register of language.


unfilially

unfilially (comparative more unfilially, superlative most unfilially)

more unfilially (comparative)
most unfilially (superlative)


pausally

In a pausal manner or context; during pausa.


saggily

saggily (comparative more saggily, superlative most saggily)

more saggily (comparative)
most saggily (superlative)


chronostratigraphically

In terms of, or by means of, chronostratigraphy.

cronoestratigraficamente

in terms of, or by means of, chronostratigraphy


shurely

shurely (comparative more shurely, superlative most shurely)

more shurely (comparative)
most shurely (superlative)


there again

I'm too tired to go out tonight, but there again it might wake me up.

(colloquial) Used to introduce something opposed to or different from what preceded


Neolithically

Neolithically (comparative more Neolithically, superlative most Neolithically)

more Neolithically (comparative)
most Neolithically (superlative)

in a manner characteristic of the Neolithic era


biotechnologically

With reference to, or by means of biotechnology


tory-rory

tory-rory (comparative more tory-rory, superlative most tory-rory)

more tory-rory (comparative)
most tory-rory (superlative)


therebehind

/ˌðɛəbɪˈhaɪnd/

For quotations using this term, see Citations:therebehind.


flintily

flintily (comparative more flintily, superlative most flintily)

more flintily (comparative)
most flintily (superlative)

He whined softly and went back to his post at the door, his eyes snapping flintily, his teeth bared.

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 39:


ribbingly

ribbingly (comparative more ribbingly, superlative most ribbingly)

more ribbingly (comparative)
most ribbingly (superlative)

As the summer wound down, acquaintances and friends would ask ribbingly, “How’s your wall?”

2024 July 15, Heidi Julavits, “I Put Up a Fence in Maine. Why Did It Cause Such a Fuss?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


hauntologically

hauntologically (comparative more hauntologically, superlative most hauntologically)

more hauntologically (comparative)
most hauntologically (superlative)


purtily

purtily (comparative more purtily, superlative most purtily)

more purtily (comparative)
most purtily (superlative)


unemotively

unemotively (comparative more unemotively, superlative most unemotively)

more unemotively (comparative)
most unemotively (superlative)


unemphatically

unemphatically (comparative more unemphatically, superlative most unemphatically)

more unemphatically (comparative)
most unemphatically (superlative)


uncondescendingly

uncondescendingly (comparative more uncondescendingly, superlative most uncondescendingly)

more uncondescendingly (comparative)
most uncondescendingly (superlative)


chancily

chancily (comparative more chancily, superlative most chancily)

more chancily (comparative)
most chancily (superlative)


uncontradictably

uncontradictably (comparative more uncontradictably, superlative most uncontradictably)

more uncontradictably (comparative)
most uncontradictably (superlative)


philistinely

philistinely (comparative more philistinely, superlative most philistinely)

more philistinely (comparative)
most philistinely (superlative)

In the manner of a philistine; lacking culture


bovinely

bovinely (comparative more bovinely, superlative most bovinely)

more bovinely (comparative)
most bovinely (superlative)


responsorially

to sing responsorially


floristically

In a floristic manner; according to flora.


eschatologically

eschatologically (comparative more eschatologically, superlative most eschatologically)

more eschatologically (comparative)
most eschatologically (superlative)


markèdly

markèdly (comparative more markèdly, superlative most markèdly)

more markèdly (comparative)
most markèdly (superlative)

Perhaps the highest calling to which I can aspire is a markèdly lesser one of an academic Detective Sergeant Lewis or…of a Chief Superintendent Strange.

2005, Edward Joseph Gallagher, Textual Hauntings, page 113:


ickily

ickily (comparative more ickily, superlative most ickily)

more ickily (comparative)
most ickily (superlative)


pietistically

pietistically (comparative more pietistically, superlative most pietistically)

more pietistically (comparative)
most pietistically (superlative)


disdainingly

disdainingly (comparative more disdainingly, superlative most disdainingly)

more disdainingly (comparative)
most disdainingly (superlative)


floatily

floatily (comparative more floatily, superlative most floatily)

more floatily (comparative)
most floatily (superlative)


officinally

This tartrate, when freed from impurities, is known officinally under the name of cream of tartar.

1827, Robert Hare, A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania:


padmasana

From Sanskrit पद्मासन (padmāsana, “lotus seat”), from पद्म (padma, “lotus”) + आसन (āsana, “asana”).

uder

Iconographically - according to Rupamandana, Brahma is depicted as standing or sitting padmasana with four heads […]

1982, T. N. Srinivasan, A Hand Book of South Indian Images: An Introduction to the Study of Hindu Iconography, Tirupati: Tirumalai-Tirupati Devasthanams, page 96:

One sculpture (P/27-R/4) on southern wall towards west of the gopura dvara shows a person sitting padmasana on Yoga danda.

2004, G. Venkataramayya, Narrative Art of South Indian Temples: Srisailam, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, →ISBN, page 60:

[…] oh, even the clay khaddar-turbaned and dhoti-loinclothed fakir snake charmer sitting padmasana on his dhurry mat swaying from shrab and blowing jadu musica ficta, or the kind in the background of daravani films, on his miniature pungi flute in front of his jhow basket and donation bowl while diminutive papier mache nude bayaderes were scaling ambary ropes which the serpentwood flute’s notes caused to rise up from the basket for them to escape being pursued by a nittany hissing cobra . . . Fascinating!

2009, William Penn, “Garden Speedwells, Rain Lilies”, in Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, section 1, page 586:

There’s a little guy sitting padmasana on the hood, there in the middle of the concentric rings of cramped white letters.

2011, Kip Manley, “Freeway”, in City of Roses, volume 1 (“Wake up…”), Supersticery Press, →ISBN, page 132:

There are two ways of finding an Earth Chakra. You ask or you experience. You could ask the guy stripped to the waist sitting padmasana in the centre of the castle courtyard but he’s otherwise engaged.

