disgruntledly

disgruntledly (comparative more disgruntledly, superlative most disgruntledly)

more disgruntledly (comparative)
most disgruntledly (superlative)


undisturbedly

en-adv

undisturbedly (comparative more undisturbedly, superlative most undisturbedly)

more undisturbedly (comparative)
most undisturbedly (superlative)

Calmly; tranquilly; without disturbance.


saltily

saltily (comparative more saltily, superlative most saltily)

more saltily (comparative)
most saltily (superlative)


bigamously

bigamously (comparative more bigamously, superlative most bigamously)

more bigamously (comparative)
most bigamously (superlative)

After moving abroad, he bigamously married a second woman.


smartingly

smartingly (comparative more smartingly, superlative most smartingly)

more smartingly (comparative)
most smartingly (superlative)

The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even be conscious of all that he had lost.

1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:


unaptly

unaptly (comparative more unaptly, superlative most unaptly)

more unaptly (comparative)
most unaptly (superlative)


unexpectantly

unexpectantly (comparative more unexpectantly, superlative most unexpectantly)

more unexpectantly (comparative)
most unexpectantly (superlative)


broodily

broodily (comparative more broodily, superlative most broodily)

more broodily (comparative)
most broodily (superlative)


imagistically

imagistically (comparative more imagistically, superlative most imagistically)

more imagistically (comparative)
most imagistically (superlative)


magniloquently

magniloquently (comparative more magniloquently, superlative most magniloquently)

more magniloquently (comparative)
most magniloquently (superlative)


annoyedly

annoyedly (comparative more annoyedly, superlative most annoyedly)

more annoyedly (comparative)
most annoyedly (superlative)

He looked up annoyedly as I banged the door closed.


indiscernibly

indiscernibly (comparative more indiscernibly, superlative most indiscernibly)

more indiscernibly (comparative)
most indiscernibly (superlative)


bonily

bonily (comparative more bonily, superlative most bonily)

more bonily (comparative)
most bonily (superlative)


umbilically

From umbilical + -ly. By surface analysis, umbilic- + -ally.

I interpreted that he was suffering from feeling that he felt himself to be an inadequate man who could not take care of his present and future family because he still felt umbilically tied to his mother, strangling or impaling her[…]

2013, Chris Mawson, Bion Today, page 213:


workwise

And the next day was just as bad, workwise, although this time Tom was free and had left a message for her to meet him that evening.

2013, Betty Neels, The Silver Thaw, page 88:

a T-rail placed workwise, i.e. resting on its base

In a position so that it can be worked upon.

workways

in a position so that it can be worked upon


presagingly

presagingly (comparative more presagingly, superlative most presagingly)

more presagingly (comparative)
most presagingly (superlative)


twenty-four/seven

“I feel bad about her fall, but I’m not responsible for watching her twenty-four/seven.”

2022, Iain Reid, We Spread, Scribner, page 50:

twenty-four seven
twenty-four seven#English


symbolistically

symbolistically (comparative more symbolistically, superlative most symbolistically)

more symbolistically (comparative)
most symbolistically (superlative)


morphonologically

Alternative form of morphophonologically


pleeease

The chairman, rapping loudly, had to shout the others down. "Comrades, comrades, let him finish, let him finish, pleeease!"

1933, Albert Halper, Union Square, page 287:

"Can we, pleeease?" Malik grinned wryly, broke a baggy of weed out, and started stuffing the pipe."

2001, Jaina Bell, Retards, Rebels, & Slackers - Page 25

You WILL do as I command; with pressure steadily crushing down upon the hueless ones, “pleeease, pleeease,” begged the collective.

2010, Soyinka I. Ogunbusola, Cosmic Beginnings: The Chaos Chronicals - Volume 2, page 5:

“Please, Mom, pleeease?” Melanee joins in the begging. “Pleeease, Mom?”

2013, Cynthia Gregory Thomas, Adventures with Sherlock: A Dog’s Tale, page 25:


untemptingly

untemptingly (comparative more untemptingly, superlative most untemptingly)

more untemptingly (comparative)
most untemptingly (superlative)


summerily

summerily (comparative more summerily, superlative most summerily)

more summerily (comparative)
most summerily (superlative)

A few rockets started shooting up from empty champagne bottles into a sky now summerily dark, cuckoo-less, and completely canopied with cloud.

1958, H. E. Bates, The Darling Buds of May:


chearfully

chearfully (comparative more chearfully, superlative most chearfully)

more chearfully (comparative)
most chearfully (superlative)

I will be obeyed, I tell you; and chearfully […]

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


chippily

chippily (comparative more chippily, superlative most chippily)

more chippily (comparative)
most chippily (superlative)


mamash

From Yiddish ממש (mamesh) and Hebrew מַמָּשׁ (mamásh).

(Jewish) precisely, exactly, specifically


elseweb

From else + web, after the pattern of elsewhere.

Elseweb there is a discussion about top vs bottom posting.

2007 July 2, nickie{D}, “netiquette: top vs bottom posting”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

I just got through telling this story elseweb this morning.

2008 March 20, Penelope Periwinkle, “Re: For Bill”, in soc.singles.moderated (Usenet):

Heh, well you know I remember The Herbs, from an icon I use elseweb :-)

2011 October 26, Dom, “Re: -[I]- Nobel prizes”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):

(Internet) At some other place on the Internet.


doomfully

doomfully (comparative more doomfully, superlative most doomfully)

more doomfully (comparative)
most doomfully (superlative)

And high above me now the bridge seemed to move of to where I could not see, striding like a robot, an iron man, whose iron legs clanged doomfully as it moved.

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (2010 Random House edition), p. 570 (Google preview)

But the old fisherman who followed her up the stairs again shook his head doomfully. "There's no use trying to hold them off," he said. "They'll just ram in the door. Then they'll slaughter the lot of us. I know them."

1955, Edgar Maass, The Magnificent Enemies, page 273:

[T]he artist Richard Serra once stood at the corner of Broadway and Spring Street and doomfully predicted to the museum curator Marcia Tucker that "one day this will all be boutiques."

2004 April 20, Guy Trebay, “To Be Young in SoHo and Armed With Plastic”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-03-25:


chairside

This epoxy can be mixed chairside and applied to wet surfaces.


unperceptively

unperceptively (comparative more unperceptively, superlative most unperceptively)

more unperceptively (comparative)
most unperceptively (superlative)


at rack and manger

At that Time, his Lordship took his Brother into his Family, and a Coach and Servants aſſign'd him out of his Equipages; and all at Rack and Manger, requiring only 200 l. a Year

1742, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North […] :

tearing out the bowels of St. Edmundsbury Convent (its larders namely and cellars) in the most ruinous way, by living at rack and manger there.

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):

For we are not as other hypocrites, reprobates, and enemies of the state, but unto us thou hast given, from them thou hast taken, (blessed be thy name A Lard) they are at rack and manger, but we are at full meal

1859, Henry Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair:

(idiomatic, archaic) plentifully and at another's expense.


reddeningly

reddeningly (comparative more reddeningly, superlative most reddeningly)

more reddeningly (comparative)
most reddeningly (superlative)

Desdemona, instead of thus asserting her opinion, would have reddeningly and timidly inquired that of another, with which, when she had heard it, perhaps venturing to believe she agreed[…]

1838, The Metropolitan, volume 23, page 146:

The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.

1921, H. P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City:

A blister of pus formed over it after a few days and when that popped I soaked my foot in skin-reddeningly hot water until the wound opened far enough for the sliver to sink from it and be gone.

2011, David Hancock, Jackalope Hunting, page 116:


flyingly

flyingly (comparative more flyingly, superlative most flyingly)

more flyingly (comparative)
most flyingly (superlative)

Her feet moved flyingly without sound; her face, artistically tinted for stage-effect, was beautiful […]

1971, Marie Corelli, The Murder of Delicia, page 153:

So as to fly; with light rapid movement.


pudgily

pudgily (comparative more pudgily, superlative most pudgily)

more pudgily (comparative)
most pudgily (superlative)

"What do you mean? Who are you?" Maniam's great eyes, his black skin oiled with sweat, Maniam's hands pudgily clutching his Dutch wife.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 490:


ad eundem

Borrowed from Latin ad eundem gradum (“at the same degree”).

bor

(of an academic degree) Awarded by one institution to an alumnus of another.

Barristers who are members of another Inn may join Lincoln's Inn as an ad eundem member.

Recognised by one institution on behalf of another.


naturedly

en-adv

naturedly (comparative more naturedly, superlative most naturedly)

more naturedly (comparative)
most naturedly (superlative)

(in combinations) With a certain nature, in a certain manner


disposably

disposably (comparative more disposably, superlative most disposably)

more disposably (comparative)
most disposably (superlative)

The brief segments trying to generate thriller-type suspense are disposably perfunctory.

2008, Jon L. Breen, A Shot Rang Out: Selected Mystery Criticism, page 274:


factly

(Only used in matter-of-factly) In a manner or tone that accords with a fact-based assertion.


assumptively

assumptively (comparative more assumptively, superlative most assumptively)

more assumptively (comparative)
most assumptively (superlative)


chastenedly

chastenedly (comparative more chastenedly, superlative most chastenedly)

more chastenedly (comparative)
most chastenedly (superlative)


shakenly

shakenly (comparative more shakenly, superlative most shakenly)

more shakenly (comparative)
most shakenly (superlative)


correctionally

In terms of or by means of (penal) correction.


ab urbe condita

Borrowed from Latin ab Urbe conditā (“in the year from the city having been founded”), in reference to Rome.

bor

(historical) Alternative form of AUC, the era of the Roman historians now usually reckoned from 753 bc.


turn and turn about

[...] the three streamliners, still on their 29½ hr. schedule, start at 9.40 a.m., also turn-and-turn-about, and so arranged that the 9.0 and 9.40 a.m. departures are by different routes each day; [...].

1942 May-June, “Notes and News: War and the American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 185:

By equal alternating periods of service or duty; by turns.


schizophrenically

en-adv

schizophrenically (comparative more schizophrenically, superlative most schizophrenically)

more schizophrenically (comparative)
most schizophrenically (superlative)


dirtside

Many spacers hated leaving port – any port – and so spent as much time dirtside as possible. One evening, all three of these factors lined up in my favor. Kelly and John were dirtside, keeping an eye on Boris and the auctioneer, and Captain Gus was topside, supervising loading of supplies. Our new crewmembers were still dirtside as well, partying before shipping out.

(science fiction) On the surface of a planet or moon (i.e. not in space)


blowingly

Blowingly cold, my vigil on the ice. / I soon give up. / When I get home with insufficient catch / I say it was the fish that failed, upstream.

