subtlely

subtlely (comparative more subtlely, superlative most subtlely)

more subtlely (comparative)
most subtlely (superlative)

Then the ministers and two Christian men, Theodorus and Rufinus, wrote their martyrdom and laid it subtlely among the stones.

1903, Philip P. Wells, Bible Stories and Religious Classics:

She walked about for a moment or two in order the more thoroughly to show off her paces, and as she walked she smiled subtlely, closed her eyes demurely and managed her skirts with great dexterity.

2006, Emile Zola, Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille:

But you must insinuate the idea very slowly and subtlely.

1890, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, For Woman's Love:

Never was man so subtlely flattered, so tempted.

The door sprang subtlely open unto me, and said "Go!"

1911 & 1914, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, edited by Oscar Levy, Friedrich Nietzsche[:] Thus Spake Zarathustra[.] A Book for All and None[.] (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche[.] The First Complete and Authorised English Translation[.] Volume Eleven[:] Thus spake Zarathustra.), 2nd & 3rd edition, The Macmillan Company, translation of original in German, page 196:


paranoidly

en-adv

paranoidly (comparative more paranoidly, superlative most paranoidly)

more paranoidly (comparative)
most paranoidly (superlative)


innerly

innerly (comparative more innerly, superlative most innerly)

more innerly (comparative)
most innerly (superlative)

From Middle English innerly, inderly, inderlich, inderlike, equivalent to inner + -ly.


hysteretically

hysteretically (comparative more hysteretically, superlative most hysteretically)

more hysteretically (comparative)
most hysteretically (superlative)

In the manner of a system with hysteresis.


feal

feal (comparative fealer or more feal, superlative fealest or most feal)

fealer (comparative)
more feal (comparative)
fealest (superlative)
most feal (superlative)

From Middle English fele, fæle (“proper, of the right sort”), from Old English fǣle (“faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved”), from Proto-West Germanic *failī, from Proto-Germanic *failijaz (“true, friendly, familiar, good”), from Proto-Indo-European *pey- (“to adore”). Cognate with Scots feel, feelie (“cosy, neat, clean, comfortable”), West Frisian feilich (“safe”), Dutch veil (“for-sale”), Dutch veilig (“safe”), German feil (“for-sale”), Latin pīus (“good, dutiful, faithful, devout, pious”).


anticompetitively

en-adv

anticompetitively (comparative more anticompetitively, superlative most anticompetitively)

more anticompetitively (comparative)
most anticompetitively (superlative)

The company acted anticompetitively by forcing its suppliers to agree not to work with any of its rivals.


digressively

digressively (comparative more digressively, superlative most digressively)

more digressively (comparative)
most digressively (superlative)


one-handed

From Middle English on-handed, variant of Middle English on-hande, onehand, from Old English ān-hende (“one-handed”). By surface analysis, one + handed. Compare German einhändig (“one-handed”), Swedish enhänt, en-handad (“one-handed”), Icelandic einn-hönd (“one-handed”).

She waved to us and lost her balance; riding a bicycle one-handed is tricky.

She fanned the fire one-handed, cooked, swept the yard, pulled weeds out of the tomato beds, washed longyis and towels, and even developed a technique to wring them out one-handed—all because she did not want to put her son down.

2014, Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart, →ISBN:

Felicity prepares him meals he can eat one-handed, and when they have a roast, she cuts up the meat into bite-sized portions as she once did for the children.

2012, Linda MacDonald, A Meeting of a Different Kind, →ISBN:

Doing it half-drunk wasn't all that hard. Doing it one-handed was hard but not insurmountable. Doing it one-handed and half-drunk was...The damned screws didn't want to stay in the plastic, and the instructions for putting a V-8 engine together had to be easier than this!

He's a terrible snooker player. I could beat him one-handed!

That's when Brandon noticed the five kids were laughing at him. "Are you the best player in Springton?" asked one. "Hah! We could beat you one-handed!" shouted another. "We could beat you blindfolded!" said a third.

2000, Rigby, The runaway ball, →ISBN, page 5:

This isn't going to be a competition, College Boy. It's going to be a walkover. I could beat you one-handed.

1994, Stephen Leather, Bill Grose, The Vets, →ISBN, page 48:

As rough as you look 'round the edges this morning, I could take you one-handed. Seriously, you can go into the kitchen and have your coffee in peace and in quiet.

2000, Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea: The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy #3, →ISBN, page 93:

(figuratively) Very easily, without effort.


liplessly

Five Horse Johnson grinned liplessly, exposing six slimy orange teeth, then fell sideways off his stool to the floor. Wesley finished his whisky and put two dollars on the bar. "This do it?" he asked the bartender, who nodded.

2003, Barry Gifford, Thomas A. McCarthy, The rooster trapped in the reptile room, page 266:


dead stick

From stick (“wooden two-bladed propeller”), possibly confounded with stick-like aircraft-engine throttles.

He landed dead stick.


appetitively

appetitively (comparative more appetitively, superlative most appetitively)

more appetitively (comparative)
most appetitively (superlative)

One explanation for the different results obtained using the two procedures is that the motivation in the Morris water maze is avoidance of an aversive stimulus (water), whereas the radial arm maze is an appetitively motivated task.

2007 December 4, Mark D. Spritzer, Mandeep Gill, Alex Weinberg, Liisa A. M. Galea, “Castration Differentially Affects Spatial Working and Reference Memory in Male Rats”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:


gonadally

Early androgen treatment improves spatial ability in female rats, but impairs it in gonadally intact males (Roof, 1993 ; Roof & Havens, 1992 ).

2007 December 12, David A. Puts, Michael A. McDaniel, Cynthia L. Jordan, S. Marc Breedlove, “Spatial Ability and Prenatal Androgens: Meta-Analyses of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Digit Ratio (2D:4D) Studies”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:


concededly

They concededly ignored the historical record and made assumptions about jury behavior that have been called into question by more recent research.

2009 July 7, Adam Liptak, “In Two States, a Lower Bar for Conviction”, in New York Times:


nondeviantly

Assume that Jones’ decision to murder Smith is nondeterministically (and nonwaywardly) caused (in accordance with a modest libertarian account of free action) by a cluster of Jones’ reasons; had he not arrived at this decision at the time at which he did, another cluster of his reasons would have nondeterministically (and nondeviantly) caused an alternative decision.

2007 July 17, Ishtiyaque Haji, “Reflections on the Incompatibilist’s Direct Argument”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, →DOI:


erotetically

The idea of interpreting relevant information erotetically was already exploited by Cohen ( 1994 ).

2007 November 27, Luciano Floridi, “Understanding Epistemic Relevance”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 69–92:

In an erotetic manner; by means of questioning.


completedly

completedly (comparative more completedly, superlative most completedly)

more completedly (comparative)
most completedly (superlative)

We assume that because we had to subjugate the land to live on it, the best farm is therefore the one most completedly tamed.

1989, J. Baird Callicott, In defense of the land ethic: essays in environmental philosophy, page 244:

Weak conjunctive inclusion can be used in combination with conjunctive overlap to characterize those non-explosive partial meet contractions that are completedly relational:

2008 January 3, Sven Ove Hansson, “Specified Meet Contraction”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 31–54:


communicationally

The pragmatic and the subjectivist interpretation of what may count as communicationally or epistemically relevant semantic information coherently converge on the same conclusion, even if they come from different perspectives: had a known that i was actually a piece of misinformation she would not have asked q in order to obtain i in the first place.

In terms of, or by means of, communication.


metatheoretically

The Stalnaker-Lewis approach is far from being uncontroversial or devoid of problems, but it does allow one to avoid the circularity of having to establish what information is metatheoretically or contextually relevant to the agents in order to evaluate some further relevant information.


autonymously

This confusion, however, is harmless, for it is completely resolvable by context: Individual constants occurring to the immediate left or right of a triple bar denote themselves, autonymously; in all other contexts, they denote their usual denotations.

2008 September 6, Kai F. Wehmeier, “Wittgensteinian Tableaux, Identity, and Co-Denotation”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:


bathetically

bathetically (comparative more bathetically, superlative most bathetically)

more bathetically (comparative)
most bathetically (superlative)

No wonder the cosmic question whether to call two such world systems true should simmer down, bathetically, to a question of words.

2008 September 6, Ian McDiarmid, “Underdetermination and Meaning Indeterminacy: What is the Difference?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:


overinclusively

overinclusively (comparative more overinclusively, superlative most overinclusively)

more overinclusively (comparative)
most overinclusively (superlative)


notationally

If all our acceptable theories are on similar evidential footings (neither the theory nor the theory language is fixed by the relevant evidence) then the distinction between notationally indeterminate theories and underdetermined theories comes down to just the fact that intertranslation is possible in the former but not the latter.


prescientifically

The majority of what we prescientifically called ‘water’ has more than one microstructural feature that we could have concluded distinguishes the true from the spurious samples believed to be water.

2008 October 22, R. W. Fischer, “Joseph LaPorte, Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:


usably

usably (comparative more usably, superlative most usably)

more usably (comparative)
most usably (superlative)

Such a sense is typically not presented to the subject in usably verbal form; one says things like ‘She would do that because she is that sort of person.’

2008 January 23, Thomas W. Polger, “H₂O, ‘Water’, and Transparent Reduction”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 109–130:


physicalistically

[…] that the facts of parapsychology will be widely and fully accepted by the rank and file of physicalistically oriented scientists.

1937, The Journal of Parapsychology, volumes 1-17, Duke University Press, page 257:

Hence, any facts that are commonly admitted as physicalistically acceptable but that don’t fit C&J’s model are counterexamples to their view.

If, however, linguistic ability is sui generis (in the sense that it cannot be physicalistically reduced) and if the human person is essentially distinguished by his linguistic ability, then, in effect, empiricism is committed to the thesis that the "creature" that achieves language is not one and the same as the creature that first begins to acquire language.

2012, Joseph Margolis, Persons and Minds: The Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism, page 99:

The proposition, as readily taken naturalistically as physicalistically, is to the effect that the meanings of at least certain terms in our thinking and feeling are in some unexpected way related to things outside our heads, certainly not just caused by them.

2014, Ted Honderich, Actual Consciousness:


antispinward

antispinward (comparative more antispinward, superlative most antispinward)

more antispinward (comparative)
most antispinward (superlative)

To antispinward was the largest mountain men had ever seen.

1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 152:

My fathers and mothers tell that we have been moving to antispinward since they were little. They remember that they had to go around a great sea, but they did not come too close, because the beasts would not eat the plants that grow around the shore.