2014, Colin Kirk, Life in Poetry, Xlibris LLC, →ISBN:


unwatchfully

en-adv

unwatchfully (comparative more unwatchfully, superlative most unwatchfully)

more unwatchfully (comparative)
most unwatchfully (superlative)


diatomically

hydrogen in its diatomically bonded natural state


parallactically

parallactically (comparative more parallactically, superlative most parallactically)

more parallactically (comparative)
most parallactically (superlative)

a parallactically mounted parabola


of new

From of + new; compare Late Latin de novo, French de nouveau.

Pastorell through great affright / Was almost dead, misdoubting least of-new / Some uprore were like that which lately she did vew.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

His attention was of new summoned.

1827, [Walter Scott], The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, […]; and Cadell & Co., […], →OCLC:


pantographically

In terms of, or by means of, pantography.


pheromonally

In terms of, or by means of, pheromones.


petrographically

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

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


performatively

He is the God of all comfort, First, Purposely; Second, Provisionally; Third, Prescriptively and performatively.

1866, George Wyard, Devout and Explanatory Reflections on Important Portions of God's Word, page 398:

Most of them can also be used performatively, however, i.e. to make explicit what kind of speech act it is the speaker performs (not all illocutionary verbs can be so used however: cf e.g. boast, threaten).

1980, Magnus Ljung, Reflections on the English Progressive:


vernally

In a vernal manner or context; in spring.


extramaritally

They conceived a child extramaritally.


intramaritally

They conceived a child intramaritally.


senilely

senilely (comparative more senilely, superlative most senilely)

more senilely (comparative)
most senilely (superlative)


contextualistically

contextualistically (comparative more contextualistically, superlative most contextualistically)

more contextualistically (comparative)
most contextualistically (superlative)


plethorically

plethorically (comparative more plethorically, superlative most plethorically)

more plethorically (comparative)
most plethorically (superlative)

From plethoric + -ally (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives). Plethoric is derived from Middle English plectorik (“swollen, plethoric; a swelling, plethora”) [and other forms], from Late Latin plethoricus, plectoricus (“plethoric”), from Koine Greek πληθωρικός (plēthōrikós, “plethoric”), from Ancient Greek πληθώρα (plēthṓra, “plethora”) + -ικός (-ikós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to, in the manner of’, forming adjectives from nouns); πληθώρα (plēthṓra) is from πληθώρη (plēthṓrē, “fullness; generation of blood or humors by the body”) (from πλήθω (plḗthō, “to be or become full, swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + -ᾱ (-ā) (variant of -η (-ē, suffix forming action nouns from verbs)).

der

But the truth is,—and why should I not confess it?—I am not plethorically abounding in cash at this present. Merit, Heaven knows, is very little rewarded; but it does not become me to speak of myself. My motto is, 'contented with little, yet wishing for more.'

1804 October 13, Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd, “Letters to Southey, Coleridge, Manning, and Wordsworth. [To Mr. [William] Wordsworth.]”, in The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a Sketch of His Life. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 170:

Nevertheless, so pregnant is Life with evil as with good; to such height in an age rich, plethorically overgrown with means, can means be accumulated in the wrong place, and immeasurably aggravate wrong tendencies, instead of righting them, this sad and strange result may actually turn out to have been realized.

1832 July, [Thomas Carlyle], “Art. II.—1. Corn-Law Rhymes. Third Edition. 8vo. London: 1831. 2. Love; a Poem. By the Author of Corn-Law Rhymes. Third Edition. 8vo. London: 1831. 3. The Village Patriarch; a Poem. By the Author of Corn-Law Rhymes. 12mo. London: 1831. [book reviews]”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume LV, number CX, Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Company, for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […]; and Adam Black, →OCLC, page 342:

For indeed it is of apoplexy, so to speak, and a plethoric lazy habit of body, that Churches, Kinships, Social Institutions, oftenest die. Sad, when such Institution plethorically says to itself, Take thy ease, thou hast goods laid up;—like the fool of the Gospel, to whom it was answered, Fool, this night thy life shall be required of thee!

1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Astræa Redux”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age), page 29:

Old Chewke, the plethorically wealthy retired timber-merchant, formerly of Riga, went purposely two hours later to the Union Club that morning.

1861 February, George Augustus Sala, “The Seven Sons of Mammon. A Story.”, in George Augustus Sala, editor, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume I, London: Office of Temple Bar, […]; Ward and Lock, […]; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers, published March 1861, →OCLC, chapter VI (Resurgam), page 311:

[T]he Maltese terrier was already snoring plethorically on his mistress's lap, in a manner quite disproportioned to his size, [...]

1894, E[dith Anna] Œ[none] Somerville, Martin Ross [pseudonym; Violet Florence Martin], chapter V, in The Real Charlotte […], volume I, London: Ward and Downey […], →OCLC, page 56:

I find Judith plethorically romantic and just as plethorically "sophisticated," qualities that often go together in France's two leading theatrical petits maitres, Giraudoux and Anouilh.

1968, John Gassner, edited by Glenn Loney, Dramatic Soundings: Evaluations and Retractions Culled from 30 Years of Dramatic Criticism, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →OCLC:

In a plethoric manner: excessively, overabundantly.

pléthoriquement

in a plethoric manner — see also excessively


talentedly

en-adv

talentedly (comparative more talentedly, superlative most talentedly)

more talentedly (comparative)
most talentedly (superlative)


frontways

But, because the naval as well as the land army consisted of four legions, and accordingly the ships made four divisions, two of these are yet behind; of which the third fleet, or third legion, was drawn up frontways in the rear of the first and second, and so, stretching along from point to point, composed a triangle, whereof the third line was the base.