1977, The Arctic Coastal Zone Management Newsletter, page 13:


mind-blowingly

mind-blowingly (comparative more mind-blowingly, superlative most mind-blowingly)

more mind-blowingly (comparative)
most mind-blowingly (superlative)


forthe

Go not forthe as a dombe freke.


cholerically

cholerically (comparative more cholerically, superlative most cholerically)

more cholerically (comparative)
most cholerically (superlative)


some kind of

"Why is he grounded?" / "Went to a^([sic]) underwear option party up in Natchitoches. That boy, he is some kind of wild."

2003, Sandra Hill, Tall, dark, and Cajun, New York City: Warner Books:

Those women must have been some kind of ugly.

2003, Cathy Day, “The Last Member of the Boela Tribe”, in The Antioch Review, volume 61, number 4, page 598:

Those women that stalk us have to be some kind of sick.

2012, Blaize Clement, The cat sitter's pajamas, 1st edition, New York: Minotaur Books:

Used as an intensifier of adjectives: remarkably


votively

In a votive manner; in fulfilment of a vow.


quantum sufficit

From Latin quantum (“however much”) sufficit (“is enough”).

To a sufficient extent; only as much as is needed


nepotically

nepotically (comparative more nepotically, superlative most nepotically)

more nepotically (comparative)
most nepotically (superlative)


horsily

horsily (comparative more horsily, superlative most horsily)

more horsily (comparative)
most horsily (superlative)


umbrally

umbrally (comparative more umbrally, superlative most umbrally)

more umbrally (comparative)
most umbrally (superlative)


eisegetically

Interpret them eisegetically — read into them the noble thoughts which improve you — let them be burning characters of light.

1916, The New Age Magazine, volume 24, page 122:

We are certainly not “eisegetically” importing anything into such passages if we find total spiritual impotence expressed in them.

1945, The Abiding Word: Essays for the year 1946, page 312:

Eisegetically quoting about eight different sources in biblical Scripture, some self-proclaimed Christians argue that it is an abomination according to the Bible, which is then understood as the word of God.

2014, Whitney Bauman, Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic, page 88:


discouragedly

discouragedly (comparative more discouragedly, superlative most discouragedly)

more discouragedly (comparative)
most discouragedly (superlative)


uncalmly

uncalmly (comparative more uncalmly, superlative most uncalmly)

more uncalmly (comparative)
most uncalmly (superlative)


full butt

Two Whimsical Chimeras, that were abroad upon Adventure, happen'd to encounter, head to head, full-Butt, upon the way

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:

The corporal […] ran full butt at the lieutenant.

1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow, or, The dog fiend:

"Now, Challenger, it's up to you to tell us where we are. We ain't nervous folk, as you know well; but when it comes to makin' a week-end visit and finding you've run full butt into the Day of Judgment, it wants a bit of explainin'."

1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

(colloquial, idiomatic, dated) headfirst with full force


stylometrically

By means of, or in terms of, stylometry.


end for end

One end for the other; in reversed order.


pertinaceously

pertinaceously (comparative more pertinaceously, superlative most pertinaceously)

more pertinaceously (comparative)
most pertinaceously (superlative)


neck or nothing

Originally a steeplechase phrase. Desperate. A racing phrase; to win by a neck or to be nowhere—i.e. not counted at all because unworthy of notice.

It is a neck-or-nothing venture to wrest valuable merchandise traffic from road transport.

1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 45:


labside

The prosthesis was modified labside using a scanner and a CNC milling machine.


uncordially

uncordially (comparative more uncordially, superlative most uncordially)

more uncordially (comparative)
most uncordially (superlative)


unpainfully

unpainfully (comparative more unpainfully, superlative most unpainfully)

more unpainfully (comparative)
most unpainfully (superlative)


choc-a-bloc

choc-a-bloc (comparative more choc-a-bloc, superlative most choc-a-bloc)

more choc-a-bloc (comparative)
most choc-a-bloc (superlative)

An alteration of chockablock, perhaps influenced by bric-à-brac.


mythopoetically

mythopoetically (comparative more mythopoetically, superlative most mythopoetically)

more mythopoetically (comparative)
most mythopoetically (superlative)


squishably

squishably (comparative more squishably, superlative most squishably)

more squishably (comparative)
most squishably (superlative)

a squishably soft toy


selenographically

By means of, or in terms of, selenography.


anteromedially

(anatomy) In an anteromedial position or direction.

ântero-medialmente

in an anteromedial position or direction


hand over head

the facility of the titles, which hand - over - head have served their turn

a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:

(obsolete, idiomatic) Negligently; rashly; without seeing what one does.


Scientologically

Scientologically (comparative more Scientologically, superlative most Scientologically)

more Scientologically (comparative)
most Scientologically (superlative)

This notion of Hubbard is the reason for the gratitude Scientologists feel for Scientology's founder and originator—or, to put it Scientologically, the Source.

2009, James R. Lewis, Scientology, page 112:

Evangelists often encourage us to take an experimental attitude to their product by, for example, promising that “getting right with Jesus” will improve our marriages or that becoming Scientologically “clear” will have greater benefits for our mental health than buying sessions of secular psychotherapy.

2010, Rachel M. McCleary, The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, page 294:

In a Scientological manner; in terms of Scientology.


forthwithal

From Middle English forthwithall, equivalent to forth + withal. Compare Old English forþ mid ealle (“forthwith”, literally “forward with everything”).


leg before

Leg before wicket
leg before wicket#English

(cricket, colloquial) Leg before wicket.


cholangiopancreatographically

By means of, or in terms of, cholangiopancreatography.


Arya and Gendry 5ever

2013, Grace Prosinewski, "A vigorous defense of the art of relationship shipping", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 17 January 2014, page 5 (image caption)

That shit hit me right in the feels man. Totally ruined my life 5ever. FIVE EVER.

2013 April 20, “The Two Tiffs”, in CrayonBeats Magazine, number 2, page 3:

[…] and Anthony will be my favorite person 5ever.

2014, "Wills", The Matador (San Gabriel High School, Alhambra, California), Volume 59, Number 9, 21 May 2014, page 23

(Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of fivever


Lily chewed her cheek and pondered a message carved into the wood that said: Johnny loves Rosie 4Ever.

2008, Denise Hamilton, The Last Embrace, Scribner, →ISBN, page 286:

How do “best friends 4ever" fight each other over a diminishing number of college slots?

2009, Stephen Hinshaw, Rachel Kranz, The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 8:

[…] I wiped my nose for the last time and turned off the "Dylan-N-Asher 4ever" playlist I had going on my iPod.

2009, Robin Palmer, Geek Charming, Speak, →ISBN, page 288:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Forever.


She sits on a bench carved with names—“Jenna + Christo 4eva”—by the entrance to the sanctuary and pulls her shoes back on.

2013, Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:

Apparently, Stacey H. was here, Jessica & Naomi were BFFs 4Eva, and someone wished K. P. a gruesome death.

2014, Julie Hockley, Crow's Row, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 19:

I stared down at the rutted wood of the table. “LB luvs AJ 4eva” was centered between my hands, […]

2014, Laura Welling, Talent to Burn, Samhain Publishing, unnumbered page:


Carol traced her finger around the K+K 4evah 2 getha carved into the table.

2011, Sarah Strohmeyer, Kindred Spirits, Dutton, →ISBN:

Instead, figure out what you have to offer (Pokémon cards, a fake ID, boobs) and suggest to a classmate you become best study buddies 4evah!

2013, Hannah Weyer, "Much To Do About Flunking", The Black Sheep (Western Michigan University), Volume 6, Issue 1, 10 January 2013 - 23 January 2013, page 1

Best Couple: Toby and Ruth, 4Evah.

2014, Carrie Sessarego, Pride, Prejudice and Popcorn: TV and Film Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre, Harlequin, →ISBN:


head and ears

to be head and ears in debt or in trouble

(informal) With the whole person; deeply; completely.


facetely

en-adv

facetely (comparative more facetely, superlative most facetely)

more facetely (comparative)
most facetely (superlative)

the eyes […] are the chief seats of love, […] as James Lernutius hath facetely expressed in an elegant ode of his […]


nine while five

It's a steady enuff job: nine whol five, ther cud be a lot war when yo think on it


zummet

(British, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat


toshly

toshly (comparative more toshly, superlative most toshly)

more toshly (comparative)
most toshly (superlative)

Row't toshly up, an' franket.

1788, E. Picken, Poems & Epist., section 176:

(Scotland) Alternative form of tosh, tightly, cleanly, neatly


hindwards

From hindward + -s, equivalent to hind + -wards.


unblissfully

unblissfully (comparative more unblissfully, superlative most unblissfully)

more unblissfully (comparative)
most unblissfully (superlative)

His whole nature seemed serenely alight: he stood on the hearth, leaning his elbow on the mantelpiece, musing not unblissfully.

1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:


clickily

clickily (comparative more clickily, superlative most clickily)

more clickily (comparative)
most clickily (superlative)

In a clicky manner; with clicking sounds.


unenforceably

The new law proved to be unenforceably vague.


neuralgically

neuralgically (comparative more neuralgically, superlative most neuralgically)

more neuralgically (comparative)
most neuralgically (superlative)


spooktacularly

spooktacularly (comparative more spooktacularly, superlative most spooktacularly)

more spooktacularly (comparative)
most spooktacularly (superlative)


on the order of

[T]he rough number of mobile phones is on the order of 3 billion.

2009 August 6, Maria Bartiromo, “Eric Schmidt on Where Google Is Headed”, in Businessweek, retrieved 2014-06-16:

Still another former NSA whistleblower, the mathematician William Binney, has said that the NSA has "assembled on the order of 20 trillion transactions about US citizens with other US citizens".

2013 July 15, Glenn Greenwald, “The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: 'collect it all'”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 2014-06-16:

(often followed by a number) Approximately.


'way

"They have detector zones, 'way out in space[.]"

1949, E.E 'Doc' Smith, chapter I, in Skylark of Valeron, London: Panther, published 1974, page 7:

That night I tried to figure out how such things could be kept from happening. Of course, they hardly ever do nowadays—but even once is ’way too many.

1959, Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers, New York: Putnam, page 88:


worthfully

worthfully (comparative more worthfully, superlative most worthfully)

more worthfully (comparative)
most worthfully (superlative)


moodwise

They also felt better moodwise, which was unrelated to their improved attention.

