underhandly

underhandly (comparative more underhandly, superlative most underhandly)

more underhandly (comparative)
most underhandly (superlative)


undistinctly

en-adv

undistinctly (comparative more undistinctly, superlative most undistinctly)

more undistinctly (comparative)
most undistinctly (superlative)


questingly

questingly (comparative more questingly, superlative most questingly)

more questingly (comparative)
most questingly (superlative)

The dog raised its nose questingly.

So as to quest; with curiosity, desire to search, etc.


waddlingly

waddlingly (comparative more waddlingly, superlative most waddlingly)

more waddlingly (comparative)
most waddlingly (superlative)


warblingly

warblingly (comparative more warblingly, superlative most warblingly)

more warblingly (comparative)
most warblingly (superlative)


unspiritually

unspiritually (comparative more unspiritually, superlative most unspiritually)

more unspiritually (comparative)
most unspiritually (superlative)


washily

washily (comparative more washily, superlative most washily)

more washily (comparative)
most washily (superlative)


atiptoe

From a- (prefix meaning ‘at; in; on’, used to show a condition, manner, or state) + tiptoe.

prefix

[T]he gate of going of Fortune ſeems quick and faſt, her ſpirit great, and courage proud, her hopes high and haughty: ſhe over-goeth Vertue, and approacheth neer at hand already; not mounting and lifting up her ſelfe now with her light and flight wings, not ſtanding a tiptoe upon a round ball or boule commeth ſhe wavering and doubtful; and then goeth her way afterwards in diſcontentment and diſpleasure: […]

1657, Plutarch, “Of the Romans Fortune”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophy, Commonly Called, The Morals […], revised edition, London: […] S[arah] G[riffin] for J. Kirton, […], →OCLC, page 517:

We content not our ſelves with ſtanding a tiptoe for to appear greater than others; we ſtrive ſtill either to make them fall, or for to abaſe them for to appear greater by their abaſement.

1695, [Jakob Abbadie], “Of the Two Last Characters of Pride, which are Ambition and Contempt of Ones Neighbour”, in [anonymous], transl., The Art of Knowing Ones Self: Or, A Diligent Search into the Springs of Morality. The Second Part. […], London: […] E. J. for R. Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 194:

[W]hilſt we were drinking a Glaſs of Wine, in came four of the Gang with their Hats ſtanding a Tiptoe on their Heads, and cock'd up, as if the Brims were Nail'd to the Crowns, with a whole Smith's Shop about their Swords, and a Tanners Warehouſe about their middle.

1713, William King, The Northern Atalantis: Or, York Spy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Baldwin […], →OCLC, page 28:

When I rallied him for viſiting me in ſuch a diſhabille, he ſtood a tiptoe to view himſelf in the glaſs; and owning I was in the right, ſaid that he would go and dreſs himſelf before dinner.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 260, column 1:

Our impatient friend scrambled, with some difficulty, on the top of the bench intended for his seat; and there, "paining himself to stand a-tiptoe," like [Geoffrey] Chaucer's gallant Sir Chaunticlere, he challenged the notice of the audience as he stood bowing and claiming acquaintance of his namesake, Sir Geoffrey the larger, with whose shoulders, notwithstanding his elevated situation, he was scarcely yet upon a level.

1822, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 122:

[P]eople on the floor of the court, laid their hands on the shoulders of the people before them, to help themselves, at anybody's cost, to a view of him—stood a-tiptoe, got upon ledges, stood upon next to nothing, to see every inch of him.

1859, Charles Dickens, “A Sight”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book II (The Golden Thread), page 40:

Moving a-tiptoe, silent as the elves, / As mischievous too, trip three bare-footed girls / Not yet opened to womanhood— […]

1868, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Book III”, in The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 224:

The timorous cowslips, one by one, / Trembling, chilly, atiptoe stand / On little hillocks and knolls alone; […]

1871 September 1, Robert Lord Lytton, “The Thistle”, in Fables in Song, volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1874, →OCLC, prelude, page 15:

On tiptoe; on the tips of one's toes in order to move quietly or to stand taller.

Don't you ſee that Moor who comes a tiptoe creeping and ſtealing along with his finger in his mouth behind Meliſandra? Hear what a ſmack he gives on her ſweet lips, and ſee how ſhe ſpits and wipes her mouth with her white ſmock-ſleeve!

1749, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “A Pleasant Account of the Puppet-play, with Other Very Good Things Truly”, in [Peter Anthony] Motteux, transl., edited by [John] Ozell, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. […], 8th edition, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC, part II, page 204:

But silence fell upon her atiptoe mid her thoughts, straining for the great truth of moral conduct in a world of shams and convention.

1890, H[enry] B[rereton] Marriott Watson, “The Acre Pool”, in Lady Faint-heart […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 151:

(figuratively)
Quietly, and little by little.

This day is call'd the Feaſt of Criſpian: / He that out-liues this day, and comes ſafe home, / Will ſtand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, / And rowſe him at the Name of Criſpian.

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 86, column 2:

[T]he Spaniard ſtood as high a tiptoe as ever, and notwithſtanding the vaſt expence of treaſure and blood he had been at for ſo many years, and that matters began to exaſperate more and more, which were like to prolong the Wars in infinitum, he would abate nothing in point on Eccleſiaſtick Government: […]

1622 May 11 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XV. A Survey of the Seventeen Provinces.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section II, page 80:

Druina’s Majeſty never ſtood ſo high a tiptoe, nor ſhind vvith a greater luſtre; […]

1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], “A Character of Lurana”, in ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC, page 53:

O, a Woman can do a great deal, if once ſhe ſets her mind to it. Therefore pray don't ſtand trifling any longer, and teaſing your ſelf with this and that, and your Love and your Vertue, and I know not what. But reſolve to hold up your Head, get a Tiptoe, and look over 'em all; […]

1696 November (first performance), [John Vanbrugh], The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger: […], [London]: […] Samuel Briscoe […], published 1697, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 54:

Without retreating from adversity, confrontation, or danger; standing tall; bravely, proudly, unyieldingly.

Consider therefore if, on this Wednesday morning, there is an affluence of Patriotism; if Paris stands a-tiptoe, and all Deputies are at their post! […] Meanwhile expectant Patriotism and Paris standing a-tiptoe, have need of patience.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Three Votings”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age), page 141:

[A]ll Europe now stands atiptoe, anxiously watching for the what next.

1862 September 6, “Italy”, in The Illustrated London News, volume XLI, number 1163, London: […] George C. Leighton […], →OCLC, page 254, column 1:

In a state of anticipation; keenly awaiting.


needsly

en-adv

needsly (comparative more needsly, superlative most needsly)

more needsly (comparative)
most needsly (superlative)

(obsolete) Of necessity; for some pressing reason.


objectivistically

objectivistically (comparative more objectivistically, superlative most objectivistically)

more objectivistically (comparative)
most objectivistically (superlative)


subjectivistically

subjectivistically (comparative more subjectivistically, superlative most subjectivistically)

more subjectivistically (comparative)
most subjectivistically (superlative)


aknee

Aknee they fell before the Prince.

1805, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Madoc, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A[rchibald] Constable and Co, […], by James Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:


fertilely

fertilely (comparative more fertilely, superlative most fertilely)

more fertilely (comparative)
most fertilely (superlative)


bedeen

From Middle English bedene, bidene, of uncertain origin. Believed to be a formation of bid-, alteration (perhaps through conflation with Middle English mid (“with”) or with) of bi (“by”) + ene (“once”), from Old English ǣne (“once, at once”), related to Old English ān (“one”), equivalent to be- + one.

all bedeen

(obsolete) As a single unit or body; together.

(obsolete) In order; one after another; in single file.

(obsolete) Immediately; forthwith; quickly; straightway; anon; soon; early on; by and by.


entierly

Lord John contradicts Mr. Murray entierly as to what he ses about the Regiment, at the same time he gives Murray the best caracter in the world, saying that anything he ces I may depend upon it to be true, Note bene, tho Lord John nose I have had fresh accounts from Middlebury, he does not suspect it was Murray, tho’ he immagins I may have seen him, for he has none of his being in the neibourod.

1774, Charles P. quoted in Publications of the Scottish History Society, page #387


fornigh

fornigh (comparative more fornigh, superlative most fornigh)

more fornigh (comparative)
most fornigh (superlative)

From Middle English forneh, forneah, from Old English fornēah (“very nearly, almost, about”), equivalent to for- + nigh. Compare similarly formed German beinah, Dutch bijna, both meaning “almost”.

inh

It'll be fornigh ten 'ear sin then'

(dialectal, of time) Very nearly; almost.


adæquately

en-adv

adæquately (comparative more adæquately, superlative most adæquately)

more adæquately (comparative)
most adæquately (superlative)


æternally

Which I speak of charitie, loue, & compassion of my deare contriemen : being assured, that if they perish in bodie, (as it is to be feared, they shal do in that seruice,) they shal lose their soules also everlastingly : and shal æternally curse those, that ledde them out of their countrie to so certayne perdition.

1587, William Allen quoted in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume XXV, page 29


bewilderedly

bewilderedly (comparative more bewilderedly, superlative most bewilderedly)

more bewilderedly (comparative)
most bewilderedly (superlative)

Carlen was crying bitterly; the letter was just ended, when Alf came into the room asking bewilderedly what it was all about.

1888, Helen Hunt Jackson, “The Mystery of Wilhelm Rütte”, in Between Whiles:

He said good night and left her wondering bewilderedly what strange thing her dad would do next.

1917, B. M. Bower, chapter 2, in Starr, of the Desert:

But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly: "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot?"

1944 December 25, “America: Pattern of Revolution”, in Time:

Once, this neo-Gothic landmark in Chelsea was the Church of the Holy Communion. . . . A decade later, it was Limelight, the nightclub-slash-den of depravity. . . . Today that fabled nightclub is a mall. . . . Entering by a side door, one young woman patently ignorant of the place’s tainted past, glanced around bewilderedly. “I thought that this was a house of God,” she murmured.