1820, Basil Kennett, Romæ antiquæ notitia: or, The antiquities of Rome, page 242:

Upper grip; jump to side support frontways; swing left leg forward over bar outside of left hand; fall back to outer knee-hand hang and with the next swing execute an outer knee swing-up forward; return left leg to side support frontways[…]

1919, Arthur James Schuettner, The University of Illinois plan to stimulate interest in physical education, page 18:


precessionally

In a precessional manner; by means of precession


interspersedly

interspersedly (comparative more interspersedly, superlative most interspersedly)

more interspersedly (comparative)
most interspersedly (superlative)


orofecally

an orofecally transmitted infection


anogenitally

No differences were found in the mounting behavior of anogenitally stimulated females and their controls, and none of the females showed the ejaculatory response.

1985, Eugene S. Gollin, The Comparative Development of Adaptive Skills:


sharpishly

sharpishly (comparative more sharpishly, superlative most sharpishly)

more sharpishly (comparative)
most sharpishly (superlative)


reinforcingly

reinforcingly (comparative more reinforcingly, superlative most reinforcingly)

more reinforcingly (comparative)
most reinforcingly (superlative)


unserviceably

unserviceably (comparative more unserviceably, superlative most unserviceably)

more unserviceably (comparative)
most unserviceably (superlative)


unexcitedly

unexcitedly (comparative more unexcitedly, superlative most unexcitedly)

more unexcitedly (comparative)
most unexcitedly (superlative)


autochorously

In an autochorous manner; by means of autochory


saccharinely

saccharinely (comparative more saccharinely, superlative most saccharinely)

more saccharinely (comparative)
most saccharinely (superlative)


strictly speaking

strictly speaking (comparative more strictly speaking, superlative most strictly speaking)

more strictly speaking (comparative)
most strictly speaking (superlative)

Near-synonyms: technically, stricto sensu

This recipe calls for three kinds of fruit: strawberries, cherries, and rhubarb. Well, strictly speaking, rhubarb is a vegetable.

Saying something as precisely as possible; using a strict sense of a word.


Wagnerianly

Wagnerianly (comparative more Wagnerianly, superlative most Wagnerianly)

more Wagnerianly (comparative)
most Wagnerianly (superlative)


bacteriostatically

With regard to bacteriostasis; by means of a bacteriostat.


urologically

In a urologic manner; with respect to urology


Visigothically

The close connection between Visigothically ruled Spain and the East-Christian world, long opposed to the use of images, which we have noted in the case of their architecture, may have exerted its influence in S. Julian in this respect as welI.

1966, Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse, Pre-Romanesque Art, page xxvii:

Bishop Alfonso of Burgos claimed seniority on the basis that he represented a most ancient, Visigothically-founded monarchy.

2006, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History, page 38:

Visigothically speaking, a materialist Gothic-fantastic proliferated and came to be called (in the twentieth century) science fiction[…].

2012, Adam Roberts, “Gothic and horror fiction”, in Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, page 33:

(manner) In a manner that involves or is concerned with Visigoths.


yogically

yogically (comparative more yogically, superlative most yogically)

more yogically (comparative)
most yogically (superlative)

Most important, the Geluk and the Ri-me exhibit quite different trends not only in history, doctrine, and practice but also in their classical monastic versus more yogically oriented approaches.

2000, Reginald A. Ray, Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism, unnumbered page:

Thus, the more yogically inclined schools (e.g., Kagyiipa) tend to place more importance on tathagatagarbba theory (Buddha nature)[…].

2000, William M. Johnston, Encyclopedia of monasticism, Volume 1: A - L, page 224:

Prof. Jain would mix all his food into one glob at lunch so as to be more yogically detached from pleasure but I couldn't get to that point.

2010, Ravi Dass, The Sacred Wanderer, page 83:

(manner) In a manner that involves or is concerned with yoga.

Less metaphysically and more yogically, there are periods when silence becomes imperative, because to throw oneself outward delays the "work that has to be done."

2005, Sujata Nahar, Michel Danino, Shankar Bandyopadhyay, Sri Aurobindo to Dilip, volume 1, page 65:


zoomorphically

Usually the deity seems to be zoomorphically rather than anthropomorphically conceived.

1967, Raymond Firth, Tikopia Ritual and Belief, Routledge Revivals, published 2012, page 252:

Here sin zoomorphically is likened to a wild beast and by metonymy refers to the result of temptation.

2006, Eugene H. Merrill, Everlasting Dominion: A Theology of the Old Testament, page 219:

Nefer-Tem was the son of Ptah and Sekhmet and like his mother, was zoomorphically represented as lion-headed.

2008, Charles Finch III, “27: From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African Spiritual Concepts”, in Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis Gordon, editors, A Companion to African-American Studies, page 457:

Zoomorphically, this constellation is usually depicted in Western star charts as a scorpion, but in esoteric astrology, the scorpion transmutes itself (or shape-shifts) into the figure of an eagle.

2009, Richard Leviton, Santa Fe Light: Touring the Visionary Geography of Santa Fe, New Mexico, page 259:

1987, John P. O'Neill (editor in chief), The Islamic World, Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 10,
Although the arts of Islam are zoomorphically rich, it could be argued that in depicting goats, cows, deer, and bears the great animalier was as true to his Near Eastern upbringing as to his religious tradition.

(manner) In a manner that is zoomorphic or involves zoomorphism.


legitly

legitly (comparative more legitly, superlative most legitly)

more legitly (comparative)
most legitly (superlative)


mousily

mousily (comparative more mousily, superlative most mousily)

more mousily (comparative)
most mousily (superlative)

She peeped mousily around the corner.


most an end

She sleeps most an end.

1634, Philip Massinger, John Fletcher, A Very Woman:

1738-1741, William Warburton, Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist
[We] have most an end, a strong inclination to make a farce of it, and mingle buffoonry with the most serious scenes.