2010, Jonathan S. Kaplan, Urban Mindfulness, page 54:


if nothing else

Briefly, they had threatened to turn the game upside-down after Wayne Rooney’s first-ever World Cup goal made it 1-1 after 75 minutes. If nothing else, England had shown perseverance but, then again England always show qualities of endurance.

2014 June 20, Daniel Taylor, “World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark”, in guardian.co.uk:

(idiomatic) At the very least; as a minimum.


unauthentically

unauthentically (comparative more unauthentically, superlative most unauthentically)

more unauthentically (comparative)
most unauthentically (superlative)


misogynously

misogynously (comparative more misogynously, superlative most misogynously)

more misogynously (comparative)
most misogynously (superlative)


painedly

painedly (comparative more painedly, superlative most painedly)

more painedly (comparative)
most painedly (superlative)


laudatorily

laudatorily (comparative more laudatorily, superlative most laudatorily)

more laudatorily (comparative)
most laudatorily (superlative)


occasionably

occasionably (comparative more occasionably, superlative most occasionably)

more occasionably (comparative)
most occasionably (superlative)


unoppressively

unoppressively (comparative more unoppressively, superlative most unoppressively)

more unoppressively (comparative)
most unoppressively (superlative)


uninquisitively

uninquisitively (comparative more uninquisitively, superlative most uninquisitively)

more uninquisitively (comparative)
most uninquisitively (superlative)

In an uninquisitive manner; without curiosity.


reboundingly

reboundingly (comparative more reboundingly, superlative most reboundingly)

more reboundingly (comparative)
most reboundingly (superlative)


psychogenetically

Psychogenetically, Byron and Presley practiced the secret art of feminine self-impairment.

By means of or in terms of psychogenesis.


brightlier

But brightlier on the Rock it play'd

1912, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Circassian's Love-Chaunt' in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Clarendon Press, page 1051

Clement, Augustin, Origen,
Burnt brightlier towards their setting-day

1922, Thomas Hardy, 'An Ancient to Ancients' in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, Macmillan, page 284

(rare, literary, dated) comparative form of brightly: more brightly.


softliest

(rare, literary, dated) superlative form of softly: most softly


brinily

brinily (comparative more brinily, superlative most brinily)

more brinily (comparative)
most brinily (superlative)

O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent, / Some as with smiles, / Some as with slow-born tears that brinily trundled / Over the wrecked Cheeks that were fair in their flush-time, ash now with anguish.

1914, Thomas Hardy, In Front of the Landscape:


softlier

Admonished that she should “keep the woman's virtue and be more silent,” she countered “that she was 'born in a mill, begot in a kill, she must have her will,' she could speak no softlier.”

2015, Kirilka Stavreva, Words Like Daggers, page 77:

(rare, literary, dated) comparative form of softly: more softly


topsyturvy

topsyturvy (comparative more topsyturvy, superlative most topsyturvy)

more topsyturvy (comparative)
most topsyturvy (superlative)


boundenly

boundenly (comparative more boundenly, superlative most boundenly)

more boundenly (comparative)
most boundenly (superlative)

I divorced that man because of you — It seemed I must do it, boundenly […]


chancewise

Both good and ill appear'd, without design, / To mingle, chancewise, in the scheme divine.

1848, Humphry William Freeland, Poems, page 159:


acrosswise

The bottom part of every yoke is to be as long as the swine (standing upon his fore feet) is high from the ground to the top of his shoulder; and sticks that are placed up and down through the yoke are to be six inches higher than the neck and three inches lower than the bottom of the yoke that is usually placed acrosswise under his throat (for all swine of a year old and upward, and so proportionably for all swine that are younger) ; only the fine on abovesaid penalty [6d.] shall not be required or paid above once in one day.

1876, Bi-centennial Celebration at Sudbury, Mass., April 18, 1876, page 8:

It may be a tree, bride, that rubs his arms acrosswise […]

1898, Thomas Hardy, A Sound in the Night:

At the altar she was kneeling With her arms acrosswise folded.

1969, Paul Carus, History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil from the Earliest Times to the Present Day:

First, that certain materials claiming to be “stretchy”, weren't designed to stretch to their ultimate limit both lengthwise and acrosswise.


undestructively

undestructively (comparative more undestructively, superlative most undestructively)

more undestructively (comparative)
most undestructively (superlative)

In a helpful manner; in an undestructive manner.


anagenetically

By means of, or in terms of, anagenesis.


unkissably

Just as he was ready to spring all two hundred pounds of him on the helpless lizard, his attention was distracted by a rather large snake of the unkissably poisonous variety.

1982, Craig Strete, Dreams That Burn in the Night, page 52:

In any case, the unkissably shrewish Kate seems to be offering a bit of conspiratorial advice, "Slip around [the back]," as if to get away with something.

2002, Morton Levitt, Joyce and the Joyceans, page 173:

Traquair watched Miss Trenton walk slowly back up the path to the house, where he saw Miss Grant standing with her hands covering her mouth, which he imagined was in its usual, unkissably open pose.

2003, Louis Edwards, Oscar Wilde Discovers America, page 95:


unmasculinely

unmasculinely (comparative more unmasculinely, superlative most unmasculinely)

more unmasculinely (comparative)
most unmasculinely (superlative)


ungirlishly

ungirlishly (comparative more ungirlishly, superlative most ungirlishly)

more ungirlishly (comparative)
most ungirlishly (superlative)

Josephine […] becomes angry, stamps her feet, curses ungirlishly, and even bites.

2002, Franz Kafka, Helmuth Kiesel, Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Other Writings, page 146:


unfemininely

unfemininely (comparative more unfemininely, superlative most unfemininely)

more unfemininely (comparative)
most unfemininely (superlative)

Occasionally she gasped out "Joe!" — a flat animal cry that her slack vocal cords made unfemininely deep, that her nasopharynx, choked with mucus, robbed of all resonance.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 506:


overhastily

overhastily (comparative more overhastily, superlative most overhastily)

more overhastily (comparative)
most overhastily (superlative)


overdelicately

overdelicately (comparative more overdelicately, superlative most overdelicately)

more overdelicately (comparative)
most overdelicately (superlative)

From Middle English overdelicatli, equivalent to overdelicate + -ly.


rheumily

rheumily (comparative more rheumily, superlative most rheumily)

more rheumily (comparative)
most rheumily (superlative)


saintishly

‘We can’t in any case improve matters by talking. I — I, you needn’t fear for me Sorbert, I can look after myself. Only don’t let us wrangle’ with appealing gesture and saintishly smiling face. ‘Let us part friends. Let us be worthy of each other!’

1909–1928, Wyndham Lewis (author), Scott W. Klein (editor), Tarr (2010), page 53


bluesily

bluesily (comparative more bluesily, superlative most bluesily)

more bluesily (comparative)
most bluesily (superlative)


how's that for

'Buckets of blood, huh?' 'Big sloshing buckets. Every morning I wake up, praise the Lord and thank Him for all the iniquity - how's that for perverse?'

2008, Jonathan Kellerman, Bad Love: Alex Delaware 8:


herbily

herbily (comparative more herbily, superlative most herbily)

more herbily (comparative)
most herbily (superlative)


fieldwards

The last of the morning flight of noisy wawas going fieldwards were streaming from the water when I pushed out in the canoe […]

1914, Poultney Bigelow, James Henry Worman, Ben James Worman, Outing Magazine: The Outdoor Magazine of Human Interest, page 14:


sweetlier

(rare, literary, dated) comparative form of sweetly: more sweetly


plainlier

(rare, literary, dated) comparative form of plainly: more plainly


wailfully

wailfully (comparative more wailfully, superlative most wailfully)

more wailfully (comparative)
most wailfully (superlative)


surrenderingly

surrenderingly (comparative more surrenderingly, superlative most surrenderingly)

more surrenderingly (comparative)
most surrenderingly (superlative)


unwilfully

unwilfully (comparative more unwilfully, superlative most unwilfully)

more unwilfully (comparative)
most unwilfully (superlative)


reposefully

reposefully (comparative more reposefully, superlative most reposefully)

more reposefully (comparative)
most reposefully (superlative)

It seemed like a track, and she went along it hopefully till a new danger threatened - a snake, coiled reposefully; she was very close before she saw it, for its colour scheme was a tribute to its environment.

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 291:


ternately

Rattlesnake ferns are ternately branched.


nextish

Much thanks to those of you who were going to write for thish, but failed to make the deadline. Deadline nextish is July 1966...

1961 November-December, Lee Hoffman, Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 3, page 30:

This ish is fairly barebones, owing to a busy schedule on my end. I’ve tried to make up for a lack of illos with some color in the titles. Hopefully, it won’t burn out your eyes. I promise a return to better production values nextish.

2009 May, Warren Buff, “Editorial”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, number 5, page 1:

(dated, fandom slang) In the subsequent issue of a periodical.


unexcusably

unexcusably (comparative more unexcusably, superlative most unexcusably)

more unexcusably (comparative)
most unexcusably (superlative)


closelier

(rare, literary, dated) comparative form of closely: more closely


faintlier

(rare, literary, dated) comparative form of faintly: more faintly


aposematically

Some bees are aposematically coloured.


over and over again

(idiomatic) Repeatedly; again and again; many times.


untranquilly

untranquilly (comparative more untranquilly, superlative most untranquilly)

more untranquilly (comparative)
most untranquilly (superlative)


hopeably

1975, John B. Bremner, review of Strictly Speaking, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 1975; vol. 52, 1: p. 156. http://books.google.com/books?id=OYtZAAAAMAAJ&q=hopeably&dq=hopeably&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iSbJU8KuAaLLsATPk4GYDw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgU
Hopeably, Newman will win awards for Strictly Speaking. Like, yunno, I mean, Newman writes real good like newsmen used to could.

The change reflects, hopeably, a significant improvement in this city's social climate.

1987 August 19, John DeMott, “Of Elvis and W.C. Handy”, in Tri-State Defender, page 5:

We have entered the 21st century and the third millennium — an era which hopeably would be qualitatively different from the earlier ones in terms of foundational postulates, value system, mindset and life styles.

2000, Punjab History Conference: Thirty-first Session, March 19-21, 1999 (Proceedings), Punjabi University Publication Bureau, page iii:

I used to illustrate the argument by the example that one can say "Regrettably, it is going to rain," but not "Regretfully, it is going to rain." When Preston went to Berkeley after receiving his PhD, in his first letter he wrote "Hopeably, everything is going well."

2000, Ansley J. Coale, Ansley J. Coale: An Autobiography, American Philosophical Society, pages 93–4:

The ramjet should have failed, and then whoever run the race to the Power Room should have yanked his smoking body out of the way and, hopeably, restarted it.