2010 May 19, Ruth La Ferla, “Where God and the Devil Once Lived”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-30:

In a bewildered manner; with puzzlement.


præcisely

præcisely (comparative more præcisely, superlative most præcisely)

more præcisely (comparative)
most præcisely (superlative)

Go tooe then, seinge thankes, to speake præcisely, ar but wordes.

circa 1579, Gabriel Harvey quoted in Letter‐Book of Gabriel Harvey, page 77


Oedipally

Oedipally (comparative more Oedipally, superlative most Oedipally)

more Oedipally (comparative)
most Oedipally (superlative)


netheless

From ne + the + less. Compare earlier natheless.

Therfor the Lord seide to Sathan, Lo! he is in thin hond; netheles kepe thou his lijf.

Now by my foule, Diggon, I lament / The haplesle mischiefe that has thee hent; / Nethelesse thou feest my lowly faile, / That froward Fortune doth ever availe [...].

1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar:


lacklustrely

lacklustrely (comparative more lacklustrely, superlative most lacklustrely)

more lacklustrely (comparative)
most lacklustrely (superlative)


labiodentally

If this were indeed so, the p and b in lip-service, laptop, lapdog, sob-story, adoptive, etc. ought also to be pronounced labiodentally.

1999, Iggy Roca, Wyn Johnson, A course in phonology, page 33:


statedly

As his family increased, he had a minister statedly resident in his house, who discharged both the office of a tutor to his children, and of a chaplain, and who was always treated with a becoming kindness and respect.

1745, P. Doddridge, The Life of Col. James Gardiner:

They were statedly instructed in morality and religion.

1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus:

Opposite the windows was a large range, on which the dinner for the family and for various ladies who statedly dine in the institution was cooking.

1889, Minerva Brace Norton, In and Around Berlin:

She expressed a trust that the Lord would overrule both the death of her sister and the personal acquaintance with me that resulted from it, to a present and future good, as it respected herself, and also her parents, with whom she statedly lived, and to whom she expected to return in a few days.

1900, Legh Richmond, The Annals of the Poor:


slantingly

slantingly (comparative more slantingly, superlative most slantingly)

more slantingly (comparative)
most slantingly (superlative)

In consequence of this I could only manage to observe that the leaves of the plant are thrown for a few seconds into boiling water, and then placed in flat iron pans, fixed slantingly in stone-work, where they are slightly roasted by a gentle heat, during which process they are continually stirred by hand.

1850, Ida Pfeiffer, A Woman's Journey Round the World:

As the clerk spoke he looked slantingly on the page, as a person might do to discover if some writing were dry.

1895, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta:

The hammer-handle had struck slantingly across my forehead, and my head ached from the blow.

1905, Meredith Nicholson, The House of a Thousand Candles:

It was afternoon, and the sun shone slantingly on the waters of the river, above which on the hills amid trees and flowering gardens stood the house of Captain Andrew Brown.

1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence:

The glaring sunshine which at its take-off had shone squarely in its bow-ports, now poured down slantingly from behind.


silverly

silverly (comparative more silverly, superlative most silverly)

more silverly (comparative)
most silverly (superlative)

"This river does not see the naked sky, Till it begins to progress silverly Around the western border of the wood, Whence, from a certain spot, its winding flood Seems at the distance like a crescent moon: And in that nook, the very pride of June, Had I been used to pass my weary eves; The rather for the sun unwilling leaves So dear a picture of his sovereign power, And I could witness his most kingly hour, When he doth lighten up the golden reins, And paces leisurely down amber plains His snorting four.

And when night comes, his spirits with chill feet, Winged with white mirth and noiseless mockery, Across men's pallid windows peer and fleet, And smiling silverly Draw with mute fingers on the frosted glass Quaint fairy shapes of iced witcheries, Pale flowers and glinting ferns and frigid trees And meads of mystic grass, Graven in many an austere phantasy.

1888, Archibald Lampman, Among the Millet and Other Poems:

There was a tiny wren singing among the Balm-o'-Gilead trees on the opposite shore, with a voice that rose silverly above the noise of the rapids.

The sun is well In the core of a sky Domed silverly.

1921, Amy Lowell, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed:

(poetic) With a silver appearance or sound.


not long

"How long have you been in the service?" ―"Not long."

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, long.

"[…] You ought to try one of these biscuits. They're good."
"I've not long had breakfast," Morgan told him.

1976, L. P. Davies, Possession, The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 138:


alla breve

Borrowed from Italian alla breve (“at the breve”).

(music) According to the time signature for which the half note is the beat and there are two beats per measure.


unclassically

unclassically (comparative more unclassically, superlative most unclassically)

more unclassically (comparative)
most unclassically (superlative)

It looks great there, clean but organic — fecund, tumid, enwrapping — and unclassically classical.

2008 June 27, Holland Cotter, “Raw Materials of a Life, Revealed by Sculpture”, in New York Times:


slippingly

slippingly (comparative more slippingly, superlative most slippingly)

more slippingly (comparative)
most slippingly (superlative)


limitedly

limitedly (comparative more limitedly, superlative most limitedly)

more limitedly (comparative)
most limitedly (superlative)


pervertedly

pervertedly (comparative more pervertedly, superlative most pervertedly)

more pervertedly (comparative)
most pervertedly (superlative)

In a perverted, twisted, or corrupt manner.


midmatch

We left the stadium midmatch because the crowd was getting violent.

Oft-injured even in his youth, he is breaking down in new places in his tennis dotage: a fractured rib and abdominal injury in 2022 and the hip injury in 2023, sustained midmatch in his straight-set defeats to Mackenzie McDonald in the second round in Australia.

2023 May 18, Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, in The New York Times:


ruminatingly

ruminatingly (comparative more ruminatingly, superlative most ruminatingly)

more ruminatingly (comparative)
most ruminatingly (superlative)

"And it always seems to me," he went on ruminatingly, "that, after all we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go. I know it's shocking blasphemy to say so, but then it's different here, you see. We are further away."

While ruminating; with thought or meditation.


lubriciously

lubriciously (comparative more lubriciously, superlative most lubriciously)

more lubriciously (comparative)
most lubriciously (superlative)


soundwise

soundwise (comparative more soundwise, superlative most soundwise)

more soundwise (comparative)
most soundwise (superlative)

Soundwise, I think Spanish is a lot like Italian.

Pertaining to, concerning, or regarding sound or sounds.


gradely

gradely (comparative more gradely, superlative most gradely)

more gradely (comparative)
most gradely (superlative)

From earlier graithly, from Middle English graythely, graydly, graitheli, graithlich, grathliche, graythelyche, from Old Norse greiðliga, equivalent to graith + -ly.

(UK, regional, obsolete) readily, speedily


sightwise

sightwise (comparative more sightwise, superlative most sightwise)

more sightwise (comparative)
most sightwise (superlative)

It's also true that a deer is at some disadvantage, sightwise, when the sun is high and the light strong.

Pertaining to, concerning, or regarding sight or vision.

Most of what you'll want to see sightwise occurs from the Public Library on the east; to the west are somewhat grungier blocks, running into the borders of Times Square and the Garment District.

2002, Martin Dunford, Jack Holland, Rough guide to New York City:

Pertaining to, concerning, or regarding sights or things seen.


wordwise

Turn the page and get an edge in wordwise.

2005, Charles Harrington Elster, What in the word?:

Pertaining to, concerning, or regarding words; verbally.

(computing) In terms of words (fixed groups of binary digits); one word of data at a time.


listwise

listwise (comparative more listwise, superlative most listwise)

more listwise (comparative)
most listwise (superlative)

Exclude missing values listwise.


pingingly

pingingly (comparative more pingingly, superlative most pingingly)

more pingingly (comparative)
most pingingly (superlative)

Interestingly, it was Mr. Fairchild, making his debut on Wednesday in the role originated by Peter Martins, who, again, made every movement alert, full-bodied, pingingly musical.

2009 February 6, Alastair Macaulay, “Revisiting Bernstein’s Mean Streets and Balanchine’s Architectures”, in New York Times:


golfwise

Our family situation is more important than anything I’m doing golfwise.

2009 February 4, Larry Dorman, “Woods Remains Busy as He Plots His Return”, in New York Times:


unhypocritically

unhypocritically (comparative more unhypocritically, superlative most unhypocritically)

more unhypocritically (comparative)
most unhypocritically (superlative)

You can unhypocritically urge your children to heed a single standard: Obey the law.

2009 February 8, Randy Cohen, “Dutch Treat?”, in New York Times:


midfloor

Tenants have complained for years that the elevators are unsafe and unreliable, often stalling midfloor or refusing to work at all.

2009 February 7, Ray Rivera, “New York Documents Show Elevator Mechanics Caught Skipping Work”, in New York Times:


youthward

When a 47-year-old becomes president by trouncing a 72-year-old opponent, there’s every reason to think that the tide is turning youthward.

2009 February 12, Gail Collins, “The Stump Theory”, in New York Times:


sentencewise

sentencewise (comparative more sentencewise, superlative most sentencewise)

more sentencewise (comparative)
most sentencewise (superlative)

The size of wall at which I do not greet the night but inch along after it sentencewise.

1982, Clark Coolidge, Mine: the one that enters the stories:

In a manner relating to sentences; sentence by sentence.


inconsiderably

inconsiderably (comparative more inconsiderably, superlative most inconsiderably)

more inconsiderably (comparative)
most inconsiderably (superlative)

Income from audio books helps not inconsiderably to keep authors, and publishers, afloat.

2009 February 25, Roy Blount Jr., “The Kindle Swindle?”, in New York Times:


excoriatingly

excoriatingly (comparative more excoriatingly, superlative most excoriatingly)

more excoriatingly (comparative)
most excoriatingly (superlative)

Released in Britain last fall, “The Believers” prompted a reviewer to write in The Guardian that Audrey is “a hilarious, foul-mouthed harridan: part monster, part inspiring law unto herself, her approach so excoriatingly direct that the reader waits in wincing glee for her next spitting and swearing tirade.”

2009 February 26, Patricia Cohen, “Not Much Sympathy for Zoë Heller’s Characters, but a Little Understanding”, in New York Times:


thriftlessly

thriftlessly (comparative more thriftlessly, superlative most thriftlessly)

more thriftlessly (comparative)
most thriftlessly (superlative)

At the heart of the alleged “paradox of thrift” is the belief that private citizens behaving unwisely (thriftlessly) can at times produce good societal results.