(obsolete, idiomatic) generally; most often


unsophistically

unsophistically (comparative more unsophistically, superlative most unsophistically)

more unsophistically (comparative)
most unsophistically (superlative)


armorially

(heraldry) In terms of or by means of armorial bearings.


loxodromically

to navigate loxodromically


unillustriously

unillustriously (comparative more unillustriously, superlative most unillustriously)

more unillustriously (comparative)
most unillustriously (superlative)

Knighted unillustriously among a horde of some three hundred others in the accession honours of 1603, he was subsequently well compensated by being made Baron Verulam[…]

1961, A. C. Ward, Illustrated History of English Literature, page 22:


missiologically

In terms of, or by means of, missiology.


leoninely

leoninely (comparative more leoninely, superlative most leoninely)

more leoninely (comparative)
most leoninely (superlative)


gyrotrigonometrically

With regard to, or using gyrotrigonometry


chubbily

chubbily (comparative more chubbily, superlative most chubbily)

more chubbily (comparative)
most chubbily (superlative)


planetwards

planetwards (comparative more planetwards, superlative most planetwards)

more planetwards (comparative)
most planetwards (superlative)


hoydenishly

hoydenishly (comparative more hoydenishly, superlative most hoydenishly)

more hoydenishly (comparative)
most hoydenishly (superlative)


snoopily

snoopily (comparative more snoopily, superlative most snoopily)

more snoopily (comparative)
most snoopily (superlative)


clitorially

clitorially (comparative more clitorially, superlative most clitorially)

more clitorially (comparative)
most clitorially (superlative)

/klɪˈtɔːɹɪəli/

Some of the women professed to have feelings or sensations in their genitals only when their female partners actively stimulated them clitorially or by various sadomasochistic manipulations.

1988, Elaine V Siegel, Female Homosexuality: Choice Without Volition, page 52:

“Even clitorially, it's very, very hard. I orgasm only from oral sex, masturbation or vibrators.”

2006, Gerrie Lim, In Lust we Trust: Adventures in Adult Cinema:


ex delicto

From Latin ex (“from”) + dēlictō, ablative singular of dēlictum (“transgression”).

The diviſion of obligations, into thoſe ariſing from a contract, or quaſi ex contractu; from a delict, or quaſi ex delicto, takes place in the law of England [marginal note]. […] Obligations civil, in a large ſenſe, may be divided into ſuch as ariſe from a contract, or quaſi contract; or from a delinquency and crime, or a quaſi delinquency, as they are termed in the civil law.

1751, Andrew MacDowall Bankton, An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights: With Observations Upon the Agreement or Diversity Between Them and the Laws of England. In Four Books. After the General Method of the Viscount of Stair's Institutions., volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by R. Fleming, for A. Kincaid and A[lexander] Donaldson, and sold by them and other Booksellers, →OCLC, page 104:

Actio personalis moritur cum persona. – A personal action dies with the person. [i.e. An action merely personal, arising ex delicto, for a tort, but not an action arising ex contractu, from contract.[…]] […] [Ex delicto — From tort.]

1824, Thomas Branch with William Waller Hening, Principia Legis et Æquitatis: Being an Alphabetical Collection of Maxims, Principles or Rules, Definitions, and Memorable Sayings, in Law and Equity; Interspersed with such Law Terms, and Latin Words and Phrases as most Frequently Occur, in the Study and Practice of the Law, 1st American edition, Richmond: T. W. White, →OCLC, pages 12 and 43:

What the Romans said is that, whereas some obligations arose ‘ex delicto’ (that is, from a delict or wrong), others arose ‘quasi ex delicto’ (and likewise for contract).

2009, Eric Descheemaeker, The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 43:

(law, postpositive) From a delict or tort, or some other wrongful act.


ex contractu

From Latin ex (“from”) + contractū (ablative singular of contractus (“contract”)).

The diviſion of obligations, into thoſe ariſing from a contract, or quaſi ex contractu; from a delict, or quaſi ex delicto, takes place in the law of England [marginal note]. [...] Obligations civil, in a large ſenſe, may be divided into ſuch as ariſe from a contract, or quaſi contract; or from a delinquency and crime, or a quaſi delinquency, as they are termed in the civil law.

1751, Andrew MacDowall Bankton, An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights: With Observations Upon the Agreement or Diversity Between Them and the Laws of England. In Four Books. […], volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by R. Fleming, for A. Kincaid and A[lexander] Donaldson, […], →OCLC, page 104:

Actio personalis moritur cum persona. – A personal action dies with the person. [i.e. An action merely personal, arising ex delicto, for a tort, but not an action arising ex contractu, from contract. [...]]

1824, Thomas Branch, William Waller Hening, Principia Legis et Æquitatis: Being an Alphabetical Collection of Maxims, Principles or Rules, Definitions, and Memorable Sayings, in Law and Equity; […], 1st American edition, Richmond: T. W. White, →OCLC, page 12:

(law, postpositive) From a contractual relationship.


wristily

wristily (comparative more wristily, superlative most wristily)

more wristily (comparative)
most wristily (superlative)


electroantennographically

In terms of or by means of electroantennography.


neurobiologically

In terms of or by means of neurobiology.


straight-up

From Middle English streight up (“straight, erect, not curved or crooked, direct, honest”), equivalent to straight + up.


vegetably

To achieve the correct riding contact required by the precision of the sport of riding, there is no substitute for pure vegetably tanned leather - which I choose to name "naturally tanned" because no synthetic materials are used in their tanning […]

1987, H. Alexander Pastene, Riding Contact, page 18:

Vegetably speaking, they'll take beans, potatoes, and tomatoes.

2002, Cathryn A. Buesseler, L. E. Anderson, Recipes of a Pitchfork Ranch Hostess:

In vegetable terms, or by vegetable means.


thick and threefold

A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde,
Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde;
That, if I wiſt not to be controlde,
Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,

c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.

How ſome delite for to lye, thycke and threfolde.

