time and time again

I long to see the sunlight in your hair / And tell you time and time again how much I care

1983, Lionel Richie (lyrics and music), “Hello”, in Can't Slow Down:

NR claims that its renewal has been "postponed time and time again" over the last ten to 20 years and is now inevitable.

2023 May 31, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Crewe-Carlisle marked urgent to meet HS2 demands”, in RAIL, number 984, page 8:


socialistically

en-adv

socialistically (comparative more socialistically, superlative most socialistically)

more socialistically (comparative)
most socialistically (superlative)


catholicly

catholicly (comparative more catholicly, superlative most catholicly)

more catholicly (comparative)
most catholicly (superlative)


acausally

Particles in the quantum realm seem to move about acausally in a purely random and statistical fashion.


plankwise

(of the cutting of wood) Across the grain, not parallel to it.


speleologically

as a speleologist, in a speleological manner


modularly

modularly (comparative more modularly, superlative most modularly)

more modularly (comparative)
most modularly (superlative)


whitherever

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

(formal) To wherever; to whatever place.


time and again

For successful and efficient operation, mechanical stokers must be fed with suitable coal. This has been proved time and again in all countries where stoker-fired engines are used.

1959 November, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Clas "9" 2-10-0s: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 556:

Mario Gotze was inventive, Lewandowski a menace, and Shinji Kagawa a constant source of energy as, time and again, the hosts played through a porous Arsenal midfield.

2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:


unfastidiously

unfastidiously (comparative more unfastidiously, superlative most unfastidiously)

more unfastidiously (comparative)
most unfastidiously (superlative)

He crawled unfastidiously to the next bunker furthest from the sea, descended its face, and disturbed an old ewe.


injectively

injectively (comparative more injectively, superlative most injectively)

more injectively (comparative)
most injectively (superlative)

With regard to injection; in an injective manner


td

one day I'll shut up about our szn but not td...look how cute🥹💙

2023 May 6, @nylaanastasiaa, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-25:

I know hundreds of millions of ppl tail my plays everyday^([sic]) & I only got 69 likes (nice) on my recap of 9-1 winning days & 5 sweeps in 7 days so making ya'll work for it td 🤝🏽

2023 June 22, @__LordPenguin, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-25:

forgot I had a 2-3 page essay due td .. I'm gonna kms

2023 September 18, @jackiemendozuh, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-25:

i just fasted for three days and broke it td, is it normal for my stomach to hurt like hell? 😭😭i feel like i'm boutta puke

2023 September 22, @edtwtus3r, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-25:


fibrously

fibrously (comparative more fibrously, superlative most fibrously)

more fibrously (comparative)
most fibrously (superlative)


scrawnily

scrawnily (comparative more scrawnily, superlative most scrawnily)

more scrawnily (comparative)
most scrawnily (superlative)


unquailingly

unquailingly (comparative more unquailingly, superlative most unquailingly)

more unquailingly (comparative)
most unquailingly (superlative)

Emily looked across at the girl. Large, steady, purplish-grey eyes gazed into beady, twinkling, black ones—gazed unquailingly—with something in them that cowed and compelled. The black eyes wavered and fell, their owner covering her retreat with another giggle and toss of her short braid of hair.

1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:


personably

personably (comparative more personably, superlative most personably)

more personably (comparative)
most personably (superlative)


hypergamously

hypergamously (comparative more hypergamously, superlative most hypergamously)

more hypergamously (comparative)
most hypergamously (superlative)

At the middle and lower levels of the status hierarchy among Kanbis and Rajputs, families faced a double financial burden of dowry payment for marrying their daughters hypergamously and bride price for marrying sons.

2007, L. S. Vishwanath, “Female Infanticide, Property and the Colonial State”, in Tulsi Patel, editor, Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies, Sage, →ISBN, page 278:

Ravi had married hypergamously—he had married up—and Vimalesh hypogamously, down.

2010, Patrick Smith, Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 179:

Kamil's parents disapprove of Marilyn because her family is poor and lower class. Like Cinderella, Marilyn wants to marry hypergamously.

2011, Jeannette Marie Mageo, Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 68:


ad verbum

Borrowed from Latin ad verbum (“to the word”).

(of a translation) On a word-by-word basis, without rephrasing; word for word; verbatim.


nontribally

Villages are of several different kinds depending upon the prevailing pattern of occupation and whether they are tribally or nontribally organized.

1959, George Arthur Lipsky, Saudi Arabia: its people, its society, its culture, volume 4, page 61:

Therefore, while nontribally identified Indians represent an interesting emergent American Indian ethnicity about which I will say more in subsequent chapters, such individuals do not appear to account for much of the recent Indian population growth.

1997, Joane Nagel, American Indian ethnic renewal, page 104:

Unions developed out of African miners' attempts to channel their grievances through nontribally based organizations, reflecting their growing consciousness of class and recognition of the weakness of mine-imposed types of organization based on rural models.

2001, Lyn Schumaker, Africanizing anthropology, page 168:


bisyllabically

One problem is that 'ue' is often pronounced bisyllabically, as in cruet, duet, fluent, suet.

2004, Richard V. Teschner, Melvin Stanley Whitley, Pronouncing English:


jigglingly

jigglingly (comparative more jigglingly, superlative most jigglingly)

more jigglingly (comparative)
most jigglingly (superlative)

Her damp hair was strewn like a cat-o'-nine-tails across her laughing face, her coral-tipped breasts jigglingly upheld by the water.


adherently

adherently (comparative more adherently, superlative most adherently)

more adherently (comparative)
most adherently (superlative)


manwise

manwise (comparative more manwise, superlative most manwise)

more manwise (comparative)
most manwise (superlative)

In the enemy army there also were women on horseback, in armor and steel helmets who fought manwise; they hurled themselves into the thick of the battle[…]

2000, Linda Grant De Pauw, Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present:

For a little while Jason rode with his hands folded manwise on the pommel of his saddle and with manlike emotions in his heart[…]

But she had this urgent need to think of herself in terms of who she was with, manwise[…]

At the moment, Cora was basically at a standstill, manwise, somewhere between the next to come and the last to go. The last to go had been Charles[…]

1995, Carrie Fisher, Delusions of Grandma:


slouchingly

slouchingly (comparative more slouchingly, superlative most slouchingly)

more slouchingly (comparative)
most slouchingly (superlative)


conceptionally

conceptionally (comparative more conceptionally, superlative most conceptionally)

more conceptionally (comparative)
most conceptionally (superlative)


filmwise

(of condensation) Into a film, rather than in drops (dropwise).


boxwise

...lying on his side enclosed by stones that had been placed boxwise round him, and surrounded by his burial-offerings of jugs and bowls.

1958, Lady Margaret Collingridge Wheeler, Walls of Jericho:

First, it should appear to be a part of the site and not a foreign element set up boxwise on edge to the utter humiliation of every natural thing in sight.

1992?, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1894-1931


butchly

butchly (comparative more butchly, superlative most butchly)

more butchly (comparative)
most butchly (superlative)


soundingly

soundingly (comparative more soundingly, superlative most soundingly)

more soundingly (comparative)
most soundingly (superlative)


illimitably

illimitably (comparative more illimitably, superlative most illimitably)

more illimitably (comparative)
most illimitably (superlative)


sootily

sootily (comparative more sootily, superlative most sootily)

more sootily (comparative)
most sootily (superlative)


planarly

planarly (comparative more planarly, superlative most planarly)

more planarly (comparative)
most planarly (superlative)


defamatorily

defamatorily (comparative more defamatorily, superlative most defamatorily)

more defamatorily (comparative)
most defamatorily (superlative)


evolutionally

evolutionally (comparative more evolutionally, superlative most evolutionally)

more evolutionally (comparative)
most evolutionally (superlative)


biocoenologically

In a biocoenological manner; in a manner relating to biocoenology, the study of biocoenoses.


phytocoenologically

phytocoenologically (comparative more phytocoenologically, superlative most phytocoenologically)

more phytocoenologically (comparative)
most phytocoenologically (superlative)

In a phytocoenological manner; in a manner relating to phytocoenology, the study of phytocoenoses.


hereditarily

After all, there might be some queer and perhaps hereditarily misshapen outcasts in those shunned hills, even though no such race of star-born monsters as folklore claimed.

1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:


à propos de bottes

/ˌæpɹəˌpəʊ də ˈbɒt(s)/

Unadapted borrowing from French à propos de bottes (literally “on the subject of boots”).

ubor

In fact, the renovated appearance of this monster—à propos de bottes, as one may say—had already excited considerable sensation among the population of Hazeldean.

1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XI, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 62:

'That is a strange remark,' said he; 'and à propos de bottes, I never continue a cigar when once the ash is fallen;[…]'

1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, “Narrative of the Spirited Old Lady”, in More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 86:

Suddenly jumped up; shook fist at back of ASQUITH's unoffending head, and, à propos de bottes, "wanted to know about the swindling companies and their shareholders?"

1892 May 14, “Essence of Parliament — Extracted from the Diary of Toby, M.P.”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 102, 2005 Gutenberg edition

Of course, it is rather characteristic of the folk-mind, as of the child-mind, to heap up incidents à propos de bottes; but as this is one of the characteristics to be corrected in the child by his training in literature, so it is one of the faults which should exclude a fairy-tale from his curriculum.

1907, Porter Lander MacClintock, Literature in the Elementary School, Gutenberg, published 2011:

Moody, restless, and unhappy, he wandered like a ghost about the town, bursting into soliloquies in public places, or asking odd questions, suddenly, à propos de bottes.

1921, Lytton Strachey, “Marriage”, in Queen Victoria, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, section VI, page 138:

Suddenly, for no reason, in the middle of the night, or even in the middle of the jolliest party, she would remember an ancient floater—just like that, à propos de bottes—would remember and be overcome by a feeling of self-reproach and retrospective shame.

1925, Aldous Huxley, chapter I, in Those Barren Leaves […], London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, part I (An Evening at Mrs. Aldwinkle’s), page 9:

Analysis at that moment was in any case out of reach, because I realised that I had been left, at that moment, standing silently by Mrs Wentworth, to whom I now explained, à propos de bottes, that I knew Barnby.