1978, Galileo: Magazine of Science & Fiction, Boston, Mass.: Avenue Victor Hugo Publishers, page 77:

Laura imagined that he would expect them to flee along the beams, and she watched his narrow face searching the impenetrable shadows antispinward of where they hid.

1985, Nancy Kress, Trinity and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Bluejay Books, →ISBN, page 214:

Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ...

2007, Arthur C. Clarke with Stephen Baxter, Firstborn [A Time Odyssey; 3], New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books; Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

antispinward adv. in or toward the opposite direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating.

2007, Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

"[…] You would fall against the anti-spinward wall and slide down along that wall until you hit the floor ..." / "Whoa, whoa, whoa ..." Lars interrupted. "Anti-spinward? What in the world?" / "Moving in the same direction as the Station's direction of spin is considered spinward. Moving in the direction opposite the spin is considered anti-spinward. You sound like a boy asking what one does with his hands when the rollercoaster car leaves the track."

2015, Steven Burgauer, Skullcap, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:

(often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, against the direction of spin.


twifold

twifold (comparative more twifold, superlative most twifold)

more twifold (comparative)
most twifold (superlative)

From Middle English twifold, twifald, from Old English twifeald (“double, twofold”), from Proto-West Germanic *twifald, from Proto-Germanic *twifaldaz (“twofold”), equivalent to twi- + fold. Cognate with Middle High German zwivalt (“double”), Old Norse tvífaldr (“double”), Icelandic tvöfaldur (“double”).

inh

(archaic) In a twofold manner or measure.


useably

en-adv

useably (comparative more useably, superlative most useably)

more useably (comparative)
most useably (superlative)


belikely

belikely (comparative more belikely, superlative most belikely)

more belikely (comparative)
most belikely (superlative)


day after day

Day after day they added entries.

The images we see day after day numb us.

Throughout October the campaign in Korea made excellent progress. Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, was taken on October 19, and day after day MacArthur's forces were on the march.

1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 371:

Day after day it reappears
 Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
 Ghosts appear and fade away

1983, Men At Work (lyrics and music), “Overkill”, in Cargo:

Fine, I will. And YOU can start washing your OWN clothes, and fixing your OWN meals, and picking up your OWN toys, and making your OWN bed, and cleaning up your OWN messes, day after day after DAY!

1989 July 11, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic strip):

(idiomatic) For an indefinite number of days.


bookwise

[S]he strode to the middle of the room the paper held and folded book-wise in her hands.

1878, Bret Harte, “The Man on the Beach”, in Drift From Two Shores:

Unknown to the audience, the left fingers have tilted the two red top cards open bookwise […]

1977, Theodore Annemann, Annemann's Card Magic, page 22:


unnobly

unnobly (comparative more unnobly, superlative most unnobly)

more unnobly (comparative)
most unnobly (superlative)


en femme

From the French phrase en femme, as in s’habille en femme. Compare the (English) femme.

Most of them also “love to shop”—especially en femme[.]

2002 July, Jane E. Hegland, Nancy J. Nelson, Cross-Dressers in Cyber-Space: Exploring the Internet as a Tool for Expressing Gendered Identity, in the International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, volume 7, issues 2–3, pages 139–161

(chiefly of a trans, non-binary, or cross-dressing person) Dressed in feminine clothing.


no homo

You look like you have been working out — no homo.

I love you bro, you're awesome; no homo.

July 7 2011 by Kai Greene
Squeeze your lats. Does that make sense? Take your hands, I want you to grab here on me. Grab my lats. Grab em, grab em, grab em. No homo.

(informal, often sarcastic, often offensive) Used immediately before or after a statement to indicate that there was no homosexual meaning intended, especially when such a meaning is a reasonable interpretation.


with one's head held high

with one's head held high (not comparable)

England head to Nice for Saturday’s third-place playoff after yet more semi-final disappointment but with heads held high having played their part in a wonderful game featuring some particularly harsh luck.

2019 July 2, Louise Taylor, “Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final”, in The Guardian:


unmeaningfully

unmeaningfully (comparative more unmeaningfully, superlative most unmeaningfully)

more unmeaningfully (comparative)
most unmeaningfully (superlative)


nonmanually

the voting habits of the nonmanually employed


toilsomely

toilsomely (comparative more toilsomely, superlative most toilsomely)

more toilsomely (comparative)
most toilsomely (superlative)


holophrastically

Leitgeb writes: “Thus, according to Quine, while the stimulus meaning of an observation sentence can be identified with its meaning if the sentence is taken holophrastically, i. e. as a single-word expression ..., this is no longer possible if the observation sentence is not taken holophrastically, i. e. if it is taken analysed as being syntactically composed of meaningful parts” ( ibid ., p. 418; emphasis is mine).

2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:


pretheoretically

I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content.

2007 December 29, Sanford Goldberg, “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:

Before taking any theoretical considerations into account.


defeasibly

As is common practice in psychology, where a term is used univocally (‘bald’, ‘consciousness’), it can be assumed (defeasibly) that individual differences in the associated conceptions of competent users of the term can be abstracted away from, and commonalities studied.

2007 November 24, Michael V. Antony, “Are Our Concepts”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:

In a defeasible manner; subject to being defeated or invalidated.


intertwiningly

intertwiningly (comparative more intertwiningly, superlative most intertwiningly)

more intertwiningly (comparative)
most intertwiningly (superlative)


swirlingly

swirlingly (comparative more swirlingly, superlative most swirlingly)

more swirlingly (comparative)
most swirlingly (superlative)

The water rushed swirlingly down the plughole.


degradingly

degradingly (comparative more degradingly, superlative most degradingly)

more degradingly (comparative)
most degradingly (superlative)

It is an offence to the dignity of workers to pay them degradingly low wages. What constitutes a degradingly low wage will, of course, be affected by the standards of the time; it is a relative as much as an absolute idea.

1999, Sue Richardson, Reshaping the labour market, page 28:


interferingly

interferingly (comparative more interferingly, superlative most interferingly)

more interferingly (comparative)
most interferingly (superlative)

But we are still almost as worried and as interferingly officious about his mind and his faculties as we were formerly about his body and limbs. We insist upon startling him or waving objects before his eyes to see if he will "take notice."

1911, Woods Hutchinson, We and our children:


priapically

priapically (comparative more priapically, superlative most priapically)

more priapically (comparative)
most priapically (superlative)

“Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience,” she writes, fawning over Antonio Banderas ’s rear end (“a priapically preening ... baboon backside”), Gene Hackman ’s “peculiar crinkled hair” and Steve Buscemi ’s mouth, a kiss from which she’d pay “at least, let’s say, a hundred — no, no, no, let’s say, two hundred and twenty quid.”

2007 July 8, Alexandra Jacobs, “Movie Love”, in New York Times:


unplayfully

unplayfully (comparative more unplayfully, superlative most unplayfully)

more unplayfully (comparative)
most unplayfully (superlative)


nonhorizontally

In an orientation that is not horizontal.


midrun

If you're a salty sweater and prone to cramps, eating a salty snack before your run and ingesting salt midrun can help.

2006 November, Runner's World, volume 41, number 11, page 60:

“Sometimes my chest aches” midrun, she said.

2007 July 12, Gretchen Reynolds, “For Athletes, an Invisible Traffic Hazard”, in New York Times:


punily

punily (comparative more punily, superlative most punily)

more punily (comparative)
most punily (superlative)


inveterately

inveterately (comparative more inveterately, superlative most inveterately)

more inveterately (comparative)
most inveterately (superlative)

The result was a succès de scandale that touched a raw feminist nerve, threw inveterately sleazy art-world politics into relief, and caused permanent editorial rifts at Artforum itself.

2007 July 13, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:


headling

From Middle English hedling, heedling, hevedlynge (“headlong”), equivalent to head + -ling. Cognate with Scots heidlingis (“headlong”), Middle High German houbetlingen (“headlong”).


portside

en-adv

portside (comparative more portside, superlative most portside)

more portside (comparative)
most portside (superlative)

Ship was to dock portside to at pier 1 but ended up starboardside as docking became seriously complicated

1959, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Civil functions, Department of the Army, page 2614:


recedingly

recedingly (comparative more recedingly, superlative most recedingly)

more recedingly (comparative)
most recedingly (superlative)

Evan has fooled around with Rebecca, a senator’s daughter and, thus by virtue of her lineage, one of his girlfriend’s prized pledges at Zeta Beta Zeta, a sorority not for the inadequately shaven or recedingly ambitious.

2007 July 16, Ginia Bellafante, “Campus Sex Scandal Today for Leaders of Tomorrow”, in New York Times:


midstep

Moody, often blurred and set in rooms cast with bohemian clutter, these images capture tenants in their downbeat moments, mouths half-open, eyes half-closed, midstep or midconversation.

2007 July 22, Caroline H. Dworin, “Love Letters to a Dowager of a Muse”, in New York Times:


homicidally

homicidally (comparative more homicidally, superlative most homicidally)

more homicidally (comparative)
most homicidally (superlative)

Ismay and Heather share a festering secret that poisons more than one relationship in this London household before seeping out and infecting all the neighbors — including the homicidally inclined Marion and her abominable brother, Fowler, who have made a career of preying on the love-starved.

2007 July 22, Marilyn Stasio, “Money for Nothing”, in New York Times:

`[A]senic use was widespread. Not that we have a reliable test for it, it is not much used, homicidally.'

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 317:


midleap

Another time I wondered if she was the naked dancer midleap on the cover of a local calendar.

2007 July 22, Ada Brunstein, “The House of No Personal Pronouns”, in New York Times:


externalistically

Those with internalistic intuitions would admit that the elimination of epistemic mental states is a trivial consequence of the rejection of all externalistically individuated mental states.

2008 March 14, Tuomas K. Pernu, “Is knowledge a natural kind?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:


subjunctively

So I want my proposed standard to be interpreted subjunctively: An agent’s adaptive preference is rational provided that if she were to examine the preference, then she would endorse it upon reflection.

2007 November 24, Donald W. Bruckner, “In defense of adaptive preferences”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:


apriori

Another form of this kind of scepticism is as follows. Logic is apriori, but inductive "logic" is not, so it is not really logic.

2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 1, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:

In other words, one can be fallibilist about both claims that are said to be apriori warranted and the a priori warrants for the claims.