2009 February 18, “The Way We Save: There’s No Paradox in Thrift”, in New York Times:


midsequence

So when Darren Chiacchia, an elite rider who competed for the United States in the 2004 Athens Olympics, missed the first few maneuvers of his dressage test during a low-level competition here, the judge asked him to stop midsequence.

2009 February 23, Katie Thomas, “Equestrian Rider’s Recovery Serves as Reminder of Sport’s Danger”, in New York Times:


biodynamically

Aside from a preference for wines from grapes grown organically or biodynamically, Ms. Feiring has one major rule for pairing wine with highly spiced foods: “Oak and high alcohol don’t work,” she said.

2009 February 25, Eric Asimov, “Asian Fusion, via the Wine List”, in New York Times:


gruntingly

gruntingly (comparative more gruntingly, superlative most gruntingly)

more gruntingly (comparative)
most gruntingly (superlative)


dividedly

dividedly (comparative more dividedly, superlative most dividedly)

more dividedly (comparative)
most dividedly (superlative)

If God be omnipresent, he cannot be so dividedly, a part of him here and a part 28 Ibid. pp. 1, 16. 29 Ibid. pp. 48, 142, 174. 30 Vishnu Purana, p. 57. 31 Ibid. p. 651. 32 Rammohun Roy, Translations from the Veda, 2d ed., London, 1832, pp. 69, 39, 10. of him there; but the whole of him must be in every particle of matter, in every point of space, in all infinitude.

1880, William Rounseville Alger, The Destiny of the Soul:

She was dividedly conscious of a desire to laugh and of the notion that she must remain outwardly serious, because though this horrible Pemberton man was talking abject nonsense, she would presently be having him as a dinner-guest.

1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck:


dignifiedly

dignifiedly (comparative more dignifiedly, superlative most dignifiedly)

more dignifiedly (comparative)
most dignifiedly (superlative)

As for the mulatto waiter, after a moment more of hesitation, he took Ford's order, and walked dignifiedly away, muttering,-- "Nebber seen de like afore.

The morning after the perfection of the invention Simpson called upon Mr. Grampus and calmly, coldly, and dignifiedly announced that his lock was complete, and that he was now about to install it in the Grampus front door.

1899, Stanley Waterloo, The Wolf's Long Howl:

The tea had been poured and handed around the table by the Portuguese girl, Marie, and the sugar-bowl was going after, when she settled herself and her ruffles daintily between Grant and a braided, green-blanketed, dignifiedly loquacious Indian.


unlaughingly

unlaughingly (comparative more unlaughingly, superlative most unlaughingly)

more unlaughingly (comparative)
most unlaughingly (superlative)


ethnographically

In this review essay, I reflect on the pros and cons of studying events ethnographically.

2017, Thijs van Dooremalen, “The pros and cons of researching events ethnographically”, in Ethnography, vol 18(3):

In an ethnographic manner, in a way inspired by, or relating to, ethnography.

[274] Hence the Western Islanders of Torres Straits form a transition both geographically and ethnographically between the aborigines of Australia on the one side and the aborigines of New Guinea on the other side.

1913, Sir James George Frazer, The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3):

Straws are just one of the unconventional but commonplace items Dohner uses in addition to traditional materials like ceramic, glass, and wood in his series of witty, ethnographically inspired works now on view at Ten in One Gallery.

1994 October 28, Jeff Huebner, “Art People: Luke Dohner's reverential rip-offs”, in Chicago Reader:

Regarding the ethnography (of a region).


untragically

untragically (comparative more untragically, superlative most untragically)

more untragically (comparative)
most untragically (superlative)


saggingly

saggingly (comparative more saggingly, superlative most saggingly)

more saggingly (comparative)
most saggingly (superlative)

It all feels tasteful, companionable and often saggingly dull.

2009 March 9, The New York Times, “Back to Gale-Force Power”, in New York Times:


excretorily

excretorily (comparative more excretorily, superlative most excretorily)

more excretorily (comparative)
most excretorily (superlative)

Still, novelists love those kinky, stinky Nazis — like Norman Mailer ’s excretorily fixated young Adi Hitler in “The Castle in the Forest” and A. N. Wilson ’s full-grown flatulent Führer in “Winnie and Wolf” — with their telltale mania for purity, order and efficiency.

2009 March 8, David Gates, “The Monster in the Mirror”, in New York Times:


perspectively

Once into the 1990s, thinly drawn egg- and pill-shaped ovals appear everywhere, leaning together, like Modigliani heads or plates seen perspectively in a cupboard.

2009 March 13, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:

By means of perspective; in perspective.


estimably

estimably (comparative more estimably, superlative most estimably)

more estimably (comparative)
most estimably (superlative)

The name of the sisters Frank stood estimably at the head of this useful establishment; but it is a question whether it would have prospered to such an extent, whether it would have developed itself so beautifully and well without the assistance of a person who, however, has carefully concealed his activity from the eye of the public, and whose name, for that reason, was never praised.

He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met.

1901, Miles Franklin, “Aunt Helen’s Recipe”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 70:

Director Breillat, screenwriter for Maurice Pialat's estimably gritty Police (1985), thoroughly demolishes every trace of prurience, instead focusing on the almost dizzying conflict within Lili--her confusion over her hunger for life and her anger at it.

1989 April 7, Kurt Jacobsen, “Losing It”, in Chicago Reader:

In an estimable manner; deserving of esteem.


relatably

relatably (comparative more relatably, superlative most relatably)

more relatably (comparative)
most relatably (superlative)


ayelp

ayelp (comparative more ayelp, superlative most ayelp)

more ayelp (comparative)
most ayelp (superlative)

What with preachers all ayelp,
Grinding chaff into barren grists,
There's no spare time left for help
With the Four Evangelists.

1910, Daniel Henry Holmes, Under a Fool's Cap: Songs, page 62:


flagitiously

flagitiously (comparative more flagitiously, superlative most flagitiously)

more flagitiously (comparative)
most flagitiously (superlative)


simoniacally

simoniacally (comparative more simoniacally, superlative most simoniacally)

more simoniacally (comparative)
most simoniacally (superlative)


leally

leally (comparative more leally, superlative most leally)

more leally (comparative)
most leally (superlative)


swoonily

swoonily (comparative more swoonily, superlative most swoonily)

more swoonily (comparative)
most swoonily (superlative)

Claude, swoonily charming, master of the “stratospheric orgasm” and genuinely in love with Eloise — their rupture came when she had an abortion without telling him — incorporates a whole buttery serving of great-French-lover clichés.

2009 March 26, Richard Eder, “Even a Failing Mind Feels the Tug of History”, in New York Times:


midplay

LaBute’s plays are, in fact, so provocative that some past audience members have walked out midplay or screamed out “kill the playwright” or slapped an actor’s face after a performance.

2009 March 29, Pat Jordan, “Neil LaBute Has a Thing About Beauty”, in New York Times:


burdensomely

burdensomely (comparative more burdensomely, superlative most burdensomely)

more burdensomely (comparative)
most burdensomely (superlative)

On this and other shows, and in her 2008 biography, “sTori Telling,” Tori Spelling freely discusses her “complicated” relationship with her mother, her distress at the will, and her burdensomely privileged childhood.

2009 April 5, Liesl Schillinger, “Monkey See? Monkey, Do Tell”, in New York Times:


secretarially

secretarially (comparative more secretarially, superlative most secretarially)

more secretarially (comparative)
most secretarially (superlative)

I spent my adolescence touch-typing, convinced my life would be passed secretarially, my left pinkie building novelty muscle manning the A. Then the technology changed, and I improvised an inelegant three-finger style for computer keyboards.

2009 April 5, Virginia Heffernan, “I Hate My iPhone”, in New York Times:


unisexually

The only problem is that the dancers were talking about doing something they loved, and the servers, as the wait staff members are unisexually known, are doing something they hate, just to pay the bills.

2009 April 10, Anita Gates, “What Waiters Talk About While Diners Are Waiting”, in New York Times:


competingly

competingly (comparative more competingly, superlative most competingly)

more competingly (comparative)
most competingly (superlative)


aiblins

I'll no say but she may aiblins hae been his Honour's, Squire Thorncliff's, in her day, but she's mine now.

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 109:

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press


premeditatively

premeditatively (comparative more premeditatively, superlative most premeditatively)

more premeditatively (comparative)
most premeditatively (superlative)

“Sure, I would want to get involved, but we’ve been premeditatively kept out of it,” Mr. Padavan said, adding that he would support a payroll tax but saw bridge tolls as problematic.

2009 April 13, William Neuman, “M.T.A. Rescue Plan May Hinge on Highway Spending, and Republican Support”, in New York Times:

In a premeditative manner; with premeditation.


ornithologically

But Perry, Cabrera and Campbell could hear the Masters bird choir tweeting (that’s 140 characters or less, ornithologically speaking) over the quiet of the gallery following them.

2009 April 14, Richard Sandomir, “Live From the Masters, It’s Not the Leaders”, in New York Times:


crumblingly

crumblingly (comparative more crumblingly, superlative most crumblingly)

more crumblingly (comparative)
most crumblingly (superlative)


tearily

tearily (comparative more tearily, superlative most tearily)

more tearily (comparative)
most tearily (superlative)

When Danna Walker left the second-floor conference room and returned tearily to her desk — where someone had already deposited a packing box for her belongings — her first thought was not of the 14 years she had worked for DHL or the loss of her $37,000-a-year salary.

2009 April 21, Kevin Sack, “With Son in Remission, Family Looks for Coverage”, in New York Times:


slurrily

slurrily (comparative more slurrily, superlative most slurrily)

more slurrily (comparative)
most slurrily (superlative)

“I want to see how people who come here hold themselves and their drinks,” he explained slurrily, guzzling his own.

2009 April 19, Leanne Shear, “O.K., So It’s Not That European”, in New York Times:


syllabically

Entries on her personal Twitter stream are all written as senryu, a syllabically constrained poetic form like haiku.