1952, Anthony Powell, A Buyer's Market (A Dance to the Music of Time, Volume 2), Fontana Books, page 225

(dated) Apropos of nothing; without connection to anything; by the way, unrelatedly.


interpretatively

en-adv

interpretatively (comparative more interpretatively, superlative most interpretatively)

more interpretatively (comparative)
most interpretatively (superlative)


mindedly

mindedly (comparative more mindedly, superlative most mindedly)

more mindedly (comparative)
most mindedly (superlative)

(in combination) In the specified minded manner


constructionally

constructionally (comparative more constructionally, superlative most constructionally)

more constructionally (comparative)
most constructionally (superlative)


quantumly

Make a transistor too small, for example, and electrons within it can simply vanish from one place and reappear in another because their location is quantumly indeterminate.

2012 February 25, ‘An uncertain future’, The Economist:

In a quantum manner; in terms of quantum theory; according to the laws of quantum mechanics.

'What's different now,' said Grove, 'is that the landscape of the city has changed again, as inevitably it does, and the number of people who want a production from the Manhattan Theatre Club has grown sort of quantumly[.]'

1996, John W. Pereira, Opening Nights: 25 Years of the Manhattan Theatre Club, page 323:

So today, I am here today to talk about something equally important and quantumly more interesting I have to say.

2012, Bola Essien-Nelson, The Diary of a Desperate Naija Woman in the Year 2011, page 142:

SEC chairman Isabella Huang-Loh said told reporters on Tuesday (Jul 31) that plastic bag usage in Singapore has 'quantumly grown' over the years.

2018 July 31, Aqil Haziq Mahmud, “Singapore shoppers take 820 million plastic bags from supermarkets each year: Study”, in Channel NewsAsia:

(figuratively) Involving a massive increase, especially over a short time or seemingly at once; in one giant leap forwards.


seethingly

seethingly (comparative more seethingly, superlative most seethingly)

more seethingly (comparative)
most seethingly (superlative)


junkily

junkily (comparative more junkily, superlative most junkily)

more junkily (comparative)
most junkily (superlative)

The other precode film in the retrospective, Frank Capra’s “Bitter Tea of General Yen” (also 1933), isn’t quite so junkily entertaining.

2007 April 22, Terrence Rafferty, “The Infinite Variety of the Lady Stanwyck”, in New York Times:


wheezingly

wheezingly (comparative more wheezingly, superlative most wheezingly)

more wheezingly (comparative)
most wheezingly (superlative)


unsophisticatedly

unsophisticatedly (comparative more unsophisticatedly, superlative most unsophisticatedly)

more unsophisticatedly (comparative)
most unsophisticatedly (superlative)


unsoldierly

unsoldierly (comparative more unsoldierly, superlative most unsoldierly)

more unsoldierly (comparative)
most unsoldierly (superlative)

A few of them limped unsoldierly in deference to blistered feet.

1881, Ambrose Bierce, “What I Saw of Shiloh”, in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, New York: Neale, published 1909, page 234:

[…] you, soldiers, that shift unsoldierly
The weapons that should be upright, at attention, like stiff grass-blades:

1925, Robinson Jeffers, “The Tower Beyond Tragedy”, in Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems, New York: Modern Library, published 1935, page 32:

In a manner that is not appropriate for a soldier.


snappingly

Accompanied by a snapping action or sound


ocularly

Ocularly classifying trees into broad diameter groups

1984, Walter Bitterlich, The relascope idea: relative measurements in forestry:

Practical ocular drug delivery: approaches to minimize the systemic side-effects of ocularly applied drugs

1989, L. F. Prescott, W. S. Nimmo, Novel drug delivery and its therapeutic application:


polylogarithmically

The number of solutions to the Erdős–Straus equation increases polylogarithmically as n tends to infinity.


frothingly

frothingly (comparative more frothingly, superlative most frothingly)

more frothingly (comparative)
most frothingly (superlative)

This other man's force was like that of a river which frothingly redoubles its fury wherever a rock would pose an obstacle.

1992, John Updike, Memories of the Ford administration:

Once inside, they quickly went about offering up sustenance to the frothingly hungry brute, and as he gulped and glutted, they prepared themselves...

2007, Geoffrey Verdegast, Of Staves and Sigmas:


representatively

representatively (comparative more representatively, superlative most representatively)

more representatively (comparative)
most representatively (superlative)

From Middle English representatyfliche; equivalent to representative + -ly.

The Roman Church consists representatively in the cardinals, but virtually in the pope.

2009, Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther:


dissimulatingly

dissimulatingly (comparative more dissimulatingly, superlative most dissimulatingly)

more dissimulatingly (comparative)
most dissimulatingly (superlative)

In a dissimulating manner; with dissimulation.


untactfully

untactfully (comparative more untactfully, superlative most untactfully)

more untactfully (comparative)
most untactfully (superlative)


nonstatistically

Renal survival was nonstatistically worse in the lowest ultrafiltration group.

2007, Robert W. Schrier, Diseases of the kidney and urinary tract:


bangingly

bangingly (comparative more bangingly, superlative most bangingly)

more bangingly (comparative)
most bangingly (superlative)

Stepping back he pulled the window abstractedly but bangingly down, and leaning against the wall in the quietness began to read.


palpitatingly

palpitatingly (comparative more palpitatingly, superlative most palpitatingly)

more palpitatingly (comparative)
most palpitatingly (superlative)


conjecturably

conjecturably (comparative more conjecturably, superlative most conjecturably)

more conjecturably (comparative)
most conjecturably (superlative)


conjoinedly

conjoinedly (comparative more conjoinedly, superlative most conjoinedly)

more conjoinedly (comparative)
most conjoinedly (superlative)


declaredly

declaredly (comparative more declaredly, superlative most declaredly)

more declaredly (comparative)
most declaredly (superlative)

With a formal declaration; avowedly, explicitly, professedly


variedly

variedly (comparative more variedly, superlative most variedly)

more variedly (comparative)
most variedly (superlative)


assortedly

assortedly (comparative more assortedly, superlative most assortedly)

more assortedly (comparative)
most assortedly (superlative)


a small matter

[…] if that it were possible to remove the impediment of the Air, which resisting penetration, doth some small matter retard and impede the motion of the pendulum.

1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, Dialogue 2:

The socket and spindle being a small matter taper.

1788, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, section 79.4:

(obsolete) Somewhat; slightly; a little.


mistakably

mistakably (comparative more mistakably, superlative most mistakably)

more mistakably (comparative)
most mistakably (superlative)


pointblank

We had many hot discussions on the topic, and it ended by my refusing pointblank to marry Miss Sherman at all.

1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 149:


portably

portably (comparative more portably, superlative most portably)

more portably (comparative)
most portably (superlative)


unrequitedly

A fortyish man meets a twentyish man with whom he'd been unrequitedly in love some years before.

1981 April 11, Duncan Mitchel, “Hansen's Short Stories”, in Gay Community News, page 15:


kidding aside

Phyllis Diller used to joke that it is important to be nice to your children because they ultimately decide which nursing home to place you in! Kidding aside, if you don't take the time for children and family […]

2004, Lillie Weiss, Therapist's guide to self-care, page 43:

(speech act, idiomatic) Used to attempt to make a serious point in a jocular conversation.


underly

underly (comparative more underly, superlative most underly)

more underly (comparative)
most underly (superlative)

The Seed-Branch […] is presently divided into two main Branches, and those two into other less; whereof some underly, others aloft, run along the Coat.

1672, Nehemiah Grew, The anatomy of vegetables begun:

In this case, we are not in a position—at least from the perspective of the rules themselves and the values that lie behind them—to say that they are overly or underly inclusive.

2000, William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig, From Social Justice to Criminal Justice, page 109:

Overly madeup and underly dressed young women were dancing in a cluster on the floor.

2014, Jass Richards, Licence to Do That:

Better to struggle claustrophobically from the grasp of an overly adoring parent than to fall serially in love with emotionally cruel or distant partners, which is what everyone with underly adoring parents always does.

2016 July 3, Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Observer:

(chiefly colloquial) In an inferior or inadequate manner; insufficiently (chiefly in opposition to overly).


sonographically

In a sonographic manner; by means of sonography


stereotactically

In a stereotactic manner; with regard to, or by means of stereotaxis


transurethrally

In a transurethral manner (via the urethra)


expectably

expectably (comparative more expectably, superlative most expectably)

more expectably (comparative)
most expectably (superlative)


inspiredly

inspiredly (comparative more inspiredly, superlative most inspiredly)

more inspiredly (comparative)
most inspiredly (superlative)


atcha

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


in a few shakes

“And do you realize that in a few shakes I've got to show up at dinner and have Mrs Cream being very, very kind to me? It hurts the pride of the Woosters, Jeeves.”

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


infiltratively

In an infiltrative manner; by means of infiltration


ex rerum natura

Learned borrowing from Latin ex rērum nātūrā (“from the nature of things”).

lbor

Let us hear the Arguments that follow, which are taken, as he saith, ex rerum naturâ.

1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)

From the nature of things; from the nature of the case; from nature; applied to arguments based on observation or experiment, as opposed to pure reason.


radiographically

In a radiographic manner; by means of radiography


radioisotopically

In a radioisotopic manner; by means of radioisotopes


clinicopathologically

From clinicopathological + -ly or clinicopathologic + -ally.

In terms of, or by means of, clinicopathology.


subcapsularly

en-adv

subcapsularly (comparative more subcapsularly, superlative most subcapsularly)

more subcapsularly (comparative)
most subcapsularly (superlative)


roundishly

roundishly (comparative more roundishly, superlative most roundishly)

more roundishly (comparative)
most roundishly (superlative)


anagogically

anagogically (comparative more anagogically, superlative most anagogically)

more anagogically (comparative)
most anagogically (superlative)


regressively

regressively (comparative more regressively, superlative most regressively)

more regressively (comparative)
most regressively (superlative)


praisefully

praisefully (comparative more praisefully, superlative most praisefully)

more praisefully (comparative)
most praisefully (superlative)

The Levant Herald is too fond of speaking praisefully of Americans to be popular with the Sultan, who does not relish our sympathy with the Cretans...


phallically

phallically (comparative more phallically, superlative most phallically)

more phallically (comparative)
most phallically (superlative)


prosodically

prosodically (comparative more prosodically, superlative most prosodically)

more prosodically (comparative)
most prosodically (superlative)


trafficwise

The acquisition of the latter road gave the Illinois Central unchallenged supremacy trafficwise in the business of the port.