2008 January 30, Lisa Warenski, “Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:


dextrously

dextrously (comparative more dextrously, superlative most dextrously)

more dextrously (comparative)
most dextrously (superlative)

Another day he exercised the battel-axe, which he so dextrously wielded, both in the nimble, strong and smooth management of that weapon, and that in all the feats practiseable by it, that he passed Knight of Armes in the field, and at all Essayes.

1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart] and [Peter Anthony Motteux], “How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the Day”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, book the first, page 70:


unmethodically

unmethodically (comparative more unmethodically, superlative most unmethodically)

more unmethodically (comparative)
most unmethodically (superlative)

We searched unmethodically through the piles of boxes, grabbing them at random and losing track of which ones we had checked before.


continuingly

The result was “Eloise,” published in 1955 and a best seller the next year, and its continuingly popular sequels.

2007 July 29, Douglas Martin, “D. D. Ryan, Fashionable Godmother to ‘Eloise,’ Dies at 79”, in New York Times:


lullingly

lullingly (comparative more lullingly, superlative most lullingly)

more lullingly (comparative)
most lullingly (superlative)

It becomes as lullingly familiar as a weekly drive to a relative’s house: opening prayers like quick turns though local streets, long freeway stretches of readings, homily and Eucharistic prayers, the quietude of communion and then — thanks be to God — the final blessing, a song and home to pancakes and the Sunday comics.

2007 July 29, Lawrence Downes, “The Pope Reopens a Portal to Eternity, via the 1950s”, in New York Times:


insubordinately

insubordinately (comparative more insubordinately, superlative most insubordinately)

more insubordinately (comparative)
most insubordinately (superlative)

This is a task dispatched to one of three assistants, from whom he demands formal, written apologies when they behave insubordinately.

2007 July 31, Ginia Bellafante, “A Los Angeles Speculator Sold on Himself”, in New York Times:


to-night

Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think!

1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 6:


plenny

Folks plenny mad.

2007 August 3, Lawrence Downes, “Comforting Words for a Nerve-Wracked Nation: ‘McGarrett. Five-0.’”, in New York Times:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


awheel

Before the war, I used often to put my "bike" on the 12.20 p.m. (Saturdays only) and cover quite a lot of ground a-wheel before returning by another "Saturdays only" train leaving Moniaive about 10 p.m.

1944 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:

Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say)

2009 February 16, “Keeping it Reeled In”, in Bike Snob NYC, retrieved 2012-08-26:

[…] an observer at large who chanced to be at the corner of Fourteenth Street and Seventh Avenue late one night when the traffic signals brought to a halt the few taxis that were awheel then.

1927 October 1, Johnson, “Talk of the Town”, in New Yorker:

(dated) Travelling by a wheeled vehicle.

Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.

1983, Poul Anderson, “The Sorrow of Odin the Goth”, in Time Patrolman (Sci-fi), Tom Doherty, →ISBN:

(poetic) Circling; moving in the shape of a wheel.


distancingly

distancingly (comparative more distancingly, superlative most distancingly)

more distancingly (comparative)
most distancingly (superlative)

“Personal stuff” is “smoke,” Kate tells Jamie, trying to sound distancingly in control.

2007 August 5, Liesl Schillinger, “The Boy Next Door”, in New York Times:


indecipherably

indecipherably (comparative more indecipherably, superlative most indecipherably)

more indecipherably (comparative)
most indecipherably (superlative)

All of the charts, graphs and design elements are intact, but everything — including the text — is indecipherably small without zooming in.

2009 September 6, Randall Stross, “Texting? No, Just Trying to Read Chapter 6”, in New York Times:


exploitatively

exploitatively (comparative more exploitatively, superlative most exploitatively)

more exploitatively (comparative)
most exploitatively (superlative)


psychosexually

psychosexually (comparative more psychosexually, superlative most psychosexually)

more psychosexually (comparative)
most psychosexually (superlative)

Mr. Ferrara’s stylized, psychosexually charged film provides a hopeful ending but otherwise takes huge liberties with the Finney template.

2007 August 12, Dennis Lim, “Same Old Aliens, but New Neuroses”, in New York Times:


galumphingly

galumphingly (comparative more galumphingly, superlative most galumphingly)

more galumphingly (comparative)
most galumphingly (superlative)

Other “Mozart Dances” motifs certainly move, as when a dancer, standing with feet together, briskly bobs up to half-toe and down in time to a figure in the music; or a sideways jump, engaging in its slightly galumphingly stiff arrival and the way the upper body swings in the opposite direction from the legs.

2007 August 17, Alastair Macaulay, “Morris Meets Amadeus: Odd, Elective Affinities”, in New York Times:


ploddingly

ploddingly (comparative more ploddingly, superlative most ploddingly)

more ploddingly (comparative)
most ploddingly (superlative)

His stance as being against the world of finance and his proposal of a 75% tax on incomes over €1m (£817,000) was approved by a majority in polls. He was convinced that his more measured, if ploddingly serious, style would win out with an electorate tired of Sarkozy's bling and frenetic policy initiatives.

2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:

“The Intruders,” which seems like such a ploddingly literal-minded title for a book that begins with a home invasion, turns out to signal a sci-fi horrific strain, one that guarantees puzzling questions about the characters’ true identities and motives.

2007 August 17, Janet Maslin, “Can’t Tell a Book (Kapow!) by Its Cover”, in New York Times:


visionwise

“She considered it, visionwise, an extension of T.S.U.,” he said, adding at another point, “Yes, even the bed.”

2007 August 25, Ralph Blumenthal, “Ex-University Head in Texas on Trial for Money Misuse”, in New York Times:


archetypically

archetypically (comparative more archetypically, superlative most archetypically)

more archetypically (comparative)
most archetypically (superlative)

From the city sidewalk, there are few summer sights more archetypically urban than the face glimpsed in an open window, gazing silently out at the street.

2007 August 18, Andy Newman, “Raising Sash for a View of the City’s Daily Ballet”, in New York Times:


smoulderingly

smoulderingly (comparative more smoulderingly, superlative most smoulderingly)

more smoulderingly (comparative)
most smoulderingly (superlative)


pruriently

pruriently (comparative more pruriently, superlative most pruriently)

more pruriently (comparative)
most pruriently (superlative)

One blonde proclaims, “If I meet a Negro I’ll have a Negro habit,” and the camera pruriently lingers on Ultra Violet making love with a black man and briefly on an outdoor session of interracial oral sex.

2007 August 26, Gerald Howard, “Mailer Gets Hammered”, in New York Times:


smolderingly

smolderingly (comparative more smolderingly, superlative most smolderingly)

more smolderingly (comparative)
most smolderingly (superlative)

The huge cast and crew included scene makers, hipsters, hangers-on, socialites, amphetamine-thin actress/models, black militants, the publisher Barney Rosset, the boxing champ Jose Torres, the Warhol superstar Ultra Violet, Mailer’s wife at the time — Beverly Bentley — two of his ex-wives, and a sprinkling of professional actors, including Hervé Villechaize and, most crucially, a smolderingly intense Rip Torn.


larkily

larkily (comparative more larkily, superlative most larkily)

more larkily (comparative)
most larkily (superlative)

Paul’s account of his childhood and youth is energetic, deeply felt and often quite funny in a larkily satiric way: his parents’ emotional withdrawal after his brother’s death; the petty sadism of institutional authority (Gaullism, it seems, writ small); and always, the raging hormones of adolescence.

2007 September 2, William Deresiewicz, “His Generation”, in New York Times:


overenthusiastically

overenthusiastically (comparative more overenthusiastically, superlative most overenthusiastically)

more overenthusiastically (comparative)
most overenthusiastically (superlative)


interoperably

interoperably (comparative more interoperably, superlative most interoperably)

more interoperably (comparative)
most interoperably (superlative)

In order to build these components, one must adhere to the specification so that the components can operate interoperably.


adsorptionally

By means of, or in terms of, adsorption.


flushingly

flushingly (comparative more flushingly, superlative most flushingly)

more flushingly (comparative)
most flushingly (superlative)

No schoolgirl passed their observation-posts more flushingly than did Mrs. Dr. Kennicott. In shame she knew they glanced appraisingly at her snowy overshoes, speculating about her legs.

1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, page 243:

In a flushing manner; while flushing, while blushing (red with embarrassment):


posturally

You are posturally asphyxiated when you are shoved face down to the ground with your hands cuffed behind your back.

2000, Nick Cohen, Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous, page 101:


forgettingly

forgettingly (comparative more forgettingly, superlative most forgettingly)

more forgettingly (comparative)
most forgettingly (superlative)


trollishly

trollishly (comparative more trollishly, superlative most trollishly)

more trollishly (comparative)
most trollishly (superlative)


counterculturally

counterculturally (comparative more counterculturally, superlative most counterculturally)

more counterculturally (comparative)
most counterculturally (superlative)


snippily

snippily (comparative more snippily, superlative most snippily)

more snippily (comparative)
most snippily (superlative)

In spring training of 1934, Bill Terry, the manager of the New York Giants, was asked about the rival Brooklyn Dodgers. “Are they still in the league?” Terry asked snippily.

2007 September 18, Murray Chass, “To Potential Victors, Here Come the Spoilers”, in New York Times:


beachward

There are also a few corrugating Roton Avenue, as it winds its way beachward.

2007 September 30, C. J. Hughes, “Where Water Turned Land Into Gold”, in New York Times:


transportingly

transportingly (comparative more transportingly, superlative most transportingly)

more transportingly (comparative)
most transportingly (superlative)

The wonder is that they so often manage to be transportingly beautiful too.

2007 September 30, Leah Hager Cohen, “Absent Mothers”, in New York Times:

So as to transport, to carry away emotionally.


unideologically

From unideological + -ly or un- + ideologically.

We must analyze everything open-mindedly, soberly, unideologically and unobsessively, and project our knowledge into practical policies.

2007 September 27, Vaclav Havel, “Our Moral Footprint”, in New York Times:


unobsessively

unobsessively (comparative more unobsessively, superlative most unobsessively)

more unobsessively (comparative)
most unobsessively (superlative)

From unobsessive + -ly or un- + obsessively.

In an unobsessive manner; without obsession.


adventuresomely

adventuresomely (comparative more adventuresomely, superlative most adventuresomely)

more adventuresomely (comparative)
most adventuresomely (superlative)

We’re living a little more adventuresomely, and that’s how we hope to continue.”

2007 September 27, Roslyn Sulcas, “To Attract New Fans, a Program Uses New Dances”, in New York Times:

When we are confident of our ability to heal, we stride forward in our live adventuresomely, knowing that if we get burned or bruised along the way, we will heal from those injuries.