2006, Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson, Variable Star, Tor Books:

But we have established the importance of both in the mindset of Vermonters and, hopeably our legislators, which is what makes the essential challenges ahead even plausible.

2007 January 5, “Governor sets stage for new Vermont”, in St. Albans Messenger, page A4:

(nonstandard) hopefully; in a way that one would hope for


ghastfully

ghastfully (comparative more ghastfully, superlative most ghastfully)

more ghastfully (comparative)
most ghastfully (superlative)


how no

- I don't want to go out today.
- How no?


sermonically

sermonically (comparative more sermonically, superlative most sermonically)

more sermonically (comparative)
most sermonically (superlative)


unmarriageably

unmarriageably (comparative more unmarriageably, superlative most unmarriageably)

more unmarriageably (comparative)
most unmarriageably (superlative)


in articulo mortis

/ˌɪnɑːˌtɪkjʊləʊˈmɔːtɪs/

Borrowed from Latin in articulō mortis (literally “in the article of death”), from in (“during; at”, preposition governing the ablative) + articulō, ablative singular form of articulus (“a joint; figuratively: a point in time, a moment”) + mortis, genitive singular of mors (“death”).

bor

My attention, for the last three years, had been repeatedly drawn to the subject of Mesmerism; and, about nine months ago, it occurred to me, quite suddenly, that in the series of experiments made hitherto, there had been a very remarkable and most unaccountable omission: — no person had as yet been mesmerized in articulo mortis.

1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar:

At the moment of death. (In law, especially canon, or church, law, this expression can mean that someone has been given special permission by a competent authority to enter an organization or to receive some sort of exemption or permission at some point not long before they die, such as receiving diaconal or presbyteral ordination or entering religious profession.)


endocranially

en-adv

endocranially (comparative more endocranially, superlative most endocranially)

more endocranially (comparative)
most endocranially (superlative)


craniomedially

craniomedially (comparative more craniomedially, superlative most craniomedially)

more craniomedially (comparative)
most craniomedially (superlative)


applausively

applausively (comparative more applausively, superlative most applausively)

more applausively (comparative)
most applausively (superlative)


apprehendingly

apprehendingly (comparative more apprehendingly, superlative most apprehendingly)

more apprehendingly (comparative)
most apprehendingly (superlative)


asperously

asperously (comparative more asperously, superlative most asperously)

more asperously (comparative)
most asperously (superlative)


archaistically

archaistically (comparative more archaistically, superlative most archaistically)

more archaistically (comparative)
most archaistically (superlative)


aqueously

aqueously (comparative more aqueously, superlative most aqueously)

more aqueously (comparative)
most aqueously (superlative)


askingly

askingly (comparative more askingly, superlative most askingly)

more askingly (comparative)
most askingly (superlative)

From Middle English askingli, axingly, equivalent to asking + -ly.

How askingly It’s footsteps t’ward me bend?
It seems to say, “And have I then one Friend?”

1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To a Young Ass”, in Poems on Various Subjects, London: G.G. and J. Robinsons, page 92:

“I don’t know whether this is something your wife ever knew about or not?” he began askingly.

1890, William Dean Howells, The Shadow of a Dream, New York: Harper, Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 87:

Aspiration is looking askingly; to reach a desirable result one must look askingly toward that which can fulfill.

1916, Arthur Adolphus Lindsay, Scientific Man Building Through Thought Force, Detroit: A. A. Lindsay Publishing Company, page 12:

“That can’t possibly be true,” I say. But he looks at me so sadly, askingly, across his desk—

1983, Joyce Johnson, chapter 9, in Minor Characters, New York: Pocket Books, published 1984, page 150:


appeasably

appeasably (comparative more appeasably, superlative most appeasably)

more appeasably (comparative)
most appeasably (superlative)

Boccard responded appeasably, the way one speaks to a sick person.

1976, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, The Complete Narrative Prose of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, page 69:

“My lady, I bring the young elf girl and her companions,” he answered appeasably.

2012, Bob Spark, The Kingdom of Men: Book Two in the Twins of Prophecy Trilogy, page 125:

In an appeasable manner; in a manner intended to appease.


hand running

He won ten times hand running.

He had been playing keeps with Gaston and won seventeen taws. Then he had played tiddledywinks with the Sultan of Turkey and had beaten him forty-seven times, hand-running.


unvirtuously

unvirtuously (comparative more unvirtuously, superlative most unvirtuously)

more unvirtuously (comparative)
most unvirtuously (superlative)


craniometrically

By means of, or in terms of, craniometry.


dendritically

Wikipedia evolves dendritically, sending off new shoots in many directions.

In a dendritic manner; with tree-like branchings.


barratrously

barratrously (comparative more barratrously, superlative most barratrously)

more barratrously (comparative)
most barratrously (superlative)


short-sightedly

short-sightedly (comparative more short-sightedly, superlative most short-sightedly)

more short-sightedly (comparative)
most short-sightedly (superlative)

'She peered short-sightedly at Poirot through her glasses, but was quite calm.'

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 107:

My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:


lothly

lothly (comparative more lothly, superlative most lothly)

more lothly (comparative)
most lothly (superlative)

From Middle English *lothli, loothly, from Old English lāþlīċe (“hatefully”); equivalent to loth + -ly.

The bodies which the plague had ſlaine were (O moſt wretched caſe) / Not caried forth to buriall now. For why ſuch ſtore there was / That ſcarce the gates were wyde inough for Coffins forth to paſſe. / So eyther lothly on the ground vnburied did they lie, / Or elſe without ſolemnitie were burnt in bonfires hie / No reuerence nor regard was had.

1567, Ovid, “The Seventh Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 90, verso:

Even the rank poplars bear / Lothly a rival's air.


wrothfully

wrothfully (comparative more wrothfully, superlative most wrothfully)

more wrothfully (comparative)
most wrothfully (superlative)


sadlier

So, toward our myth's oblivion, / Darkling, and languid-lipped, we creep and grope / Sadlier than those who wept in Babylon […]

(rare, literary, dated) comparative form of sadly: more sadly


thereacross

From there + across. More at pronominal adverb.


shieldingly

shieldingly (comparative more shieldingly, superlative most shieldingly)

more shieldingly (comparative)
most shieldingly (superlative)

At once she flung her faint form shieldingly on his […]


undesigningly

undesigningly (comparative more undesigningly, superlative most undesigningly)

more undesigningly (comparative)
most undesigningly (superlative)

In an undesigning manner; with no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose.


suprasegmentally

Suprasegmentally, there is a tendency to de-accent information which is repeated, a prominent stressing of demonstratives these and this, and modals and auxiliaries such as should and will, plus a rise-fall intonation that gives a ‘lilting’ quality.

2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:


akratically

akratically (comparative more akratically, superlative most akratically)

more akratically (comparative)
most akratically (superlative)


withoutdoors

From without (“outside of, beyond”) + doors.

The candles alight in the room / For my parting meal / Made all things withoutdoors loom / Strange, ghostly, unreal.

1917, Thomas Hardy, At the Word 'Fairwell':


acratically

acratically (comparative more acratically, superlative most acratically)

more acratically (comparative)
most acratically (superlative)


mannerlessly

mannerlessly (comparative more mannerlessly, superlative most mannerlessly)

more mannerlessly (comparative)
most mannerlessly (superlative)


Aesopically

Aesopically (comparative more Aesopically, superlative most Aesopically)

more Aesopically (comparative)
most Aesopically (superlative)

Although we can be sure that he 'Aesopically' related its theme to the Russia of his own day, he saw the play in overwhelmingly historical terms - as a study in the generation gap of the late 1870s 's glubokim istoricheskim podtekstom'.

2006, Patrick Miles, Mikhail Gromov: Chekhov Scholar and Critic, page 114:


approbatively

approbatively (comparative more approbatively, superlative most approbatively)

more approbatively (comparative)
most approbatively (superlative)


cretinously

cretinously (comparative more cretinously, superlative most cretinously)

more cretinously (comparative)
most cretinously (superlative)


Christologically

Christologically (comparative more Christologically, superlative most Christologically)

more Christologically (comparative)
most Christologically (superlative)


charlatanically

charlatanically (comparative more charlatanically, superlative most charlatanically)

more charlatanically (comparative)
most charlatanically (superlative)


loud and clear

loud and clear (comparative louder and clearer, superlative loudest and clearest)

louder and clearer (comparative)
loudest and clearest (superlative)

The single strength of this novel, that Carta's love for her brother saves his life, comes across loud and clear even though Sweeney fails to convey the emotional impact of a suicide attempt.

1986, School Library Journal: SLJ, volume 33, page 114:

In a clear and easily understandable manner.

selvästi

in a clear and easily understandable manner


perjuriously

perjuriously (comparative more perjuriously, superlative most perjuriously)

more perjuriously (comparative)
most perjuriously (superlative)


many a times

From many a time + -s. Compare Dutch menigmaal (“ofdten”, literally “many [a] time”).


burgeoningly

en-adv

burgeoningly (comparative more burgeoningly, superlative most burgeoningly)

more burgeoningly (comparative)
most burgeoningly (superlative)


irregardlessly

(rare, nonstandard, sometimes humorous) regardless


nohows

'Sol Gills,' returned the Captain, after staring at him and the rest for a long time, without speaking, 'I'm gone about and adrift. Pay out a word or two respecting them adwenturs, will you! Can't I bring up, nohows? Nohows?' said the Captain, ruminating, and staring all round.

1846, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son 56


nonattributably

I felt moved to sympathy with that member of Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet who had muttered under his breath, and nonattributably, that in Japan the Trade Ministry ranks second and the Foreign Office eighteenth […]

As a warrior, he knew a thousand ways to kill nonattributably. But he didn't lash out.

2001, Larry Simmons, Broken Seals: No Safe Place, page 33:


switchfoot

(surfing, skateboarding) Riding with one's wrong foot forward, i.e. opposite to one's usual natural/goofy preference.


to begin with

To begin with, we moved the furniture out of the room.

Double my wages? You weren't paying me anything to begin with!


tokenwise

Further, the advocate of the isomorphism theory of reference for mental representation is going to assume that each belief is tokenwise identical to some mental representation.

2014, Christopher Gauker, Thinking Out Loud, page 125:


consanguineously

In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.


forrader

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


midbeat

In the middle of a beat (of a heart, of music etc.)


out back

My car is parked out back.


smack bang

And then Tulloch ran smack-bang into Todman[.]

1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 264:


neverthemore

From Middle English never the more, never þe mare (also Middle English never the mo, never þe mo), equivalent to never + the + more.