1950, Carlton Jonathan Corliss, Main line of Mid-America: the story of the Illinois Central:


cashwise

You'll have to live on almost nothing, cashwise, but you'll gain a lump sum upon completion that can be applied to college tuition.


ascendingly

ascendingly (comparative more ascendingly, superlative most ascendingly)

more ascendingly (comparative)
most ascendingly (superlative)

This neighbor's own opinion has, in like manner, been adopted from one above him, and so, ascendingly, to a few gifted individuals who kneel around the summit, beholding, face to face, the master spirit who stands upon the pinnacle. "

1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works:


ramblingly

ramblingly (comparative more ramblingly, superlative most ramblingly)

more ramblingly (comparative)
most ramblingly (superlative)

He talked on, ramblingly, with an effort at unconcern[…]

1921, Albert Payson Terhune, Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories:


undoubtingly

undoubtingly (comparative more undoubtingly, superlative most undoubtingly)

more undoubtingly (comparative)
most undoubtingly (superlative)

1659, John Pearson, An Exposition of the Creed, London: J. Williams, 6th edition, 1692, Article VIII, p. 316,
But were there nothing, which is already said, demonstrated, there is enough written in the Word of God to assure us of the Deity of the Holy Ghost, to make us undoubtingly believe that the Spirit of God is God.

Poor Mr. Orme! I am sorry he is not well. It is cruel in you, Lucy, at this time, to say (so undoubtingly) that his illness is owing to his love of me.

1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, London: Harrison & Co., published 1785, Volume 4, Letter 14, p. 525:

[…] she relied so undoubtingly on Sir John’s description of the house, as to feel no curiosity to examine it herself till she entered it as her own.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 5, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

There is a class of persons (happily not quite so numerous as formerly) who think it enough if a person assents undoubtingly to what they think true, though he has no knowledge whatever of the grounds of the opinion, and could not make a tenable defence of it against the most superficial objections.

1859, John Stuart Mill, “[Dedication]”, in On Liberty, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, page 2:


antiquatedly

antiquatedly (comparative more antiquatedly, superlative most antiquatedly)

more antiquatedly (comparative)
most antiquatedly (superlative)


diffractively

diffractively (comparative more diffractively, superlative most diffractively)

more diffractively (comparative)
most diffractively (superlative)

In a diffractive manner; by means of, or accompanied by diffraction


any more

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

/ˌæ.niˈmɔːɹ/

They don't make repairable radios any more.

(in negative or interrogative constructions) From a given time onwards; longer, again.

այլևս

I eat fish any more.

‘Quite absurd,’ he said. ‘Suffering bores me, any more.’

1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Women in Love:

He's no longer the wholesome Chamber of Commerce bigshot we used to know in the olden days, Doc, he's bad shit any more

2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 268:

(colloquial, chiefly Northern Ireland, US, in positive constructions) Now, from now on.

Alice doesn't like Braque any more than she likes Picasso.

(as determiner or pronoun) I can't see any more people arriving; I don't think any more want to come.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any, more.


grimacingly

grimacingly (comparative more grimacingly, superlative most grimacingly)

more grimacingly (comparative)
most grimacingly (superlative)


fatiguingly

fatiguingly (comparative more fatiguingly, superlative most fatiguingly)

more fatiguingly (comparative)
most fatiguingly (superlative)


undespairingly

undespairingly (comparative more undespairingly, superlative most undespairingly)

more undespairingly (comparative)
most undespairingly (superlative)


smotheringly

smotheringly (comparative more smotheringly, superlative most smotheringly)

more smotheringly (comparative)
most smotheringly (superlative)

Their mother was smotheringly overprotective.


nullifyingly

nullifyingly (comparative more nullifyingly, superlative most nullifyingly)

more nullifyingly (comparative)
most nullifyingly (superlative)


japingly

japingly (comparative more japingly, superlative most japingly)

more japingly (comparative)
most japingly (superlative)

In a japing manner; with good-natured humour.


shriekingly

shriekingly (comparative more shriekingly, superlative most shriekingly)

more shriekingly (comparative)
most shriekingly (superlative)


multifacetedly

multifacetedly (comparative more multifacetedly, superlative most multifacetedly)

more multifacetedly (comparative)
most multifacetedly (superlative)


foamingly

foamingly (comparative more foamingly, superlative most foamingly)

more foamingly (comparative)
most foamingly (superlative)

As we sat there, twenty feet above the rolling waves, which raged foamingly at our side, and looked down into a stream, three hundred feet in depth...

1844, Charles Sealsfield, Life in the New world, or, Sketches of American society:


astrometrically

In an astrometric manner; by means of astrometry.


anthropically

anthropically (comparative more anthropically, superlative most anthropically)

more anthropically (comparative)
most anthropically (superlative)


pseudorandomly

From pseudorandom + -ly or pseudo- + randomly.


arsy versy

Alteration of arsa versa, a blend of an alteration of arse + vice versa, modeled on vicey versey.

1548, Nicholas Udall (translator), The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurch, Volume 1, Luke 16,
Who would not haue iudged that same ryche man to haue been a perfecte exaumple and paterne of most welthie and happy state: and this poore Lazare man to be a paterne of vtter miserie? But felicitie is in nowyse to be measured by such thinges as fortune geueth to men in this lyfe. But in the matter that we nowe speake of, altogether was sodainly turned in and out clene arsie versy.

Dost thou not know that from the beginning the world goes arsie-versie.

1612, Benvenuto, The Passenger of Benvenuto:

[…] the estate of that flourishing towne was turned arsie versie, topside the otherwaie, and from abundance of prosperitie quite exchanged to extreame penurie.

1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “The Description of Ireland”, in Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande, page 26:

“You put your back up in the wrong place and you’re passive in the wrong place. You’ve got everything arsy-versy. […]”

1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York: Viking, page 457:

Us going in on foot and then the equipment being airlifted in is about as arsy-versy as you can get.

1989, Julian Barnes, chapter 8, in A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, New York: Knopf, page 194:

(idiomatic, British, vulgar) Tumbling upside down; head over heels; backwards.


unwontedly

unwontedly (comparative more unwontedly, superlative most unwontedly)

more unwontedly (comparative)
most unwontedly (superlative)

“Knowest thou,” said the Jester, “my good friend Gurth, that thou art strangely courteous and most unwontedly pious on this summer morning? […]”

1820, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in Ivanhoe:

Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

1917, Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop”, in Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, page 40:


not in a million years

never in a million years
never in a million years#English

(idiomatic) Alternative form of never in a million years


euhedrally

euhedrally (comparative more euhedrally, superlative most euhedrally)

more euhedrally (comparative)
most euhedrally (superlative)


big league

Iran is taking over Iraq, and they’re taking it over big league.

2015, Donald Trump, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(slang) To a significant degree; on a large scale.


eligibly

eligibly (comparative more eligibly, superlative most eligibly)

more eligibly (comparative)
most eligibly (superlative)


recessively

recessively (comparative more recessively, superlative most recessively)

more recessively (comparative)
most recessively (superlative)

recessively-inherited genetic disorders


multifocally

multifocally (comparative more multifocally, superlative most multifocally)

more multifocally (comparative)
most multifocally (superlative)


plesiomorphically

In a plesiomorphic manner; in the manner of a plesiomorph.


absotively posolutely

absitively posolutely
absitively posolutely#English

Alternative spelling of absitively posolutely


absitively posilutely

(rare) Alternative spelling of absitively posolutely


absitively posolutely

Spooneristic blend of absolutely and positively.

"She was absitively, posolutely nutty!"

1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):

1988, Disney - Oliver and Company - http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/o/oliver-and-company-script-transcript.html
"And once you got the beat, you can do anything. "I can?" "Absitively posolutely."

"Well, thanks." "Could you validate my parking?" "Absitively posolutely."

1991, Jon Vitti, When Flanders Failed, season 3, episode 3, spoken by Ned Flanders (Harry Shearer):

"Ha ha! It's brilliant, inspired...absitively, posolutely electrified!"

2004, Disney - Springtime with Roo - https://web.archive.org/web/20110411052109/http://movie.subtitlr.com/subtitle/show/28805#line1571

(humorous) Absolutely and positively; certainly; yes.


absotively

That is one of the twelve reasons why Charlotte Diners are absotively the best little old dining chairs produced in this Land of the Free—and Prohibition has nothing to do with it.

1920 September, “Style and Stability (advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 17, number 3, page 159:

“I is sad; absotively mis'able. What you reckon kind of pitcher they is takin' down there?”

1925, Octavus Roy Cohen, Bigger and Blacker, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →LCCN, →OL:

“Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”

1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:

(informal, humorous or childish) Absolutely and positively.


nonproteolytically

In a nonproteolytic manner; without causing proteolysis


perzackly

(colloquial) Alternative spelling of perzactly


prexactly

(colloquial) Alternative form of perzactly


perzactly

and Joseph continued: "That's it perzactly, All these words mean perzactly that, but there is hope, sister; there is hope.

1898, Lynn Roby Meekins, Some of our people, page 190:

"Not perzactly," Remy allowed. "Hezzy'd be gathering eggs one minute or sweeping the front porch and the next she'd be flat out on the ground.

2009, Jan Watson, Sweetwater Run, page 171:

(colloquial) precisely, exactly; used as an affirmation


selfly

From Middle English selfly, from Old English selflīċ (“automatic, spontaneous, voluntary”); equivalent to self + -ly.

inh

Thy gloomy Front, that selfly hath no light

1880, Josuah Sylvester, The complete works of Joshuah Sylvester:

In, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.


endly

From Middle English endly, endely (“final”), equivalent to end + -ly. Compare Dutch eindelijk (“final”), German endlich (“final”), Middle High German endelīch (“final”).

This allows a more flexible resource utilization and better performance: any process can access its data wherever it is, a reduced migration cost can be obtained by the transfer of a minimal part of the process context (the data partially remaining where it is), endly the remote access cost is minimized thanks to the attraction between data and execution context.