They came thick and threefold for a time, as she expected they should, till at last, one experienc'd stager that had baffled twenty traps and tricks before, discover'd the plot, and quite spoyl'd the jest.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

(dated, idiomatic) In quick succession, or in great numbers.


til death do us part

till death do us part
till death do us part#English


winefully

en-adv

winefully (comparative more winefully, superlative most winefully)

more winefully (comparative)
most winefully (superlative)

I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.

1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 20:


whitherwards

In what direction; toward what or which place.


grinchily

grinchily (comparative more grinchily, superlative most grinchily)

more grinchily (comparative)
most grinchily (superlative)


itinually

(Rastafari) continually; perpetually; always


pettingly

pettingly (comparative more pettingly, superlative most pettingly)

more pettingly (comparative)
most pettingly (superlative)

"It is to the death," said Akela. "Thou hast never met the dhole—the Red Killer. Even the Striped One—"¶ "Aowa! Aowa!" said Mowgli pettingly. "I have killed one striped ape, and sure am I in my stomach that Shere Khan would have left his own mate for meat to the dhole if he had winded a pack across three ranges[…]"

1906, Rudyard Kipling, “Red Dog”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York: The Century Co., page 247:


immunopharmacologically

In terms of, or by means of, immunopharmacology.


phytopharmacologically

By means of or in terms of phytopharmacology.


as a matter of factly

as a matter of fact
as a matter of fact#English

(rare, proscribed) Nonstandard form of as a matter of fact.


similarily

similarily (comparative more similarily, superlative most similarily)

more similarily (comparative)
most similarily (superlative)


pincerwise

[…] we saw gannets plummet, guided by some sort of magical mud vision, and emerge with mulletlike prey held pincerwise.

1955, William Beebe, Adventuring with Beebe, page 142:


biochronologically

In terms of, or by means of, biochronology.


afterwhile

[…] as soon as the man called the track they hurried fast, so they got two seats and turned them to face each other, and afterwhile the train pulled out […]

1957, James Agee, A Death in the Family, New York: McDowell, Obolensky, Part 2, p. 242:


bioanalytically

In terms of, or by means of, bioanalysis.


jiggingly

jiggingly (comparative more jiggingly, superlative most jiggingly)

more jiggingly (comparative)
most jiggingly (superlative)

In the manner of a jig, or lively dance.


emotionlessly

emotionlessly (comparative more emotionlessly, superlative most emotionlessly)

more emotionlessly (comparative)
most emotionlessly (superlative)


womanward

1905, Bram Stoker, The Man Chapter I
his thoughts went womanward and wifeward

[…] when men meet together in public conference, however innocent may be its first cause, talk invariably drifts to war, just as when they assemble and talk in private it drifts womanward.


autodidactically

He didn't take an academic course, but picked up the subject autodidactically.

More than Spohr did Paganini draw the young autodidactically educated artist after him, and for this reason the latter went from Cassel to Paris to hear the famous Italian and to make some of his artifices his own.

1894, “Celebrated Violinists Past and Present”, in The Strad, volume 6, page 203:

Zaynullah enjoyed a general reputation for "foreign knowledge," presumably acquired autodidactically from the manuals of scientific popularization that were beginning to proliferate in Kazan Turkic.

1992, Jo-Ann Gross, Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change, page 123:


pantherishly

pantherishly (comparative more pantherishly, superlative most pantherishly)

more pantherishly (comparative)
most pantherishly (superlative)


melancholiously

melancholiously (comparative more melancholiously, superlative most melancholiously)

more melancholiously (comparative)
most melancholiously (superlative)


Pacificward

Pacificward (comparative more Pacificward, superlative most Pacificward)

more Pacificward (comparative)
most Pacificward (superlative)


straicht

straicht (comparative straichter, superlative straichtest)

straichter (comparative)
straichtest (superlative)

"Rin, rin, straicht on," shouted the manikin, and the men with a great clatter obeyed him.

1881, Charles Gibbon, The Braes of Yarrow, page 141:

Willie Simpson whispered to him — "Fan ye run, go straicht till ma hoose. There's a bottle o' the best Glenlivet an' anither o' port wine waitin' us for a 'burst' efter 'e fun's by."

1896, John Horne, A Canny Countryside, page 131:


repletely

repletely (comparative more repletely, superlative most repletely)

more repletely (comparative)
most repletely (superlative)


engineeringly

We had a good deal of comment about growing bananas on Pikes Peak in connection with the upper Colorado project. Engineeringly that is feasible; economically it is not.

1956, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Hearings, page 101:


bingefully

bingefully (comparative more bingefully, superlative most bingefully)

more bingefully (comparative)
most bingefully (superlative)

You're going to know that it won't be long before you can eat bingefully again — the weekend will be here in no time — provided you succeed in being a good girl for the five days in between.

1973, Marcia Seligson, Cosmopolitan's Super Diets & Exercise Guide, Cosmopolitan Books, →ISBN, page 198:

I, by the symbolic consumption of this official, Premier Division, Cheese Football; do declare this season of overeating and drinking bingefully open, and may St Rennie has mercy on your innards!

2003 December 25, joe crowe, “Essex Christmas”, in uk.local.essx (Usenet):

The British spirits industry was convinced that commercials were persuading otherwise innocent Britons to drink bingefully and with intent.

2005, Denis Boyles, Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese, Encounter Books, →ISBN, page 60:


mut. mut.

Aleim, ſuppoſing it a Hebrew word, becauſe as old as Adam; and to ſignify in one part of ſpeech, (mut. mut.) what it does in another, becauſe the language was formed by God, cannot be paſſive, becauſe he who denounced the Curſe, was only ſworn, not execrated.