For so there is another like Law enacted against wearing of the Irish Apparel, but neverthemore is it observed by any, or executed by them that have the Charge […]

1763, A view of the state of Ireland as it was in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, page 106:

[…] he then of a certain pity framed his fancy toward her, and soon after married her, neverthemore discontinuing his study of the law at Lincoln's Inn.

1862, Joseph Johnson, The interviews of great men, page 65:

He could not possibly requite the feud upon the man-slayer; neverthemore could he pursue the warrior with hostile deeds, though he was not beloved by him.

1892, The Deeds of Beowulf: An English Epic of the Eighth Century Done Into Modern Prose:

I do not know exactly why our organization got the name Phi Rho Sigma, but it suits me neverthemore.

1946, Indiana State Board of Health, Monthly Bulletin - Volumes 49-51, page 60:

... the same neatness as of a hospital bed, you at the desk curled carefully at the white sheets, neverthemore, it is somehow you in those letters, from that metropolis where there is only one face and you have it for the moment, and even the sense of the color of the yes eyes is enough for me.

1962, Genesis West - Volume 1, page 339:

At the time of our story, the family had been reduced, mostly by deaths of antecedents, centuries before, from the status of grand genrty to that of a grand piano. Nevertheless, but also neverthemore for all that matter, the family had hopes, which resided now within the personage of the concurrent daughter, Elizabeth.

2011, Jane Austin, “Indifference and Indolence”, in Rejected Works of Famous People, →ISBN, page 7:

However, facials (makeovers), nails, toes, and hair was an excellent privilege and fixing customers up to look their best worked to a degree, yet, to an extent, improvements in the loss of weight would definitely help, except that wasn't happening the way it worked with our customers in the past, who became famous celebrities over a period of time. Some even came back to make speeches on how well our spa helped them physically, mentally and in personal matters. Neverthemore, in the meantime while we )the owners) put our heads together at a meeting to see what could be done, "someone had the ball running, and that's what kept the spa opened in the first place."

2012, De An Simmons, Skeeter Sierra, Etc, →ISBN, page 126:

Neverthemore, much interest was developed in train-spotting as direct consequence of present experimenting, and much more research needs to be done in this area.

1987, Journal of Psychophysiology - Volume 1, page 350:

The drum roll, the spotlight, the glamorous assistant, the sudden cascade of damsk silk, et voilà! -- a pile of paper. Neverthemore, one was instantly struck by clarity of vision, the singleness of purpose stamped into the woody grain of every recycled sheet.

1991, The Architects' Journal - Volume 194, page 17:

The noise of the flute hems me in and its continuous false notes strike me as bad omens, above all since I'm caught up in trying to crack eggs and keep the yolks perfectly intact. With grace and discretion, I start to shut the parlor door. Neverthemore, at its dead-center, I glimpse my friend Wrackett maneuvering his instrument, actually a fluto-phone.

1998, Giose Rimanelli, Luigi Fontanella, Hot Dog: A Novel, page 32:

"Must be, if he sold you a doghouse, and you not even got a dog," said Mr. Detweiler of the bowling league, who could sound patronizing because he was the only one in the bowling league who had ever had a perfect game. "Neverthemore, as the raven said, ha ha ha, I want you all to see my doghouse."

2007, Roger Caras, Treasury of Great Dog Stories, →ISBN:

Even more (a second event compounds the first)


portlily

portlily (comparative more portlily, superlative most portlily)

more portlily (comparative)
most portlily (superlative)


unalteringly

unalteringly (comparative more unalteringly, superlative most unalteringly)

more unalteringly (comparative)
most unalteringly (superlative)


overseriously

overseriously (comparative more overseriously, superlative most overseriously)

more overseriously (comparative)
most overseriously (superlative)


unvainly

unvainly (comparative more unvainly, superlative most unvainly)

more unvainly (comparative)
most unvainly (superlative)


overromantically

overromantically (comparative more overromantically, superlative most overromantically)

more overromantically (comparative)
most overromantically (superlative)


tragedically

tragedically (comparative more tragedically, superlative most tragedically)

more tragedically (comparative)
most tragedically (superlative)


unwincingly

unwincingly (comparative more unwincingly, superlative most unwincingly)

more unwincingly (comparative)
most unwincingly (superlative)


uncomputably

Some numbers are uncomputably large.


boneheadedly

boneheadedly (comparative more boneheadedly, superlative most boneheadedly)

more boneheadedly (comparative)
most boneheadedly (superlative)

In a boneheaded manner; with stubborn foolishness.


quellingly

quellingly (comparative more quellingly, superlative most quellingly)

more quellingly (comparative)
most quellingly (superlative)


splittingly

splittingly (comparative more splittingly, superlative most splittingly)

more splittingly (comparative)
most splittingly (superlative)


ear-splittingly

ear-splittingly (comparative more ear-splittingly, superlative most ear-splittingly)

more ear-splittingly (comparative)
most ear-splittingly (superlative)

in an ear-splitting way; extremely loudly.


side-splittingly

side-splittingly (comparative more side-splittingly, superlative most side-splittingly)

more side-splittingly (comparative)
most side-splittingly (superlative)

in a side-splitting way, extremely funnily


rounde

And rounde and rounde, and faster rounde / The fairye ryng theye flewe / And aye the langer that theye daunsit / The madder on fonne theye grewe.

1865, James Hogg, The works of the Ettrick shepherd:


sensitometrically

By means of or in terms of sensitometry.


syntrophically

The organism only grows syntrophically on propionate with hydrogenotrophic methanogens.

2011, Paul Vos, George Garrity, Dorothy Jones, Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 3:


what number

Which, what position (in an ordered series, such as which day of the month or which floor). (This entry is a translation hub.)

որերորդ

what number, which (in a numbered series)


slumberously

slumberously (comparative more slumberously, superlative most slumberously)

more slumberously (comparative)
most slumberously (superlative)


primally

primally (comparative more primally, superlative most primally)

more primally (comparative)
most primally (superlative)

As we stepped out into the awesome half-daylight of this monstrous cylinder-bottom—fifty million years old, and without doubt the most primally ancient structure ever to meet our eyes—we saw that the ramp-traversed sides stretched dizzily up to a height of fully sixty feet.

1931, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness Chapter 9:

The discrepancy is striking and cannot be explained by size, as the smallest are the most massive, and if all were primally of like constitution, should be the least compressed.

1909, Percival Lowell, The Evolution of Worlds:


immoveably

immoveably (comparative more immoveably, superlative most immoveably)

more immoveably (comparative)
most immoveably (superlative)

Having keenly felt the degradation of his race, and possibly experienced some outrageous act of injustice, or an unbrookable and unforgivable insult, his flashing eyes are immoveably directed toward the King […]

1844, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:


retropubically

Doctors can perform prostatectomies in one of three different ways: perineally, retropubically, or laparoscopically.

2011, Paul H. Lange, Christine Adamec, Prostate Cancer For Dummies:


as like as not

"You're one of the lords [...] and paid as like as not so that Tiberius can get a lot more of us innocent bystanders for his games!"

1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 62:


decentrally

decentrally (comparative more decentrally, superlative most decentrally)

more decentrally (comparative)
most decentrally (superlative)

From de- + centrally or decentral + -ly.

In a decentral (decentralized) manner; not centrally.


coddlingly

coddlingly (comparative more coddlingly, superlative most coddlingly)

more coddlingly (comparative)
most coddlingly (superlative)


careeringly

careeringly (comparative more careeringly, superlative most careeringly)

more careeringly (comparative)
most careeringly (superlative)

With rapid uncontrollable motion; headlong.


poorlier

(rare, literary, dated) comparative form of poorly: more poorly


poorliest

(rare, literary, dated) superlative form of poorly: most poorly


biculturally

biculturally (comparative more biculturally, superlative most biculturally)

more biculturally (comparative)
most biculturally (superlative)


gamesomely

gamesomely (comparative more gamesomely, superlative most gamesomely)

more gamesomely (comparative)
most gamesomely (superlative)


burpingly

He stood up, with slight agitation, and poured himself a second glass of champagne, having quickly, burpingly, drunk the first.


caricaturally

This poem, thematically and stylistically, characterizes the poet's inability to distinguish between the poetic and the prosaic, and comically and caricaturally has him with one foot in each camp 'attaché, pour toujours peut-être à la fosse de l'idéal'.

1999, Sonya Stephens, Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony, page 110:

In the manner of, or as if, a caricature.


HEA

happily ever after
happily ever after#English

(fandom slang) Initialism of happily ever after.


transatlantically

transatlantically (comparative more transatlantically, superlative most transatlantically)

more transatlantically (comparative)
most transatlantically (superlative)

Perhaps they had killed a lot of Yankees – to make themselves Trans-Atlantically popular.

1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 562:

All of the texts that were printed transatlantically before the Chace Act participated in this immense literary field, yet neither Casanova nor Bourdieu consider bookworkers as participants in this contested field.

2008, Jessica Rae DeSpain, Steaming Across the Pond, page 3:

Indeed, the transatlantically accepted military code in this period demanded that officers conduct themselves with both honour and humanity […].

2011, Eve Tavor Bannett (Ed.), Emma Corbett, page 28:

On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.


level-headedly

level-headedly (comparative more level-headedly, superlative most level-headedly)

more level-headedly (comparative)
most level-headedly (superlative)


carbolically

Personally I had these suspicions at the time, and I took every precaution, by washing my hands carbolically after seeing a patient with a sore throat of any kind […]

The young minds had first to be emptied, and then carbolically scoured, before they could be filled with The Truth.

2012, Ken Chadwick, Evacuee: Or Sins and Comeuppances:


integratively

integratively (comparative more integratively, superlative most integratively)

more integratively (comparative)
most integratively (superlative)


parapatrically

Where it comes parapatrically in contact with the parental species, it will establish a narrow secondary hybrid zone (reproductive isolation will rarely be complete at the beginning).

1970, Ernst Mayr, Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution, page 318:

It is easy to see how diversifying selection could result in the formation of parapatrically distributed races.

1988, Lawrence E. Mettler, Thomas G. Gregg, Henry E. Schaffer, Population Genetics and Evolution, page 275:

Several taxa of plethodontid salamanders exist as complexes of parapatrically distributed, genetically differentiated populations with sharp clines at the contact zone.