1998, Peter Sloot, Marian Bubak, Bob Hertzberger, High-performance computing and networking:

Endly, some implementation aspects are presented.

1994, Zbigniew Raś, Maria Zemankova, Methodologies for intelligent systems:

Endly the reverse model still means water infiltration and erosion control, at least in spring when the daily resultant is a water table lowering.

And, endly, mark our tailed arborean ancestors, trained to the wearing of garments and a single eye-glass.

1902, Harry Leon Wilson, The Spenders a Tale of the Third Generation:

The rains, which are still falling, have endly allayed this evil...

1833, Luke Howard, The climate of London: deduced from meteorological observations...:


cheerly

en-adv

cheerly (comparative more cheerly or cheerlier, superlative most cheerly or cheerliest)

more cheerly (comparative)
cheerlier (comparative)
most cheerly (superlative)
cheerliest (superlative)

From Middle English cheerly, cherly, cherely, cheerliche, equivalent to cheer + -ly.

My louing Lord, I take my leaue of you, [...] Not ſicke, although I haue to do with death, / But luſtie, yong, and cheerely drawing breath.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 26, column 1:

What matters me who wears the crown of France? / Whether a Richard or a Charles possess it? / They reap the glory—they enjoy the spoil— / We pay—we bleed!—The sun would shine as cheerly, / The rains of heaven as seasonably fall, / Tho' neither of these royal pests existed.

1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: J[ohn] M‘Creery, […] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, →OCLC, Act I, page 6:

He cheerly passes, quaffs the social glass,
Propines the winds, or toasts some blooming lass.

1818, Archibald Johnston, The Mariner: A Poem in Two Cantos, page 15:

(archaic) Cheerily, cheerfully, heartily; briskly.


choicely

choicely (comparative more choicely, superlative most choicely)

more choicely (comparative)
most choicely (superlative)

From Middle English choisly; equivalent to choice + -ly.

a band of men collected choicely, from each county some

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

With care in choosing; with attention to preference.

choicely good

1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:

In a preferable or excellent manner; eminently.


conjunctionally

In a conjunctional manner; with regard to conjunction


percolatively

percolatively (comparative more percolatively, superlative most percolatively)

more percolatively (comparative)
most percolatively (superlative)


sideway

sideway (comparative more sideway, superlative most sideway)

more sideway (comparative)
most sideway (superlative)

From Middle English side-way, side-wei, equivalent to side + way.


sublingually

The medicine was administered sublingually.


overconfidently

overconfidently (comparative more overconfidently, superlative most overconfidently)

more overconfidently (comparative)
most overconfidently (superlative)


tomoz

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of tomorrow.


hackingly

hackingly (comparative more hackingly, superlative most hackingly)

more hackingly (comparative)
most hackingly (superlative)

The furnace protested long and hackingly like the lungs of an old smoker at an early morning cigarette.

Magazine illustrations cut hackingly by her tiny, amateur fingers.

He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.

1902, Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless”, in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 32; collected in Traffics and Discoveries, 1904, ebook

“So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”

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

In a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.


unpreventably

unpreventably (comparative more unpreventably, superlative most unpreventably)

more unpreventably (comparative)
most unpreventably (superlative)


nerdishly

nerdishly (comparative more nerdishly, superlative most nerdishly)

more nerdishly (comparative)
most nerdishly (superlative)


gibberingly

gibberingly (comparative more gibberingly, superlative most gibberingly)

more gibberingly (comparative)
most gibberingly (superlative)

While gibbering; with wild, incoherent speech.


unseemlily

unseemlily (comparative more unseemlily, superlative most unseemlily)

more unseemlily (comparative)
most unseemlily (superlative)

My eyes glisten unseemlily I know, and I grab and pounce with disgusting greed. But my husband is a small clerk in a bank; I have only fifteen pounds a year […]


knockingly

knockingly (comparative more knockingly, superlative most knockingly)

more knockingly (comparative)
most knockingly (superlative)

The boy dragged on his rope reins, stirred a bit painfully in his seat, and drove slowly and knockingly away.

1958, Paul Green, Drama and the weather:

As the ship rocked, Silkie went flying across the room and came knockingly hard into a set of wooden water barrels.

1983, Claudette Williams, Song of Silkie:


ill-fatedly

ill-fatedly (comparative more ill-fatedly, superlative most ill-fatedly)

more ill-fatedly (comparative)
most ill-fatedly (superlative)

In a bad fated, foreordained or predetermined manner; in a way established in advance by bad fate.


communitywise

(chiefly India) In terms of communities.


unpoetically

unpoetically (comparative more unpoetically, superlative most unpoetically)

more unpoetically (comparative)
most unpoetically (superlative)


anarthrously

(grammar) In an anarthrous manner; without an accompanying article.


hooly

[…]bee by our Executours hooly and perfitely finiſshed in every behalve, after the maner and fourme before rehersed, and futingly to that that is begoune and doon of theim.

c. 1500, Henry VII, “The Will of King Henry VII”, in The Will of King Henry VII, published 1775, page 6:

This couldna hae lasted abune some ten minutes or less, when he began to wax weakish, and to stay rather langer at a time aneath than seemed consistent wi' prudence; sae I walked hooly doon to the bank, and cried on him to come oot, unless he was set on felo-de-se.

1834, Noctes Ambrosionæ No. LXIX: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 36, page 832:

(archaic, Scotland) Wholly; all the way.

O, gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly!

1840, Joanna Baillie, Hooly and Fairly, Fugitive Verses, 1851, The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie, 2nd Edition, page 819,


wideliest

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


tandemwise

Arranged in tandem (one behind the other).


remonstratively

remonstratively (comparative more remonstratively, superlative most remonstratively)

more remonstratively (comparative)
most remonstratively (superlative)

In a manner characterized by remonstration.


novelly

novelly (comparative more novelly, superlative most novelly)

more novelly (comparative)
most novelly (superlative)


widelier

All the way down along the river-side were posted other sentries; here near together, there widelier scattered; [...]

1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Flight in the Heather: The Rocks”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 195:

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


inertially

By means of inertia (or inertial forces)


allus

[Porky Pine:] Readin' black type on black paper allus give him the pig-eye.

1959 January 25, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 9:

"I allus wanted my chaps to read and spell and figure," Mother said. "Allus put a lot of store by that. Another rusty cut and they'll close the school shore. As long as we keep living here, Flat Creek School is their only chance earthy."

Pronunciation spelling of always, representing Northern British and Southern US English.


putrescently

putrescently (comparative more putrescently, superlative most putrescently)

more putrescently (comparative)
most putrescently (superlative)


biodegradably

biodegradably (comparative more biodegradably, superlative most biodegradably)

more biodegradably (comparative)
most biodegradably (superlative)

It becomes instant feed for the household pigs or is biodegradably reabsorbed into the natural ecology of the environment.

2005, M. Ackbar Abbas, John Nguyet Erni, Internationalizing cultural studies: an anthology:


reclusively

reclusively (comparative more reclusively, superlative most reclusively)

more reclusively (comparative)
most reclusively (superlative)

Until the death, Mr. Spector, 67, a music legend who worked with John Lennon, Ike and Tina Turner and the Rolling Stones, among others, had lived reclusively for decades.

2007 April 26, Randal C. Archibold, “Music Legend’s Trial Starts in Death of a B-Movie Star”, in New York Times:


overheatedly

overheatedly (comparative more overheatedly, superlative most overheatedly)

more overheatedly (comparative)
most overheatedly (superlative)

(Yasmina Khadra is a female pseudonym for a former Algerian army officer, Mohammed Moulessehoul, who lives in France and whose work has once again been overheatedly translated by John Cullen.)

2007 April 26, Janet Maslin, “Terrorists Reel in a Pawn From Small-Town Iraq”, in New York Times:

In an overheated manner; with undue heat.


subdurally

subdurally (comparative more subdurally, superlative most subdurally)

more subdurally (comparative)
most subdurally (superlative)

(anatomy) Beneath the dura mater and above the meninges.


Byronically

Byronically (comparative more Byronically, superlative most Byronically)

more Byronically (comparative)
most Byronically (superlative)


tweedily

tweedily (comparative more tweedily, superlative most tweedily)

more tweedily (comparative)
most tweedily (superlative)


contradictiously

contradictiously (comparative more contradictiously, superlative most contradictiously)

more contradictiously (comparative)
most contradictiously (superlative)


illusionistically

illusionistically (comparative more illusionistically, superlative most illusionistically)

more illusionistically (comparative)
most illusionistically (superlative)

Sometimes these patterns illusionistically swell into lumps or sink into pockets; occasionally, lines will suddenly stop in the middle of nowhere, skip a beat in unison, then move on, leaving a strip of unmarked space like a tear in the surface, with light showing through.

2007 April 27, Holland Cotter, “Off the Page and in the Air, Drawing Transformed”, in New York Times:


dumbfoundingly

dumbfoundingly (comparative more dumbfoundingly, superlative most dumbfoundingly)

more dumbfoundingly (comparative)
most dumbfoundingly (superlative)


dumbfoundedly

dumbfoundedly (comparative more dumbfoundedly, superlative most dumbfoundedly)

more dumbfoundedly (comparative)
most dumbfoundedly (superlative)


godwards

godwards (comparative more godwards, superlative most godwards)

more godwards (comparative)
most godwards (superlative)


stiltedly

stiltedly (comparative more stiltedly, superlative most stiltedly)

more stiltedly (comparative)
most stiltedly (superlative)

1985 29 Aug, New Scientist, Vol. 107, No. 1471 p.50. TV programs reviews.
It began with doggerel, spoken stiltedly by the quartet of presenters, who mocked what they had said but then continued to speak stiltedly throughout.


venerably

venerably (comparative more venerably, superlative most venerably)

more venerably (comparative)
most venerably (superlative)


Godward

Godward (comparative more Godward, superlative most Godward)

more Godward (comparative)
most Godward (superlative)

From Middle English God-ward, Godward; equivalent to God + -ward.


undeviatingly

undeviatingly (comparative more undeviatingly, superlative most undeviatingly)

more undeviatingly (comparative)
most undeviatingly (superlative)

Without deviation; directly, unerringly.


unbefittingly

unbefittingly (comparative more unbefittingly, superlative most unbefittingly)

more unbefittingly (comparative)
most unbefittingly (superlative)


amphitheatrically

amphitheatrically (comparative more amphitheatrically, superlative most amphitheatrically)

more amphitheatrically (comparative)
most amphitheatrically (superlative)

The citadel walls that crown the hill, on the slopes of which the modern city descends amphitheatrically into the sea, are remnants of Venetian fortifications.