1755, Julius Bate, A Reply to Dr. Sharp’s Review and Defence of His Diſſertations on the Scripture Meaning of Aleim and Berith, page 82:

And I ſhall only return the Doctor’s reaſoning p. 394, back to him; mut. mut.

mutatis mutandis
mutatis mutandis#English


mutat. mutand.

On nearly the like principles, (mutat. mutand.) the degree of Vice in any given action may be eſtimated.

ante''' 1751, Philip Doddridge (author), Samuel Clark (editor), A Courſe of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity (second edition, 1776), part III, proposition xlix, corollary 1, page 125


abbreviatedly

abbreviatedly (comparative more abbreviatedly, superlative most abbreviatedly)

more abbreviatedly (comparative)
most abbreviatedly (superlative)


absorptiometrically

By means of, or in terms of, absorptiometry.


mut. mutandis

Several of the arguments urged in the preceding demonſtration will (mut. mutandis) prevail here; eſpecially thoſe taken from the proportion of the ſexes, mutual jealouſy, and the want of peculiar endearments ariſing from one moſt intimate friend.

ante''' 1751, Philip Doddridge (author), Samuel Clark (editor), A Courſe of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity (second edition, 1776), part III, proposition lix, subpart 2, demonstration, page 147


mut. mutand.

Already it will have been seen that M. de Pourtales found this (for Stelletta (Tisiphonia) agariciformis of Schmidt appears, mut. mutand., to be identical with it) in 178 fathoms; so that here we have a sponge, in form and habitat respectively, connecting the Pachytragiæ of the shore, through the Coralliospongiæ, with the Calycispongiæ (Kent) of the deepest seas.

1871 February, H.J. Carter, “On Fossil Sponge-spicules of the Greensand compared with those of existing Species”, essay xiv in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, fourth series, volume VII (№ 38), page 126


mutat. mutandis

Such systematic misrepresentation of the past may usefully reinforce our present day views, but it is not history. Nor is the reasoning improved by substituting, mutat. mutandis, a bad thing.

1989, BMJ: British Medical Journal, CCXCVIII, issues 6,677-6,689, page 1,588/1:


Koranically

Koranically (comparative more Koranically, superlative most Koranically)

more Koranically (comparative)
most Koranically (superlative)


unlaudably

unlaudably (comparative more unlaudably, superlative most unlaudably)

more unlaudably (comparative)
most unlaudably (superlative)

Erasmus maintains that he has no intention of condemning the zeal of those who, not unlaudably, exercise their powers of intellect in subtleties of this kind; but he is convinced that the gospels and epistles are the best sources […]

1957, Edward Surtz, The Praise of Pleasure:


unsalvagably

unsalvagably (comparative more unsalvagably, superlative most unsalvagably)

more unsalvagably (comparative)
most unsalvagably (superlative)


placentally

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


allergenically

an allergenically active component


troglodytically

troglodytically (comparative more troglodytically, superlative most troglodytically)

more troglodytically (comparative)
most troglodytically (superlative)

In a troglodytic way; in a way resembling a troglodyte.


letterly

letterly (comparative more letterly, superlative most letterly)

more letterly (comparative)
most letterly (superlative)

From Middle English letterly, equivalent to letter + -ly.

Christian Scientists, all over the world, who are letterly fit and specially spiritually fitted for teachers, can teach annually three classes only. They shall teach from the Christian Science textbook.

1924, Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896 (Authorized Edition): - Page 316:

In a manner befitting or denoting letters; to the letter; precisely.


as good as

Sending the soldiers out into that blizzard was as good as murdering them!

They who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves.

1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

almost, virtually, practically; tantamount to

On November 29 1952, a special train ran from Sunderland to Leeds for Christmas shoppers and those attending a Leeds vs. Brentford match. It caused controversy, with Sunderland traders protesting that their shops were just as good as those in Leeds.

2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, good.


technoscientifically

technoscientifically (comparative more technoscientifically, superlative most technoscientifically)

more technoscientifically (comparative)
most technoscientifically (superlative)

In a technoscientific manner or context.


nucleosynthetically

By means of, or in terms of, nucleosynthesis.


practisedly

practisedly (comparative more practisedly, superlative most practisedly)

more practisedly (comparative)
most practisedly (superlative)


patagially

patagially marked birds


congratulatorily

congratulatorily (comparative more congratulatorily, superlative most congratulatorily)

more congratulatorily (comparative)
most congratulatorily (superlative)


photoelectrochemically

In terms of, or by means of, photoelectrochemistry.


mero motu

From post-classical Latin motu mero (with transposition of elements), ablative of motus merus (“free impulse, volition”), from classical Latin mōtus (“motion, movement”).

I charge thee, write not a word to me in her favour, if thou meanest her well; for if I spare her, it must be all ex mero motu.

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:

(Of) one's own accord
of one's own accord


closetedly

closetedly (comparative more closetedly, superlative most closetedly)

more closetedly (comparative)
most closetedly (superlative)


raptorially

raptorially (comparative more raptorially, superlative most raptorially)

more raptorially (comparative)
most raptorially (superlative)

The gonydeal angle is large and acute, and the bill is long and almost raptorially hooked.

2013, Pete Dunne, Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion, page 264:


tonsorially

Omerie, with his shaven head and Edwardian elegance, had permanently arrested his own development, tonsorially and sartorially speaking, at the modes of London in the Fifties[…]

1974, Coleman Dowell, Mrs. October was Here, page 46:

Cold sweats among the tonsorially challenged.

1994, Jack Zimmerman, Ten Thousand Years in the Suburbs, page 56:

On horseback he looked like the ruler of a continent. Obviously he took great pains with appearance—riding boots aglitter, near-shoulder-length hair tonsorially styled[…]

2009, Michael A. Dreese, The 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg:


mid-drift

Sure, using the brakes will slow the car, but just as with throttle input, there is a finite amount of brake input available to you mid-drift.