2000, Richard C. Bruce, Robert G. Jaeger, Lynne Houck, The Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders, page 197:

Of the ranges of organisms, in a parapatric manner; in a manner that is adjacent, but not significantly overlapping.


heavyhandedly

heavyhandedly (comparative more heavyhandedly, superlative most heavyhandedly)

more heavyhandedly (comparative)
most heavyhandedly (superlative)


afflictingly

afflictingly (comparative more afflictingly, superlative most afflictingly)

more afflictingly (comparative)
most afflictingly (superlative)


forthcomingly

forthcomingly (comparative more forthcomingly, superlative most forthcomingly)

more forthcomingly (comparative)
most forthcomingly (superlative)


afflictedly

afflictedly (comparative more afflictedly, superlative most afflictedly)

more afflictedly (comparative)
most afflictedly (superlative)


improductively

improductively (comparative more improductively, superlative most improductively)

more improductively (comparative)
most improductively (superlative)


impredictably

impredictably (comparative more impredictably, superlative most impredictably)

more impredictably (comparative)
most impredictably (superlative)

At best, a considerable time elapses between authorization and land acquirement, during which land values may vary impredictably.

1952, Annual report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army:


backbitingly

backbitingly (comparative more backbitingly, superlative most backbitingly)

more backbitingly (comparative)
most backbitingly (superlative)


assonantly

assonantly (comparative more assonantly, superlative most assonantly)

more assonantly (comparative)
most assonantly (superlative)

Of rhymes in the fourteen lines there ought to be, if possible, four only, and not more than five used, though some of our poets, with Shakspere at their head, employ six, and even seven assonantly distributed closing sounds, a wide departure from the "Petrarchan Stanza."

1867, “The sonnets of Milton”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, page 69:


ffs

The uncertainty surrounding the terms under which BTS would and would not be allowed to reunite as a group to perform while members are enlisted has fans and nonfans alike feeling uneasy. "Can they just leave them [to] serve in peace ffs💀 atp i feel bad for them," one user wrote on Twitter.

2022 October 19, Joely Chilcott, “BTS May Be Allowed to Perform as a Group While Serving in the Korean Military, but There's a Catch”, in PopSugar:

(Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar) Initialism of for fuck's sake; also FFS.


twiggily

twiggily (comparative more twiggily, superlative most twiggily)

more twiggily (comparative)
most twiggily (superlative)


subtilly

subtilly (comparative more subtilly, superlative most subtilly)

more subtilly (comparative)
most subtilly (superlative)

[…] one jewel, (as writers make mention,) which was a certain vessel finely and subtilly made of the precious stone onychinus, so radiantly wrought, that in it appeared the lively corn growing, and men's images walking, &c.

1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, chapter 24, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 105:25:

For though Contraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that our Sight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſudden departments, from one extreame to another; Therefore let them haue, rather a Duskiſh Tincture, then an abſolute blacke.

1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, II. part, page 104:


wheretofore

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

(formal) Up to which point; until which time.


anthropomorphously

anthropomorphously (comparative more anthropomorphously, superlative most anthropomorphously)

more anthropomorphously (comparative)
most anthropomorphously (superlative)

In an anthropomorphous manner; in a manner resembling that of a human.


postlingually

a postlingually deaf child


alluz

Aw, Becky, don't pay no attention to THEM. Why, they don't hardly know NOTHIN'. They alluz make up things. I declare they do.

1990, Dave Barton, Matt Bond, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: An American Legend Brought to Life by Dave Barton and Matt Bond Based on the Novel by Mark Twain, Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC, act I, scene v (A Dead Cat and an Engagement), page 22:


metalexicographically

In all this, metalexicographically relevant pieces of information are missing which would be needed for a model within which the established NLUs could operate.

2010, M Madiba, “The Tshivenda–English Thalusamaipfi/Dictionary as a Product of South African Lexicographic Processes”, in Lexikos:

In terms of, or by means of, metalexicography.


undeceitfully

undeceitfully (comparative more undeceitfully, superlative most undeceitfully)

more undeceitfully (comparative)
most undeceitfully (superlative)


thusfore

Thusfore I have been unable to substantiate whether there was a string of criminal incidents associated with the HK movies shown latenight at the mall theater, […]

2000 February 22, jffal [username], “Franklin Mills HK movies cancelled”, in alt.asian-movies (Usenet):

Question remains how long it would take the Barca faithful to understand Riquelme's superiority, and thusfore how long Rivaldo would be wasting their time... […]

2002 March 2, labas, “Re: Liverpool”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):

That would be the easiest solution and thusfore not a real challenge.

2003 January 5, Martin, “Re: Contradiction in info shutting down client for Microsoft Networks???”, in microsoft.public.inetserver.iis (Usenet):


questward

The knight rode questward.


quicklike

I knew what it was real quicklike. And, of course, word got down the line real quicklike where we were going into. There were bodies stacked alongside of the road, and we were in a few of the trucks that followed the tank column.

2010, Brad Hirschfield, Remember for Life:


first up

(sequence, idiomatic) Firstly; before anything else.


first off

(sequence, idiomatic) Firstly; before anything else. Often used to introduce the first in a list of points to be made in conversation.


convolutedly

convolutedly (comparative more convolutedly, superlative most convolutedly)

more convolutedly (comparative)
most convolutedly (superlative)

Just as girlie magazines have just enough words to convolutedly justify their “magazine” status, Fox News has just enough information to convolutedly justify its “news” status.

2005, Alexandra Kitty, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism:


tonologically

All of them influence tonologically the preceding noun in the same way: the qualified noun bears the A tonomorpheme.

1972, African Abstracts: A Quarterly Review of Ethnographic, Social, and Linguistic Studies Appearing in Current Periodicals, volume 13, London: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 192:

[T]he fact that a lexically specifiable subgroup of etyma from within the whole group of *creaky phonation etyma split off tonologically is not surprising by itself, but rather the fact that the tonological outcome of such a development is one of blurred and opaque relationships within the resulting tone pattern.

1987, Alfons Weidert, “Evidence for PTB *Creaky Phonation = T/G/Th *A-tone”, in Tibeto-Burman Tonology: A Comparative Account (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 54), Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 303:

In some cases, tenses keep this tone contrast, in others these tones are neutralized by either assigning tones to non-toned verb stems or by deleting tones, making all types of verb stems look the same tonologically speaking.

2004, Alexandre Kimenyi, “Kinyarwanda (Bantu)”, in Geert [E.] Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, Stavros Skopeteas, editors, Morphologie: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Flexion und Wortbildung [Morphology: An International Handbook on Inflection and Word-Formation], volume 2, Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1533:

Derivative suffixes marked by an asterisk are tonologically flexible; they do not take a fixed tone but rather vary in their tonal behaviour in accordance with the tonal pattern of the verb stem.

2013, “Morphology”, in Rainer Vossen, editor, The Khoesan Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 212:

(linguistics) In a tonological manner; with respect to tone.


polysynaptically

In a polysynaptic manner; using more than one synapse.


atlantad

[…] when the scapula is moved directly atlantad, the atlantal forces acting on the base and acromion are the motors, the dorsa-mesial and ster-mesi-lateral the directors, and the sacral forces the moderators […]

1808, John Barclay, The Muscular Motions of the Human Body:


physiotherapeutically

In terms of, or by means of, physiotherapy.


formalistically

formalistically (comparative more formalistically, superlative most formalistically)

more formalistically (comparative)
most formalistically (superlative)


Islamophobically

Islamophobically (comparative more Islamophobically, superlative most Islamophobically)

more Islamophobically (comparative)
most Islamophobically (superlative)

What does it mean to experience the world Islamophobically?

2017, Ghassan Hage, Is Racism an Environmental Threat?:


religionistically

religionistically (comparative more religionistically, superlative most religionistically)

more religionistically (comparative)
most religionistically (superlative)

2009, John Hinnels, The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion
For Durkheim, religion is to be accounted for sociologically and 'religionistically' –with the sociological element predominant.

Not just “religionistically” (notice that this is different from religion), but because life crowded in and pushed divine reciprocation out.

2009 Sylvia Brown, Sylvia Browne's Book of Angels - Page 190

Julito M. Kanoy observes that the vast majority of the Filipinos remain religionistically Hispanized, politically and militarily Americanized and economically Japanized, not to mention industrially multi- nationalized and IMFinanccally caponized.

2008 Philippine Values Digest - Volumes 5-6 - Page 1


ornerily

ornerily (comparative more ornerily, superlative most ornerily)

more ornerily (comparative)
most ornerily (superlative)

I, being ornerily inquisitive, was forced to read The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, What Shall I Tell My Child? for my perfunctory sex education, and Sinclair Lewis's Main Street to learn how to survive peaceably living in small-town America.

2011, Susie Duncan Sexton, Secrets of an Old Typewriter: Stories from a Smart and Sassy Small Town Girl:


unsarcastically

unsarcastically (comparative more unsarcastically, superlative most unsarcastically)

more unsarcastically (comparative)
most unsarcastically (superlative)


Micawberly

Micawberly (comparative more Micawberly, superlative most Micawberly)

more Micawberly (comparative)
most Micawberly (superlative)

From Micawber + -ly (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, having the sense of ‘behaving like, or having a nature typical of [what is denoted by the noun]’) (see origin of name there), from the character Wilkins Micawber – noted for his naive optimism, always confident that “something will turn up” – in David Copperfield (1849–1850) by the English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870).

suffix

suffix forming adjectives from nouns, having the sense of ‘behaving like, or having a nature typical of 􂀿what is denoted by the noun􂁀’

[…] not growing a single spiritual inch, for putting forth his powers as a man should; just amiably Micawbering along, and most Micawberly devoted to somebody he would like well enough to marry when the times comes and things "turn up;" […]

1872, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way, volume 1, J.R. Osgood & Company, published 1876, page 151:

The marriage of Grand Duke Alexis in his proper station in life is indefinitely postponed, and Count Shouvalod and his imperial master must wait, Micawberly, for something to turn up.

1875 January 31, “Grand Duke Alexis”, in Galveston Daily News, archived from the original on 2016-03-05, page 1, column 2 (bottom):

Covenant doggedly searches for a way out of his predicament and vows to keep moving in the hopes that, macabrely (as opposed to Micawberly) put, something will turn up.