1919, Aristides E. Phoutrides, Life Immovable:

With some apparent characteristics of an amphitheatre.


nobbut

From no + but. Compare Scots nae but, nae bit (“no more than, only, merely, just”).

He were nobbut a lad when he joined the army.

(UK, Northern England) nothing but; only; just


yes-huh

(emphatic, informal) Used to assert a statement that has just been denied by another, especially where that denial took the form of "nuh-uh".


anagrammatically

anagrammatically (comparative more anagrammatically, superlative most anagrammatically)

more anagrammatically (comparative)
most anagrammatically (superlative)

From anagrammatic + -ally or anagrammatical + -ly.

Now the words "Oh, Walter Hawkins, Esquire," makes anagrammatically, "W.H., who likes rare antiques!" exactly his idiosyncrasy as a man and a collector.

1886, Martin Farquhar Tupper, My Life as an Author:

The monster in this case is a reptilian, vomit- and blood-spewing thing in a glass tank that’s more reminiscent of “Alien” than of the dime-store concoctions on “Doctor Who,” the show from which “Torchwood” was anagrammatically spun off.

2009 July 18, Mike Hale, “Gay Heroes and a Reptilian Monster, From the BBC”, in New York Times:


noteworthily

noteworthily (comparative more noteworthily, superlative most noteworthily)

more noteworthily (comparative)
most noteworthily (superlative)


spartanly

spartanly (comparative more spartanly, superlative most spartanly)

more spartanly (comparative)
most spartanly (superlative)


flinchingly

flinchingly (comparative more flinchingly, superlative most flinchingly)

more flinchingly (comparative)
most flinchingly (superlative)


brushwise

They made their ink from lamp-black and gum-solution, their pens — used brushwise at first, but later cut like quills — from rushes.

1993, Thomas Kingston Derry, Trevor Illtyd Williams, A short history of technology: from the earliest times to A.D. 1900:


alday

Inherited from Middle English alday (“all day”), compound of al + day. Equivalent to all + day.

inh+

To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.

1611, Joseph Hall, “Epistle VIII. To E.B. Dedicated to Sir George Goring.”, in Epistles […], volume III, London: […] [William Stansby and William Jaggard] for Samuell Macham, […], →OCLC, 5th decade, pages 95–96:


multidimensionally

en-adv

multidimensionally (comparative more multidimensionally, superlative most multidimensionally)

more multidimensionally (comparative)
most multidimensionally (superlative)

In a multidimensional manner; with respect to multiple dimensions.


presentationally

In a presentational manner; as part of a presentation


downdrift

A groyne promotes the build-up of sediment on its updrift side, and reduces erosion on the downdrift side.


tensionally

tensionally (comparative more tensionally, superlative most tensionally)

more tensionally (comparative)
most tensionally (superlative)


conflictingly

conflictingly (comparative more conflictingly, superlative most conflictingly)

more conflictingly (comparative)
most conflictingly (superlative)


squintingly

squintingly (comparative more squintingly, superlative most squintingly)

more squintingly (comparative)
most squintingly (superlative)


unheedingly

unheedingly (comparative more unheedingly, superlative most unheedingly)

more unheedingly (comparative)
most unheedingly (superlative)


tinklingly

tinklingly (comparative more tinklingly, superlative most tinklingly)

more tinklingly (comparative)
most tinklingly (superlative)


bigotedly

bigotedly (comparative more bigotedly, superlative most bigotedly)

more bigotedly (comparative)
most bigotedly (superlative)


wheedlingly

wheedlingly (comparative more wheedlingly, superlative most wheedlingly)

more wheedlingly (comparative)
most wheedlingly (superlative)


droningly

droningly (comparative more droningly, superlative most droningly)

more droningly (comparative)
most droningly (superlative)


whiningly

whiningly (comparative more whiningly, superlative most whiningly)

more whiningly (comparative)
most whiningly (superlative)


unrepentingly

unrepentingly (comparative more unrepentingly, superlative most unrepentingly)

more unrepentingly (comparative)
most unrepentingly (superlative)


teemingly

teemingly (comparative more teemingly, superlative most teemingly)

more teemingly (comparative)
most teemingly (superlative)


unshrinkingly

unshrinkingly (comparative more unshrinkingly, superlative most unshrinkingly)

more unshrinkingly (comparative)
most unshrinkingly (superlative)


unreasoningly

unreasoningly (comparative more unreasoningly, superlative most unreasoningly)

more unreasoningly (comparative)
most unreasoningly (superlative)

Without reasoning; blindly, thoughtlessly.


wailingly

wailingly (comparative more wailingly, superlative most wailingly)

more wailingly (comparative)
most wailingly (superlative)


whirlingly

whirlingly (comparative more whirlingly, superlative most whirlingly)

more whirlingly (comparative)
most whirlingly (superlative)


rustlingly

rustlingly (comparative more rustlingly, superlative most rustlingly)

more rustlingly (comparative)
most rustlingly (superlative)


mopingly

mopingly (comparative more mopingly, superlative most mopingly)

more mopingly (comparative)
most mopingly (superlative)


moaningly

moaningly (comparative more moaningly, superlative most moaningly)

more moaningly (comparative)
most moaningly (superlative)

The wind swept moaningly through the trees.


slashingly

slashingly (comparative more slashingly, superlative most slashingly)

more slashingly (comparative)
most slashingly (superlative)


reflectingly

reflectingly (comparative more reflectingly, superlative most reflectingly)

more reflectingly (comparative)
most reflectingly (superlative)


titteringly

titteringly (comparative more titteringly, superlative most titteringly)

more titteringly (comparative)
most titteringly (superlative)

The dirty joke was passed titteringly around the room.


fortifyingly

fortifyingly (comparative more fortifyingly, superlative most fortifyingly)

more fortifyingly (comparative)
most fortifyingly (superlative)


unwearyingly

unwearyingly (comparative more unwearyingly, superlative most unwearyingly)

more unwearyingly (comparative)
most unwearyingly (superlative)


untremblingly

untremblingly (comparative more untremblingly, superlative most untremblingly)

more untremblingly (comparative)
most untremblingly (superlative)

From un- + tremblingly or untrembling + -ly.


reelingly

reelingly (comparative more reelingly, superlative most reelingly)

more reelingly (comparative)
most reelingly (superlative)

Jeff staggered reelingly out of the pub and tried to remember which way was home.


stimulatingly

stimulatingly (comparative more stimulatingly, superlative most stimulatingly)

more stimulatingly (comparative)
most stimulatingly (superlative)


roaringly

roaringly (comparative more roaringly, superlative most roaringly)

more roaringly (comparative)
most roaringly (superlative)

roaringly angry; roaringly drunk

The train came roaringly out of the tunnel.

a roaringly popular marketplace


rumblingly

rumblingly (comparative more rumblingly, superlative most rumblingly)

more rumblingly (comparative)
most rumblingly (superlative)

Three languages rapped, fumbled or rumblingly oozed all the while.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 129:

With a rumbling sound; in a rumbling manner.


unreflectingly

unreflectingly (comparative more unreflectingly, superlative most unreflectingly)

more unreflectingly (comparative)
most unreflectingly (superlative)

For it is quite possible that his father will not simply and unreflectingly save the thing he loves.

2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 525:


moneywise

Quitting stock-market speculation was the greatest decision I ever made, moneywise.

In terms of money; monetarily; financially.


absofuckinglutely

A tmesis of absolutely with -fucking-, absolutely + -fucking-
.

Riley, you swore to me, you absofuckinglutely swore to me you weren't going to diddle around with the expense account this time!

1990, Ivan Doig, Ride with me, Mariah Montana:

If you had asked me six months ago if I would ever be making out with Courtney McSweeney, I would have said no, absofuckinglutely not.

(slang, vulgar, augmentative) Absolutely.


unaccustomedly

He felt unaccustomedly bold and light-hearted; the arrival of Elisha had caused his mood to change.

1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Penguin Classics (2001), page 60:


like ass

like ass (comparative more like ass, superlative most like ass)

more like ass (comparative)
most like ass (superlative)

That dog smells like ass.

Your band plays well, but the singer sounds like ass.

(Canada, US, vulgar, slang) Offensively bad.


inchmeal

All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

Those who are not thus slippery in the tail, are light of finger; and of these the most pernicious are those who beggar you inchmeal.

1725, Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business:

I am a sanguinary murderer of time, and would kill him inchmeal just now.

1822, Charles and Mary Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6):

He could be as patient as Death, that inchmeal stalker of his prey; he could be as ruthless as the sea, and incredibly generous upon occasion.

1901, Maurice Hewlett, The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay:

gradually, little by little (an inch at a time)


tinglingly

tinglingly (comparative more tinglingly, superlative most tinglingly)

more tinglingly (comparative)
most tinglingly (superlative)

Once, long before, […] he had experienced the strangeness of faculties singularly, tinglingly acute.

1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 18, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:


infinitivally

In an infinitival manner; with regard to the infinitive


intendedly

intendedly (comparative more intendedly, superlative most intendedly)

more intendedly (comparative)
most intendedly (superlative)


manward

From Middle English [Term?] (man + -ward).


singingly

whilst singing; accompanied by the sounds of singing


rendingly

rendingly (comparative more rendingly, superlative most rendingly)

more rendingly (comparative)
most rendingly (superlative)

(especially in combination) So as to rend or tear apart.


prolongedly

prolongedly (comparative more prolongedly, superlative most prolongedly)

more prolongedly (comparative)
most prolongedly (superlative)

"In experiments where one or more stimuli are presented repeatedly or prolongedly, perhaps leading to habituation of an existing nonassociative response, the subsequent passage of time and/or exposure to another form of stimulation may […]"

2013, Gary Greenberg, Ethel Tobach, Comparative Psychology of Invertebrates:


growthwise

The formal economy recovered growthwise with a whopping 7 percent, and although a trade deficit opened in June, the neoliberal choir crooned that all was well.