2006, Paul Morton, How to Drift: The Art of Oversteer, CarTech, page 54:


adjustably

adjustably (comparative more adjustably, superlative most adjustably)

more adjustably (comparative)
most adjustably (superlative)


uncoincidentally

uncoincidentally (comparative more uncoincidentally, superlative most uncoincidentally)

more uncoincidentally (comparative)
most uncoincidentally (superlative)


tumidly

tumidly (comparative more tumidly, superlative most tumidly)

more tumidly (comparative)
most tumidly (superlative)


acerbly

acerbly (comparative more acerbly, superlative most acerbly)

more acerbly (comparative)
most acerbly (superlative)


acidimetrically

(chemistry) By means of, or in terms of, acidimetry.


basiswise

basiswise (comparative more basiswise, superlative most basiswise)

more basiswise (comparative)
most basiswise (superlative)

In terms of bases, with respect to bases.


arteriographically

(medicine) By means of, or in terms of, arteriography.

arteriograficamente

by means of, or in terms of, arteriography


overlavishly

overlavishly (comparative more overlavishly, superlative most overlavishly)

more overlavishly (comparative)
most overlavishly (superlative)


adaptationally

In terms of, or by means of, adaptation.


unharmoniously

unharmoniously (comparative more unharmoniously, superlative most unharmoniously)

more unharmoniously (comparative)
most unharmoniously (superlative)


unmelodiously

unmelodiously (comparative more unmelodiously, superlative most unmelodiously)

more unmelodiously (comparative)
most unmelodiously (superlative)


tangily

tangily (comparative more tangily, superlative most tangily)

more tangily (comparative)
most tangily (superlative)

a tangily refreshing soft drink


graphetically

graphetically (comparative more graphetically, superlative most graphetically)

more graphetically (comparative)
most graphetically (superlative)


repressedly

repressedly (comparative more repressedly, superlative most repressedly)

more repressedly (comparative)
most repressedly (superlative)


unrepressedly

unrepressedly (comparative more unrepressedly, superlative most unrepressedly)

more unrepressedly (comparative)
most unrepressedly (superlative)


daydreamingly

daydreamingly (comparative more daydreamingly, superlative most daydreamingly)

more daydreamingly (comparative)
most daydreamingly (superlative)


full steam

They have formed the Community Research Initiatives of New England (CRINE), an organization that could be up and running full steam this summer if it receives the $400,000 in grant money it has applied for from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR) to cover its first year of operating cost.

1989 April 22, Judy Harris, “Community-Based AIDS Research Group Forming For New England”, in Gay Community News, page 3:

full steam ahead
full steam ahead#English


multimethodologically

Using more than one methodology, especially both qualitative and quantitative.


intermodally

In a way that uses or relates to more than one mode of transport.


in all probability

If you take any two Manchester manufacturers, or two Birmingham manufacturers, you will find that there is that jealousy between them that if one knew that another had looked at the thing and paid no attention to it, in all probability he would not be induced to look at it.

1851, House of Commons, Reports from the committees, volume 12, Great Britain, page 48:


facilitatively

facilitatively (comparative more facilitatively, superlative most facilitatively)

more facilitatively (comparative)
most facilitatively (superlative)


somewhiles

From Middle English somwhiles, somwhyles, equivalent to somewhile + -s (adverbial suffix).


still and anon

And like the watchful minutes to the hour,
Still and anon cheered up the heavy time.

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

It seem’d as if hell had burst forth in a crowd,
And fury permitted to range;
When still and anon was re-echo’d aloud—
“Come forth, thou base tyrant! thou Odo the Proud!
For Morcar and Hilda, revenge!”

1810, John Stagg, “Odo the Proud”, in The Minstrel of the North: or, Cumbrian Legends, London: for the author, page 374:

1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Yes, I remember, and, Still Remember Wailing” published posthumously in George S. Hellman and William P. Trent (eds.), Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Chicago, 1921, p. 121,
And as across the smoothing sea we roam,
Still and anon we sang our songs of home.


diffusiophoretically

With respect to, or by means of diffusiophoresis.


thermophoretically

With regard to, or by using thermophoresis.


retrocausally

By means of, or in terms of, retrocausality.


circumlocutionally

circumlocutionally (comparative more circumlocutionally, superlative most circumlocutionally)

more circumlocutionally (comparative)
most circumlocutionally (superlative)

By means of or in terms of circumlocution.


ab intestato

(law) From an intestate (someone who dies with no legal will).


zigzaggingly

zigzaggingly (comparative more zigzaggingly, superlative most zigzaggingly)

more zigzaggingly (comparative)
most zigzaggingly (superlative)

The curtain dropped zigzaggingly upon the first scene. There was a tense silence out front, then a burst of applause[…]

1921, Octavus Roy Cohen, Highly Colored, page 260:

In their zigzaggingly argumentative way, the New Yorkers were taking their stand on what modern art was about.

2009, Jed Perl, New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century, page 155:


irritatedly

irritatedly (comparative more irritatedly, superlative most irritatedly)

more irritatedly (comparative)
most irritatedly (superlative)


muzzily

muzzily (comparative more muzzily, superlative most muzzily)

more muzzily (comparative)
most muzzily (superlative)


comprehendingly

comprehendingly (comparative more comprehendingly, superlative most comprehendingly)

more comprehendingly (comparative)
most comprehendingly (superlative)

She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 111:


stoppingly

a heart-stoppingly beautiful man

Over a dirty hemp tunic he'd thrown a jerkin of goat's pelt in the manner of goatherds, two splints on the ankles were tied blood-stoppingly fast with leather thongs.

2000, Eva Bourke, Travels with Gandolpho, page 38:

Neither of them detracted from how traffic-stoppingly handsome he was, but they were enough to inspire questions and the ensuing jokes about how she'd beaten him up.