2009 April 22, Lawrence Downes, “Take 1 Recipe, Mince, Reduce, Serve”, in New York Times:


livingly

livingly (comparative more livingly, superlative most livingly)

more livingly (comparative)
most livingly (superlative)

Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

If we believed—if the great mass of people known as the civilized world did actually and livingly believe—that there was really anything beyond or above the physical order of nature, our children's literature, wrongly so called, would not be what it is.

1887, Julian Hawthorne, “Literature for Children”, in Confessions and Criticisms:

A man very rarely has an image of a person with whom he is livingly, vitally connected. He only has dream-images of the persons who, in some way, oppose his life-flow and his soul's freedom, and so become impressed upon his plasm as objects of resistance.

1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Sleep and Dreams”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 104:

In actual living experience; really, vitally.

It was so strange, to have that gay Italian bay, with all its memories, […] and those great old heroes, with their awful deeds for good and evil, all brought so suddenly and livingly before me, […]

1849 July, Charles Kingsley, “North Devon”, in Prose Idylls, New and Old, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1873, →OCLC, page 248:

Take an extreme case. A group of people are photographed by Edison's new process—say Titiens, Trebelli, and Jenny Lind, with any two of the finest men singers the age has known—let them be photographed incessantly for half an hour while they perform a scene in "Lohengrin"; let all be done stereoscopically. Let them be phonographed at the same time so that their minutest shades of intonation are preserved, let the slides be coloured by a competent artist, and then let the scene be called suddenly into sight and sound, say a hundred years hence. Are those people dead or alive? Dead to themselves they are, but while they live so powerfully and so livingly in us, which is the greater paradox—to say that they are alive or that they are dead?

c. 1889, Samuel Butler, “How To Make the Best of Life”, in Essays on Life, Art and Science:

You should have heard him speak of what he loved; […] Here was a piece of experience solidly and livingly built up in words, here was a story created, teres atque rotundus.

1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Beggars”, in Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 261:

Realistically; as if experienced in life or as if alive.


nondigitally

This time, the product is more tied to mobile devices like the iPhone and involves “collecting” digital icons by (nondigitally) visiting certain spots in various cities.

2009 May 3, Rob Walker, “Immaterialism”, in New York Times:


unprosperously

unprosperously (comparative more unprosperously, superlative most unprosperously)

more unprosperously (comparative)
most unprosperously (superlative)


orgiastically

orgiastically (comparative more orgiastically, superlative most orgiastically)

more orgiastically (comparative)
most orgiastically (superlative)

Then, for the appalling bacchanal in the last act, a disaster in most productions, Israeli soldiers dance orgiastically with their phallic rifles.

2009 May 7, Michael Kimmelman, “In Belgium, Samson Gets a Makeover”, in New York Times:


uptightly

uptightly (comparative more uptightly, superlative most uptightly)

more uptightly (comparative)
most uptightly (superlative)

Child-women were bowed and baby-dolled up to resemble decorative Easter eggs: newly and uptightly pregnant (a paragon of marital fidelity), half-crippled by feminine weakness and excess luxury, declawed and wholly dominated by the unstoppable twin libidos of war and Wall Street.

2009 May 7, Cintra Wilson, “Is There a Setting for High Strung?”, in New York Times:


smearily

smearily (comparative more smearily, superlative most smearily)

more smearily (comparative)
most smearily (superlative)

Their feeble pamphlets, their smearily printed newspaper, seemed futile against the enormous blare of Corpo propaganda.

1935, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 29, in It Can’t Happen Here, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran:

Here was the pretty Chinese table whose top had been greased smearily by the flat feet of Ariffin doing his little dance.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:

Although her lower lip was thin and she used eyebrow pencil a bit smearily, she had a way with clothes.

1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, pages 121–122:


loomingly

loomingly (comparative more loomingly, superlative most loomingly)

more loomingly (comparative)
most loomingly (superlative)

(It seems to me now, many years later, that I was expressing early on a chronic depressive’s wish to stay home, on the inside, instead of taking on the outside, loomingly hostile world in the form of classmates and teachers.)

2009 May 10, Daphne Merkin, “A Journey Through Darkness”, in New York Times:


language-agnostic

(software) In a manner that is independent of the computer language being used.


subtilely

subtilely (comparative more subtilely, superlative most subtilely)

more subtilely (comparative)
most subtilely (superlative)


astoundedly

astoundedly (comparative more astoundedly, superlative most astoundedly)

more astoundedly (comparative)
most astoundedly (superlative)


crazedly

crazedly (comparative more crazedly, superlative most crazedly)

more crazedly (comparative)
most crazedly (superlative)


doosed

doosed (comparative more doosed, superlative most doosed)

more doosed (comparative)
most doosed (superlative)

"Upon my word she's a doosed good-looking little thing," said Archie, coming up to him, after having also shaken hands with her; — "doosed good-looking, I call her."

c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings:

I thought my nephew a fool ; I now know that he is a doosed sensible fellow, and the luckiest dog in Christendom — luckiest dog in Christendom, I declare.

1872, Laurence William M. Lockhart, Fair to see, page 149:

Accepted me, did she? Doosed awkward, that. I thought she had more sense.

1938, G.B. Lancaster (Edith Joan Lyttleton), Promenade, page 143:

(degree, dated) Eye dialect spelling of deuced.


perishingly

perishingly (comparative more perishingly, superlative most perishingly)

more perishingly (comparative)
most perishingly (superlative)

The party was short of water and rationed, and such water as they first found was salty, so that they got perishingly thirsty.

1926, Charles Francis Saunders, Trees and shrubs of California gardens:

There were low groans of pain as the field plunged into the perishingly cold water.

2009 January 5, Matthew Weaver, “Our man in the ... Annual mud race in Essex”, in The Guardian:


unjudiciously

unjudiciously (comparative more unjudiciously, superlative most unjudiciously)

more unjudiciously (comparative)
most unjudiciously (superlative)


palliatively

In the case of Ethel Hannah, he says, the family could have instructed the hospital to not treat her pneumonia and to treat her palliatively.


titanically

titanically (comparative more titanically, superlative most titanically)

more titanically (comparative)
most titanically (superlative)

His parents — a restless, titanically self-involved father and a mother who cultivated her inner life in strict solitude — seem a much likelier source for his condition.

2009 May 24, Laura Miller, “Faking It”, in New York Times:


astonishedly

astonishedly (comparative more astonishedly, superlative most astonishedly)

more astonishedly (comparative)
most astonishedly (superlative)

"For the buttons?"—and "Uncle" stares astonishedly at me—"for these buttons?"

1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part II”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 147:


planetside

EOS (HNS) - Dead Coming Home
The remains of colonists who died in the first attempts to settle Eos are coming home. Remains from Sites 1 and 2 have finally been recovered, giving closure to numerous families aboard the Nexus. There are now calls for an inquiry into why the bodies were left planetside after two failed attempts to establish outposts.

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-12, PC, scene: Nexus:


home-along

“[…]And what did the lady say then?”
“I can't mind. Please, Master Reddleman, may I go home-along now?”

1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native:

(UK, dialect, archaic) To one's home; homeward.


torsionally

torsionally flexible structural elements


vortically

It is possible that fluid may circulate in a region either vortically or non-vortically.

1945, Alexander Hopkins McDannald, editor, The Encyclopedia Americana, volume 14, page 567:

1990, David A. Clarke, An Overview of Computational MHD Jets and Their Comparisons with Recent High Resolution Radio Images, R. Beck, P. P. Kronberg, R. Wielebinski, Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields, International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 140, page 406,
This results when a small region, whose magnetic field is grossly amplified by vortically induced shear, is spun about the symmetry axis.

In terms of literacy growth, it is a solution that is vortically self-propagating and self-defeating, for it is a solution that denies students the very language, information, and modes of thought that they need most in order to move up and on.

2009, Marilyn Jager Adams, “8: The Challenge of Advanced Texts: The Interdepenednce of Reading and Learning”, in Elfrieda H. Hiebert, editor, Reading More, Reading Better, page 182:

In a vortical manner; in terms of, or by means of, a vortex.


nonrecently

At a time that is not recent; some time ago.


haphazardously

haphazardously (comparative more haphazardously, superlative most haphazardously)

more haphazardously (comparative)
most haphazardously (superlative)


antibacterially

an antibacterially active substance


phrenziedly

phrenziedly (comparative more phrenziedly, superlative most phrenziedly)

more phrenziedly (comparative)
most phrenziedly (superlative)


any longer

I won't put up with her behaviour any longer!

(chiefly in the negative) In negative or interrogative constructions: from a given time onwards.


policywise

“And the worst thing is that we haven’t done anything policywise to turn New Jersey around and make it an economic power again.

2009 May 28, Peter Applebome, “New Jersey G.O.P. Shows Same Moves in the Ring”, in New York Times:


scatologically

scatologically (comparative more scatologically, superlative most scatologically)

more scatologically (comparative)
most scatologically (superlative)

They also have sexually and scatologically suggestive elements nicely offsetting the hallucinogenic beauty.

2009 May 29, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:


jitteringly

jitteringly (comparative more jitteringly, superlative most jitteringly)

more jitteringly (comparative)
most jitteringly (superlative)

In later centuries, the masses of European immigrants making footfall in New York’s streets saw the turbid, jostling, unprecedented mix of peoples, all striving to get ahead, and called the jitteringly new phenomenon “American.”

2009 May 31, “Reaching Here”, in New York Times:


aspirationally

aspirationally (comparative more aspirationally, superlative most aspirationally)

more aspirationally (comparative)
most aspirationally (superlative)

Some recipes are aspirationally insane — fried chicken and andouille gumbo, or “game day” choucroute with sausage, tasso and duck confit — while others I simply aspire to make, like a fried oyster and bacon sandwich (bacon recipe included), and Link’s outstanding boudin, which he also uses as a heart-stopping beignet filling.

2009 May 31, Christine Muhlke, “Cookbooks”, in New York Times:


apologizingly

apologizingly (comparative more apologizingly, superlative most apologizingly)

more apologizingly (comparative)
most apologizingly (superlative)


repellantly

repellantly (comparative more repellantly, superlative most repellantly)

more repellantly (comparative)
most repellantly (superlative)


zerothly

From zeroth + -ly, on the model of firstly, secondly, and so on.