1995, William A. Senior, Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Variations on the Fantasy Tradition, Kent State University Press, page 176:

in an upbeat and optimistic way, in the face of seemingly hopeless circumstances

Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Wilkins Micawber


demonly

en-adv

demonly (comparative more demonly, superlative most demonly)

more demonly (comparative)
most demonly (superlative)

She looked a goddess, but of a dark power — the livid hue of the cheek enhanced by the bold, wild light of the eye. He had never seen her look so ill, and yet so demonly superb!


elseward

Thy Eyes, can they turn from that infant face elseward than to […]

2002, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas McFarland, Nicholas Halmi, Opus Maximum:

To another place; in a different direction; somewhere else.


damn right

(idiomatic, mildly vulgar) Expresses enthusiastic support or opposition, agreement or disagreement, certainty or emphasis.


interventionistically

interventionistically (comparative more interventionistically, superlative most interventionistically)

more interventionistically (comparative)
most interventionistically (superlative)


dysfluently

dysfluently (comparative more dysfluently, superlative most dysfluently)

more dysfluently (comparative)
most dysfluently (superlative)


both-handed

Then the brown-haired detective charged around the corner firing both-handed, skimming two off Stephen's vest, while Stephen himself danced one round off the detective's and they fell backward simultaneously.

1998, Jeffery Deaver, The Coffin Dancer:

Our second front will, in fact, comprise both the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe, and we can push either right-handed, left-handed, or both-handed as our resources and circumstances permit.

2010, Allan R. Millett, Williamson Murray, Military Effectiveness - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 104:


so mickle

(now chiefly Scotland and Northumbria) To a certain degree or extent; so much.


driftlessly

driftlessly (comparative more driftlessly, superlative most driftlessly)

more driftlessly (comparative)
most driftlessly (superlative)


diglossically

diglossically (comparative more diglossically, superlative most diglossically)

more diglossically (comparative)
most diglossically (superlative)


Uriah Heepishly

Uriah Heepishly (comparative more Uriah Heepishly, superlative most Uriah Heepishly)

more Uriah Heepishly (comparative)
most Uriah Heepishly (superlative)

From Uriah Heepish + ly: From the Dickens character Uriah Heep, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.

"I like to see you so ridiculous," he said ; " it just gives me the touch of superiority I need to keep me from becoming Uriah Heepishly 'umble ! "

1912, Margaret Westrup, Elizabeth in Retreat, John Lane, page 2:

1995, Neal Gabler, "'Checkers' Lived Again - In Waldholtz's Act" (December 19, 1995) http://articles.philly.com/1995-12-19/news/25670096_1_waldholtz-checkers-speech-pat-nixon
Where Nixon drew on class resentments - "I believe that it's fine that a man like Gov. (Adlai) Stevenson, who inherited a fortune from his father, can run for president," Nixon grumbled Uriah Heepishly in Checkers - Waldholtz drew on the staple of the daytime talk shows: gender resentment.

In this restaurant, as I was just tucking in, the owner came over and whispered Uriah Heepishly in my ear, 'I see we have a celebrity in tonight.'

2012, Stuart Maconie, Hope and Glory: A People’s History of Modern Britain, Random House, page 96:

It was noticeable that Mr Murdoch, happy to toy with the barrister like a cat with a baby mouse, kept sir-ring the judge Uriah Heepishly.

2012 April 26, Matthew Engel, “As sharp as a tack, Murdoch makes his points at Leveson press inquiry”, in Financial Times, page 1:

In a cloying, insincerely obsequious manner.


ethnolinguistically

In terms of, or by means of, ethnolinguistics.


matriarchically

matriarchically (comparative more matriarchically, superlative most matriarchically)

more matriarchically (comparative)
most matriarchically (superlative)


aface

aface (comparative more aface, superlative most aface)

more aface (comparative)
most aface (superlative)


affectuously

affectuously (comparative more affectuously, superlative most affectuously)

more affectuously (comparative)
most affectuously (superlative)

(obsolete) In an affectuous manner; passionately.


agnatically

agnatically (comparative more agnatically, superlative most agnatically)

more agnatically (comparative)
most agnatically (superlative)

In an agnatic manner; by means of agnation.


Heepishly

Heepishly (comparative more Heepishly, superlative most Heepishly)

more Heepishly (comparative)
most Heepishly (superlative)

From Heepish + -ly: From the Dickens character Uriah Heep, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.

Why should he take a sort of imbecile and morbid satisfaction, in appearing in the public chronicles of the day, under the depreciating, and, as it appears to us, ‘ Heep’-ishly ‘ umble ’ title of ‘ a small clergyman ?’

1864 July, “The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Horse”, in London Society, volume VI, number XXXII, page 5:

They're the ones slavering like Wile E. Coyote over that low-fat commissary quesadilla, or Heepishly dry-washing their red little hands while they pore over next month's studio spread sheet.

1996 August, Jeff MacGregor, “The Big O”, in Los Angeles Magazine, page 57:

Rupert did express shame and contrition, however gruffly, ineptly and Heepishly: 'This is the most humble day of my life.'

2012, Piers Brendon, Eminent Elizabethans: Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher & Mick Jagger, Random House, page 61:


e. g.

For though all is not to be done that is to be believed, yet all muſt be believed to be lavvful and duty vvhich muſt be done as ſuch: e. g. VVe cannot love God, vvorſhip him, hear and read his VVord, &c. as by Divine obedience, unleſs vve believe it to be our duty by a Divine command.

1682, Richard Baxter, “Mr. [Henry] Dodwell’s Leviathan, or Absolute Destructive Prelacy, […]. Chapter III. The Consequence of Mr. Dodwell’s foresaid Doctrine.”, in An Answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke; Confuting an Universal Humane Church— […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, § 14, page 23:

Stated in technical linguistic terms, in this treatise pœcilonymy is avoided; e. g., instead of tænia hippocampi in one place, corpus fimbriatum in another, and fimbria in a third, the last is consistently employed and the others given as synonyms.

1889 July 18, The Nation; quoted in “Dr. [Joseph] Leidy’s Anatomy”, in William Pepper [et al.], editors, The University Medical Magazine, volume II, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa.: A. L. Hummel, 1889 October, →OCLC, page 45:

Stained bacilli, when examined with the polarising microscope, often show a doubly refractile cell wall (e. g., B. tuberculosis and B. anthracis).

1913, J[ohn] W[illiam] H[enry] Eyre, “Schizomycetes”, in The Elements of Bacteriological Technique: A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa., London: W. B. Saunders Company, →OCLC, “Anatomy” section, pages 134–135:

Ad for advertisement is struggling hard for general recognition; some of its compounds, e. g., ad-writer, want-ad, display-ad, ad-card, ad-rate, column-ad and ad-man, are already accepted in technical terminology.

1921 December, H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, “Tendencies in American”, in The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, section 3 (Processes of Word-formation), page 185:

Might he become a gentleman farmer of field produce and live stock? Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and requisite farming implements, e. g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper etc.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 17: Ithaca]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 668:

The social status of the husband devolved on his wife, as implied in Pāṇini’s sūtra (Puṁyogād ākhyāyām, IV. 1. 48), i. e. a designation derived from her husband; e. g. mahāmātrī (ministrix), wife of a mahāmātra, a high government official, and gaṇakī, wife of a gaṇaka (accountant).

1963, V[asudeva] S[harana] Agrawala, “Social Life”, in India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī, 2nd edition, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh: Prithvi Kumar, Prithivi Prakashan, →OCLC, section 3 (Marriage), page 88:


ob.

From Latin ob., abbreviating obiit (“he or she passed on”) or obiter (“incidentally”).


aimfully

aimfully (comparative more aimfully, superlative most aimfully)

more aimfully (comparative)
most aimfully (superlative)

1870, anonymous, “Dinner vs. Ruffles and Tucks” in Putnam’s Magazine, New Series, Volume 5, June 1870, p. 710,
It occurred to me the other day, as I passed along the street, how rare a thing it has become to see a mother abroad with her own little ones. “She has no time,” may be the reply, “to range about in that aimless way.” But what is she doing with her time? Is it any more aimfully spent if she uses it to prepare little Miss to mince abroad alone in such fantastic guise […]

He is drifting away from Zim’s homestead. Wandering aimlessly at first. To be as far away as possible from the jabbering women. Away to the sea. Aimfully. To his haunts with Qukezwa.

2000, Zakes Mda, chapter 10, in The Heart of Redness, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 2002, page 230:

In an aimful manner; with fixed purpose.


Qur'anically

Qur'anically (comparative more Qur'anically, superlative most Qur'anically)

more Qur'anically (comparative)
most Qur'anically (superlative)


Zionistically

Zionistically (comparative more Zionistically, superlative most Zionistically)

more Zionistically (comparative)
most Zionistically (superlative)


downgradient

downgradient (comparative more downgradient, superlative most downgradient)

more downgradient (comparative)
most downgradient (superlative)

(hydrology) a direction that groundwater flows toward.


upgradient

upgradient (comparative more upgradient, superlative most upgradient)

more upgradient (comparative)
most upgradient (superlative)

(hydrology) a direction that groundwater flows from.


spiritly

spiritly (comparative more spiritly, superlative most spiritly)

more spiritly (comparative)
most spiritly (superlative)

In a spiritual manner; according to the spirit; spiritually.


heterosexistly

heterosexistly (comparative more heterosexistly, superlative most heterosexistly)

more heterosexistly (comparative)
most heterosexistly (superlative)


shriekily

shriekily (comparative more shriekily, superlative most shriekily)

more shriekily (comparative)
most shriekily (superlative)


shutterwise

In an arrangement resembling window shutters.


secessionistically

secessionistically (comparative more secessionistically, superlative most secessionistically)

more secessionistically (comparative)
most secessionistically (superlative)


texturewise

Summer squash can be okay, texturewise, but winter specimens have so little taste it's hardly worth it.

2001, Ken Haedrich, Soup Makes the Meal, page 203:


nowaday

Of this we may be sure, that the most haphazard guess at the cause by the most unlettered, nowaday, will be nearer the mark-thanks to the diffusion of knowledge—than were the speculations of the learned, ages ago […]

1870, The Illustrated London News, volume 48, page 679:

thinking of some kind of a program for social legislation. You get what I mean, building up a vast reservoir of — better folks. Nowaday we're beginning to control the breeding of animals.

1936, Charles Morrow Wilson, “Rabble Rouser”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 247:

I suppose I could; women havin' babies much later nowaday

1999, Brian Keith Jackson, “Walking Through Mirrors”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 212:


phenomenically

phenomenically (comparative more phenomenically, superlative most phenomenically)

more phenomenically (comparative)
most phenomenically (superlative)


slidably

(engineering) So as to be movable by sliding.


rotatably

(engineering) So as to be movable by rotation.


str8 (comparative more str8, superlative most str8)

more str8 (comparative)
most str8 (superlative)

(text messaging) Informal form of straight.


al's

Wilkison al's Egbury

1619-1621 (1898 edition), John Philipot (original author), Robert Hovenden (editor), The Visitation of Kent: Taken in the Years 1619-1623, page 191


beforely

beforely (comparative more beforely, superlative most beforely)

more beforely (comparative)
most beforely (superlative)

[...] his last words, because then he bent down by the fire to pick up a log to thump me with, and He exploded. Shame, huh? (In a way.) That is when the chimney fell over. It is lying in the garden now. Yours sorry about not mentioning it beforely, [...]