(in combination) In a way that causes something to stop.


assessingly

assessingly (comparative more assessingly, superlative most assessingly)

more assessingly (comparative)
most assessingly (superlative)

Gypsy stopped talking. She was breathing hard. Rico was just looking at her, far too assessingly, and she cursed herself for having said too much.

2010, Abby Green, In Christofides' Keeping:


selfconsciously

selfconsciously (comparative more selfconsciously, superlative most selfconsciously)

more selfconsciously (comparative)
most selfconsciously (superlative)


humoredly

humoredly (comparative more humoredly, superlative most humoredly)

more humoredly (comparative)
most humoredly (superlative)


humouredly

humouredly (comparative more ... humouredly, superlative most ... humouredly)

more ... humouredly (comparative)
most ... humouredly (superlative)

(only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.


almost surely

(probability theory) With probability equal to one.


goodhumouredly

goodhumouredly (comparative more goodhumouredly, superlative most goodhumouredly)

more goodhumouredly (comparative)
most goodhumouredly (superlative)


committally

committally (comparative more committally, superlative most committally)

more committally (comparative)
most committally (superlative)

It is even a convention in some quarters (which I shall not follow) to use "I will do x" as an intentive and "I shall do x" as an indicative; or at any rate, less committally, "I will" where there is, as Fowler's Modern English Usage puts it, "an implication of intention, volition, or choice".

1987, Robert Dunn, The Possibility of Weakness of Will, page 67:


proprietorially

proprietorially (comparative more proprietorially, superlative most proprietorially)

more proprietorially (comparative)
most proprietorially (superlative)

When they left, she paced the house, proprietorially, feeling the feel of each stone in the paving with bare feet.

2005, Rama Kundu, Anita Desai, Fire on the Mountain, page 115:

In a proprietorial manner; like an owner.


midword

Wengelin (2005) found that her sample of adult dyslexic writers were more likely to pause midword[…]

2008, Charles A. MacArthur, Steve Graham, Jill Fitzgerald, Handbook of Writing Research, page 74:


unprotestingly

unprotestingly (comparative more unprotestingly, superlative most unprotestingly)

more unprotestingly (comparative)
most unprotestingly (superlative)

The suspect unprotestingly allowed the police to lead him away.

The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one. Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 168:


conciliatingly

conciliatingly (comparative more conciliatingly, superlative most conciliatingly)

more conciliatingly (comparative)
most conciliatingly (superlative)


unequivocably

unequivocably (comparative more unequivocably, superlative most unequivocably)

more unequivocably (comparative)
most unequivocably (superlative)

(proscribed) Nonstandard form of unequivocally.


apurpose

1900-1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Gerard
He did it apurpose!


tinily

tinily (comparative more tinily, superlative most tinily)

more tinily (comparative)
most tinily (superlative)

Robert Loo indeed sat as though trying to weave silence round himself, two tufts of cotton wool ineffectual valves, for the noise dwindled from a lion to ants as it met the soft obstacles, but, marching tinily rather than leaping with spread claws, still entered.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 472:


inexpressively

inexpressively (comparative more inexpressively, superlative most inexpressively)

more inexpressively (comparative)
most inexpressively (superlative)


brownly

brownly (comparative more brownly, superlative most brownly)

more brownly (comparative)
most brownly (superlative)

[…] And rivers deep, exulting as they glide, / And forests high, and brownly-wooded dales, […]

1830, Robert Montgomery, Satan, a poem, page 25:


conspiratorily

conspiratorily (comparative more conspiratorily, superlative most conspiratorily)

more conspiratorily (comparative)
most conspiratorily (superlative)


subduedly

subduedly (comparative more subduedly, superlative most subduedly)

more subduedly (comparative)
most subduedly (superlative)


mimetically

mimetically (comparative more mimetically, superlative most mimetically)

more mimetically (comparative)
most mimetically (superlative)


murmurously

murmurously (comparative more murmurously, superlative most murmurously)

more murmurously (comparative)
most murmurously (superlative)


whichaway

Did you see whichaway they went?

(US, dialect) which way; in which direction.


imperceptively

imperceptively (comparative more imperceptively, superlative most imperceptively)

more imperceptively (comparative)
most imperceptively (superlative)


exackly

exackly (comparative more exackly, superlative most exackly)

more exackly (comparative)
most exackly (superlative)


slantways

slantways (comparative more slantways, superlative most slantways)

more slantways (comparative)
most slantways (superlative)


croakingly

croakingly (comparative more croakingly, superlative most croakingly)

more croakingly (comparative)
most croakingly (superlative)


croakily

croakily (comparative more croakily, superlative most croakily)

more croakily (comparative)
most croakily (superlative)


frightenedly

frightenedly (comparative more frightenedly, superlative most frightenedly)

more frightenedly (comparative)
most frightenedly (superlative)


good-humouredly

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

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

He had quite the sense that she knew things he didn't, and though this was a concession that, in general, he found not easy to make to women, he made it now as good-humouredly as if it lifted a burden.

Challenger slapped his colleague good-humouredly upon the shoulder.

1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Time of Death”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 55:

The Glaswegians bore good-humouredly the mishaps which occasionally disrupted the services during the first month.

1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The Glasgow debacle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 66:

(British spelling) In an amiable, cheerful, or pleasant manner.


exploringly

exploringly (comparative more exploringly, superlative most exploringly)

more exploringly (comparative)
most exploringly (superlative)

You plunge your hand exploringly into the drawer, and bring up a long roll wound thickly with twine of all kinds and colors.

1853, Anne Wales Abbot, Autumn Leaves, page 64:


semiotically

semiotically (comparative more semiotically, superlative most semiotically)

more semiotically (comparative)
most semiotically (superlative)


galvanically

galvanically (comparative more galvanically, superlative most galvanically)

more galvanically (comparative)
most galvanically (superlative)


blokeishly

blokeishly (comparative more blokeishly, superlative most blokeishly)

more blokeishly (comparative)
most blokeishly (superlative)