(rare) In the zeroth place; before even the first thing.


glidingly

glidingly (comparative more glidingly, superlative most glidingly)

more glidingly (comparative)
most glidingly (superlative)

She moved gracefully and glidingly among the other dancers.


expostulatingly

expostulatingly (comparative more expostulatingly, superlative most expostulatingly)

more expostulatingly (comparative)
most expostulatingly (superlative)


woundedly

woundedly (comparative more woundedly, superlative most woundedly)

more woundedly (comparative)
most woundedly (superlative)

Overhearing the insult, he stalked woundedly out of the room.


unplausibly

unplausibly (comparative more unplausibly, superlative most unplausibly)

more unplausibly (comparative)
most unplausibly (superlative)


pharisaically

pharisaically (comparative more pharisaically, superlative most pharisaically)

more pharisaically (comparative)
most pharisaically (superlative)

(chiefly Christianity) In a pharisaical manner.


unapproachably

unapproachably (comparative more unapproachably, superlative most unapproachably)

more unapproachably (comparative)
most unapproachably (superlative)

She seemed unapproachably cold and aloof.

[T]he wench was afflicted with religion and unapproachably austere.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 41:

[…] and with the two promised Sheffielders, Driver Elliott and Fireman Lewis, we were soon on our way over the most unapproachably dreary region of the whole run, scarcely to be paralleled in the Black Country itself.

1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:


thermochemically

thermochemically activated oxidation


overcritically

overcritically (comparative more overcritically, superlative most overcritically)

more overcritically (comparative)
most overcritically (superlative)


overeagerly

overeagerly (comparative more overeagerly, superlative most overeagerly)

more overeagerly (comparative)
most overeagerly (superlative)

From Middle English overegreli, ouer egirly, equivalent to overeager + -ly.


asudden

1941, Gilbert Murray (translating Sophocles), The Antigone
Then, all asudden, up a great wind blew,
A lifted scourge, an anguish of the air.

(poetic or dialect) of a sudden; suddenly


starly

starly (comparative more starly, superlative most starly)

more starly (comparative)
most starly (superlative)

For the sense-datum theory, we have a sense-datum produced by it as it was; on the adverbial view, we are sensing "starly" in the way we would have if we had received the relevant visual stimuli at the time the star produced them.

2004, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, Jan Woleński, Handbook of epistemology:

[...] and he could see the stars in the well again and there came again the rising feeling of falling well-ward into the watery sky, falling freely, well and sky, uply downly skyly, starly brightly well-ly wishing her mother No finish go [...]

2010, Ralph Ellison, John Callahan, Adam Bradley, Three Days Before the Shooting:


nosely

nosely (comparative more nosely, superlative most nosely)

more nosely (comparative)
most nosely (superlative)

If any one desired to meet real American people, without a trace of the pronunciation of a Briton; people who talked right nosely, — Milltown.

1877, John Trowbridge, The great match, and other matches:

May I ask Brother Elmer Hayden where he gets that stuff that so nosely blooms.

1920, Amalgamated Transit Union, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, In transit

(nonstandard) In a nosey or nasal manner; nasally.


sunly

sunly (comparative sunlier or more sunly, superlative sunliest or most sunly)

sunlier (comparative)
more sunly (comparative)
sunliest (superlative)
most sunly (superlative)

From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly.

inh

Hopes that beam the sunliest, Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]

1863, James Wallis, David King, The British millennial harbinger:


mitey

He ain' got nuttin tall cep'n some mitey good nabors dat come by fer him ever day an' caird him up to lay him down by de back do' er dat air rich man, dat air Mr. Dives.

1909, Bruce M. Russett, John R. Oneal, Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, volume 10, page 238:

"I knowed your great-grandpaw mitey well, son, and your grandpaw and your own daddy.[…]"

1954, Charles Rice McDowell, The Iron Baby Angel, page 11:

They treats us mitey well and wants Amerikens to cum and settle among em.[…]They all talks so mitey funney.

1974, William Curtis Nunn, Escape from Reconstruction, page 67:


footly

From Middle English *fotlich, from Old English fōtlīċ (“on foot, pedestrian”), equivalent to foot + -ly.

Oh! foot it featly, and feat it footly, and dance and sing, and tootle-ty ting!"

1902, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Captain January:


cephalad

en-adv

cephalad (comparative more cephalad, superlative most cephalad)

more cephalad (comparative)
most cephalad (superlative)

Perianal disease is common in patients with Crohn’s disease. Unfortunately, the perianal area often is poorly evaluated by barium studies because the enema tip may be inserted too cephalad or because exquisite anal tenderness may preclude adequate retrograde distension and evaluation.

1996 July, Richard M. Gore, Emil J. Balthazar, Gary G. Ghahremani, Frank H. Miller, “CT Features of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease”, in American Journal of Roentgenology, volume 167, number 1, →DOI, page 9:

(anatomy) Towards the head (or anterior extremity), a direction that in humans corresponds to superior.


eyely

From the adjective (see above), equivalent to eye + -ly.

He was eyely delited at the site you may be sure but Becky being timersome shut her eyes all the time she was seeing it.

1822 May, Thomas Hood, “Mr. Martin's Pictures and the Bonassus”, in The London Magazine, volume 5, number 29, page 428; republished in Tom Hood, Frances Freeling Broderip (née Hood), editors, The Works of Thomas Hood, volume 4, London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1882, page 424:

(rare, archaic) Obviously; evidently; apparently.


palatably

palatably (comparative more palatably, superlative most palatably)

more palatably (comparative)
most palatably (superlative)

Many of the employees have complained that the package could have been structured more palatably and that management was not sharing equally in the pain, which the company disputes.

2009 June 9, Richard Pez-Pe, “Boston Globe Union Rejects Wage and Benefits Cuts”, in New York Times:


wrigglingly

wrigglingly (comparative more wrigglingly, superlative most wrigglingly)

more wrigglingly (comparative)
most wrigglingly (superlative)

But Ms. Reza’s and Mr. LaBute’s plays strike me as the hairy beasts in this foursome; they’re alert, pushy works in which words are hurled like poison darts. Mr. Foote’s and Mr. Kaufman’s are calmer, more self-conscious and a bit less wrigglingly alive, at least on the page.

2009 June 7, Dwight Garner, “Submitting to a Play’s Spell, Without the Stage”, in New York Times:


fashionwise

“If, during the nineteen-eighties, you wanted your clothes to indicate that you were a) in the know, fashionwise; b) a bit of an intellectual; and c) not afraid of wearing unfinished seams or jackets turned inside out, or other things that might, if not worn with sufficient élan, look like fashion disasters, then you shopped at Charivari,” Rebecca Mead wrote in The New Yorker in 1999, lamenting the company’s declaration of bankruptcy.

2009 June 17, Bruce Weber, “Selma Weiser, Boutique Innovator, Dies at 84”, in New York Times:


patly

patly (comparative more patly, superlative most patly)

more patly (comparative)
most patly (superlative)

In a pat manner; fitly, seasonably, conveniently, appositely.


fœderally

fœderally (comparative more fœderally, superlative most fœderally)

more fœderally (comparative)
most fœderally (superlative)


orl

That’s orl right.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


at first bluff

In fact, at first bluff, Hughes appeared to be the sort of man I could spend a lot of time with, both on the river and off.

2009, Ehor Boyanowsky, Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes, page 16:


sprightfully

sprightfully (comparative more sprightfully, superlative most sprightfully)

more sprightfully (comparative)
most sprightfully (superlative)


vauntingly

vauntingly (comparative more vauntingly, superlative most vauntingly)

more vauntingly (comparative)
most vauntingly (superlative)

This riddle was quite beyond Mrs. Piper, Uncle Jobson laughed vauntingly.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 42:


kneadingly

(rare) In the manner of one who is kneading.


kneelingly

From Middle English knelingli, equivalent to kneeling + -ly.


jestfully

jestfully (comparative more jestfully, superlative most jestfully)

more jestfully (comparative)
most jestfully (superlative)


storywise

These charged romances help you storywise because it enables you to not have to get them together so fast.

2009 June 28, Kathryn Shattuck, “One or Two Things He Knows About Teenagers”, in New York Times:


hyperkinetically

hyperkinetically (comparative more hyperkinetically, superlative most hyperkinetically)

more hyperkinetically (comparative)
most hyperkinetically (superlative)

But on Monday, it became a place where Suren Seneviratne, a 22-year-old disc jockey, stood atop a 26-foot-high plinth, wearing a homemade panda costume and hyperkinetically talking on the phone.

2009 July 7, Sarah Lyall, “Briefly Ascending to the Spotlight, Britons Take Their Place Among Giants”, in New York Times:

With, or as if with, the exaggerated movements of hyperkinesis.


workmanly

workmanly (comparative more workmanly, superlative most workmanly)

more workmanly (comparative)
most workmanly (superlative)

From Middle English werkmanly, werkmanlike, equivalent to workman + -ly.

Befitting a workman; in skilful or workmanlike manner.


clerkly

clerkly (comparative more clerkly, superlative most clerkly)

more clerkly (comparative)
most clerkly (superlative)

If these woordis to some seme spoken to clerkly, goe to, I will expounde theim more plainely.

1549, Erasmus, translated by Thomas Chaloner, The Praise of Folie, London: Thomas Berthelet:

For this doo lerned persons déeme, of Ouids present woorke:
That in no one of all his bookes the which he wrate, doo lurke
Mo darke and secret misteries, mo counselles wyse and sage,
Mo good ensamples, mo reprooues of vyce in youth and age,
Mo fyne inuentions too delight, mo matters clerkly knit,
No nor more straunge varietie too shew a lerned wit.

1567, Arthur Golding, “Too the Reader”, in The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter, London:

Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here
With ignominious words, though clerkly couch’d,
As if she had suborned some to swear
False allegations to o’erthrow his state?