2002, Donald Clark Hodges, Daniel Ross Gandy, Ross Gandy, Mexico, the end of the revolution:


splenetically

splenetically (comparative more splenetically, superlative most splenetically)

more splenetically (comparative)
most splenetically (superlative)


featly

featly (comparative featlier, superlative featliest)

featlier (comparative)
featliest (superlative)

From Middle English fetly, corresponding to feat + -ly.

Why may not a man beare himselfe betweene enemies featly [translating commodément] and faithfully?

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 1, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

(archaic, dialectal) Properly; suitably.

(archaic, dialectal) With skill or talent; cleverly, skilfully.

[…] Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

(archaic, dialectal) Gracefully or elegantly.


ineradicably

ineradicably (comparative more ineradicably, superlative most ineradicably)

more ineradicably (comparative)
most ineradicably (superlative)


abustle

abustle (comparative more abustle, superlative most abustle)

more abustle (comparative)
most abustle (superlative)


even steven

Possibly reduplicating rhyme from even (“equal”) + steven (“voice or say in a matter, constitution”).

He made two piles of clothes even steven and let me pick which one I wanted.


overeffusively

overeffusively (comparative more overeffusively, superlative most overeffusively)

more overeffusively (comparative)
most overeffusively (superlative)


gushingly

gushingly (comparative more gushingly, superlative most gushingly)

more gushingly (comparative)
most gushingly (superlative)

Just send a good, strong current through, so that the water overflows gushingly, and shake the reels from time to time […]

1982, Popular Photography, volume 89, number 9, page 118:

"We went to see Guys and Dolls in New York," Maria Clara said gushingly. "It was so typical. We thought of you."

In a gushing manner; with overeffusive sentimentality.


twenty-five-eight

twenty-five (canonical)
eight (canonical)

Alternative spelling of twenty-five/eight


purblindly

purblindly (comparative more purblindly, superlative most purblindly)

more purblindly (comparative)
most purblindly (superlative)


puristically

puristically (comparative more puristically, superlative most puristically)

more puristically (comparative)
most puristically (superlative)


tormentedly

tormentedly (comparative more tormentedly, superlative most tormentedly)

more tormentedly (comparative)
most tormentedly (superlative)

"Ethel," he said, "I'm tormentedly in love with you. You know that, don't you?"

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 262:


twenty-five/eight

An alteration of twenty-four/seven, implying “twenty-five hours a day, eight days a week”.

“Dang!” Tempest shook her head and rolled her eyes. “You make it sound like homie hangs downtown twenty-five/eight.”


momently

From Middle English momently, equivalent to moment + -ly.

Growing momently more discontent.

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, / As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, / A mighty fountain momently was forced: […]

1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 56:

The silent Ocean, and the starlight bay, / The twilight glow, which momently grew less, / The voiceless sands, and dropping caves, that lay / Around them, made them to each other press […]

1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza 188:

Huge stones and beams falling momently from the decaying roofs above them, gave evidence, by their sullen and heavy descent, of the vast height of the surrounding houses […]

(archaic) From moment to moment; continually.


deficiently

deficiently (comparative more deficiently, superlative most deficiently)

more deficiently (comparative)
most deficiently (superlative)


hemispherically

hemispherically (comparative more hemispherically, superlative most hemispherically)

more hemispherically (comparative)
most hemispherically (superlative)

a hemispherically-capped biconic reentry vehicle


illusively

illusively (comparative more illusively, superlative most illusively)

more illusively (comparative)
most illusively (superlative)


featurewise

Featurewise, Tiffany and her mother were dead ringers, but Tiffany always did interesting things to her hair.

2001, Leslie O'Kane, When the fax lady sings:

Featurewise, the GGE 1400's C14 OTA is similar but not identical to the smaller Celestron tubes.

2008, Tammy Plotner, The night sky companion: a yearly guide to sky-watching, 2009-2010:

Featurewise, however, Artforum still sucks hard. Even publisher Knight Landesman told us at the Anna Kustera opening that Christopher Knight's incomprehensible piece on Johns was "an absolute failure."

1998, Walter Robinson, Tom Patchett, Most art sucks: five years of Coagula:

In terms of features (in various senses).


regardlessly

regardlessly (comparative more regardlessly, superlative most regardlessly)

more regardlessly (comparative)
most regardlessly (superlative)


I wiss

From an incorrect assumption made by editors where i-wiss, iwis (“certainly, for sure”) was hypercorrected to I wiss, as if wiss were a verb and I were the pronoun I. See also wiss, wis, iwis.

To tell the truth, I'm well informed / Yon match is a wile; The sheriff, I wiss, devises this / Us archers to beguile.

1904, Child, Sargent, Kittredge, English and Scottish popular ballads:

Such wholesome directions doth the bishop of Rome give unto those that will be ruled by him : far different (I wiss) from that holy doctrine, wherewith the Church of Rome was at first seasoned by the apostles [...]

1631, James Ussher, Charles Richard Elrington, The whole works: Volume 4:

I take him for some fiend, I wiss. — Grim, the Collier of Croydon, author unknown.

(archaic or poetic) surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly


I wis

I wis (comparative more I wis, superlative most I wis)

more I wis (comparative)
most I wis (superlative)

I wis, your grandam had a worser match

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:


narrowingly

narrowingly (comparative more narrowingly, superlative most narrowingly)

more narrowingly (comparative)
most narrowingly (superlative)


narrowmindedly

narrowmindedly (comparative more narrowmindedly, superlative most narrowmindedly)

more narrowmindedly (comparative)
most narrowmindedly (superlative)

They naively (or is it narrowmindedly?) believe that the unpardonable sin of past eras was not having twentieth-century thoughts.

1997, Harold Raley, A Watch Over Mortality: The Philosophical Story of Julian Marias, →ISBN, page 145:


radiologically

a radiologically-diagnosed illness


ahint

From Middle English at-hinden, from Old English æthindan (“behind, after”), equivalent to at- + hind.


akinetically

akinetically (comparative more akinetically, superlative most akinetically)

more akinetically (comparative)
most akinetically (superlative)


resistlessly

Sherman was sweeping resistlessly across the State.

1879, John McElroy, chapter 76, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:

Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun; / Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.

1892, Walt Whitman, “A Song of the Rolling Earth”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 178:

And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.

1913 August, Jack London, chapter I, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 8:

She yielded resistlessly, every fibre of her being quivering responsive to the overwhelming passion of love which had at last stormed and broken down all barriers.

1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 19, in The Lamp of Fate:

(archaic, chiefly literary) In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition.


pioneeringly

pioneeringly (comparative more pioneeringly, superlative most pioneeringly)

more pioneeringly (comparative)
most pioneeringly (superlative)


unpuzzlingly

unpuzzlingly (comparative more unpuzzlingly, superlative most unpuzzlingly)

more unpuzzlingly (comparative)
most unpuzzlingly (superlative)

A matter of momentous-feeling non sequiturs, “208 East Broadway” is a mystery whose elements all seem unpuzzlingly inevitable.

2007 April 28, Jennifer Dunning, “There’s Something Here, Emanating From Nothing”, in New York Times:


committedly

committedly (comparative more committedly, superlative most committedly)

more committedly (comparative)
most committedly (superlative)


ritzily

ritzily (comparative more ritzily, superlative most ritzily)

more ritzily (comparative)
most ritzily (superlative)

After all, the more ritzily dressed members of the audience had just made similar entrances into the New York State Theater, with a red carpet and photographers.

2007 May 3, Alastair Macaulay, “Those Star-Crossed Lovers With Sun-Splashed Colors”, in New York Times:


anything but

It wasn't cheap. Anything but.

It started out as a lively party, now it is anything but.

As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.

1887, Karl Marx, chapter 26, in Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, transl., Das Kapital:

"They certainly are nice people," I assented to my wife's observation, using the colloquial phrase with a consciousness that it was anything but "nice" English, "and I'll bet that their three children are better brought up than most of----"

1890, Henry Cuyler Bunner, The Nice People:

1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sinding (illustrator), William Archer (translator), Eskimo Life, Chapter II: Appearance and Dress,
The pure-bred Eskimo would at first glance seem to most of us Europeans anything but beautiful.

tudo menos

corresponding to “anything but something”

tudo menos isso

corresponding to “anything but” at the end of a clause


flatfootedly

flatfootedly (comparative more flatfootedly, superlative most flatfootedly)

more flatfootedly (comparative)
most flatfootedly (superlative)

Steward, one of De La Hoya’s former trainers, saw him tiring and fighting flatfootedly.

2007 May 11, Richard Sandomir, “Mayweather Tries Broadcasting, but Ponders His Future”, in New York Times:


anywhen

(rare, nonstandard) At any point in time.


doughtily

doughtily (comparative more doughtily, superlative most doughtily)

more doughtily (comparative)
most doughtily (superlative)

Her loyal subjects need her, and so she doughtily broods on.

2007 May 15, Natalie Angier, “In Hive or Castle, Duty Without Power”, in New York Times:


unconfidently

unconfidently (comparative more unconfidently, superlative most unconfidently)

more unconfidently (comparative)
most unconfidently (superlative)

I guessed, rather unconfidently.

2009 July 8, Philip Bobbitt, “Calculus and Compassion”, in New York Times:

In an unconfident manner; without confidence.


anguishedly

anguishedly (comparative more anguishedly, superlative most anguishedly)

more anguishedly (comparative)
most anguishedly (superlative)


unpompously

unpompously (comparative more unpompously, superlative most unpompously)

more unpompously (comparative)
most unpompously (superlative)


disorientedly

disorientedly (comparative more disorientedly, superlative most disorientedly)

more disorientedly (comparative)
most disorientedly (superlative)


untouchably

untouchably (comparative more untouchably, superlative most untouchably)

more untouchably (comparative)
most untouchably (superlative)

Parenthood, untouchably sacrosanct in so much of our culture, is on “24” a grotesquely compromised institution.

2007 May 20, Ginia Bellafante, “In the ‘24’ World, Family Is the Main Casualty”, in New York Times:


greenward

greenward (comparative more greenward, superlative most greenward)

more greenward (comparative)
most greenward (superlative)

Toward a green, for example on a golf course.

Yet the Bradley administration - moving ever greenward as it bailed itself out from one political corruption crisis to another - continued in theory to commit itself to tougher growth-management and conservationist positions.

2006, Mike Davis, City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles, page 202:

But it was in the immediate numinous aftermath of that predawn visit that I first saw the next, final stage of our haplessly greenward collapse.

2007 May 20, Charles Siebert, “Falling Down Green”, in New York Times:

ecologically friendly
ecologically friendly

Towards an ecologically friendly situation.


wishy-washily

wishy-washily (comparative more wishy-washily, superlative most wishy-washily)

more wishy-washily (comparative)
most wishy-washily (superlative)


amelioratingly

amelioratingly (comparative more amelioratingly, superlative most amelioratingly)

more amelioratingly (comparative)
most amelioratingly (superlative)

So as to ameliorate; In a manner that improves.


deterioratingly

deterioratingly (comparative more deterioratingly, superlative most deterioratingly)

more deterioratingly (comparative)
most deterioratingly (superlative)

In climates which operate deterioratingly upon the sheep, its good qualities can be maintained only by continued importations...

1829, John S. Skinner, The American Farmer, page 266:

Text books are frequently and deterioratingly changed and the result is that they repel the students.

1970, L. D. Gupta, A new venture in education, page 54:


swellingly

swellingly (comparative more swellingly, superlative most swellingly)

more swellingly (comparative)
most swellingly (superlative)


vicibus

From the Latin vicibus, the ablative plural form of vicis (“change”, “alternation”, “turn”; “succession”).

(chiefly occurring in phrases in law) By turns; in succession; alternatim.


wearingly

wearingly (comparative more wearingly, superlative most wearingly)

more wearingly (comparative)
most wearingly (superlative)

Though their leading ladies are of different sexes, “Sister Act” and “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” are remarkably (and wearingly) similar.

2009 July 8, Ben Brantley, “London’s Musicals: Intimate or Outsize”, in New York Times:


expositorily

expositorily (comparative more expositorily, superlative most expositorily)

more expositorily (comparative)
most expositorily (superlative)

And anyway, he expositorily tells us that he cares about American Indians and even sympathizes, somewhat, with the Sioux insurgency at Little Bighorn — or is that their “resistance”?

2007 May 25, Virginia Heffernan, “There’s an Allegory in Those Hills”, in New York Times:


gloatingly

gloatingly (comparative more gloatingly, superlative most gloatingly)

more gloatingly (comparative)
most gloatingly (superlative)

Ancestry, he thought gloatingly - but instinctively he kept this knowledge jealously.

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

“See, I told you,” he said to me, gloatingly.

2007 May 27, Fran Giuffre, “The Curtains, the Dog, the Remark”, in New York Times:


kleptomaniacally

kleptomaniacally (comparative more kleptomaniacally, superlative most kleptomaniacally)

more kleptomaniacally (comparative)
most kleptomaniacally (superlative)

as a kleptomaniac, in a kleptomaniacal manner


unintelligently

unintelligently (comparative more unintelligently, superlative most unintelligently)

more unintelligently (comparative)
most unintelligently (superlative)

At first I stared across the London valley, unintelligently.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 270:

Lacking in understanding; uncomprehendingly.


militarywise

[…] a perfect Babel of voices accompanies the clatter of plates and knives and the tramp of the waiters as they march in, militarywise, in double file, with fresh dishes.

1881, “In the Sunny Rhineland”, in Charles Dickens, Jr, editor, All the Year Round, volume 27, page 437:

It seemed to me we had a much better chance militarywise in perfecting our A-bomb weapons.

2002, Richard Polenberg, In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: the security clearance hearing, page 187:


clankily

clankily (comparative more clankily, superlative most clankily)

more clankily (comparative)
most clankily (superlative)


surlily

surlily (comparative more surlily, superlative most surlily)

more surlily (comparative)
most surlily (superlative)

One of the biggest and most redoubted of the Black Family was now in that seat of dignity, and, refusing surlily to yield it at Jasper's rude summons, was seized by the scuff of the neck, and literally hurled on the table in front.

1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do with It?:


toothachingly

toothachingly (comparative more toothachingly, superlative most toothachingly)

more toothachingly (comparative)
most toothachingly (superlative)

Sweeter still — almost toothachingly so — are chongos zamoranos, a curious confection invented in Zamora in which milk, sugar and spices are boiled for about five days then laid away in syrup.

1972, R. B. Read, Gastronomic Tour of Mexico:

While this last could be eliminated for my taste, the overall effect is not as toothachingly sweet as some of these cereals can get.

I recall the taste of the rain, sweet and toothachingly cold; the tiny blows of drops striking my eyelids; my halfbrother's laughter rippling in my ears.

These two truths coexisted in my mind without overlapping until I bit into a piece of crumb cake so texturally perfect (soft sliver of cake topped by a deep layer of grape-size crumbs), yet so toothachingly sweet that the only antidote was sucking on the lemon in my seltzer.

2007 June 6, Melissa Clark, “Sweet and Sour Sit Down to Dessert”, in New York Times:

It's why McDonald's finally downsized its portions, why you can now bake a gluten-free version of the same Betty Crocker toothachingly sweet cake mix you enjoyed as a child.

2015, Jax Peters Lowell, The Gluten-Free Revolution:

A college teacher (that makes the heart sink to begin with), he has a literary reputation about which he is agreeably modest (toothachingly), and, since Seymour committed suicide in 1948, Buddy is, at forty, the eldest Glass child.

1991: The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks, by Donald C. Farber and Robert Viagas
The critics complained that the show was toothachingly darling, though the consensus among its creators is that the show was removed from its open-stage concept and placed in a traditional proscenium environment, breaking the important connection between actor and audience.

Overly in possession of an otherwise positive trait.

Have you ever wondered how it is possible for someone to drive a motorised vehicle so toothachingly, nerverenderingly slow?


inter nos

Borrowed from Latin inter nos (“between us”). Cognate with Italian inter nos, French entre nous and Spanish entre nos.

Never could she survive that common loss; / But just suppose that moment should betide, / I only say suppose it—inter nos. / (This should be entre nous, for Julia thought / In French, but then the rhyme would go for naught.)


harshliest

superlative form of harshly: most harshly


harshlier

comparative form of harshly: more harshly


burglariously

burglariously (comparative more burglariously, superlative most burglariously)

more burglariously (comparative)
most burglariously (superlative)

John Hornby was committed on Monday last to Newgate by Justice Ward, for Burglariously entering the House of a Watchmaker in Essex-street and feloniously stealing thence seven Watches; […]

1728 April 18, “Saturday's Post: From the New London Evening Post, April 11: London, April 11”, in The British Spy: Or, Derby Post-Man, volume 1, number 40, page 1:

Cheops erected the first Pyramid / And largest, thinking it was just the thing / To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid; / But somebody or other rummaging, / Burglariously broke his coffin's lid […]

On Wednesday night two rascals burglariously entered the residence of a Mr. M'Knight, on Stanwix street, near the Point, by forcing open the back door.

1853 November 21, “Daring Outrage”, in The Daily Pittsburgh Gazette, page 3:

[…] then and there feloniously and burglariously did steal, take and carry away.

1914, Arthur Percival Will, Standard Encyclopædia of Procedure, page 243:

Under Rev. St. 1900, § 4528, permitting a charge both of burglary and larceny, when the larceny is committed at the time of the burglary in the building burglariously entered, to be joined in the same count of an information […]

1915, “STATE v. BURNS”, in The Southwestern Reporter, volume 173, page 1070:

(dated, law) As a burglar; in order to burgle.


in earnest

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

more in earnest (comparative)
most in earnest (superlative)

It's snowing in earnest right now.

The gentlemen wear swords, and may easily have pistols in their pockets—most likely have, indeed. If they fire at each other without effect, then they’ll draw, and go to work in earnest.

1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Barnaby Rudge:

But I see that if I were to live in a wilderness I should again be tempted to become a fisher and hunter in earnest.

1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter 11, in Walden:

He spoke in earnest of the importance of achieving academic excellence as well as winning football games.

1995 December 27, Guerry Clegg, “Mason era ends quickly at Georgia”, in Gainesville Sun, retrieved 2010-08-20, page 2C:

The Northern Alliance attacked in earnest on Friday night, and the Afghan Taliban soldiers immediately switched sides, while their commanders jumped into pickup trucks and sped south.

2001 November 14, Alex Perry, “Eyewitness: The Taliban Undone”, in Time:

The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

With considerable commitment, determination, or effect; significantly.

ciddi

with considerable commitment, determination, or effect

He was talking in earnest, even though his speech carried an ironic tone.


praiseworthily

praiseworthily (comparative more praiseworthily, superlative most praiseworthily)

more praiseworthily (comparative)
most praiseworthily (superlative)


freshlier

And every morn his colour freshlier came, / And every day helped on his convalescence […]

comparative form of freshly: more freshly


halfwittedly

halfwittedly (comparative more halfwittedly, superlative most halfwittedly)

more halfwittedly (comparative)
most halfwittedly (superlative)


rumly

rumly (comparative more rumly, superlative most rumly)

more rumly (comparative)
most rumly (superlative)

c. 1840–1850, Virgil's Aeneid, book v., translated by Thomas Moore
Thus rumly floor'd, the kind Acestes ran, / And pitying, raised from earth the game old man.

(UK, colloquial, dated) In a rum manner; oddly, strangely.


dysfunctionally

dysfunctionally (comparative more dysfunctionally, superlative most dysfunctionally)

more dysfunctionally (comparative)
most dysfunctionally (superlative)

“I’m hoping I can be strong enough not to be hit by that ton of bricks, not to become dysfunctionally sad,” said Ms. Cafritz, 62, as she sat on a couch in her temporary home this week.

2009 August 8, Rachel L. Swarns, “In Collection’s Ashes, a Heritage’s Seeds”, in New York Times:


feverously

feverously (comparative more feverously, superlative most feverously)

more feverously (comparative)
most feverously (superlative)


telepathetically

(rare) Alternative form of telepathically


welcomely

welcomely (comparative more welcomely, superlative most welcomely)

more welcomely (comparative)
most welcomely (superlative)

Rudely but welcomely the wind kissed the snowy sails; and the Amazon led the race, Extravaganza being second, and Wildfire close in the rear.

1858, The New Sporting Magazine, page 96:


unfeasibly

unfeasibly (comparative more unfeasibly, superlative most unfeasibly)

more unfeasibly (comparative)
most unfeasibly (superlative)

That the Clash never performed at Glastonbury is more upsetting still, not least because Joe Strummer was 'a good friend of ours'. 'They were meant to play,' says Eavis, tugging at his unfeasibly tight blue shorts.

2008 May 18, Paul Mardles, “The case study: Michael Eavis”, in The Observer:

In an unfeasible manner; not feasibly; to a degree that is impossible or impractical.


yance

From yan, itself from the Old English ān.

(dialect, Northern English dialect) once (in both senses: only one time, and formerly)


ovally

ovally (comparative more ovally, superlative most ovally)

more ovally (comparative)
most ovally (superlative)


dampeningly

dampeningly (comparative more dampeningly, superlative most dampeningly)

more dampeningly (comparative)
most dampeningly (superlative)


dampingly

dampingly (comparative more dampingly, superlative most dampingly)

more dampingly (comparative)
most dampingly (superlative)


preppily

preppily (comparative more preppily, superlative most preppily)

more preppily (comparative)
most preppily (superlative)

Two preppily-dressed students were strolling up the hill, arm in arm.


dishily

dishily (comparative more dishily, superlative most dishily)

more dishily (comparative)
most dishily (superlative)

The role of Lorelei Lee fixed Marilyn in the world's consciousness as the exaggeratedly, dishily seductive blonde — all body; no thought; little feeling; all whispery, high voice and no sensibility.

2001, Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: the biography, page 231:


reconcilingly

reconcilingly (comparative more reconcilingly, superlative most reconcilingly)

more reconcilingly (comparative)
most reconcilingly (superlative)


riantly

riantly (comparative more riantly, superlative most riantly)

more riantly (comparative)
most riantly (superlative)


louchely

louchely (comparative more louchely, superlative most louchely)

more louchely (comparative)
most louchely (superlative)


arear

arear (comparative more arear, superlative most arear)

more arear (comparative)
most arear (superlative)

Ne ever did her eyesight turn arear

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgil's Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:


SFAICT

Buffy's "stirring speech", which SFAICT boils down to "We can't fight this thing, we can't beat it, so we're going to fight it and beat it." […] ¶ SFAICT, Giles doesn't interact physically with anything or anybody in the course of this episode.

2003 March 20, David Chapman, “Repost of discussion thread for 7X10 (S7 Spoilers)”, in uk.media.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

so far as I can tell
so far as I can tell#English

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of so far as I can tell.


oleaginously

oleaginously (comparative more oleaginously, superlative most oleaginously)

more oleaginously (comparative)
most oleaginously (superlative)


plantwise

According to him, the top hat should be thought of as the pot from which Man grew from the head upwards, bifurcating plantwise at the hips.

2004, Stéphane Mallarmé, Philip Nicholas Furbank, Alex M. Cain, Mallarmé on fashion:

In the manner of a plant (non-animal organism).

Another example would be a similar report, plantwise, listing departments rather than individuals.

1963, Charles W. Brennan, Wage administration: plans, practices, and principles:


proximo

on the 3rd proximo


physiographically

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, but physiographically, it is a part of the continent of North America.


eighteenthly

In the eighteenth place; eighteenth in a row.


half-naked

From Middle English half naked, from Old English healfnacod, from Proto-Germanic *halbanakwadaz; equivalent to half- + naked.

(idiomatic) With very few clothes on; revealing lots of one's body.


unintuitively

unintuitively (comparative more unintuitively, superlative most unintuitively)

more unintuitively (comparative)
most unintuitively (superlative)


toppingly

toppingly (comparative more toppingly, superlative most toppingly)

more toppingly (comparative)
most toppingly (superlative)

(UK, informal, dated) In a topping manner; splendidly, wonderfully.


solitarily

In a winter coat and a hat with thick wool lining, Mr. Anderszewski walks solitarily along snow-covered train tracks at a railroad station, as we hear his reflections in a voice-over, in English.

2009 July 31, Anthony Tommasini, “An Ear for Mozart, a Taste for Paradox”, in New York Times:


unobstructedly

unobstructedly (comparative more unobstructedly, superlative most unobstructedly)

more unobstructedly (comparative)
most unobstructedly (superlative)

obstructedly

antonym(s) of “without being obstructed”

It does not concern men who are asleep in their beds, but it is very important to the traveller, whether the moon shines brightly or is obscured. It is not easy to realize the serene joy of all the earth, when she commences to shine unobstructedly, unless you have often been abroad alone in moonlight nights.

1863, Henry David Thoreau, “Night and Moonlight”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 12, number 72, pages 579–583:

Without being obstructed; without being hidden or blocked.

(figuratively) Without hindrance or impediment; freely.


brawly

brawly (comparative more brawly, superlative most brawly)

more brawly (comparative)
most brawly (superlative)

“And how is yourself, Cluny?” said Alan. “I hope ye do brawly, sir. And I am proud to see ye, and to present to ye my friend the Laird of Shaws, Mr. David Balfour.”

1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:

He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:


thenceafter

/ðɛnsˈɑːftə/


ASAHP

Initialism of as soon as humanly possible.


no questions asked

You do what I've told you to, no questions asked.

Any Muslim is allowed to enter the country without a visa, no questions asked.

1993 August 30, Marguerite Michaels et al., “The U.S. Thinks So”, in Time:

(of an agreement, promise, etc.) Without inquiring into the motives, circumstances, or identity of the person receiving a benefit or performing a proposed action.


deff

deff (comparative more deff, superlative most deff)

more deff (comparative)
most deff (superlative)


neway

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of anyway.


Madonnawise

Her dark chestnut hair, parted Madonnawise on her pale and thoughtful brow, fell in rich clusters down an ivory neck...

1851, The International magazine of literature, art, and science, Volume 4, page 651:

She simply sat smiling her smile of bliss, nursing her husband's feet Madonnawise on her lap.

1946, Dennis Gray Stoll, ...The dove found no rest, page 38:

Here her eyes must be wide open, gazing upward Madonnawise.

1952, Sholem Aleichem, Wandering star, page 216:


babywise

babywise (comparative more babywise, superlative most babywise)

more babywise (comparative)
most babywise (superlative)


stoundmeal

From Middle English stoundmele, stoundemele, from Old English stundmǣlum (“at times”), from stund (“stound, space of time”) + mǣlum, dative plural of mǣl (“a time”), equivalent to stound + -meal. More at stound, meal.

(obsolete) Moment by moment, or from moment to moment.


laceratingly

laceratingly (comparative more laceratingly, superlative most laceratingly)

more laceratingly (comparative)
most laceratingly (superlative)

It occurred to me that if only I could hold up a mirror, we might glimpse in it a vision of ourselves - unexpected, ridiculous, sad, and quite laceratingly amusing.

2004, Christopher Hope, White boy running, page 261:


billowingly

billowingly (comparative more billowingly, superlative most billowingly)

more billowingly (comparative)
most billowingly (superlative)

The long skirts of the dancers swirled around them billowingly.


abouts

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press


fallingly

fallingly (comparative more fallingly, superlative most fallingly)

more fallingly (comparative)
most fallingly (superlative)

Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.

1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House:

[…] he lurched forward fallingly to receive him.

1927, Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional, page 111:


cashlessly

Third World countries, where debt problems make a transactions-supply of currency hard to come by, frequently trade cashlessly with other countries.

1985, Catherine England, Banking and monetary reform: a conservative agenda, page 25:


coldheartedly

coldheartedly (comparative more coldheartedly, superlative most coldheartedly)

more coldheartedly (comparative)
most coldheartedly (superlative)


astare

One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, / Stood stupefied,

1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, in Men and Women, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 140:

passing the long college all astare with windows

1902, Mary Johnston, chapter 9, in Audrey,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 125:

A flashlight: Hugh Barton and his bride limply astare—frightened;

1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 27:

[…] the Man of the House and his wife greeted us, their children astare with wondering eyes.

1968, Austin Clarke, chapter 19, in A Penny in the Clouds, Dublin: Moytura Press, published 1990, page 151:


dropmeal

From Middle English dropmele, from Old English dropmǣlum (“one drop at a time”), equivalent to drop + -meal.

inh

(archaic) One drop at a time, drop by drop.

deliuer their vrine but dropmeale and with difficultie

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:


limberly

en-adv

limberly (comparative more limberly, superlative most limberly)

more limberly (comparative)
most limberly (superlative)


spiffingly

spiffingly (comparative more spiffingly, superlative most spiffingly)

more spiffingly (comparative)
most spiffingly (superlative)

(UK, colloquial) In a spiffing manner; wonderfully, marvellously.


cacophonously

cacophonously (comparative more cacophonously, superlative most cacophonously)

more cacophonously (comparative)
most cacophonously (superlative)


ult.

your letter of the 21ˢᵗ ult.

A CORRESPONDENT in Shantung sends us the following note, under date the 23rd ult., and adds that "the subject is of vital interest for commerce, especially if this action of Germany's contemplates the opening of Chingtao as a port in the near future. It is well known that such has been their desire for some time past."

1897 December 3, North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume LIX, number 1583, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 982, column 1:


peakily

peakily (comparative more peakily, superlative most peakily)

more peakily (comparative)
most peakily (superlative)


slammingly

slammingly (comparative more slammingly, superlative most slammingly)

more slammingly (comparative)
most slammingly (superlative)


followingly

followingly (comparative more followingly, superlative most followingly)

more followingly (comparative)
most followingly (superlative)

From Middle English folowyngly, folewyngli, folwyngliche, equivalent to following + -ly.


uncessantly

uncessantly (comparative more uncessantly, superlative most uncessantly)

more uncessantly (comparative)
most uncessantly (superlative)

how many suspitions, and thornie imaginations, and which is worse, incommuicable, did uncessantly haunt me?


as follows

Originally an impersonal construction = ‘as it follows’.

The main points are as follows


unproblematically

unproblematically (comparative more unproblematically, superlative most unproblematically)

more unproblematically (comparative)
most unproblematically (superlative)