2013, E. A. Grace, The Root of Heaven and Earth, page 787:


midscene

Characters appear out of nowhere and change identities midscene.

1999 August 13, Jack Helbig, “Master of Unreality”, in Chicago Reader:

The film begins abruptly, as if in midscene, with a documentarylike record of a workers' meeting; the credits are followed by an actual documentary segment on housing development in the early 60s, complete with didactic voice-over.

2000 March 10, Fred Camper, “One Way or Another”, in Chicago Reader:


nouthe

nouthe (comparative more nouthe, superlative most nouthe)

more nouthe (comparative)
most nouthe (superlative)

From Middle English nouthe, from Old English nū þā (“now then”).

(obsolete) Just; just now; at present; presently.


intraoesophageally

Alternative spelling of intraesophageally


overemphatically

overemphatically (comparative more overemphatically, superlative most overemphatically)

more overemphatically (comparative)
most overemphatically (superlative)

They were read imprecisely but overemphatically by Lillias White (“Unimaginable, unimaginable horrors.

2007 October 6, The New York Times, “Dance in Review”, in New York Times:


reputationally

Wherever the parties stand, at the end of the day, the person with the swing vote is Mr. Flowers, who has the most riding on the deal — financially and reputationally.

2007 October 7, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “The Money Game and the Mind Game at Sallie Mae”, in New York Times:


imaginarily

But we end with those famous Artists leauing them to their graues, and their works to the admiration of all posterity, and speake of Statuary or Caruing, which thus farre differeth from painting; this doth expresse hir image in the plaine or smooth superficies imaginarily; the other in the hollow and vneuen superficies, really.

1606, Henry Peacham, The art of drawing vvith the pen, and limming in water colours, London: William Jones, Book 1, Chapter 2, pp. 7-8:

1724, Aaron Hill and William Bond, The Plain Dealer No. 40, 7 August, 1724, Volume 1, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p. 335,
The Father (if all our Family guesses right, and much I fear we do) will be inraged at the Loss of an Estate, in which he had imaginarily placed the whole Sum of his Son’s Felicity in this World;

The lethargically mad, sitting with their hands in their laps, imaginarily exhausted, unable to speak above a whisper, with burning but unfocusable eyes, unable to concentrate...

1940, Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk, New York: New York Review of Books, published 2001, page 20:

At some point, the past two or three weeks, Paul had begun to imaginarily hear Erin quietly sobbing—whenever she was in a bathroom with the sink on, and sometimes when in bed, beside him […]

2013, Tao Lin, chapter 6, in Taipei, New York: Vintage, page 214:

In an imaginary way, in the imagination.

The which Sacrament Melchisedech King of Salem first offered vp figuratiuely in type (or token) of the body and bloude of Christe: and the same man first of al expressed imaginarily (or in image) the Mysterie of this so great a Sacrifice, foreshewing the likenesse of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christe the euerlasting Priest.

1567, Thomas Harding, A reioindre to M. Iewels replie against the sacrifice of the Masse, Leuven: Division 8:

[…] some desiring to please their tyrannous Princes, put up their statues, and at distance by a phantastical presence flattered them with honours. And in process of time, these were made Gods; and the incommunicable name was given to wood and stones. Not that the Heathens thought that image to be very God, but that they were imaginarily present in them, and so had their Name.

1667, Jeremy Taylor, The second part of the dissuasive from popery in vindication of the first part, and further reproof and conviction of the Roman errors, London: R. Royston, Part 2, Book 2, Section 7, p. 154:


unright

unright (comparative more unright, superlative most unright)

more unright (comparative)
most unright (superlative)

From Middle English unright, unrighte, from Old English unrihte (“wrongly, crookedly, unjustly”), equivalent to un- + right.


fetishistically

en-adv

fetishistically (comparative more fetishistically, superlative most fetishistically)

more fetishistically (comparative)
most fetishistically (superlative)

Fortunately, their nicknames give them away: All are figures associated with the Mafia, that fetishistically documented secret society responsible for long-ago crime waves, more recent cinematic masterpieces and, above all, an enduring modern marketing bonanza.

2007 October 21, Michael Brick, “The Mafia, an F.B.I. Agent and Murder: Mr. Scorsese, Your Next Film Awaits”, in New York Times:

First identified in the early 1990s by Canadian sex researcher Ray Blanchard, autogynephiles usually grow up with masculine boyhood interests, eventually finding themselves fetishistically sexually interested in female clothes and female bodies.

2012, Gary F. Kelly, America's Sexual Transformation:


puerilely

puerilely (comparative more puerilely, superlative most puerilely)

more puerilely (comparative)
most puerilely (superlative)

If you find the idea that mothers shape their children’s “whole” lives original rather than simultaneously banal and puerilely overstated, then Barnes & Noble, here you come!

2007 October 21, Lee Siegel, “Mom’s in the Freezer”, in New York Times:


hearingly

hearingly (comparative more hearingly, superlative most hearingly)

more hearingly (comparative)
most hearingly (superlative)

Ross enables us to listen more hearingly.

2007 October 28, Geoff Dyer, “Centurys Playlist”, in New York Times:


discriminantly

discriminantly (comparative more discriminantly, superlative most discriminantly)

more discriminantly (comparative)
most discriminantly (superlative)

And when you start thinking of sports that way, as being about anything that fits or just anything instead of being about a game played on a field someplace, thats when its easy to start thinking of other things less discriminantly: of sports as an arm of the entertainment industry, of the field or the court or the ice as a stage, of sports media as interactive theater, or Grand Guignol, or commedia dellarte, of Tom Arnold and the supremely awful Dennis Miller as being interesting sports personalities.

2007 October 28, Richard Ford, “The Noise Is Killing Me”, in New York Times:


emblematically

emblematically (comparative more emblematically, superlative most emblematically)

more emblematically (comparative)
most emblematically (superlative)

Inevitably Dmitri Shostakovich is the emblematically contorted figure, moving from derisory laughter at the very idea of having to explain the socioeconomic dimensions of the music of Chopin and Liszt to an uncomfortable accommodation with the state that both facilitates and threatens his work.


smally

smally (comparative more smally, superlative most smally)

more smally (comparative)
most smally (superlative)

The name of Worstead, a village some ten miles distant from the city, was, indeed, as its name may testify, the birthplace of an important branch of the trade in England; now it is a smally populated, little known spot...

1890, HM Factory Inspectorate, Annual report of the chief inspector of factories and workshops:

Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself.


for starters

For starters, you can't talk to black people like you're a redneck cowboy. We hate redneck cowboys.

2005 December 6, The Advocate, number 952, page 88:

For starters, you must decide which hardware and software to use.

2006, Neil Cherry, Linux Smart Homes For Dummies, page 187:

(informal) As an initial point; before any other considerations.


elfishly

elfishly (comparative more elfishly, superlative most elfishly)

more elfishly (comparative)
most elfishly (superlative)


undauntingly

undauntingly (comparative more undauntingly, superlative most undauntingly)

more undauntingly (comparative)
most undauntingly (superlative)


leafily

leafily (comparative more leafily, superlative most leafily)

more leafily (comparative)
most leafily (superlative)

My aunt and uncle lived in a leafily attractive suburb.


midbite

Another guest, not to be out-restrained, pushed her tart away midbite and asked for her own glass of Jell-O.

2007 November 11, Jennifer Steinhauer, “The Hollywood Diet”, in New York Times:


donnishly

donnishly (comparative more donnishly, superlative most donnishly)

more donnishly (comparative)
most donnishly (superlative)

I'm not usually a cherub person, he said donnishly, but the carvings are spectacular.

2007 November 11, Alex Williams, “Odd Man In”, in New York Times:


superheroically

superheroically (comparative more superheroically, superlative most superheroically)

more superheroically (comparative)
most superheroically (superlative)

But superheroically, she keeps her spirits high through the final pages, where ambition is its own reward and she flies self-confident loops around the Chrysler Building.

2007 November 11, Jessica Bruder, “Can-Do Creatures”, in New York Times:


mesmerically

mesmerically (comparative more mesmerically, superlative most mesmerically)

more mesmerically (comparative)
most mesmerically (superlative)

"What do you want me to do?" she asked, in her nervousness holding the bowl of her glass — it was a large glass on a stem, that the Mexicans call a Copa, a Cup — and swaying the wine mesmerically.

1925, D.H. Lawrence, chapter XVIII, in Louis L. Martz, editor, Quetzalcoatl, New York: New Directions, published 1998, page 307:

In a mesmeric manner; by, or as if by, hypnotism.


midtrip

She feels reassured that not only is her $2,000 airfare completely refundable should she cancel before she leaves, but that the policy also pays for her to return home unexpectedly midtrip "if one of my teachers gets sick and I have to fly back and keep things from falling apart."

2007 November 15, Lisa Belkin, “Hello, Vacation: It's the Boss”, in New York Times:


achily

achily (comparative more achily, superlative most achily)

more achily (comparative)
most achily (superlative)


offendedly

offendedly (comparative more offendedly, superlative most offendedly)

more offendedly (comparative)
most offendedly (superlative)


squanderingly

squanderingly (comparative more squanderingly, superlative most squanderingly)

more squanderingly (comparative)
most squanderingly (superlative)


shudderingly

shudderingly (comparative more shudderingly, superlative most shudderingly)

more shudderingly (comparative)
most shudderingly (superlative)

These wintry nights, if she turned from the fire and the beguilement of Jim's songs, to shudderingly look outside at the frosty moonlit world, Andrew's prediction that their waiting pints of water would be all ice in the morning was often a little consolation.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 183:


unadulteratedly

unadulteratedly (comparative more unadulteratedly, superlative most unadulteratedly)

more unadulteratedly (comparative)
most unadulteratedly (superlative)


uncheerfully

uncheerfully (comparative more uncheerfully, superlative most uncheerfully)

more uncheerfully (comparative)
most uncheerfully (superlative)


pulsingly

pulsingly (comparative more pulsingly, superlative most pulsingly)

more pulsingly (comparative)
most pulsingly (superlative)

She seems pulsingly alive in a way that the grand, marmoreal singers sometimes did not.