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]:

1783, Thomas Holcroft, Human Happiness: or The Sceptic, London: L. Davis et al., Canto 5, p. 56,
But I can prove, by reading Clerkly,
From Leibnitz, Malbranche, Bayle, and Berkley,
Things far more strange, friend Will, than these;


laggingly

laggingly (comparative more laggingly, superlative most laggingly)

more laggingly (comparative)
most laggingly (superlative)


homonymously

homonymously (comparative more homonymously, superlative most homonymously)

more homonymously (comparative)
most homonymously (superlative)

In a homonymous manner, so as to have the same name or relation.


unusefully

unusefully (comparative more unusefully, superlative most unusefully)

more unusefully (comparative)
most unusefully (superlative)


unviably

unviably (comparative more unviably, superlative most unviably)

more unviably (comparative)
most unviably (superlative)


unproperly

unproperly (comparative more unproperly, superlative most unproperly)

more unproperly (comparative)
most unproperly (superlative)


fungally

fungally-infected corn

fungally-treated wood


somnambulistically

somnambulistically (comparative more somnambulistically, superlative most somnambulistically)

more somnambulistically (comparative)
most somnambulistically (superlative)

Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 569:

When she isn’t tending to the corpselike patrons of the fashionable beauty parlor that employs her, she’s dodging the advances of a perfectly nice young man (John Fraser), arguing with her older sister and roommate, Helen (Yvonne Furneaux), about the unwelcome overnight presence of Helen’s lover (Ian Hendry) or walking somnambulistically through the streets.

2009 July 26, Dave Kehr, “A Woman Repulsed, a Man Convulsed”, in New York Times:

In somnambulistic fashion; as if sleepwalking.


discomfitingly

discomfitingly (comparative more discomfitingly, superlative most discomfitingly)

more discomfitingly (comparative)
most discomfitingly (superlative)

Jae Millz was limber, Gudda Gudda monotone and T-Streets discomfitingly raw.

2009 August 3, Jon Caramanica, “Pop Phenomenon, and Chairman of His Board”, in New York Times:


concussively

concussively (comparative more concussively, superlative most concussively)

more concussively (comparative)
most concussively (superlative)

It begins in earnest after sunrise, when Saratoga’s backstretch has the feel of a summer camp before wake-up: The air is dense and humid, and everyone moves slowly, saddling the racers in the stables — sagging wooden structures that smell almost concussively of manure and hay.

2009 August 9, Alan Feuer, “Preparing the Ponies for a Day at Saratoga”, in New York Times:


quantifiably

quantifiably (comparative more quantifiably, superlative most quantifiably)

more quantifiably (comparative)
most quantifiably (superlative)

“But with stand-up, you can prove, quantifiably, for that night, that you’re funny.”

2009 August 9, Josh Eells, “Novice Director, a Veteran of Comedy”, in New York Times:


uncommunicatively

uncommunicatively (comparative more uncommunicatively, superlative most uncommunicatively)

more uncommunicatively (comparative)
most uncommunicatively (superlative)

Called for comment, a receptionist at the awards’ phone line said, rather uncommunicatively, “We don’t do interviews.”

2009 August 10, Stephanie Clifford, “After Winning Advertising Awards, an Invitation to Pay for the Trophies”, in New York Times:


midshower

We paid for utilities — which included space heaters in the winter and gas tanks that lasted a month and ran out midshower, and we spent a fortune on phone cards for the pay phone down the street.

2009 August 15, Kelly M. Phillips, “In Mexico, Outgunned and Underpaid”, in New York Times:


characterwise

“What I saw was looking great, but characterwise I couldn’t tell who they are, what they do,” he said.

2009 August 22, Michael Cieply, Dave Itzkoff, “Blockbuster Trailer: The Selling of ‘Avatar’”, in New York Times:

(computing) In terms of text characters.


polygynously

Sequentially or synchronously, he-men consort polygynously.

2009 September 1, Natalie Angier, “Skipping Spouse to Spouse Isn’t Just a Man’s Game”, in New York Times:


singlemindedly

singlemindedly (comparative more singlemindedly, superlative most singlemindedly)

more singlemindedly (comparative)
most singlemindedly (superlative)

In his songs Jay-Z has singlemindedly flaunted his executive ambitions and how they’ve paid off.

2009 September 13, Jon Pareles, “An Overdog to Root For”, in New York Times:

In a singleminded fashion; with directed dedication.


dissonantly

dissonantly (comparative more dissonantly, superlative most dissonantly)

more dissonantly (comparative)
most dissonantly (superlative)

The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch.

2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in New York Times:


libidinously

libidinously (comparative more libidinously, superlative most libidinously)

more libidinously (comparative)
most libidinously (superlative)

(The depressed and jobless may be inspired by the libidinously inventive party a friend of Rudnick’s organizes when in a similar condition.)

2009 September 20, Alida Becker, “Jersey Boy”, in New York Times:


jointlessly

How jointlessly, and how jointlessly
The frivolous cake sailed by
On the waves of the ocean that pointlessly
Threw fish to the lilac sky.

1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

I see him stand, jointlessly unfolding, pull from the holster on his hip the shingle knife, as easy as you'd pluck the fork beside your plate.

2006, Jane Gentry, Portrait of the artist as a white pig, page 6:


intraosseously

intraosseously (comparative more intraosseously, superlative most intraosseously)

more intraosseously (comparative)
most intraosseously (superlative)

The injection was given intraosseously, because with a junkie with this kind of circulatory damage we really would not be able to find a good vein within an adequate time frame

(emergency medicine) Within the interior of the bone.


benow

benow (comparative more benow, superlative most benow)

more benow (comparative)
most benow (superlative)


umstrid

From Middle English umstridden, past participle of umstriden (“to mount (a horse)”), equivalent to um- + stride. Compare astride.


herewithal

/hɪəwɪˈðɔːl/

From the Middle English hēr-withal; equivalent to here + withal.

your highness shall receive a copy herewithal


antipathetically

antipathetically (comparative more antipathetically, superlative most antipathetically)

more antipathetically (comparative)
most antipathetically (superlative)


antipathically

antipathically (comparative more antipathically, superlative most antipathically)

more antipathically (comparative)
most antipathically (superlative)

In an antipathic manner; through an antipathical fashion.


unsoft

unsoft (comparative more unsoft, superlative most unsoft)

more unsoft (comparative)
most unsoft (superlative)

Great climbers fall unsoft.

1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iuly. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:


unseldom

unseldom (comparative more unseldom, superlative most unseldom)

more unseldom (comparative)
most unseldom (superlative)

From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + seldom.

When Mr. Collins said any thing of which his wife might reasonably be ashamed, which certainly was not unseldom, she involuntarily turned her eye on Charlotte.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 52:

For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have never overpassed: […]

[1878], William Morris, The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress […], London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, page 21:

Mulai Abdul Aziz was, at the time of his succession (1894), about twelve or thirteen years of age. He was a younger son of the late Sultan, for Islamic thrones do not necessarily descend by primogeniture. It is not unseldom a brother who succeeds, and at times even more distant relations.

1921, Walter B[urton] Harris, “The Moorish Court. I. The Accession of Mulai Abdul Aziz.”, in Morocco That Was, Edinburgh, London: Wiliam Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 17:

(literary) Not seldom; frequently, regularly.


antinomically

antinomically (comparative more antinomically, superlative most antinomically)

more antinomically (comparative)
most antinomically (superlative)

In an antinomic manner; in a contradictory manner.


balls-deep

I like to fuck balls-deep. If they can't take it all it's not worth the time.

(slang, vulgar) With the penis fully immersed in an orifice, more often the anus or vagina than the mouth.

do jaja

with the penis fully immersed in an orifice


ænigmatically

ænigmatically (comparative more ænigmatically, superlative most ænigmatically)

more ænigmatically (comparative)
most ænigmatically (superlative)

The fact is, that the superior strength and size of the celebrated heroes of antiquity can only be accounted for satisfactorily, by having recourse to that recondite wisdom of the ancients, which was first discovered in the colleges of the Ægyptian priests, and was afterwards delivered ænigmatically by Pythagoras, […]

1824, Pausanias, The Description of Greece, notes on the first Volume, page 237


sunderling

From Middle English sunderling, equivalent to sunder + -ling. Cognate with Middle Dutch sonderlingh, Middle Low German sunderlinges, sunderlingen.


wholy

wholy (comparative more wholy, superlative most wholy)

more wholy (comparative)
most wholy (superlative)


noncontractually

The replies to questions indicate that the technology provided noncontractually is generally more routine and incremental than that protected by contracts.

1997, Paul W. Beamish, J. Peter Killing, Cooperative Strategies: Asian Pacific perspectives, page 202:


jumblingly

jumblingly (comparative more jumblingly, superlative most jumblingly)

more jumblingly (comparative)
most jumblingly (superlative)

Disjointed thoughts ran jumblingly through her head.


thrummingly

thrummingly (comparative more thrummingly, superlative most thrummingly)

more thrummingly (comparative)
most thrummingly (superlative)

[…]thrummingly dashing off a Mozart concerto on the tablecloth.

1996 May 6, New York Magazine, volume 29, number 18, page 38:

Had he just finished running a dozen miles at full speed, he would have felt precisely as he did just now: exhausted, dry-mouthed, and also wholly awake, thrummingly alive, his every vein invigorated by a fresh current of rushing blood.

2010, Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You, page 172:


offencively

offencively (comparative more offencively, superlative most offencively)

more offencively (comparative)
most offencively (superlative)

(archaic or nonstandard) Alternative form of offensively


defencively

defencively (comparative more defencively, superlative most defencively)

more defencively (comparative)
most defencively (superlative)

(archaic or nonstandard) Alternative form of defensively


revisionistically

revisionistically (comparative more revisionistically, superlative most revisionistically)

more revisionistically (comparative)
most revisionistically (superlative)


woundy

woundy (comparative more woundy, superlative most woundy)

more woundy (comparative)
most woundy (superlative)

First attested ante 1639: wounds (interjection) + -y.


rulingly

rulingly (comparative more rulingly, superlative most rulingly)

more rulingly (comparative)
most rulingly (superlative)


rushingly

rushingly (comparative more rushingly, superlative most rushingly)

more rushingly (comparative)
most rushingly (superlative)


darksomely

darksomely (comparative more darksomely, superlative most darksomely)

more darksomely (comparative)
most darksomely (superlative)


overrulingly

overrulingly (comparative more overrulingly, superlative most overrulingly)

more overrulingly (comparative)
most overrulingly (superlative)


ordinately

ordinately (comparative more ordinately, superlative most ordinately)

more ordinately (comparative)
most ordinately (superlative)

[…] as if it be but exactly round (as there are abundance of such stones found betwixt two hills in Cuba, an Island of America) or ordinately Quinquangular, or have the sides but Parallel, though the Angles be unequal, as is seen in some little stones, and in a kind of Alabaster found here in England; these stones, I say, gratifie our sight, as having a nearer cognation with the Soul of Man, that is Rational and Intellectual, and therefore is well pleased when it meets with any outward Object that fits and agrees with those congenite Ideas her own nature is furnished with.