1999, Ian Whybrow, Little Wolf's Book of Badness:

Otto I have in the several occasion this question answered, both beforely and afterly.


balls deep

From the testicles hindering any further penetration in a sex act.

Although he was hesitant to pick up James Joyce, he soon fell in love with Dubliners and was balls deep into Ulysses.

(vulgar, slang) Extremely; to the fullest extent possible.


nonemergently

Except in cases of extreme prematurity or debilitation, operative treatment is indicated urgently but nonemergently, with little merit in delay.

1982, Linda C. Stehling, Common problems in pediatric anesthesia, page 98:

It is especially important to prevent rather than treat acute respiratory failure because the hospital survival rates of patients with acute respiratory failure undergoing endotracheal intubation or tracheostomy (emergently or nonemergently) have not improved over the past 20 years.

1999, John R. Bach, Guide to the Evaluation and Management of Neuromuscular Disease, page 78:

Patients with more than three or four episodes a year should be referred nonemergently to an ENT physician.

2013, Sandra Ryan, Convenient Care Clinics: The Essential Guide to Retail Clinics for Clinicians, Managers, and Educators:


monogenically

monogenically (comparative more monogenically, superlative most monogenically)

more monogenically (comparative)
most monogenically (superlative)


just assume

I would just assume not make the man's name a part of a public record if I don't have to.

1999, Investigation of Illegal Or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaigns: Witness Deposition Testimony, page 1210:

"And it's one area most executives would just assume not govern, a new survey shows."

2002 February 17, Teresa M. McAleavy, “Unwritten Rules Govern Office Wooing”, in Record:

If Tampa Prep coach A.J. Hendrix has his way, he would just assume not to see Shorecrest's Anthony Katchuk again.

2006 March 30, Brandon Wright, “Shorecrest Dowwns Tampa Prep Again”, in St. Petersburg Times:

I'm not a social butterfly and just assume spend my free time studying the teachings of Aradia.

“Just trying to survive and stay to myself— you know me, I just assume not mess with anyone,” I said to him as I shook his hand

2009, Benjamin J. Davis V, They Call Me Jack:

Normally those times that are comfortable and warm are welcomed with open arms and seen as most desirable, while times when we are cold and uncomfortable are considered adverse a place we would just assume not visit.

2016, T. Mohn, 2 Weeks: A Weekly Guide Inspiring Positive Life Transformation:

“I just assume not wake him 'till he's ready.”

She would just assume put a bullet between his eyes than have him touch her.

2017, M.J. Mays, Saddlebags, Trunks, and Tombs:

I've had conversations with a fair number of people that would just assume do what this man did—disappear from it all.

2018, Rick Murphy, Can't See Why Not, page 142:

Maybe, occasionally one will give me a quick twirl that will give me a moment of joy, but for the most part, I would just assume sit the dance out.


unintrusively

unintrusively (comparative more unintrusively, superlative most unintrusively)

more unintrusively (comparative)
most unintrusively (superlative)


fleshlily

fleshlily (comparative more fleshlily, superlative most fleshlily)

more fleshlily (comparative)
most fleshlily (superlative)


floorwise

While our feet struck glories / Outward, smooth and fair, / Which we stood on floorwise, / Platformed in mid air.

1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Drama of Exile”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 32:


answerlessly

answerlessly (comparative more answerlessly, superlative most answerlessly)

more answerlessly (comparative)
most answerlessly (superlative)


hirsutely

Mr. Nessler's book stated that hair migrated around the human body, and that men with a good head of hair had very little elsewhere, while bald men tended to be very well endowed, hirsutely speaking, on the chest, shoulders, back, and pubicly. Pubicly is the antinomy of publicly.

1958, Yale University Class of 1928-1928 S, Thirty Year Record, page 30:


pubicly

1958, Yale University Class of 1928-1928 S, Thirty Year Record, page 30

After my bath I search my armpits and crotch for signs of hair but no luck yet. I’m pubicly challenged.

2007, Ann Kelley, The Bower Bird, page 57:


pubically

After opening the bladder (incision extending 1 inch pubically from peritoneal fold) the prostate was was injected deeply with 1 per cent. cocain while the pericapsular region was injected with the 1 : 400 novocain solution.

1914, Transactions of the Section on Genito-Urinary Diseases of the American Medical Association, page 80:

“These redheads, are they red all over?” ¶ “You mean, are they pubically red?”

2008, Benjamin Taylor, The Book of Getting Even, page 92:


bigheadedly

bigheadedly (comparative more bigheadedly, superlative most bigheadedly)

more bigheadedly (comparative)
most bigheadedly (superlative)


agonizedly

agonizedly (comparative more agonizedly, superlative most agonizedly)

more agonizedly (comparative)
most agonizedly (superlative)


headedly

headedly (comparative more headedly, superlative most headedly)

more headedly (comparative)
most headedly (superlative)

(in combination) In the specified headed manner


anaclitically

anaclitically (comparative more anaclitically, superlative most anaclitically)

more anaclitically (comparative)
most anaclitically (superlative)


spreadly

spreadly (comparative more spreadly, superlative most spreadly)

more spreadly (comparative)
most spreadly (superlative)

Flower white, or slightly tinged with straw-colour, edged with crimson, spreadly open very much when full blown.

1827, Robert Sweet, The florist's guide, and cultivator's directory:

Moreover they are spreadly diffused and, in comparison with mainframes, they allow an easy direct access to system resources.

1987, J. L. Atwood, J. E. D. Davies, Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructure ..., Volume 2:

In the last few years the use of amorphous ribbons as core of magnetoelastic devices to measure deformation was spreadly studied in its fundamental concepts.

2000, Paolo Di Barba, A. Savini, Non-linear Electromagnetic Systems: ISEM '99:

Indeed, symmetric encryption algorithms are a few orders of magnitude more efficient than public key ones. TripleDES, RC6, and RIJNDAEL, for example, are fast algorithms, spreadly used, and supposed to be secure.

2001, George I. Davida, Yair Frankel, Information Security:

Even a number of cracks have appeared spreadly and have been sealed with appropriate treatments, [...]

2003, Zhishen Wu, Masato Abe, Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructure:

Introduction Cryptography is currently spreadly used to protect digital communication and information processing.

2004, Riccardo Focardi, Roberto Gorrieri, Foundations of Security Analysis and Design II:

In a spread out or widespread manner; widely.


when two Sundays come together

En-au-when two Sundays come together.ogg


Sundaily

1915, Rev. B. E. Bergesen, in Synod for the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Beretning om det Synodemoede, p. 75.
If the "reformed" (non-Lutheran) denominations believed in the power of the word of God by its own inherent life to convert men, why send for sentimentalists to sing people to tears, and sensationalists to shock them to excitement, thus to assist the Holy Spirit with human and modern man-made schemes, why do they allow their pastors to speak Sundaily on "the questions of the day," and call in an "evangelist" once in a while to preach Christ?


partways

To some extent or distance; part of the way.


unpromptedly

Without being prompted; of one's own volition, or by one's own initiative.


unfondly

unfondly (comparative more unfondly, superlative most unfondly)

more unfondly (comparative)
most unfondly (superlative)

I hope you don't remember me too unfondly after our disagreements back in the day.

It is remembered unfondly by politicians, communities and campaigners as the document that heralded widespread reductions in the size of the railway.

2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 44:


hitchlessly

hitchlessly (comparative more hitchlessly, superlative most hitchlessly)

more hitchlessly (comparative)
most hitchlessly (superlative)


horrifiedly

horrifiedly (comparative more horrifiedly, superlative most horrifiedly)

more horrifiedly (comparative)
most horrifiedly (superlative)


unsexually

unsexually (comparative more unsexually, superlative most unsexually)

more unsexually (comparative)
most unsexually (superlative)


vulpinely

vulpinely (comparative more vulpinely, superlative most vulpinely)

more vulpinely (comparative)
most vulpinely (superlative)


lupinely

lupinely (comparative more lupinely, superlative most lupinely)

more lupinely (comparative)
most lupinely (superlative)


interventionally

In terms of, or by means of, intervention.


macrographically

By means of, or in terms of, macrography.


preambivalently

(psychiatry) During the preambivalent phase.


castratively

castratively (comparative more castratively, superlative most castratively)

more castratively (comparative)
most castratively (superlative)

The scenework proves unsuccessful when Carmichael recalls not the source of her misandry but another episode of overacting, that of castratively biting off the moustache of an amorous man.

2016, Leslie H. Abramson, Hitchcock & the Anxiety of Authorship:


Napoleonically

Napoleonically (comparative more Napoleonically, superlative most Napoleonically)

more Napoleonically (comparative)
most Napoleonically (superlative)

his hands being duly folded Napoleonically behind his back

1857, “The Great Mr Wickham”, in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, volume 7, page 310:

Arrested with his hand in his breast pocket Napoleonically, he imbibed his slow, steady nourishment.

1963, Edward Lewis Wallant, chapter 4, in The Tenants of Moonbloom, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 47:

As the three generals met, Campbell’s soldiers raised a cheer, and Havelock, at the moment of his glory, greeted them Napoleonically.

1973, Jan Morris, chapter 11, in Heaven’s Command, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, page 241:

His expression aloof, almost haughty, the fingers of his plastered right arm tucked Napoleonically in his shirt, he sat upright in the front seat […]

2003, Lionel Shriver, “We Need to Talk About Kevin”, in Counterpoint, New York, page 198:


equidimensionally

equidimensionally (comparative more equidimensionally, superlative most equidimensionally)

more equidimensionally (comparative)
most equidimensionally (superlative)

Proportional crater growth depicts a crater that enlarges equidimensionally (diameter, depth, shape) throughout time (Fig. 4a.)

1988, Faith Vilas, Clark R. Chapman, Mildred Shapley Matthews, Mercury, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 280:

In an equidimensional way; with respect to the property of equidimensionality.


analeptically

By means of analepsis (form of flashback).

analepticamente

by means of analepsis, a form of flashback


shitlessly

From shitless + -ly, from scared shitless.

(vulgar, slang) In a state of sheer terror.


syncretistically

syncretistically (comparative more syncretistically, superlative most syncretistically)

more syncretistically (comparative)
most syncretistically (superlative)