2007 December 2, Charles Mcgrath, “A New Kind of Diva”, in New York Times:


twistily

twistily (comparative more twistily, superlative most twistily)

more twistily (comparative)
most twistily (superlative)

in a twisty manner; characterised by many twists, bends or turns.


veeringly

veeringly (comparative more veeringly, superlative most veeringly)

more veeringly (comparative)
most veeringly (superlative)


windingly

windingly (comparative more windingly, superlative most windingly)

more windingly (comparative)
most windingly (superlative)

The river flows windingly between the hills.


fratricidally

fratricidally (comparative more fratricidally, superlative most fratricidally)

more fratricidally (comparative)
most fratricidally (superlative)


man and boy

/ˌmæn n̩ ˈbɔɪ/

I’ve lived here forty years, man and boy.

(British) During one's manhood and boyhood; since one's childhood; all one's life.

világéletében

during one’s manhood and boyhood; all one’s life


asundre

asundre (comparative more asundre, superlative most asundre)

more asundre (comparative)
most asundre (superlative)

Whan I from her should depart asundre,
Wyth her fayre head she dyd lowe enclyne,
And in lykewyse so dyd I wyth myne.

1846, Stephen Hawes, Early English Poetry, volume XVIII, page 93:


up and down

Coordinate term: back and forth

the tide goes up and down

my blood pressure goes up and down

She looked me up and down and hinted that I could do with losing some weight.

walk up and down the corridor

(idiomatic) alternately forwards and backwards along a path

fel s alá

He swore up and down that he hadn't taken the money.

Christina is straight up and down fuckable.

(idiomatic) staunchly, unwaveringly, obstinately

por activa y por pasiva (colloquial; usu. preceded by decir)

There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith.

2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in Rail, number 948, page 27:


pestilently

pestilently (comparative more pestilently, superlative most pestilently)

more pestilently (comparative)
most pestilently (superlative)


gnotobiotically

In terms of, or by means of, gnotobiotics.


pestilentially

pestilentially (comparative more pestilentially, superlative most pestilentially)

more pestilentially (comparative)
most pestilentially (superlative)

For a conclusion, I shal only point you to some few more spots which appeare here and there in the body of the Gangrene, which plainly shew the very vitals & inward parts of it to be pestilentially infected;

1646, John Goodwin, Cretensis: or A Briefe Answer to an Ulcerous Treatise, London: Henry Overton, page 47:

[…] folly and prejudice have spread themselves so pestilentially among all ranks and denominations; that any person, who now would endeavour to benefit his country from a praiseworthy principle of integrity […] the patriot would be hooted at for a madman,

1763, George Alexander Stevens, “Interlude between the Acts”, in The Dramatic History of Master Edward, London: T. Waller, page 107:

1917, M. K. Gandhi, “Third Class in Indian Railways,” communication to the press on 25 September, 1917, Bhadarkali-Lahore: Gandhi Publications League, 1917, p. 5,
There was a pipe in it [the water closet] but no water, and I say without fear of challenge that it was pestilentially dirty.

In a pestilential manner; with pestilence.


eavesdroppingly

"When you get us a car," she said, at the same time sticking a dollar and change into the beggar's cup that was our only passage into the eavesdroppingly perfect world of the cabbie.


pharaonically

pharaonically (comparative more pharaonically, superlative most pharaonically)

more pharaonically (comparative)
most pharaonically (superlative)

The entranceway to Tomb 19 had been cut in ancient times through a rock spur, with a gently downward-sloping ramp and vertical sides approaching a square door that had three decorated jambs. In many ways it resembles a modern single-car garage, but with a high ceiling and pharaonically painted walls.

2010, Donald P Ryan, Beneath the sands of Egypt: adventures of an unconventional archaeologist, page 16:

In a pharaonic fashion (especially of female circumcision by infibulation).


nonprofessionally

As a teenager he worked as a cowboy for several summers on a ranch in Arizona, and he continued to ride horses nonprofessionally all his life.

2007 December 4, Ken Johnson, “Paul Brach, 83, Painter and Teacher, Is Dead”, in New York Times:


ASAIC

(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of as soon as I can.


goldang

"If I buy the goldang cow," he's thinking to himself, "then I can sell the goldang cow, whenever I goldang please."

1990, Joe Bob Briggs, The cosmic wisdom of Joe Bob Briggs:


morningly

(obsolete) every morning; daily in the morning.


periscopically

With a similar movement to that of a periscope.


forcedly

forcedly (comparative more forcedly, superlative most forcedly)

more forcedly (comparative)
most forcedly (superlative)

In the last 75 years, the two main resident choreographers who have reshaped the Paris Opera Ballet are Serge Lifar and Rudolf Nureyev, intelligent stars whose choreography was generally empty, pompously (Lifar) or forcedly (Nureyev) academicist, astoundingly anti-musical in emphasis, strong on surface and almost entirely devoid of dance tone.

2007 December 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Class Acts: Paris Ballet Student Exhibitions”, in New York Times:


demeaningly

demeaningly (comparative more demeaningly, superlative most demeaningly)

more demeaningly (comparative)
most demeaningly (superlative)

Mr. Chase's obsessive control over every aspect of The Sopranos elevated it to what many saw as art, even as he grumbled throughout the show's run about being confined to what he considered a demeaningly commercial medium.

2007 December 23, Bill Carter, “Tony Wasn't Whacked, but What About HBO?”, in New York Times:


discombobulatingly

discombobulatingly (comparative more discombobulatingly, superlative most discombobulatingly)

more discombobulatingly (comparative)
most discombobulatingly (superlative)

The visitor fresh off a discombobulatingly long flight and a two-hour, traffic-choked journey from Narita Airport is ushered into a quiet, softly lighted cocoon where every contingency seems to have been anticipated.

2008 January 10, Tom Vanderbilt, “You Can Go Home Again, but Why?”, in New York Times:


uneconomically

uneconomically (comparative more uneconomically, superlative most uneconomically)

more uneconomically (comparative)
most uneconomically (superlative)

So he went, uneconomically but expectantly, to the emergency room.

2008 January 8, Elissa Ely, M.D., “Homeless, With a New Loss: Identity”, in New York Times:


steamily

steamily (comparative more steamily, superlative most steamily)

more steamily (comparative)
most steamily (superlative)

Behind him, through a wall of plate glass, gray Manhattan sulked steamily under a drifting pall of April rain.

2008 January 13, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times:


hypnotizingly

hypnotizingly (comparative more hypnotizingly, superlative most hypnotizingly)

more hypnotizingly (comparative)
most hypnotizingly (superlative)

So as to hypnotize or entrance; mesmeric.


hypnotisingly

hypnotisingly (comparative more hypnotisingly, superlative most hypnotisingly)

more hypnotisingly (comparative)
most hypnotisingly (superlative)


grungily

grungily (comparative more grungily, superlative most grungily)

more grungily (comparative)
most grungily (superlative)

Mr. Jia is part of the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers, which emerged in the 1990s with grungily realistic portrayals of contemporary China that stood apart from the historical epics that came before.

2008 January 20, Dennis Lim, “Blurring Reality’s Edge in Fluid China”, in New York Times:


infrasonically

Among elephants, it is the females who are the born politicians, cultivating robust and lifelong social ties with at least 100 other elephants, a task made easier by their power to communicate infrasonically across miles of savanna floor.

2008 January 22, Natalie Angier, “Political Animals (Yes, Animals)”, in New York Times:


semiaccidentally

As ominous thwacking sounds are heard — she asks some dancers to demonstrate a few moves — Ms. Streb tells of the time she set herself on fire, semiaccidentally.

2008 January 22, Charles Isherwood, “The Body of Her Work: Hearing Questions of Life and Death”, in New York Times:


drippingly

drippingly (comparative more drippingly, superlative most drippingly)

more drippingly (comparative)
most drippingly (superlative)

a basket of drippingly ripe peaches

Still confounding critics more than 40 years after its making, “Le Bonheur” could qualify as either the most drippingly sentimental film ever made or the most dryly ironic.

2008 January 22, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:


unquenchably

unquenchably (comparative more unquenchably, superlative most unquenchably)

more unquenchably (comparative)
most unquenchably (superlative)

Kazin, by contrast, was God-haunted (“I want my God back” is the next-to-last sentence of his 1978 memoir, “New York Jew”); unquenchably fascinated by American literature and American history; and politically radical, but in a fashion that owed less to Marx than to Whitman — Kazin’s radicalism was democratic, generous, angry and thoroughly in the American grain.

2008 January 27, Brian Morton, “In the American Grain”, in New York Times:


climactically

climactically (comparative more climactically, superlative most climactically)

more climactically (comparative)
most climactically (superlative)

When Ike thinks about why he loves New York, he muses on its “sense of possibility” and the ducks in Central Park and all that, but, climactically, he thinks of being another face in the crowd: “He loves the liberating feeling that this city doesn’t seem to give a damn about him and never did.”

2008 January 27, Troy Patterson, “Your Place or Mine”, in New York Times:

In a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.


phantastically

phantastically (comparative more phantastically, superlative most phantastically)

more phantastically (comparative)
most phantastically (superlative)


autoreferentially

autoreferentially (comparative more autoreferentially, superlative most autoreferentially)

more autoreferentially (comparative)
most autoreferentially (superlative)

In an autoreferential fashion; with reference to itself.


measuringly

measuringly (comparative more measuringly, superlative most measuringly)

more measuringly (comparative)
most measuringly (superlative)

He tossed the chunk of soft wood in his hand measuringly, then, humming something utterly tuneless to my ears, set to work.

2008, Allan Cole, Chris Bunch, The Warrior's Tale:

She was still watching him measuringly.

2008 February 3, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times:


compromisingly

compromisingly (comparative more compromisingly, superlative most compromisingly)

more compromisingly (comparative)
most compromisingly (superlative)

These productions show unconscious people being drawn on with Sharpies, smothered in shaving cream, posed compromisingly and otherwise humiliated — all for the amusement of the Internet.

2008 February 10, Virginia Heffernan, “In Vino Veritas”, in New York Times:


unadornedly

unadornedly (comparative more unadornedly, superlative most unadornedly)

more unadornedly (comparative)
most unadornedly (superlative)

In this “O, O,” as in many French encounters with Judson-era artists and precepts, there exists a dissonance-causing artifice; the seven new performers do not always seem as unadornedly present as their American peers were.

2008 February 9, Claudia La Rocco, “Moving in the Round With the Master of High Silliness”, in New York Times:


babyishly

babyishly (comparative more babyishly, superlative most babyishly)

more babyishly (comparative)
most babyishly (superlative)

Marc Jacobs, wearing his Sunday best and still with blue hair, came out onto a concert stage in the 26th Street Armory not 10 minutes after his show was scheduled to start, waving his arms and calling out babyishly to the arriving guests, who included fashion plates like Victoria Beckham and Kevin Federline.