1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 54

In an ordinate manner; regular; orderly.


undeadly

undeadly (comparative more undeadly, superlative most undeadly)

more undeadly (comparative)
most undeadly (superlative)

From Middle English undedly, undeedly, undedlich, from Old English undēadlīc (“immortal, for all eternity”), equivalent to undead + -ly.

inh

[...] and it had been Sebastian's fault that her husband was no longer living undeadly by her side.

Today, almost eight months since they'd met, and sharing her house for four of those months now, Wanda was more in love with Heath than she ever thought was humanly, er, undeadly possible.

2009, Dakota Cassidy, The Accidental Human:


ripplingly

en-adv

ripplingly (comparative more ripplingly, superlative most ripplingly)

more ripplingly (comparative)
most ripplingly (superlative)

Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows[…]

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:


amelodically

amelodically (comparative more amelodically, superlative most amelodically)

more amelodically (comparative)
most amelodically (superlative)

Then, as the theatergoers arrived, he began to play amelodically, as if tuning his instrument.

2005, Mark Singer, Mr. Personality: Profiles and Talk Pieces from The New Yorker, →ISBN:

That was the time of teeth growing teeth amelodically— nails on a chalkboard: that memory sound a bird trying to escape from a beard makes.


inter partes

Borrowed from Latin inter partes (“between parts”).

(law) In the manner of a proceeding where multiple parties to a dispute are present.


countlessly

Noriega's routine measures, countlessly repeated in nineteenth-century Ancash, did not in themselves cause the revolt of 1885.

1997, Mark Thurner, From two republics to one divided, page 83:

Too numerously to be counted; without end.


cocksurely

cocksurely (comparative more cocksurely, superlative most cocksurely)

more cocksurely (comparative)
most cocksurely (superlative)


displeasedly

displeasedly (comparative more displeasedly, superlative most displeasedly)

more displeasedly (comparative)
most displeasedly (superlative)


declaratorily

declaratorily (comparative more declaratorily, superlative most declaratorily)

more declaratorily (comparative)
most declaratorily (superlative)

/dɪˈklæɹətɔːɹɪli/


late on

late on (comparative more late on, superlative most late on)

more late on (comparative)
most late on (superlative)

Late on, Song collected Bacary Sagna's cut-back and whipped home a high finish - but Walcott's late injury took some of the gloss off what was only Arsenal's second win of the campaign.

2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:


cinematographically

/sɪnɪˌmætəˈɡræfɪkəlɪ/

To record cinematographically the various processes of feeding and digestion[…]

1955, Anthony R. Michaelis, Research films in biology, anthropology, psychology, and medicine:


tanglingly

tanglingly (comparative more tanglingly, superlative most tanglingly)

more tanglingly (comparative)
most tanglingly (superlative)

The flowers do not lie so tanglingly thick there; the pathway is not encumbered with them.

1872, John Wesley Hales, Longer English Poems:


ducally

ducally (comparative more ducally, superlative most ducally)

more ducally (comparative)
most ducally (superlative)

In the manner of a duke; in a way that befits a duke.


debauchedly

debauchedly (comparative more debauchedly, superlative most debauchedly)

more debauchedly (comparative)
most debauchedly (superlative)


clingily

clingily (comparative more clingily, superlative most clingily)

more clingily (comparative)
most clingily (superlative)

In the high-functioning range they can be charming when operating regressively; in the borderline and psychotic ranges histrionic clients may become physically ill, clingily dependent, whiny and demanding, or addicted to crisis.

2011, Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition, page 317:


as we speak

even as we speak
even as we speak#English


bakingly

bakingly (comparative more bakingly, superlative most bakingly)

more bakingly (comparative)
most bakingly (superlative)

It was a bakingly hot day without a cloud in the sky.


shitly

shitly (comparative more shitly, superlative most shitly)

more shitly (comparative)
most shitly (superlative)

(vulgar, rare, chiefly UK) Terribly; extremely poorly.


confessionally

confessionally (comparative more confessionally, superlative most confessionally)

more confessionally (comparative)
most confessionally (superlative)

Koslofsky speculates that it was driven by the need to find new sources of authority in a confessionally fragmented age.

2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement:

With regard to religious confession; denominationally, religiously.


dorso-ventrally

dorso-ventrally (comparative more dorso-ventrally, superlative most dorso-ventrally)

more dorso-ventrally (comparative)
most dorso-ventrally (superlative)

So it is that one of the characteristics that the sperm whale shares with all cetaceans is that it swims by flexing its tail flukes dorso-ventrally, a less efficient way of swimming than that of its distant piscine ancestors, but a mode of locomotion that derives directly from the galloping of its more recent terrestrial ones.

2011 September 22, Richard Shelton, “Sheep, pig, whale”, in Times Literary Supplement:

In a dorso-ventral direction; from the back to the front.


codewise

A theme may be, in itself, perfectly moral, but if the plot is replete with offensive and unacceptable details, the entire story becomes unacceptable codewise.

1937, Olga Johanna Martin, Hollywood's movie commandments, page 106:

The four symbols are designated 1, 2, 3 and 4 and their codes are 0001, 0111, 1101 and 1100, respectively, as shown on the map in Fig. 4. Note that only symbols 3 and 4 are codewise adjacent.

1962, IEEE transactions on computers: Volume 11:

So what is really happening codewise? During runtime, the interpreter attempts to execute all the code within the try statement.

2006, Wesley Chun, Core Python Programming:


intencely

intencely (comparative more intencely, superlative most intencely)

more intencely (comparative)
most intencely (superlative)


ruthfully

ruthfully (comparative more ruthfully, superlative most ruthfully)

more ruthfully (comparative)
most ruthfully (superlative)

From Middle English rewthfully, equivalent to ruthful + -ly.

cæsar [ruthfully] Rufio, Rufio: my men at the barricade are between the sea party and the shore party. I have murdered them.

1898, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Cæsar and Cleopatra”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], published 1901, →OCLC, Act III, page 160:

They tantalize, particularly when the speaker or the central character of the lyric is a prematurely married girl, ruthfully yearning to return to her parental home, and there, reunite with her childhood lover.

1997, K. Ayyappapanicker, Sahitya Akademi staff, Medieval Indian Literature: An Anthology, page 232:

No change, he reflected ruthfully a moment later, was to be got from Empson that way.

2001, Michael Innes, Death at the President's Lodging, page 188:

(manner) In a manner that is ruthful:
Sorrowfully, ruefully.

1997, Neil W. Hamilton (quoting Owen Lattimore), Zealotry and Academic Freedom, page 313,
This commonplace observation becomes very poignant when you are the man accused, and a man like McCarthy ruthfully exploits his advantage by making the accusations so sensational that the revelation of the truth seems drab and dull by comparison.

In a manner that causes pity; piteously.

Lee's wait was ruthfully short, although he might have traded the first news that reached him for a return to uncertainty.

1999, Joseph L. Harsh, Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862, page 285:

(manner) In a manner that is ruthful:
Compassionately; mercifully.


disbelievably

disbelievably (comparative more disbelievably, superlative most disbelievably)

more disbelievably (comparative)
most disbelievably (superlative)


whilome

Lo I the man, vvhoſe Muſe vvhilome did maske, / As time her taught, in lowly Sheapards vveeds, / Am novv enforſt a far unfitter taske, […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1:

VVith ſuch an invention [a sumptuary law] did Zelevcus vvhilome correct the corrupted maners of the Locrines.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Sumptuarie Lawes, or Lawes for Moderating of Expences”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 145:

They who whilome, in midnight fight, / Had marvelled at her matchless might, / No less her maiden charms approved, / But looking liked, and liking loved.

1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Fifth: To George Ellis, Esq.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, page 231:


hindsightly

hindsightly (comparative more hindsightly, superlative most hindsightly)

more hindsightly (comparative)
most hindsightly (superlative)

From hindsight + -ly. Compare foresightly.

My thought process was similar to the theory, but when I realized it, I was hindsightly biased.

2011, Derek Brenwall, The Need to Achieve:

(rare, nonstandard) Retrospectively; in retrospect.


nonmandatorily

[…]reducing the average sentence length for all nonmandatorily sentenced inmates[…]

2003, Kathleen Auerhahn, Selective incapacitation and public policy, page 88:


funlessly

funlessly (comparative more funlessly, superlative most funlessly)

more funlessly (comparative)
most funlessly (superlative)


overemotionally

overemotionally (comparative more overemotionally, superlative most overemotionally)

more overemotionally (comparative)
most overemotionally (superlative)


se'nnight

It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 224:

I was snowed up at a friend's house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter. I went for only one night, and could not get away till that very day se'nnight.

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 244:

We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight.

1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, pages 26–27:


interweavingly

interweavingly (comparative more interweavingly, superlative most interweavingly)

more interweavingly (comparative)
most interweavingly (superlative)


weavingly

weavingly (comparative more weavingly, superlative most weavingly)

more weavingly (comparative)
most weavingly (superlative)

Jeff stumbled weavingly down the street, stinking of alcohol.


immersively

immersively (comparative more immersively, superlative most immersively)

more immersively (comparative)
most immersively (superlative)

Our elation, our artistic response to imagination or "sublimity," depends on our being overwhelmed immersively, and the constructions we subsequently make are but necessary leverages to sustaining and explaining that end.