2008 February 10, Eric Wilson, “Marc Jacobs Play It Safe? Come On, Now”, in New York Times:


leadenly

leadenly (comparative more leadenly, superlative most leadenly)

more leadenly (comparative)
most leadenly (superlative)

The post-hippie urban style of 1970 comes across as so leadenly soggy that it’s beyond sending up.

2008 February 9, Ben Brantley, “An Indomitable Diva Played by, Well, an ...”, in New York Times:


comparingly

comparingly (comparative more comparingly, superlative most comparingly)

more comparingly (comparative)
most comparingly (superlative)


detachedly

detachedly (comparative more detachedly, superlative most detachedly)

more detachedly (comparative)
most detachedly (superlative)

In his second work, “Jérôme Bel,” four naked performers detachedly examine and manipulate their bodies, illuminated by a single light bulb, and eventually urinate onstage.

2008 February 24, Roslyn Sulcas, “Unless You Have Another Word, Dance Will Do”, in New York Times:


squeezably

squeezably (comparative more squeezably, superlative most squeezably)

more squeezably (comparative)
most squeezably (superlative)

“The first co-owner had coarse-coated dogs, and she said he was so fluffy and squeezably, wonderfully soft,” Good said.

2008 February 12, Richard Sandomir, “Beagle Is Top Hound at Westminster Dog Show”, in New York Times:


pigmentationally

Then, there’s “people of color,” embraced for a time as embodying unity among people pigmentationally advantaged.

2008 March 3, “The Words We Use to Talk About Race”, in New York Times:


departmentwide

A plan to take back all so-called precinct parking permits from auxiliary officers first came to light in a Feb. 1 Police Department memo to all precincts. Mr. Browne said the action was in addition to a mandatory 20 percent reduction of placards departmentwide.

2008 March 6, Al Baker, “Auxiliary Police See Parking Permit Cut as an Insult”, in New York Times:


knavishly

knavishly (comparative more knavishly, superlative most knavishly)

more knavishly (comparative)
most knavishly (superlative)

Then he played hard to get, knavishly sidestepping the microphone.

2008 March 6, Nate Chinen, “A Night of ‘Warpaint,’ a New Set of Crowes”, in New York Times:


lapward

At home, one could conceivably reach down and flip on one’s new toy when one’s family member, despite having been admonished about texting friends at the dinner table, continues to peer lapward, hands curled around a tiny — but now ineffectual — keypad.

2009 March 3, Alex Kuczynski, “Talk to the Hand”, in New York Times:


præsently

præsently (comparative more præsently, superlative most præsently)

more præsently (comparative)
most præsently (superlative)

Nature therefore would præsently work the more prævalent way, if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restraine her.

1806, Charles Symmons, quoting John Milton in The Prose Works of John Milton; page 49


wirily

wirily (comparative more wirily, superlative most wirily)

more wirily (comparative)
most wirily (superlative)

At 6 feet 5 inches and 180 pounds, wirily strong, Potter dressed in jeans and blue T-shirt emblazoned with a hawk.

2008 March 14, JerLongman, “900 Feet Up With Nowhere to Go but Down”, in New York Times:


UTG

Initialism of under the gun. From the fact that being UTG (i.e., the first to play) is often considered a strategically disadvantageous position.

Playing UTG.


attitudinally

There have been others, from Kenny Anderson to Felipe Lopez, but one also wonders: How much better might Marbury, whose all-star talent remains unquestioned, have fared attitudinally in the pros without the early fawning?

2008 March 17, Harvey Araton, “The Burden of Hype in the City’s Bright Lights”, in New York Times:


mayorally

Rather than retain the mayorally appointed position, he decided to seek to stay on as an adviser.

2008 March 26, Patrick Mcgeehan, “Ex-Official Cleared to Continue Work on Big City Projects”, in New York Times:


leapingly

leapingly (comparative more leapingly, superlative most leapingly)

more leapingly (comparative)
most leapingly (superlative)


dollarwise

Coordinate term: percentagewise

Dollarwise it was the biggest change in years, but percentagewise it was not a record-breaking change.

There are far larger budget fights looming, dollarwise.

2008 March 27, “New Day, Line by Budget Line”, in New York Times:

Dollarwise, I probably lost out by at least 100 percent, but it spawned a career.

2008, Robert Schleicher, The Lionel Legend: An American Icon, page 18:

(US) In terms of dollars (as opposed to percentage, or to another currency); moneywise; monetarily; financially.


leggily

leggily (comparative more leggily, superlative most leggily)

more leggily (comparative)
most leggily (superlative)

MAYBE, just maybe, if Carrie Bradshaw, the dynamo at the center of the phenomenally successful television series “Sex and the City,” were still in her 20s and just starting her ascent into New York life in 2008, maybe, just maybe, she would be like Julia Allison, who this evening is sitting leggily astride a leather ottoman in Houston’s, a bar in the Flatiron District.

2008 March 30, Leslie Kaufman, “Channeling Carrie”, in New York Times:


documentarily

documentarily qualified applicants


impactfully

impactfully (comparative more impactfully, superlative most impactfully)

more impactfully (comparative)
most impactfully (superlative)

And expressing them as impactfully and articulately as you can.

2010, Kay Inckle, “At the Cutting Edge: Creative and Holistic Responses to Self-Injury”, in Creative Nursing, volume 16, number 4, pages 160–165:


weedily

weedily (comparative more weedily, superlative most weedily)

more weedily (comparative)
most weedily (superlative)

Or to put it another way: could a song end your life? Could just one number, performed weedily by Keira Knightley at the beginning of this romcom, cause your body to self-combust at the prospect of enduring 90-odd minutes of a movie obsessed with authenticity but as phoney as a Miley Cyrus dance routine?

2013 September 9, Paul MacInnes, “Can a Song Save Your Life?”, in The Guardian:

The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]

1873, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 46, page 562:


unartfully

unartfully (comparative more unartfully, superlative most unartfully)

more unartfully (comparative)
most unartfully (superlative)


inartfully

inartfully (comparative more inartfully, superlative most inartfully)

more inartfully (comparative)
most inartfully (superlative)

Finally, he got a chance to remind her of the time back in 1992 when she dissed the homemakers of America by saying, rather inartfully, that she preferred legal work to baking and serving tea.

2008 April 17, Gail Collins, “Battle of the Baggage”, in New York Times:


exhibitionistically

exhibitionistically (comparative more exhibitionistically, superlative most exhibitionistically)

more exhibitionistically (comparative)
most exhibitionistically (superlative)


outmodedly

outmodedly (comparative more outmodedly, superlative most outmodedly)

more outmodedly (comparative)
most outmodedly (superlative)


unstereotypically

unstereotypically (comparative more unstereotypically, superlative most unstereotypically)

more unstereotypically (comparative)
most unstereotypically (superlative)


daffily

daffily (comparative more daffily, superlative most daffily)

more daffily (comparative)
most daffily (superlative)

Both women and men even get to do, daffily, the same little pelvic wiggles.

2008 April 24, Alastair Macaulay, “What Audiences Haven’t Seen Before”, in New York Times:


verblessly

“The thick slippery feel of my bottle’s rubber nipple inside my mouth,” he recalls verblessly.

2008 May 1, Janet Maslin, “Returning to the Past and Finding the Bogeyman Is Still There”, in New York Times:


assertedly

Though the suit does not name Mr. Bloomberg as a defendant and claims discrimination that assertedly occurred after he left an active role in the company, it is the latest and most sweeping of a string of discrimination and sexual harassment complaints filed against the firm since the 1990s.

2008 May 2, Alan Feuer, “54 More Women Accuse Bloomberg Firm of Bias”, in New York Times:


lickably

lickably (comparative more lickably, superlative most lickably)

more lickably (comparative)
most lickably (superlative)

Imagine the footwear wing of Frederick’s of Hollywood, if it had tottered away to seduce the Wonka factory: wall-to-wall red carpet, mirrors, disco sequins and modular Lucite cubbies all showcasing a loopy series of variations on lickably shiny, nosebleed-high hooker pumps (the cheap American cousin of which is commonly known, in fetishistic eBay galleries, as “the Pleaser”).

2008 May 1, Cintra Wilson, “Open-Toed Fetishes (and More)”, in New York Times:


yesterweek

(obsolete) On the week preceding the current week.


confirmedly

confirmedly (comparative more confirmedly, superlative most confirmedly)

more confirmedly (comparative)
most confirmedly (superlative)

How could such confirmedly bookish types write an I-love-reading book so fundamentally tone deaf as to why reading can inspire love?

2008 May 11, Roger Sutton, “Because It’s Good for You”, in New York Times:

In a manner that is confirmed; definitely, as has been demonstrated.


pelvically

David's singing method consisted of pelvically controlled breathing with no external body movement, together with voice placement at a point between but above the ears, at the top of the head.

1997, Gloria Bennett, Breaking through: from rock to opera: the basic technique of voice, page 5:

One dance is pelvically sexy, the gyrations now controlled into one fluent, none-too-disturbed mood.

2008 May 10, Alastair Macaulay, “One Man, Alone Onstage, Displays a Disquieting Family Album”, in New York Times:


micrographically

The filing demands of business are such that, even while more and more filing will be done electronically and micrographically, the amount of paperwork involved in communications is expected to grow about 14 percent a year...

1981, Edward M. Gottschall, Graphic communication '80s:

The future is here, and the immortal O.E.D., the one that lives in bound pages last published micrographically in 1991, is obsolete — at least according to the folks who publish it.

2008 May 11, Virginia Heffernan, “Lexicographical Longing”, in New York Times:


pinpointedly

pinpointedly (comparative more pinpointedly, superlative most pinpointedly)

more pinpointedly (comparative)
most pinpointedly (superlative)

Here his improvisations are pinpointedly focused on melody and swing, and he always has a mute in his trumpet; this is quiet jazz with organized locomotive force.

2008 May 11, Ben Ratliff, “Quiet Jazz, Roaring Noise, Hip-Hop Wizardry”, in New York Times:


shamblingly

shamblingly (comparative more shamblingly, superlative most shamblingly)

more shamblingly (comparative)
most shamblingly (superlative)

The band developed its sound, shamblingly at first, on the road, in an era before thousands of blog or YouTube users could form an opinion of a band based on some MySpace demos and a duff early gig in Tacoma.

2008 May 18, R J Smith, “Death Cab Is Up for the Long Haul”, in New York Times:


tastewise

Cocktail geeks might want to stop reading — tastewise, this is kids’ stuff, all sweetness and light. Ms. Lo combines green tea-infused simple syrup with milk and a shot of vodka, yielding a familiar flavor — think of a green tea frappuccino at Starbucks and you’re in the right neighborhood — edged with the keenness of the vodka.

2008 May 18, Jonathan Miles, “A Drink Puts on the Kid Gloves”, in New York Times:


expressionistically

expressionistically (comparative more expressionistically, superlative most expressionistically)

more expressionistically (comparative)
most expressionistically (superlative)

The film’s psychological journey leads to a shootout in an abandoned mining town, staged by Mann in multi-leveled, expressionistically distorted space that seems a universe away from the open plains and sharp horizon lines of Ford’s classical vision.

2008 May 20, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: Westerns”, in New York Times:


literalistically

literalistically (comparative more literalistically, superlative most literalistically)

more literalistically (comparative)
most literalistically (superlative)


retaliatorily

retaliatorily (comparative more retaliatorily, superlative most retaliatorily)

more retaliatorily (comparative)
most retaliatorily (superlative)


peripatetically

peripatetically (comparative more peripatetically, superlative most peripatetically)

more peripatetically (comparative)
most peripatetically (superlative)

But this stance is not born of some French-fried patriotism, or some urge to peripatetically wander the countryside.

2008 June 1, David Colman, “A Timely Way to Go Back in Time”, in New York Times:


dramaturgically

I hope this trend will encourage opera companies to look again at Giovanni Paisiello’s unfairly neglected Barbiere di Siviglia, dramaturgically superior to the Rossini version and, in many ways, a touchstone for several of the composers at the Viennese Court, including Mozart.

2008 June 1, “Mozart’s Rivals: A Neglected Contemporary”, in New York Times:


directorially

directorially (comparative more directorially, superlative most directorially)

more directorially (comparative)
most directorially (superlative)

At least five directors were involved in the production, from Korda’s hapless original choice, Ludwig Berger, whom he came to dislike for his intimate approach to material that Korda had envisioned as grand and sweeping; to Michael Powell (brought in mainly to work with Veidt, whom he had directed in “The Spy in Black” and “Contraband,” Veidt’s first two British films); to the American action director Tim Whelan; and, when the production moved to the United States, to the influential Art Moderne production designer William Cameron Menzies and Korda’s more directorially accomplished brother, Zoltan Korda.

2008 May 27, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: Action and Adventure”, in New York Times:


midnightmare

"Minnie — " I tried again, but what issued from my throat was that sound we all make, midnightmare, somewhere between a growl and a silent scream.

1991, Carol Muske-Dukes, Dear Digby, page 61:

Will tried to convince himself that he had the life he deserved. That it was restful not having to put up a front all the time. Knowing he wasn't disturbing Dinah's sleep when he woke midnightmare, shouting.

2007, Janice Kay Johnson, Christmas Presents and Past, page 230:


mid-nightmare

His eyes were wide and scared, as if he'd woken mid-nightmare.

2006, Marion Lennox, Princess of Convenience, page 82:


planetward

planetward (comparative more planetward, superlative most planetward)

more planetward (comparative)
most planetward (superlative)


plightly

plightly (comparative plightlier or more plightly, superlative plightliest or most plightly)

plightlier (comparative)
more plightly (comparative)
plightliest (superlative)
most plightly (superlative)

From Middle English plihtliche, from Old English *plihtlīċe (“dangerously”), from plihtlīċ (“dangerous, perilous”), equivalent to plight + -ly.


cespitosely

cespitosely (comparative more cespitosely, superlative most cespitosely)

more cespitosely (comparative)
most cespitosely (superlative)

Plants with cespitosely branched caudices, the stems usually diffusely branched.

1907, New York Botanical Garden, North American flora: Volume 25, Parts 1-5:


qualifiedly

qualifiedly (comparative more qualifiedly, superlative most qualifiedly)

more qualifiedly (comparative)
most qualifiedly (superlative)


exhortingly

exhortingly (comparative more exhortingly, superlative most exhortingly)

more exhortingly (comparative)
most exhortingly (superlative)


queenlily

queenlily (comparative more queenlily, superlative most queenlily)

more queenlily (comparative)
most queenlily (superlative)


waitingly

waitingly (comparative more waitingly, superlative most waitingly)

more waitingly (comparative)
most waitingly (superlative)

So as to wait; hesitatingly or loiteringly.


yearnfully

yearnfully (comparative more yearnfully, superlative most yearnfully)

more yearnfully (comparative)
most yearnfully (superlative)


this minute

'Sir, I know what to do,' retorted Mrs Pipchin, 'and of course shall do it. Susan Nipper,' snapping her up particularly short, 'a month's warning from this hour.'
'Oh indeed!' cried Susan, loftily.
'Yes,' returned Mrs Pipchin, 'and don't smile at me, you minx, or I'll know the reason why! Go along with you this minute!'

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:


o'clockish

We'll have dinner at seven o'clockish, depending on how soon Keith arrives.

(informal) After a numeral, denotes a time of around the start of that hour.


oceanographically

oceanographically important discoveries


unobservantly

unobservantly (comparative more unobservantly, superlative most unobservantly)

more unobservantly (comparative)
most unobservantly (superlative)

In an unobservant manner; with careless inattention.

(archaic) In a manner that is not observed; unnoticeably.


gastrointestinally

In terms of, or by means of, the gastrointestinal system.


observingly

observingly (comparative more observingly, superlative most observingly)

more observingly (comparative)
most observingly (superlative)

There is ſome ſoule of goodneſſe in things euill, / VVould men obſeruingly diſtill it out.

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 i], page 83, column 2:

As Goethe had observingly read, a Frankfurt police ordinance of the fifteenth-century forbade fallen women to wear jewelry, silk, satin, or damask, and denied them the use of a pew in church.

1989, Philip G. Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: Volume 4, page 149:


IYSS

IYSS. I took that to be part of the whole deal with cheap-shot artists hoo^([sic]) take it out with elbows and butt-ends.

2001, Owl, “Domi”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.tor-mapleleafs (Usenet):

> Odd, that, isn't it, how "traditional" and "best" are so ofthen ^([sic])
> found together! Shows us something, I suppose.
IYSS

2001, zeldabee, “Sharpest kitchen knife [long]”, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove (Usenet):

(Internet slang) Initialism of if you say so.


refulgently

refulgently (comparative more refulgently, superlative most refulgently)

more refulgently (comparative)
most refulgently (superlative)


concealingly

concealingly (comparative more concealingly, superlative most concealingly)

more concealingly (comparative)
most concealingly (superlative)


bristlingly

bristlingly (comparative more bristlingly, superlative most bristlingly)

more bristlingly (comparative)
most bristlingly (superlative)

His disdain for Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder, and theirs for him, was bristlingly clear.

2008 June 15, Maureen Dowd, “W. Regrets Almost Nothing”, in New York Times:


superiourly

superiourly (comparative more superiourly, superlative most superiourly)

more superiourly (comparative)
most superiourly (superlative)

Poſſibly it may be argued that, as according to our own account, effects are long in their production ; if the ſyſtems of morality which have been given by the antient Philoſophers of Greece and Rome ; by CONFUCIUS, or MAHOMET, or BRAMA, contain principles which have an equal tendency with Chriſtianity to render their followers more humane and benevolent, the Law of Nations is not ſo ſuperiourly obliged to that religion.

1795, Robert Plumer Ward, An Enquiry into the Foundation and History of the Law of Nations in Europe, volume II, A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, page 8:


inferiourly

inferiourly (comparative more inferiourly, superlative most inferiourly)

more inferiourly (comparative)
most inferiourly (superlative)

It is alſo the very ſame that Prorex is in Latin , to wit, a Vice‐roy: that is,he that in the Kings abſence ſupplyeth his place,and beareth his perſon, as in England the Lord high‐Steward is woont to doe : and more inferiourly it is a deputy or officer under ſome noble man, &c.

1634, Richard Verstegan, A Restitvtion of Decayed Intelligence, page 320:


any minute now

He's on the way, and tells me he'll be here any minute now.


subsonically

subsonically (comparative more subsonically, superlative most subsonically)

more subsonically (comparative)
most subsonically (superlative)


elvishly

elvishly (comparative more elvishly, superlative most elvishly)

more elvishly (comparative)
most elvishly (superlative)


squamosely

squamosely (comparative more squamosely, superlative most squamosely)

more squamosely (comparative)
most squamosely (superlative)


obituarily

In terms of, or by means of, an obituary.


iambically

iambically (comparative more iambically, superlative most iambically)

more iambically (comparative)
most iambically (superlative)

First, English phrases tend to open iambically on an unstressed word (article, preposition, or conjunction), as with The rising world and the waters in the line before us.

2001, David Keppel-Jones, The strict metrical tradition, page 27:


obeyingly

obeyingly (comparative more obeyingly, superlative most obeyingly)

more obeyingly (comparative)
most obeyingly (superlative)

'Doan put de light on man, a want to sleep,' she said.
Jeff obeyingly let his hand fall away from the light switch.


paganistically

paganistically (comparative more paganistically, superlative most paganistically)

more paganistically (comparative)
most paganistically (superlative)


paganly

paganly (comparative more paganly, superlative most paganly)

more paganly (comparative)
most paganly (superlative)


exoatmospherically

In the nearby region of space outside Earth's atmosphere.


stuporously

stuporously (comparative more stuporously, superlative most stuporously)

more stuporously (comparative)
most stuporously (superlative)


unsteadfastly

unsteadfastly (comparative more unsteadfastly, superlative most unsteadfastly)

more unsteadfastly (comparative)
most unsteadfastly (superlative)


HAM

(chiefly African-American Vernacular) Initialism of hard as a motherfucker, extremely hard, extremely intensely, crazily.


relishingly

relishingly (comparative more relishingly, superlative most relishingly)

more relishingly (comparative)
most relishingly (superlative)


uplevel

You're to be allowed uplevel."

We found the first ladder, went uplevel.

A flash of bright yellow and blue hurtled quickly uplevel through the atrium's center.

2005, Linnea Sinclair, An Accidental Goddess:

From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.


downlevel

Gillie had gone downlevel to check on Izaak, brought back a short holovid of the child playing a tune he'd written for the parrots.

Relatively young for his species—only about four hundred standard years, Jax had heard—the big gastropod had nevertheless managed to carve out a profitable niche downlevel.

2008, Michael Reaves, Jedi Twilight, page 129:

He strode purposely to the conduit, stepped inside, and willed himself downlevel.


calendrically

By means of, or in terms of, a calendar.


onomatopœically

onomatopœically (comparative more onomatopœically, superlative most onomatopœically)

more onomatopœically (comparative)
most onomatopœically (superlative)


downsection

downsection (comparative more downsection, superlative most downsection)

more downsection (comparative)
most downsection (superlative)

(geology) Towards the lower part of a section.


troublously

troublously (comparative more troublously, superlative most troublously)

more troublously (comparative)
most troublously (superlative)

Elfride looked troublously at the trees.

1873, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes:


accentlessly

Despite having been born in Scotland, he spoke French accentlessly.


unextinguishably

unextinguishably (comparative more unextinguishably, superlative most unextinguishably)

more unextinguishably (comparative)
most unextinguishably (superlative)


semiapologetically

“I’m not a word person,” she says, semiapologetically.

2008 June 20, Robin Finn, “When Brush With Broadway Ends, She’ll Play On”, in New York Times:


restoratively

restoratively (comparative more restoratively, superlative most restoratively)

more restoratively (comparative)
most restoratively (superlative)


dwarfishly

dwarfishly (comparative more dwarfishly, superlative most dwarfishly)

more dwarfishly (comparative)
most dwarfishly (superlative)


duskily

duskily (comparative more duskily, superlative most duskily)

more duskily (comparative)
most duskily (superlative)

“I'll tell you something, too,” retorted the captain, duskily flushing. “I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now.”

1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in The Wrecker:


fragmentarily

fragmentarily (comparative more fragmentarily, superlative most fragmentarily)

more fragmentarily (comparative)
most fragmentarily (superlative)

So he got his flute, propped up the book against a vase, and played the tune, whilst she hummed it fragmentarily.

1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 18, in Aaron’s Rod:

In the working-class quarters the barricades were being pulled down, rather fragmentarily, for it is a lot easier to build a barricade than to put the stones back.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter X, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

Two were ramshackle old men—droolers as toothless as carp. They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead.

1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 57:


northeastwardly

northeastwardly (comparative more northeastwardly, superlative most northeastwardly)

more northeastwardly (comparative)
most northeastwardly (superlative)


nobbily

nobbily (comparative more nobbily, superlative most nobbily)

more nobbily (comparative)
most nobbily (superlative)

Tracey made a note of this, and is further on record as having observed that this stranger was rather better dressed than the run of drummers, if not so nobbily.

2007, Louis Joseph Vance, The Fortune Hunter, page 31:


northwestwardly

northwestwardly (comparative more northwestwardly, superlative most northwestwardly)

more northwestwardly (comparative)
most northwestwardly (superlative)


nippingly

nippingly (comparative more nippingly, superlative most nippingly)

more nippingly (comparative)
most nippingly (superlative)

The nights were nippingly cold.


illuminatively

illuminatively (comparative more illuminatively, superlative most illuminatively)

more illuminatively (comparative)
most illuminatively (superlative)


close to the vest

close to the vest (comparative closer to the vest, superlative closest to the vest)

closer to the vest (comparative)
closest to the vest (superlative)


close to one's vest

close to one's vest (comparative closer to one's vest, superlative closest to one's vest)

closer to one's vest (comparative)
closest to one's vest (superlative)

close to the vest
close to the vest#English


i' faith

Give me your answer; i’ faith, do: and so clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?

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 V, scene ii]:

1682, Aphra Behn, Sir Patient Fancy, London: Richard Tonson & Jacob Tonson, Act II, Scene 1, pp. 23-24,
[…] if you lov’d Hawking, Drinking, and Whoring,—oh Lord, I mean Hunting, i’ faith there be good fellows wou’d keep you company Madam.

I’ faith, friend Blunt, that little harangue of yours has had a better effect, and done more good in five minutes, than all the m—l force of the kingdom could have effected in a week.

1768, George Saville Carey, Liberty Chastised, London, act III, scene 1:


vituperatively

vituperatively (comparative more vituperatively, superlative most vituperatively)

more vituperatively (comparative)
most vituperatively (superlative)


revilingly

revilingly (comparative more revilingly, superlative most revilingly)

more revilingly (comparative)
most revilingly (superlative)


ratherish

ratherish (comparative more ratherish, superlative most ratherish)

more ratherish (comparative)
most ratherish (superlative)

(colloquial) Slightly; to a small extent; in some degree.


as it is

The roosters would look awesome, their beaks fearsome weapons. A frightening thought. As it is, each rooster needed to be tethered to his own hut to keep them from pecking each other's eyes out.

2004 Fall, Kit Coyne Irwin, “Blind Spot”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 26, number 4, page 108:

Had you not been wearing such a fine boot, your leg probably would have broken. As it is, the bruise is a deep one.

2008, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, A dangerous climate:

As it is, Tokyo is relatively unaffected.

2011 March 14, “Search And Rescue Continues In Japan Disaster”, in Talk of the Nation:

In the actual circumstances (and often contrary to expectations).

Right now it is too dangerous to obsess about such things. It will only make life harder, and life is hard enough as it is.

Already; without adding further difficulty or complexity.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, it, is.


negotiably

negotiably (comparative more negotiably, superlative most negotiably)

more negotiably (comparative)
most negotiably (superlative)


avoidantly

avoidantly (comparative more avoidantly, superlative most avoidantly)

more avoidantly (comparative)
most avoidantly (superlative)


eftsoon

All the while they had their eye and foot so quicke and readie, that as soone as ever they saw the harquebuse raised to the cheeke, so soon were they on the ground, and eftsoone to answer with their bowes, and to the their way, if by chance they perceived that we were about to take them.

1850, William Gilmore Simms, The Lily and the Totem: or, The Huguenots in Florida, Digitalized edition, Baker and Schribner, published 2009, page 292:


yawingly

yawingly (comparative more yawingly, superlative most yawingly)

more yawingly (comparative)
most yawingly (superlative)

[…] while still she rushed along, as if two antagonistic influences were struggling in her — one to mount direct to heaven, the other to drive yawingly to some horizontal goal.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 237:

Reality seemed to slide yawingly from moment to moment. He had loved Narella five years ago? He had been at Winslow's court, and been sentenced to death? Possibly. But it was as if those things had happened to someone else.

2004, Robert Silverberg, The 13th Immortal, page 124:


softwarematically

(rare, informal, computing) By the use of software, especially without direct user intervention.


toothly

toothly (comparative toothlier or more toothly, superlative toothliest or most toothly)

toothlier (comparative)
more toothly (comparative)
toothliest (superlative)
most toothly (superlative)

From tooth + -ly. Compare toothlike, teethlike, toothily.

Toothly speaking then — it pays to stay savage. There is evidence too, that civilizations long before ours felt the stress of dental cares.


cæteris paribus

Used in English first by Thomas Wright in 1601.

yet my meaning is always cæteris paribus

1601, Thomas Wright, The passions of the minde, page Preface A 4 b:


superly

superly (comparative more superly, superlative most superly)

more superly (comparative)
most superly (superlative)

The funeral car was superly arranged. It consisted of a platform, on which was erected a canopy of black cloth and velvet, trimmed with silver lace.

A superly adorned creature, the Callithea Markii, having wings of a thick texture, coloured sapphire, blue, and orange, was only an occasional visitor.


a treat

An ellipsis of like a treat (“thing that gives pleasure”).

ellipsis

The plan worked a treat.

That meal went down a treat.

(British English, colloquial) Very nicely or effectively.


faintheartedly

en-adv

faintheartedly (comparative more faintheartedly, superlative most faintheartedly)

more faintheartedly (comparative)
most faintheartedly (superlative)


danglingly

danglingly (comparative more danglingly, superlative most danglingly)

more danglingly (comparative)
most danglingly (superlative)


yestern

Perhaps from yester + -en. Compare also Old English ġiestran (“yesterday”).

"F. Newman's book I saw yestern at our ouse," Arnold writes to Clough. "He seems to have written himself down an hass.

1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 169:


aporically

aporically (comparative more aporically, superlative most aporically)

more aporically (comparative)
most aporically (superlative)


watchingly

watchingly (comparative more watchingly, superlative most watchingly)

more watchingly (comparative)
most watchingly (superlative)

While watching; with watchful attention.


yfere

From Old English ge- + fēra 'associate, comrade, fellow-disciple'.

So goodly all agreed they forth yfere did ryde.

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


wantingly

wantingly (comparative more wantingly, superlative most wantingly)

more wantingly (comparative)
most wantingly (superlative)

This may be a tough pill to swallow but what Christ is saying is if you look wantingly, powerfully, or lustfully after someone, you have committed adultery. This is true for the married person reading this and the single person.

2008, Ryan Dalgliesh, Love Notes, page 86:


relaxingly

relaxingly (comparative more relaxingly, superlative most relaxingly)

more relaxingly (comparative)
most relaxingly (superlative)


quenchingly

quenchingly (comparative more quenchingly, superlative most quenchingly)

more quenchingly (comparative)
most quenchingly (superlative)


acquisitionally

In terms of acquisition (especially of language).


just because

Just because he didn't accept your friend request doesn't mean he has forgotten you nor does it mean he no longer wants to be friends with you.

Used to show that the truth or existence of one thing does not logically justify the truth or existence of another thing.

[My banishment was p]etty spite on the part of the Lord President, just because they [my lab mice] et his cat.

1985 February 9, Pip and Jane Baker, The Mark of the Rani episode 2, spoken by the Rani:

Used to say that something has insufficient grounds for being done.


wherefor

From Middle English wherefore, wherefor (“for what reason; why”), equivalent to where (“what”) + fore (“for”).

(dated) Alternative spelling of wherefore


nestlingly

nestlingly (comparative more nestlingly, superlative most nestlingly)

more nestlingly (comparative)
most nestlingly (superlative)


jawdroppingly

jawdroppingly (comparative more jawdroppingly, superlative most jawdroppingly)

more jawdroppingly (comparative)
most jawdroppingly (superlative)


yarely

yarely (comparative more yarely, superlative most yarely)

more yarely (comparative)
most yarely (superlative)

From Middle English ȝarly, ȝarely, from Old English ġearlīċe, ġearolīċe; equivalent to yare + -ly.

[…]The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

[…]Fall to't yarely, or we run ourselves aground. Bestir, bestir!

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