1989, Albert Spaulding Cook, Dimensions of the Sign in Art, page 38:

What distinguishes VR from simulation is its transformational structure: subjects and objects interactively /immersively construct cultural spaces and events.

1999, Marie-Laure Ryan, Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory, page 50:

In this way, the virtual environment is presented immersively to the participant.

2013, Qiaolei Jiang, Xiuqin Huand, “Internet: Immersive Virtual Worlds”, in Principles of Addiction, page 883:


time to time

After I left the Detention Center, I kept contact with some few friends I met there. Time to time I could talk to Emma who was already in Mexico.

2010, Jenny Tshibola, From the Darkness to the Light, page 59:


then and there

When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

'Well, I soon saw to that, I told him to bolt it then and there[.]'

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 99:

(idiomatic) Right at that moment in time and on the spot; immediately.


papistically

papistically (comparative more papistically, superlative most papistically)

more papistically (comparative)
most papistically (superlative)

In a papistical manner; by, or with reference to, a pope.


hyperliterally

hyperliterally (comparative more hyperliterally, superlative most hyperliterally)

more hyperliterally (comparative)
most hyperliterally (superlative)

If the language of the “your work” exclusion is read broadly and hyperliterally, it could be construed to bar coverage for almost any claim connected to policyholder activity that involves a representation or warranty.

2006, Jeffrey W. Stempel, Stempel on insurance contracts: Volume 1:


continuedly

If you whip them, you make them bad tempered and continuedly vicious[…]

1832, Sharon Turner, The sacred history of the world, page 292:


languishingly

languishingly (comparative more languishingly, superlative most languishingly)

more languishingly (comparative)
most languishingly (superlative)

She looked languishingly at him as he danced with another woman.


classily

classily (comparative more classily, superlative most classily)

more classily (comparative)
most classily (superlative)


alonely

alonely (comparative alonelier or more alonely, superlative aloneliest or most alonely)

alonelier (comparative)
more alonely (comparative)
aloneliest (superlative)
most alonely (superlative)

From Middle English aloonly, alonly, al only, equivalent to alone + -ly, or more strictly, all- + one + -ly.

This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity.

c. 1529, Hugh Latimer, Sermons on the Card:


as much

I think she's overweight, but when I said as much to her, she got very upset.

Spending on health is half again as much as last year.

ahãntu

the same amount; to the same degree or extent

"Half as much again" results from adding "half as much".

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


needs-cost

From Middle English needis cost, nedes cost, from needes (genitive of need (“need”)) + cost (“means”); synchronically analyzable as a univerbation of needs + cost.


transactionally

Static separation prohibits programming idioms where a mutable shared location changes between being accessed transactionally and being accessed directly[…]

2010, Tim Harris, James Larus, Ravi Rajwar, Transactional Memory, page 39:

With regard to, or in terms of, transactions.

transacionalmente

with regard to, or in terms of, transactions


boots and all

So Mike felt he had to jump in boots and all with this new article, and he used his own non-Anglo heritage to bolster his point.

2010, Peter Kocan, The Fable of All Our Lives, unnumbered page:

(chiefly Australia) Without reserve, with no holds barred; totally, completely.

He would scarcely desire to sleep in them, as was said of Suwarrow, the famous Russian general, who, even in time of peace, slept fully armed, boots and all, prepared for any emergency ; and who used to say that when he was lazy and wished to enjoy a comfortable sleep, he usually took off one spur.

1869 May 29, “A Soldier's Shoes”, in E. S. Dallas, editor, Once a Week: January-July 1869, page 435:

So into the South Fork I dove, boots and all, the boots weren't too neat as they filled with water, but I made it to the log, went under the water, got hold of Jody's collar and started back towards the river bank.

2011, Gail Isaacson, My Incredible Animals, page 83:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see boots, and all.


antiphonically

antiphonically (comparative more antiphonically, superlative most antiphonically)

more antiphonically (comparative)
most antiphonically (superlative)

From antiphonic + -ally or antiphonical + -ly.


cosmochemically

In terms of, or by means of, cosmochemistry.


as much as

She as much as admitted to lying.

Theridimas my friend, take here my hand,
Which is as much as if I ſwore by heauen,
And call’d the Gods to witneſſe of my vowe, […]

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

It's too damn foolish; why he as much as said so himself.

1921 February, Edwin Balmer, “Settled Down”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume 44, number 2, page 50:

Practically, just as, no less than; indicates an action tantamount to, but not identical to, the action described.

For as soon as he as much as took out his pince-nez to read the newspaper, the privy councilor's wife was his advance trumpeter, who sounded the fanfare and said, "Now Papa puts on his eyes."

2005, Brigitte Goldstein, transl., Mr. Brecher's Fiasco, →ISBN, page 154:


spirometrically

In terms of, or by means of, spirometry.


antiently

antiently (comparative more antiently, superlative most antiently)

more antiently (comparative)
most antiently (superlative)


warrantably

warrantably (comparative more warrantably, superlative most warrantably)

more warrantably (comparative)
most warrantably (superlative)

None of those who defend the adoring of the humanity of Christ with divine worship, do well and warrantably express their opinion.

1846, George Gillespie, The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2):

The sentence of execution passed upon the murderer may be warrantably passed by the State of the future or its officers upon a monstrous birth, a baby riddled with congenital syphilis or some such horrible fruit of our present carelessness and wickedness in such matters.

1911, C. W. Saleeby, Woman and Womanhood:


whereinsoever

It is necessary to correct a wrong opinion, which is, that Lutheran ministers are at liberty to deviate from the Augustan Confession whereinsoever they conceive it as erroneous.

1919, Friedrich Bente, American Lutheranism:

So that whereinsoever the independent government is truly excellent, the presbyterial government stands in a full equipage and equality of excellence.

1646, Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London, The Divine Right of Church Government:

"I should be sorry," he wrote on the 30th of August, 1560, "that into the heart of a person of such good family, and one that touches me so nearly, so miserable an inclination should have entered; being able to assure you that whereinsoever he refuses to obey me I shall know perfectly well how to make it felt that I am king."

1899, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, translated by Robert Black, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times:


nothing like

Ten years ago travel was nothing like as easy (as it is now)

Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.

1974, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 45, page 98:

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.

2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):


whereso

From Middle English whereso; equivalent to where + so; compare Old English hwǣr swā.

Thrand answered that whereso he was, he would still be deemed a brave man, "And now it is meet for thee to settle down and get married, and I would put forth my word and help, if I but knew whereto thou lookest."

1900, Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris, The Story of Grettir The Strong:

But when Commercial and Colonial expansion became a definite and avowed object of the former's policy, she found, whereso she might look, that Britain was there, in the way--"everywhere British colonies, British coaling stations, and floating over a fifth of the globe the British flag."

1915, Edward Carpenter, The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife:

(archaic) wheresoever; regardless of which place


vexedly

vexedly (comparative more vexedly, superlative most vexedly)

more vexedly (comparative)
most vexedly (superlative)

"What made you harp upon the war, man, knowing what his opinions are?" the doctor asked vexedly, as he stumbled along the uneven stone passage towards the hall.

1906, Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, Peter's Mother:

If only Dr. Spiller had sent me a wire yesterday," he exclaimed vexedly, "he had my address in the country, I should have been saved a useless visit to London!"

1921, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, From Out the Vasty Deep:


verie

At that time liued likewise a worthie Gentleman, whose many verie famius deeds (wherof I am sorie I may here make no rehearsal, because neither time nor occasion will permitte me) renowne his name to all ensuing posterities: he, being called sir Richard Whittington, the founder of Whittington Colledge in London, and one that bare the office of Lord Maior of this Citie three seuerall times.

1592, R. G., The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592):


unmanfully

unmanfully (comparative more unmanfully, superlative most unmanfully)

more unmanfully (comparative)
most unmanfully (superlative)

But in the name of justice, law, and common sense, do not insiduously and unmanfully continue a sentence for one and a former offense, as a punishment for another and a later one, and that, too, without the due forms of trial.

1856, Albert G. Mackey, The Principles of Masonic Law:

So Sara Lee's room had a different occupant for a time, a thin and fine-worn young Belgian, who yielded to Sara Lee when Jean gave up in despair, and who proceeded, most unmanfully, to faint as soon as he was between the blankets.

1918, Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Amazing Interlude:


unprophetically

unprophetically (comparative more unprophetically, superlative most unprophetically)

more unprophetically (comparative)
most unprophetically (superlative)

In an unprophetic manner; without foresight.


unconquerably

unconquerably (comparative more unconquerably, superlative most unconquerably)

more unconquerably (comparative)
most unconquerably (superlative)

Our rural tracts--where no Babel-chimney scales the heavens--are without mighty objects to fill the soul with the sense of an outer world unconquerably aloof from our efforts.

1879, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such:

Mr. EDMUND GOSSE contributes a foreword to the present volume, in which he draws a pathetic picture of the author, still unconquerably young, despite his years, facing the future with only one fear, that of the unemployment to which his increasing deafness, and the break-up of the world as it was before the War, seemed to be condemning him.

1917, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 14, 1917:


unfearingly

unfearingly (comparative more unfearingly, superlative most unfearingly)

more unfearingly (comparative)
most unfearingly (superlative)


unenviously

unenviously (comparative more unenviously, superlative most unenviously)

more unenviously (comparative)
most unenviously (superlative)


ungenially

ungenially (comparative more ungenially, superlative most ungenially)

more ungenially (comparative)
most ungenially (superlative)

The sun glared ungenially at that blot upon the waters, breeding infectious disease; the waves flung the hated burden from one to the other, disdainful of her freight of sin; the winds had no commission for fair sailing, but whistled through the rigging crossways, howling in the ears of many in that ship, as if they carried ghosts along with them[…]

Very many thousand times above Dudley Sowerby, Nataly ranked Dartrey Fenellan; and still she looked at him, where he sat beside Nesta, ungenially, critical of the very features, jealously in the interests of Dudley; and recollecting, too, that she had once prayed for one exactly resembling Dartrey Fenellan to be her Nesta's husband.

1897, George Meredith, One of Our Conquerors, Complete: