biodiversely

biodiversely (comparative more biodiversely, superlative most biodiversely)

more biodiversely (comparative)
most biodiversely (superlative)


Surreyside

On or to the side of the River Thames on which the county of Surrey is located.


faintliest

superlative form of faintly: most faintly


foremore

For then I shall rise, no, I am not seated, then I shall go, just as I am, in the things I stand up in, […] and pass out with a nod on the hard road and up on the hard path and so go, putting my better foot foremore to the best of my abilities, […]

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:


low and slow

en-adv

low and slow (comparative more low and slow, superlative most low and slow)

more low and slow (comparative)
most low and slow (superlative)

In fact, in restaurants, the term “confit” now refers to most anything cooked low and slow in fat, which gives the food a velvety, unctuous texture and concentrates its flavor. We found that baby artichokes are well suited […]

2008, Cook's Illustrated, The Best Slow and Easy Recipes:

Slow Cooker Jambalaya with andouille sausage, chicken and shrimp cooked low and slow with bold spices and vegetables with just 10 minutes of prep.

2019, Stephanie Matthews, Beginners Low Carb Slow Cooker:

(cooking) At a low temperature for a relatively long period of time.


vatically

vatically (comparative more vatically, superlative most vatically)

more vatically (comparative)
most vatically (superlative)


unprejudicially

unprejudicially (comparative more unprejudicially, superlative most unprejudicially)

more unprejudicially (comparative)
most unprejudicially (superlative)


unreassuringly

unreassuringly (comparative more unreassuringly, superlative most unreassuringly)

more unreassuringly (comparative)
most unreassuringly (superlative)


unrestfully

unrestfully (comparative more unrestfully, superlative most unrestfully)

more unrestfully (comparative)
most unrestfully (superlative)


unvariedly

unvariedly (comparative more unvariedly, superlative most unvariedly)

more unvariedly (comparative)
most unvariedly (superlative)


vinewise

O Stars wreathed vinewise round yon heavenly dells,
Or thrust from out the sky in curving sprays, […]

1876, McBride's Magazine, volume 18, page 42:


not in a million

Now he was saying with immense satisfaction, "Why, if a man was to have his pick, he couldn't get a better place than this. Not a blanky soul for miles, that I could see. Why, a man could practically bury himself in a place like this and no one would guess where he was in a million."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 75:

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

(idiomatic) Alternative form of never in a million years


warwards

Governments, churches, theatres, the press, and local authorities, direct their efforts, in the main, warwards; […]

1916, Francis Neilson, Albert Jay Nock, How Diplomats Make War, page 369:

At once he gave the order to the clear-voiced heralds
To summon warwards the Akhaioi with their long-grown hair.

2015, William Guy, transl., Homer's Iliad:


gruffily

en-adverb

gruffily (comparative more gruffily, superlative most gruffily)

more gruffily (comparative)
most gruffily (superlative)


whereanent

(obsolete, Scotland) Concerning which; relating to which.


the next day

The day that follows the one just spoken about. (This entry is a translation hub.)

səhərisi gün

the day that follows the one just spoken about


the day before

On the preceding day. (This entry is a translation hub.)


bachelorwise

[…] and that though he retained the house in Great Coram Street for some time longer, he only occupied it fitfully, and that bachelorwise.

1891, Herman Charles Merivale, Sir Frank Thomas Marzials, John Parker Anderson, Life of W. M. Thackeray, page 113:

He's talking to himself, bachelorwise, and scowling at the map like a preacher reading Playboy.

1995, David Foster, Plumbum: The Ultimate Heavy Metal Experience, page 38:

In the manner of a bachelor; (as though) living alone as a single man.


offencelessly

en-adv

offencelessly (comparative more offencelessly, superlative most offencelessly)

more offencelessly (comparative)
most offencelessly (superlative)


offenselessly

offenselessly (comparative more offenselessly, superlative most offenselessly)

more offenselessly (comparative)
most offenselessly (superlative)


spendthriftily

en-adverb

spendthriftily (comparative more spendthriftily, superlative most spendthriftily)

more spendthriftily (comparative)
most spendthriftily (superlative)


sure as shit

Stuff your sorries in a sack and give 'em to somebody who gives a crap cause sure as shit ain't me.

2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 51:


chancely

From Middle English chauncely, chaunselich, equivalent to chance + -ly.

But by the grace of Almighty Creator I found chancely such a wife in the wilderness, […]

1894, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 103, page 248:


wholesalely

And I believe that wholesalely declaring these areas off limits to motorized access is out of line.

1977, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight and Alaska Lands, Inclusion of Alaska lands in national park, forest, wildlife refuge, and wild and scenic rivers systems: Hearings, page 273:

In a wholesale or indiscriminate manner.


wilsomely

en-adv

wilsomely (comparative more wilsomely, superlative most wilsomely)

more wilsomely (comparative)
most wilsomely (superlative)


wildishly

wildishly (comparative more wildishly, superlative most wildishly)

more wildishly (comparative)
most wildishly (superlative)


despoticly

despoticly (comparative more despoticly, superlative most despoticly)

more despoticly (comparative)
most despoticly (superlative)


supereternally

But as long as we are rolled about things beneath, it will appear to us to be incredible that divinity knows all things impartibly and supereternally; eternal beings indeed, having a real existence, but things which are in generation, or becoming to be, subsisting temporally, neither time nor eternity subsisting in the one.

1816, Thomas Taylor Proclus, The Six Books of Proclus, the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato, Translated from the Greek, The Hague Martinus Nijhoff, page 464:

Wonderlandism, not at all, debatably, a matter of dilemma-licking mass, a supereternalness. Supereternally, trash[.]

2012, Hymie Hitler, Beasts of Prey, Xlibris US, →ISBN, page 63:

To be Supereternally Superblessed by Superconscious free psyche and Subinfinitely Subcursed by Subsensuous free soma in Metaphysics.

2016, John O'Loughlin, Prophet Over Profit, Lulu.com, →ISBN:


digressingly

A little digressingly, the entire problem of the mint area and the chronology of the Gajapati Pagoda series may be surveyed here in brief.

1969, Journal of the Asiatic Society, volumes 11-14, page 167:

Incidentally (and digressingly), the word “wreck” has a certain singular significance in mushing circles, if you've been around the game as long as I have.


enthusiastly

enthusiastly (comparative more enthusiastly, superlative most enthusiastly)

more enthusiastly (comparative)
most enthusiastly (superlative)

The young amid their laughter or their tears / Of her great beauty raved enthusiastly; / And all their charmed dreams reflected hers.

1883, William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard, Ballads and Romances, page 155:


estimatingly

Explorers reached the Galaxy's very edge, and looked estimatingly across the emptiness toward other island universes.

1954, Murray Leinster, The Forgotten Planet:


covenantally

True religion therefore centers covenantally on the mediating Word of God, spoken in creation, inscriptured in the Bible, and incarnate in Jesus Christ.

1992, Gordon J. Spykman, Reformational Theology: A New Paradigm for Doing Dogmatics, page 263:


sleepfully

en-adverb

sleepfully (comparative more sleepfully, superlative most sleepfully)

more sleepfully (comparative)
most sleepfully (superlative)


dilemmatically

From dilemmatic + -ally or dilemmatical + -ly.


rod, line and sinker

hook, line and sinker
hook, line and sinker#English

Alternative form of hook, line and sinker


a clock

[…]you wil find the Suns riſing at 4 a clock in the morning, and if you turn the ſaid point to the Weſt ſide of Heaven upon the Horizon, then you wil ſee the dial to lye upon 8 a clock in the evening[…]

[1679], [Edmond Halley], “II. Exemple. How at anny time to knowe the rising and going under of the Sun.”, in A plain Declaration of the vulgar new Heavens Flatform. Serving not onely fore this Age, but also fore the future Age of 100 years., page 1:

Loſt abont^([sic]) 10 a Clock on Thurſday night from Spring Garden near Charing Croſs, a liver colour and white Spaniel Dog, with a black Velvet Collar and two braſs Bells about his Neck, about a year old;

1702 August 18, The Post Man: And the Historical Account, &c., number 1005, London: […] Fr. Leach, […], column 1:

The Cocks to be weighed at 7 a Clock the Morning before they Fight, to begin to Fight preciſely at 9 a Clock.

1712 April 14, “Advertisements”, in The Newcastle Courant: With News Foreign and Domestick, number 111, Newcastle: […] John White, […], page 4, column 2:


Southernly

en-adv

Southernly (comparative more Southernly, superlative most Southernly)

more Southernly (comparative)
most Southernly (superlative)

The community is Southernly polite to newcomers. They'll engage a new face in conversation in the synagogue, which doesn't usually happen elsewhere.

[…] and the imposing images of her pioneer, but now diabetic and near-blind father, Furman Temple (Ralph Waite) and her Southernly genteel theatrical mother, […]

2011, Andrew B. Leiter, Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s, McFarland, →ISBN, page 181:

The Southerners later convened in Birmingham to organize the States' Rights party, selecting Senator Strom Thurmond […] It wasn't a Southernly reception.

2019, James T Sears, Lonely Hunters: An Oral History Of Lesbian And Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968, Routledge, →ISBN:

Alternative letter-case form of southernly (“in the manner of the South or of Southerners”)


supermonstrously

supermonstrously (comparative more supermonstrously, superlative most supermonstrously)

more supermonstrously (comparative)
most supermonstrously (superlative)

Something like "supermonstrously monstrous” would be an exact equivalent in form, as intensely ugly in meaning.

1916, Neophilologus: A Modern Language Quarterly, page 227:

Hence such an expression like something supermonstrously monstrous would be the nearest equivalent, however strange it may appear.

1917, Henri Logeman, A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Norwegian Text of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt: Its Language, Literary Associations and Folklore, The Hague Martinus Nijhoff, page 112:

If you already have at hand the C code for these supermonstrously vectorized etudes, please point it out.

2019 October 19, Sanmayce (username), “CRC for the win”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):


dictatingly

[…] at the end of the play when the voice coldly and dictatingly informs the soldiers that there is another war to fight in another part of the world […]

2013, Fátima Vieira, Dystopia(n) Matters: On the Page, on Screen, on Stage, page 312:


especifically

especifically (comparative more especifically, superlative most especifically)

more especifically (comparative)
most especifically (superlative)

Stop talking to him, especifically about me.


abashingly

abashingly (comparative more abashingly, superlative most abashingly)

more abashingly (comparative)
most abashingly (superlative)

Considering that all this was her father’s, she felt abashingly out of place, most intrusive;

1913, Henry Sydnor Harrison, chapter 28, in V.V.’s Eyes, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 396:

The letters were abashingly real. They brought the story […] back to its emotional source.

1994, Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, New York: Knopf, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 109:


on stream

HSTs continued to provide sterling service during these years, so much so that when Virgin and Midland Mainline brought their new wave of high-speed diesel electric multiple units [...] on stream, many preferred the ride and comfort of the vanquished to the ride and comfort of the vanquisher.

2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 53:


unalluringly

unalluringly (comparative more unalluringly, superlative most unalluringly)

more unalluringly (comparative)
most unalluringly (superlative)


unauthoritatively

unauthoritatively (comparative more unauthoritatively, superlative most unauthoritatively)

more unauthoritatively (comparative)
most unauthoritatively (superlative)


full-tilt boogie

full tilt boogie
full tilt boogie#English

Alternative spelling of full tilt boogie.


worst-case scenario

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-worst-case scenario.wav

worst comes to worst
worst comes to worst

(informal) At worst, worst comes to worst, in the worst-case scenario.


with compliments

Written to show that the goods which have been sent need not be returned or paid for.


unphilanthropically

unphilanthropically (comparative more unphilanthropically, superlative most unphilanthropically)

more unphilanthropically (comparative)
most unphilanthropically (superlative)


fountainously

fountainously (comparative more fountainously, superlative most fountainously)

more fountainously (comparative)
most fountainously (superlative)


Jacobitely

Jacobitely (comparative more Jacobitely, superlative most Jacobitely)

more Jacobitely (comparative)
most Jacobitely (superlative)


jacketwise

The sleeves are separate from the dress and fastened together jacketwise across the back, […]

1979, Frances Densmore, Chippewa Customs, page 28:


jettingly

In a nook of [sleek? slack?] shadow a water-fly slips / Jettingly out in the sultry glow

1886, T. C. Irwin, “An Irish Stream”, in The Shamrock, volume 24, page 8:

Or under banks in shadow of their grass, / Blue water-flies by starts jettingly pass

1881, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, Sonnets on the Poetry and Problems of Life, page 79:


vaporingly

vaporingly (comparative more vaporingly, superlative most vaporingly)

more vaporingly (comparative)
most vaporingly (superlative)


dilettantishly

dilettantishly (comparative more dilettantishly, superlative most dilettantishly)

more dilettantishly (comparative)
most dilettantishly (superlative)

Horace Walpole dilettantishly, Sir Joshua Reynolds professionally, Blake prophetically, Gilpin in the manner (not the bad manner) of the gifted amateur, and devoting himself chiefly to “the picturesque” in nature, had occupied themselves with it in the eighteenth.

1907, George Saintsbury, “English and French—Periodical Literature—Criticism and Essay-Writing”, in The Later Nineteenth Century (Periods of European Literature; volume XII), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, pages 155–156:

He is so typical, so dilettanteishly radical.

1920 July, McClure’s, volume 52, number 6, page 52:

Moreover, communism will lead to an unusual amount of quarrelling; those who work faithfully will feel aggrieved when they see that those who work dilettantishly receive and consume a full portion.

1922, Emory S. Bogardus, “Aristotle and Grecian Social Thought”, in A History of Social Thought, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of Southern California Press, page 103:

Superficially, of course, the art of this musician, so airy and dilettantishly brilliant, has little affair with the French State.

1922, Paul Rosenfeld, “Musical Chronicle”, in The Dial, page 228:

Certain ministers and church agencies have caught glimmers of these implications, and have entered this field,—timidly, daintily, dilettantishly.

1922 August 3, “Editorial”, in The Christian Century: An Undenominational Journal of Religion, volume XXXIX, number 31, Chicago, Ill., section “Religion and Public Health”, page 964, column 2:

“The danger is of complete superficiality in all directions, that you do nothing well, a lot of things . . . ‘dilettante-ishly,’ ” she said.

1986 June 18, Deborah Duffy, “A Passion for Storytelling Lures Professor to Biography”, in The Hartford Courant, volume CXLIX, number 169, page C4:

However, he still seems to be casting around dilettanteishly for the right approach, working through art and theory trends in the meantime.

2006, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent:


unskilledly

unskilledly (comparative more unskilledly, superlative most unskilledly)

more unskilledly (comparative)
most unskilledly (superlative)


upliftedly

upliftedly (comparative more upliftedly, superlative most upliftedly)

more upliftedly (comparative)
most upliftedly (superlative)


uncoquettishly

uncoquettishly (comparative more uncoquettishly, superlative most uncoquettishly)

more uncoquettishly (comparative)
most uncoquettishly (superlative)


undeferentially

undeferentially (comparative more undeferentially, superlative most undeferentially)

more undeferentially (comparative)
most undeferentially (superlative)


unreverentially

unreverentially (comparative more unreverentially, superlative most unreverentially)

more unreverentially (comparative)
most unreverentially (superlative)


uneloquently

uneloquently (comparative more uneloquently, superlative most uneloquently)

more uneloquently (comparative)
most uneloquently (superlative)


unforeseenly

In late 1970, Labour assumed the shadow posts, having lost badly (and unforeseenly) in the summer General Election.

2008, Darl Larsen, Monty Python's Flying Circus, page 276:

In a manner that was not foreseen; unexpectedly.


undervaluingly

undervaluingly (comparative more undervaluingly, superlative most undervaluingly)

more undervaluingly (comparative)
most undervaluingly (superlative)

The Remonstrants speak undervaluingly of the Elect; the Synod speaks at the highest of the non elect.

1654, George Kendall, Sancti Sanciti, page 134:


alleviatingly

alleviatingly (comparative more alleviatingly, superlative most alleviatingly)

more alleviatingly (comparative)
most alleviatingly (superlative)


unalleviatedly

unalleviatedly (comparative more unalleviatedly, superlative most unalleviatedly)

more unalleviatedly (comparative)
most unalleviatedly (superlative)

Without being alleviated; unremittingly.


anthropomorphologically

(biology) With regard to anthropomorphology (human morphology).


unliveably

unliveably (comparative more unliveably, superlative most unliveably)

more unliveably (comparative)
most unliveably (superlative)


amarevole

/ˌɑːməˈɹɛvəleɪ/


liveably

liveably (comparative more liveably, superlative most liveably)

more liveably (comparative)
most liveably (superlative)


livably

livably (comparative more livably, superlative most livably)

more livably (comparative)
most livably (superlative)

Radiators were tepid, but in most cases they kept apartments livably warm as hot water continued to flow […]

2011, Stephen J. Collier, Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 6:

It was livably cold in the north, with a pleasant summer, warm and temperate in the central portions, and hot and languorous in the south. In the south, in the First Province, was Lamora, the capital, with seven million inhabitants.

2017, Taylor Caldwell, Jess Stearn, The Romance of Atlantis: A Novel, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

[…] livable wages that are both in line with industry averages and provide enough for workers to meet their basic [needs] […] Workers who are paid fairly and “livably” are empowered to enter into their other commercial exchanges fairly and […]

2021, Radha R. Sharma, Handbook of Sustainable Development: Strategies for Organizational Sustainability, Business Expert Press, →ISBN:

(uncommon) In a manner that is conducive to living.


unlivably

unlivably (comparative more unlivably, superlative most unlivably)

more unlivably (comparative)
most unlivably (superlative)

the unlivably low wages

They joked about being in a Kipling story of the hill stations in India where the Raj's females lived in cool idleness while their husbands worked in the unlivably hot cities. Kate bemoaned her fate […]

2007, Michael Bliss, Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63:

[…] that enable human beings to extend their presence into unlivably hostile environments (deep space, ocean abysses), […]

2010, Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint, Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN:

Later I'd keep imagining them up there in the winter to come, freezing in one of those tiny cabins—previously abandoned because they were unlivably cold.

2015, Keith Gessen, Stephen Squibb, City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis, n + 1, →ISBN, page 69:

"[T]hey are not trying to live a decent life in the United States.” They couldn't, on their meager wages. Their frame of reference is their much poorer home country, and what seem like unlivably low wages here and worth a lot more there.

2018, Aviva Chomsky, "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration, Expanded Edition, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 16:

In a manner that is unconducive to living.


qway

qway (comparative qwayer, superlative qwayest)

qwayer (comparative)
qwayest (superlative)

From way or way back when with the addition of an initial consonant q.

Bad B from kway called Lisa, shit den, wanna take wood cah I’m poppin’.

2019 April 11, “Keisha & Becky Remix” (track 4), in Wayne’s World 3, performed by Russ Millions and Tion Wayne:

[Double Lz]:Kway back then used to roll with the kitch’, now it’s the same size as a walking stick.

2019 August 1, “Krep Shop” (track 8), in Savage, performed by Rv, Bandokay, Double Lz, and SJ:

I’m anti-social, not on the socials, I am flying up qway over oceans

2020 July 8, Kaygrab x D1 (lyrics and music), “Rapid”, 1:08–1:11:


Catonically

Catonically (comparative more Catonically, superlative most Catonically)

more Catonically (comparative)
most Catonically (superlative)


pontificially

pontificially (comparative more pontificially, superlative most pontificially)

more pontificially (comparative)
most pontificially (superlative)


postwise

A Spanish gentleman has arrived here postwise, sent by Cardinal Pacheco for the purpose, it is said, of praying the Emperor to favour his election as Pope, a demand which surprises the whole court […]

1877, Great Britain, Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Public Record Office, page 75:

Synonym of post (“on post-horses; by a relay of horses, for speed”)

post

When the pressure comes upon such a joint vertically, or postwise, the posts bear down on and compress the fibers in the cap pieces until the wood is compressed enough to transmit the pressure to the post below.

1923, Elmer Allen Holbrook, Richard Valentine Ageton, Harry Earle Tufft, Timbering of Metal Mines, volumes 213-217, page 55:

In the manner of a post, or vertical support.


poulticewise

Chop the herbs and boil them well together. Apply it as warm as the horse can well bear it poulticewise.

1763, John Reeves, The Art of Farriery, page 346:

[…] being given and applied poulticewise to the part wounded.

1985, Ron Freethy, From Agar to Zenry: A Book of Plant Uses, Names, and Folklore, page 44:


monologically

monologically (comparative more monologically, superlative most monologically)

more monologically (comparative)
most monologically (superlative)


stentorianly

stentorianly (comparative more stentorianly, superlative most stentorianly)

more stentorianly (comparative)
most stentorianly (superlative)


squattingly

He moves squattingly, so as to hug his frozen toes.


preddy

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


inequilaterally

In an inequilateral manner; not equilaterally


ductilely

ductilely (comparative more ductilely, superlative most ductilely)

more ductilely (comparative)
most ductilely (superlative)


roughly speaking

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

more roughly speaking (comparative)
most roughly speaking (superlative)

For our prosperity is inherited from our ancestors, and is of an earlier date than the prosperity not only of Philip, but, roughly speaking, of all the kings that have ever reigned in Macedonia.

Not being totally accurate (used as a phrase to specify).


apparentlie

apparentlie (comparative more apparentlie, superlative most apparentlie)

more apparentlie (comparative)
most apparentlie (superlative)


transspinally

From trans- + spinally or transspinal + -ly.


majorally

For the year 1927 certain projects on which minor stress has been laid in the past have become majorally important.

1926 December 31, W. J. Rogan, “County Agent Looking Forward to 1927 With Hopes of Betterment”, in Wausau Daily Record-Herald, volume XX, number 26, Wausau, Wis., page sixteen, column 1:

Two weeks ago the game would not have been considered majorally important, but now that the Herd withstood and overthrew Tulsa university’s Hurricane the game will have a decided significance.

1931 February 19, Ted Gumesron, “From the Stands”, in The Haymaker, volume 22, number 20, Enid, Okla., page 3, column 3:

Calves are majorally coming from the Nebraska Sandhills.

1940 October 28, “Livestock Sale”, in The Democrat and Leader, eighty-sixth year, number 12, Davenport, Iowa, page 13:

Of course, some teams get away with a good brand of ball on bad field conditions, majorally slippery gridirons, and others just could never click on the same type of field if they practiced on one just like it all season long.

1941 November 5, “Sport Spatterings”, in Warren Times-Mirror, volume forty-two, Warren, Pa., page eight:

I am much perturbed over many things in the annals of life, majorally about the war, but strikes continue, the cost of living continues to soar, while earning capacities remain about the same amenic thing.

1943 November 23, H. Grady Walden, “Some War Disillusionments”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume CXV, number 327, Montgomery, Ala., page four, column 3:

The big problem of education is not entirely or perhaps even majorally in the schools.

1951 September 19, “Curricula should mirror main aims”, in The Leader-Post, volume XLVII, number 220, Regina, Sask., page eighteen, column 2:

The quartet of St. Joseph Sisters will motor throughout the area, setting up instruction centers for the boys and girls majorally bereft of Catholic school education.

1953 September 25, “Houtzdale Convent Re-opens; County’s First Lay Catechist Training Center”, in The Progress, volume 47, number 226, Clearfield, Pa., page six, column 1:

At the present rate it is likely that the pledges will be majorally paid in two years instead of three.

1958 December 22, “4th of Parish Pledges Paid”, in The News-Herald, 81st year, number 22,448, Franklin, Pa., Oil City, Pa., page 13, column 5:

While we are fighting a war in Vietnam that is too obtuse to be majorally understood, maybe we will go to Cool Hand and Flim-Flam for smaller, less metallic wars, waged on a clearer, more soluble battlefield.

1967 December 17, Stewart Allen, “Back to the Land Go American Movies”, in The Arizona Republic, 78th year, number 215, Phoenix, Ariz., page M-5, column 6:

During my years at Morton the entire staff was made up of majorally fine, decent folk, trying their dead level best to do a good job under increasingly difficult circumstances.

1974 September 17, Roy Moorehead, “Discipline eroded”, in The Times, 69th year, number 78, page 13, column 6:

The letter although prepared by the entire class, was majorally composed by Janet Lilore with Michael Fortino serving as it’s^([sic]) overall coordinator.

1974 December 19, “BHS economics students get reply from President”, in The Belleville Times/News, volume 66, number 2, Belleville, N.J., page 3:

To the guy who introduces the Venom Line, you sound majorally constipated, but I hear Ex-lax is really cheap at Rite Aid.

1993 May 7, “Venom Line”, in Daily Press, 98th year, number 127, Newport News, Va., page 13, column 3:

It’s difficult to make a cause of something in which we already majorally believe.

1994 April 22, Jim Darr, “A real, clear down-to-Earth holiday greeting”, in News Herald, page A4:


halfely

So holy that him there, they halfely deifide.


halfly

This is what it is halfly.

1674, N. Fairfax, Treat. Bulk & Selvedge:


outloud

(rare, nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative form of out loud


with every breath

They supported her case with every breath.

(idiomatic) Said at every considerable opportunity; said repeatedly and constantly.


world-endingly

world-endingly (comparative more world-endingly, superlative most world-endingly)

more world-endingly (comparative)
most world-endingly (superlative)

In a world-ending way; in a manner which could cause the end of the world.


to no end

That article just unnerved me to no end. Alix even admitted to hating little boy babies. How demented can one get?

1980 April 19, Nancy J. Biancamano, “Misanthropy”, in Gay Community News, page 4:


extroversively

extroversively (comparative more extroversively, superlative most extroversively)

more extroversively (comparative)
most extroversively (superlative)


self-importantly

self-importantly (comparative more self-importantly, superlative most self-importantly)

more self-importantly (comparative)
most self-importantly (superlative)


as if someone owns the place

as if someone owns the place (not comparable)

like someone owns the place
like someone owns the place#English

(idiomatic, derogatory) Alternative form of like someone owns the place


like someone owns the place

like someone owns the place (not comparable)

Look at you walking in like you own the place!

“We both live on the same estate. You know I don’t have any cash.” Tina scoffed.
“I bet you get pocket money. Always walking around like you own the place. Girls – grab her.” Like clockwork, the bullies circled our little heroine.

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

(idiomatic, derogatory) In a self-important and domineering manner; self-importantly, arrogantly.


consequentialistically

consequentialistically (comparative more consequentialistically, superlative most consequentialistically)

more consequentialistically (comparative)
most consequentialistically (superlative)


where someone lives

If visitors from a different lifestyle or need level came in, would your building, your décor, your church culture, and the message connect with them where they live or would it only serve to reinforce the chasm that exists between them and church.

2006, Richard L. Reising, Church Marketing 101: Preparing Your Church for Greater Growth:

And there's a very important lesson in all this that hits us right where we live.

2010, Keith Ellerbrock, Broken Tools in God's Hands, page 99:

But it's something that hits that old man right where he lives. And where he lives is that ranch and those cows and horses he loves so much. We're giving him something that will make him realize the error of his ways and do business with us.

2019, Jim Nesbitt, The Best Lousy Choice:

(US, informal) In one’s most vulnerable or personal spot.


at the first brunt

(obsolete, literally) at the first attack or engagement of battle

(obsolete) at first encounter, at the start


at a brunt

(obsolete) suddenly and violently, all at once


quicker than scat

Pop! went his gun, and the fire ran down the hill quicker than scat!

1865, Charles Carleton Coffin, Winning His Way, page 7:

I guess he didn't think we'd seen him 'cause, quicker than scat, he jumped 'hind er big oak tree an' in er minute or two he came out and started trudgin' 'long towards whar we wus standin'; but he had left ther fish 'hind ther tree.

1912 July, M. R. Umberhind, “Henry Holman's Pilgrimage”, in National Magazine, page 422:

But that same bully was quicker than scat to rat her out when she retaliated and gave him a severe pounding when she was bigger.

2020, Christianne Van Keuren, Sylvan Elf Chronicles: Battle for Elvenfeld, page 24:

(simile, US) very quickly, in a great hurry.


stem for stem

(nautical, obsolete, of ships) Side by side so that both ships’ prows or stems are even with one another, abreast.


epitaphically

Reliefs on Sephardic monuments epitaphically dated 1648–1737 are found on approximately forty horizontal slabs and prisms among the 2,500 at the Jewish cemetery […]

2003, Martin Cohen, Abraham J. Peck, Sephardim in the Americas: Studies in Culture and History, page 91:


RLY

(Internet slang) Alternative form of rly (“really”)


headless over heels

headless over heels (comparative more headless over heels, superlative most headless over heels)

more headless over heels (comparative)
most headless over heels (superlative)

2001, Harris M. Lentz (III.), Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits: Television shows
James Mathers ; Sp .: Margo McCahon . " Ghoul Trouble ” ( 9-11-97 ) . Dir .: John Putch ; Sp .: M.A. Evans . " Totally Slammin ' Sector Cycles " ( 9-1297 ) . Dir .: John Putch ; Sp .: Bod Allen . “ Headless Over Heels ” ( 9-15-97 ) .

He wandered around his room in circles, unable to make heads or tails of the situation. By accident, he headed out of his room. He tripped on a laundry basket sitting at the head of the stairs and tumbled headless over heels all the way ...

2010, David Michael Slater, Ned Loses His Head, ABDO Publishing Company, →ISBN:

No, but he's headless over heels for the Headless Horsewoman! What's the difference between ghosts and vampires? Ghosts can't see their reflections because they're invisible and dead, while vampires can't see their reflections because ...

2018, Julian Henson, Kira Henson, HALLOWEEN 2018, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 36:

(rare, informal, humorous) Head over heels, but while one or someone else is headless.


obv

Alternative form: obv.

Despite being a famously private actor, no-one takes on the role of Lara Croft without having to get real about their workout routine — even Alicia Vikander. Packing on 12lbs of lean muscle in under four months through hard toil, including front squats and lunges – plus dumbbells, obv.

2023 June 5, Rebecca Gillam, “18 celebs who swear by weight training, from Adele to Millie Mackintosh & Frankie Bridge”, in Women's Health:

(chiefly Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of obviously.


jumentously

jumentously (comparative more jumentously, superlative most jumentously)

more jumentously (comparative)
most jumentously (superlative)


ninetiethly

Ninetiethly, the prosecution has adduced and relied upon the evidence of PW.90 Kiran Menzes […]

2015 September 29, Bangalore District Court, State By Cbi/Acb vs Sri. S. Siddalingaswamy on 29 September, 2015:

In the ninetieth place; ninetieth in a row.


eightiethly

Eightiethly, the prosecution has adduced and relied upon the evidence of PW.80 Channabasava Rajendra […]

In the eightieth place; eightieth in a row.


seventiethly

[…] for he might have carried it on to the seventiethly instead of seventeenthly […]

In the seventieth place; seventieth in a row.


congressively

[…] gives motion to the rollers which revolve congressively, and draw in the fodder, which emerges from the other side, […]

1860, John Donaldson, British Agriculture, page 234:


stipulationally

stipulationally (comparative more stipulationally, superlative most stipulationally)

more stipulationally (comparative)
most stipulationally (superlative)

Now Kitcher interprets the truth of mathematical statements stipulationally, which provides truth conditions known to obtain: A mathematical statement is true if it is the logical consequence of conventional definitions.

1992, Thomas M. Norton-Smith, “A Note on Philip Kitcher's Analysis of Mathematical Truth”, in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 33.1, page 136:

Even if we restrict ourselves to two dimensions, as we've already seen, pictorial proof-systems are too restrictive: they can't handle curves lacking stipulationally-obvious properties.

2004, Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Stig Andur Pedersen, Lise Mariane Sonne-Hansen, New Trends in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131, →ISBN:


overcarefully

overcarefully (comparative more overcarefully, superlative most overcarefully)

more overcarefully (comparative)
most overcarefully (superlative)


overcasually

overcasually (comparative more overcasually, superlative most overcasually)

more overcasually (comparative)
most overcasually (superlative)


overcheaply

overcheaply (comparative more overcheaply, superlative most overcheaply)

more overcheaply (comparative)
most overcheaply (superlative)


overcharitably

overcharitably (comparative more overcharitably, superlative most overcharitably)

more overcharitably (comparative)
most overcharitably (superlative)


overfaithfully

overfaithfully (comparative more overfaithfully, superlative most overfaithfully)

more overfaithfully (comparative)
most overfaithfully (superlative)


overcarelessly

overcarelessly (comparative more overcarelessly, superlative most overcarelessly)

more overcarelessly (comparative)
most overcarelessly (superlative)


overfastidiously

overfastidiously (comparative more overfastidiously, superlative most overfastidiously)

more overfastidiously (comparative)
most overfastidiously (superlative)


overjealously

overjealously (comparative more overjealously, superlative most overjealously)

more overjealously (comparative)
most overjealously (superlative)


overheartily

overheartily (comparative more overheartily, superlative most overheartily)

more overheartily (comparative)
most overheartily (superlative)


overgreedily

overgreedily (comparative more overgreedily, superlative most overgreedily)

more overgreedily (comparative)
most overgreedily (superlative)


overexquisitely

overexquisitely (comparative more overexquisitely, superlative most overexquisitely)

more overexquisitely (comparative)
most overexquisitely (superlative)


oppositively

oppositively (comparative more oppositively, superlative most oppositively)

more oppositively (comparative)
most oppositively (superlative)


overharshly

overharshly (comparative more overharshly, superlative most overharshly)

more overharshly (comparative)
most overharshly (superlative)

His early dreams haunted him like reproaches; and every morning he rose with the full purpose of pursuing some more settled plan: but he lacked motive, he had no one dependent on his industry; and every day he grew to care less and less for hopes, that he now overharshly held to be illusions.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 155:


hundred-thousandfold

Similarly, why is it that when Goldhaber speaks, his attention gain is "illusorily magnified" by an audience of 500 while Oprah's is magnified [a] hundred-thousandfold more?

1997, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, “Economics is Dead. Long Live Economics!”, in Journals@UIC, archived from the original on 2022-10-12:

Their qualities, at first, increase a hundred-thousandfold,

2005, Chandrakirti, “The Ultimate Ground of Buddhahood”, in Introduction to the Middle Way, →ISBN, page 104:

[Companies] began selling robots that reduced the cost of reading DNA letters by ... one hundred-thousandfold.

2018, David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here, →ISBN, page 14:


apaht

apaht (comparative more apaht, superlative most apaht)

more apaht (comparative)
most apaht (superlative)

(New England) Pronunciation spelling of apart.


someweh

Start someweh.

2016, Nicole Dennis-Benn, chapter 8, in Here Comes the Sun:

(Jamaica) Pronunciation spelling of somewhere.


all expenses paid

They went all expenses paid to Atlanta for a week courtesy of the association.

Having all costs fully paid or reimbursed by someone else.


a-tiptoe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


interpretivistically

interpretivistically (comparative more interpretivistically, superlative most interpretivistically)

more interpretivistically (comparative)
most interpretivistically (superlative)

In terms of, or by means of, interpretivism.


once in a purple moon

By analogy with once in a blue moon. First use appears c. 1924. See cite below.

Coordinate term: once in a blue moon

However, in spite all of our complainings, there was a distinct pleasure in shopping along this street, because once in a purple moon, one did strike a really nice model and so very reasonable, that one wondered how the manufacturer could afford to bring it out at the price.

1924, New York Public Library, Dresses - Volumes 10-11, page 15:

Once in a purple moon, it may be necessary for the top men to settle some awful impasse between themselves.

1988, Charles Reynell (publisher), The Economist, Volume 307, Issues 7544-7556, page 11:

Again, these usually show up in major currency auctions, only once in a purple moon would a dealer have one in stock.

2012, Robert J. Kravitz, A Collectors Guide to Postage and Fractional Currency, page 20:

(idiomatic) Extremely rarely; almost never.


gloryingly

gloryingly (comparative more gloryingly, superlative most gloryingly)

more gloryingly (comparative)
most gloryingly (superlative)

So as to glory; shiningly or rejoicingly.


down in flames

I tried to hit on her but she shot me down in flames

In a decisive and possibly humiliating manner


omentally

In addition, an omentally supported bladder graft was established separately for use in a "retrieval" procedure should extension graft stenosis develop subsequently.

1990, British Journal of Urology, Vol-65, Issue no.-1, 2 and 6, page 606:


none too soon

not a minute too soon
not a minute too soon#English


not a moment too soon

There's impatience too: He writes that Morrison "expired, bloated and burnt out, in a bathtub in Paris at 27, not a moment too soon. His life was a bad influence."

1991, “Top Spin”, in SPIN, June, vol 7 number 3 edition, page 10:


anywhere near

Is it anywhere near ready?

I don't think it's anywhere near as good

(in negative statements or questions) at all near


baldricwise

a chain worn baldricwise


bibliomaniacally

bibliomaniacally (comparative more bibliomaniacally, superlative most bibliomaniacally)

more bibliomaniacally (comparative)
most bibliomaniacally (superlative)


Faustianly

Faustianly (comparative more Faustianly, superlative most Faustianly)

more Faustianly (comparative)
most Faustianly (superlative)


obligedly

obligedly (comparative more obligedly, superlative most obligedly)

more obligedly (comparative)
most obligedly (superlative)


reassuredly

reassuredly (comparative more reassuredly, superlative most reassuredly)

more reassuredly (comparative)
most reassuredly (superlative)


reflectedly

On arriving at the doors, and entering a long, capacious passage, our eyes became quite dazzled by the gleams of colored light which shone upon them, both directly and reflectedly.

1855, William Wells Brown, Sketches of Places and People Abroad, page 255:


repercussively

repercussively (comparative more repercussively, superlative most repercussively)

more repercussively (comparative)
most repercussively (superlative)


remindingly

"Mr. Bennett," she said remindingly, soberly, "you don't want any strings. You want to be free. You don't want anybody's hands on you or your life."

1954, The American Magazine, volume 157, page 119:


rewardedly

rewardedly (comparative more rewardedly, superlative most rewardedly)

more rewardedly (comparative)
most rewardedly (superlative)

The effect of advanced technology on human beings is better observed in the United States than anywhere else, because Americans have been exposed to it more nakedly, more eagerly, more rewardedly than anyone else.

1967, Gerald Sykes, The Cool Millennium, page 2:


cubbishly

cubbishly (comparative more cubbishly, superlative most cubbishly)

more cubbishly (comparative)
most cubbishly (superlative)


paleoanthropologically

(uncommon) Of or relating to a paleoanthropological field or study.


hyperthermically

In a hyperthermic manner; in a condition of hyperthermia.


fractographically

In terms of, or by means of, fractography.


worldward

worldward (comparative more worldward, superlative most worldward)

more worldward (comparative)
most worldward (superlative)

... that those asking them are, like ourselves, earnestly and honestly seeking the best lines along which American trade may travel worldward with benefit to itself and advantage to other lands and other peoples.

1918, Justin Wallace McEachren, The Valve World, page 277:

One day a Kansas woman watched her neighbors pull up stakes and head back toward Missouri, and wistfully noted in her diary that they were "traveling worldward, and every mile will bring them closer to civilization." (27:198)

1992, Eloyce Hubbard Kockler, Hubbard Heritage: An American Story, page 201:


faster than Minute Rice

en-adverb

faster than Minute Rice (not comparable)


grabbily

grabbily (comparative more grabbily, superlative most grabbily)

more grabbily (comparative)
most grabbily (superlative)


unwillfully

en-adv

unwillfully (comparative more unwillfully, superlative most unwillfully)

more unwillfully (comparative)
most unwillfully (superlative)


worldwards

worldwards (comparative more worldwards, superlative most worldwards)

more worldwards (comparative)
most worldwards (superlative)


factively

This work shows that a nominalized clause with the internal type ‘pro-fact’ noun –(u)n kes in Korean (and in Japanese as well with koto), witness-based, is factively presupposed by itself and contradicted if predicated by negated veracious adjectives in a veridicality test.

2019, Chungmin Lee, “Factivity alternation of attitude 'know' in Korean, Mongolian, Uyghur, Manchu, Azeri, etc. and content clausal nominals”, in Journal of Cognitive Science, volume 20, number 4, retrieved 2022-01-22, pages 449–508:

In the last few years, the traditional analysis of know as a factive verb has been lively debated by linguists and philosophers of language: several scholars have pointed out that know may be used non-factively in ordinary language. The aim of the present study is to expand this inquiry to other cognitive factive verbs than know, such as discover, realize, etc., and to investigate cross-linguistically the question of whether know and other cognitive factive verbs may occur in non-factive contexts, that is, in contexts where it is clear that the embedded proposition is false.

2022, Colonna Dahlman, R., & van de Weijer, J., “Cognitive factive verbs across languages. Accepted manuscript, in press”, in Language Sciences, retrieved 2022-01-22:


unlevelly

unlevelly (comparative more unlevelly, superlative most unlevelly)

more unlevelly (comparative)
most unlevelly (superlative)


unmirthfully

unmirthfully (comparative more unmirthfully, superlative most unmirthfully)

more unmirthfully (comparative)
most unmirthfully (superlative)


unmoderately

unmoderately (comparative more unmoderately, superlative most unmoderately)

more unmoderately (comparative)
most unmoderately (superlative)


unmisgivingly

unmisgivingly (comparative more unmisgivingly, superlative most unmisgivingly)

more unmisgivingly (comparative)
most unmisgivingly (superlative)


unmomentously

unmomentously (comparative more unmomentously, superlative most unmomentously)

more unmomentously (comparative)
most unmomentously (superlative)


unministerially

unministerially (comparative more unministerially, superlative most unministerially)

more unministerially (comparative)
most unministerially (superlative)


unmeltably

There were statues of shimmering ice, which stood unmeltably, and flowering trees fashioned of noble metals and precious gems, and fountains of colored smoke which jetted from bowls of alabaster.


unornamentally

unornamentally (comparative more unornamentally, superlative most unornamentally)

more unornamentally (comparative)
most unornamentally (superlative)

This lake had been artificially made by the damming up of the stream that had previously wasted itself unornamentally, […]


unplannedly

unplannedly (comparative more unplannedly, superlative most unplannedly)

more unplannedly (comparative)
most unplannedly (superlative)

With a youthful ease and a conciseness of English not always notable in professors, he began by pointing out that Canadians had in the past exploited their resources and their land unplannedly and piecemeal.

1942, Behind the Headlines, volume 3, numbers 1-6, page 4:


unprepossessedly

unprepossessedly (comparative more unprepossessedly, superlative most unprepossessedly)

more unprepossessedly (comparative)
most unprepossessedly (superlative)


unprofusely

unprofusely (comparative more unprofusely, superlative most unprofusely)

more unprofusely (comparative)
most unprofusely (superlative)


unproficiently

unproficiently (comparative more unproficiently, superlative most unproficiently)

more unproficiently (comparative)
most unproficiently (superlative)


unqualifyingly

unqualifyingly (comparative more unqualifyingly, superlative most unqualifyingly)

more unqualifyingly (comparative)
most unqualifyingly (superlative)

If you adopt unqualifyingly the principle of self-determination, again, what is your unit?

1921, University Debaters' Annual, volume 7, page 373:

Such was their effect that Frank appears to have suspended his critical capacities; he accepted unqualifyingly the decency of the organization, whatever.

1996, Stephen Fineman, Yiannis Gabriel, Experiencing Organizations, page 141:

Without qualification or question; entirely.


unreproachfully

unreproachfully (comparative more unreproachfully, superlative most unreproachfully)

more unreproachfully (comparative)
most unreproachfully (superlative)


unpunishingly

The saddle, in fact, looks ludicrous at my timid approximation of 109%, and to mount it, even though it is too unpunishingly broad and cushioned for any serious cyclist, requires a kind of foolhardy resolve.

1971, LIFE, volume 71, number 5, page 36:


unsanctimoniously

unsanctimoniously (comparative more unsanctimoniously, superlative most unsanctimoniously)

more unsanctimoniously (comparative)
most unsanctimoniously (superlative)


unsatisfiably

unsatisfiably (comparative more unsatisfiably, superlative most unsatisfiably)

more unsatisfiably (comparative)
most unsatisfiably (superlative)


unscornfully

unscornfully (comparative more unscornfully, superlative most unscornfully)

more unscornfully (comparative)
most unscornfully (superlative)


unsingably

an unsingably high note


unsolicitously

unsolicitously (comparative more unsolicitously, superlative most unsolicitously)

more unsolicitously (comparative)
most unsolicitously (superlative)


unshamefully

unshamefully (comparative more unshamefully, superlative most unshamefully)

more unshamefully (comparative)
most unshamefully (superlative)

These women become "prudish" when their weight increases, but when skeletal feel that they can unshamefully display their bodies. Clearly, then, this is not a disease characterized by the desire to be attractive to others.

2017, Jeffery Sobal, Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems, page 148:


unslothfully

unslothfully (comparative more unslothfully, superlative most unslothfully)

more unslothfully (comparative)
most unslothfully (superlative)


unsleepably

Last night was the most uncomfortably and unsleepably sultry that we have experienced since our residence in Concord.

1868, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages From the American Note-Books:


unsulliedly

The windows are unsulliedly bright — the draperies immaculately white.


untechnically

untechnically (comparative more untechnically, superlative most untechnically)

more untechnically (comparative)
most untechnically (superlative)


ununanimously

ununanimously (comparative more ununanimously, superlative most ununanimously)

more ununanimously (comparative)
most ununanimously (superlative)

After rounding up the girls and taking a vote, it was decided, rather ununanimously, that we would go to the International Spy Museum.

2015, Karen Cantwell, Take the Monkeys and Run:

In an ununanimous manner; without universal agreement.


unvicariously

unvicariously (comparative more unvicariously, superlative most unvicariously)

more unvicariously (comparative)
most unvicariously (superlative)


unuprightly

unuprightly (comparative more unuprightly, superlative most unuprightly)

more unuprightly (comparative)
most unuprightly (superlative)


unacquaintedly

unacquaintedly (comparative more unacquaintedly, superlative most unacquaintedly)

more unacquaintedly (comparative)
most unacquaintedly (superlative)


unabundantly

unabundantly (comparative more unabundantly, superlative most unabundantly)

more unabundantly (comparative)
most unabundantly (superlative)


unalertly

unalertly (comparative more unalertly, superlative most unalertly)

more unalertly (comparative)
most unalertly (superlative)


unamicably

unamicably (comparative more unamicably, superlative most unamicably)

more unamicably (comparative)
most unamicably (superlative)


unanimatedly

unanimatedly (comparative more unanimatedly, superlative most unanimatedly)

more unanimatedly (comparative)
most unanimatedly (superlative)


unagitatedly

unagitatedly (comparative more unagitatedly, superlative most unagitatedly)

more unagitatedly (comparative)
most unagitatedly (superlative)

In an unagitated manner; without agitation.


unanalogously

unanalogously (comparative more unanalogously, superlative most unanalogously)

more unanalogously (comparative)
most unanalogously (superlative)


uncheerily

uncheerily (comparative more uncheerily, superlative most uncheerily)

more uncheerily (comparative)
most uncheerily (superlative)


unchronologically

unchronologically (comparative more unchronologically, superlative most unchronologically)

more unchronologically (comparative)
most unchronologically (superlative)


uncircumspectly

uncircumspectly (comparative more uncircumspectly, superlative most uncircumspectly)

more uncircumspectly (comparative)
most uncircumspectly (superlative)


unchildishly

unchildishly (comparative more unchildishly, superlative most unchildishly)

more unchildishly (comparative)
most unchildishly (superlative)


unamazedly

unamazedly (comparative more unamazedly, superlative most unamazedly)

more unamazedly (comparative)
most unamazedly (superlative)

Oh! rise, Marghetta, take its hand in thine; / Take the kiss unamazedly, […]

1911, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, page 570:

In an unamazed manner; without amazement.


uncolloquially

uncolloquially (comparative more uncolloquially, superlative most uncolloquially)

more uncolloquially (comparative)
most uncolloquially (superlative)


unclimbably

the unclimbably high walls around the prison


uncomelily

uncomelily (comparative more uncomelily, superlative most uncomelily)

more uncomelily (comparative)
most uncomelily (superlative)


uncommodiously

uncommodiously (comparative more uncommodiously, superlative most uncommodiously)

more uncommodiously (comparative)
most uncommodiously (superlative)


unconsideringly

Money invested unconsideringly is likely to be lost.


uncommensurably

uncommensurably (comparative more uncommensurably, superlative most uncommensurably)

more uncommensurably (comparative)
most uncommensurably (superlative)


unconfusably

unconfusably (comparative more unconfusably, superlative most unconfusably)

more unconfusably (comparative)
most unconfusably (superlative)

two unconfusably distinct ideas


uncorruptedly

uncorruptedly (comparative more uncorruptedly, superlative most uncorruptedly)

more uncorruptedly (comparative)
most uncorruptedly (superlative)


geoscientifically

In terms of, or by means of, geoscience.


uncraftily

uncraftily (comparative more uncraftily, superlative most uncraftily)

more uncraftily (comparative)
most uncraftily (superlative)


undiligently

undiligently (comparative more undiligently, superlative most undiligently)

more undiligently (comparative)
most undiligently (superlative)


undiscriminatingly

undiscriminatingly (comparative more undiscriminatingly, superlative most undiscriminatingly)

more undiscriminatingly (comparative)
most undiscriminatingly (superlative)


unenterprisingly

unenterprisingly (comparative more unenterprisingly, superlative most unenterprisingly)

more unenterprisingly (comparative)
most unenterprisingly (superlative)


unexactingly

unexactingly (comparative more unexactingly, superlative most unexactingly)

more unexactingly (comparative)
most unexactingly (superlative)


uneuphoniously

uneuphoniously (comparative more uneuphoniously, superlative most uneuphoniously)

more uneuphoniously (comparative)
most uneuphoniously (superlative)


unfeloniously

unfeloniously (comparative more unfeloniously, superlative most unfeloniously)

more unfeloniously (comparative)
most unfeloniously (superlative)


unfallaciously

unfallaciously (comparative more unfallaciously, superlative most unfallaciously)

more unfallaciously (comparative)
most unfallaciously (superlative)


unegoistically

unegoistically (comparative more unegoistically, superlative most unegoistically)

more unegoistically (comparative)
most unegoistically (superlative)


unfructuously

unfructuously (comparative more unfructuously, superlative most unfructuously)

more unfructuously (comparative)
most unfructuously (superlative)


unfragrantly

unfragrantly (comparative more unfragrantly, superlative most unfragrantly)

more unfragrantly (comparative)
most unfragrantly (superlative)


unfrugally

unfrugally (comparative more unfrugally, superlative most unfrugally)

more unfrugally (comparative)
most unfrugally (superlative)


willowily

willowily (comparative more willowily, superlative most willowily)

more willowily (comparative)
most willowily (superlative)


unenjoyingly

unenjoyingly (comparative more unenjoyingly, superlative most unenjoyingly)

more unenjoyingly (comparative)
most unenjoyingly (superlative)


unhostilely

unhostilely (comparative more unhostilely, superlative most unhostilely)

more unhostilely (comparative)
most unhostilely (superlative)


ladderwise

Such perches never cause crooked breast-bones; the heaviest fowl can reach them, and there is never any dispute for the highest place, which is always the case when arranged en échelon or ladderwise.

1868, Lewis Wright, The Practical Poultry Keeper, page 227:

In the manner of a ladder; arranged in ascending steps like a ladder.


ladylikely

ladylikely (comparative more ladylikely, superlative most ladylikely)

more ladylikely (comparative)
most ladylikely (superlative)

She wandered out to the terrace, ladylikely detaching herself from the unpleasantness.

1962, Richard Dohrman, The Heartworm, page 182:

Bev, running ladylikely behind him, was wringing her hands and wailing […]

1998, Ruth Doan MacDougall, The Cheerleader, page 162:


galliardly

galliardly (comparative more galliardly, superlative most galliardly)

more galliardly (comparative)
most galliardly (superlative)


garlandwise

[…] and the young man's eyes absently followed the windings of the oak leaves which ran beneath the mantel-shelf garlandwise, framing in the centre a tablet bearing this legend, […]

1880, Bertha Behrens, Lizzie of the Mill, page 36:


gardenwise

[…] a large and commodious building, having in the rear a grave yard laid out gardenwise remarkable for the neatness with which it is kept.

1851, Wilson's Hudson River Guide, page 32:


unfort

Unfort, Steven's exact age on the show isn't quite known. However, we *do* know he's Belly's older brother and his character was born between 2004 and 2005, making him around 17 or 18.

2023 July 15, Gretty Garcia, “All the Deets on How Old the Cast of ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Is on the Show and IRL”, in Cosmopolitan:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Clipping of unfortunately.


narrowishly

narrowishly (comparative more narrowishly, superlative most narrowishly)

more narrowishly (comparative)
most narrowishly (superlative)


ghostily

ghostily (comparative more ghostily, superlative most ghostily)

more ghostily (comparative)
most ghostily (superlative)


glozingly

glozingly (comparative more glozingly, superlative most glozingly)

more glozingly (comparative)
most glozingly (superlative)

In a glozing or deceptively flattering manner.


discountably

However, the number of microstates in which the excess of molecules in one bulb over the number in the other bulb is sufficient to permit the measurement of a pressure difference is a quite discountably small fraction of the total number of microstates.

1989, H. E. Avery, D. John Shaw, Physical Chemistry, page 33:

Such that it can be discounted or ignored.


screechily

screechily (comparative more screechily, superlative most screechily)

more screechily (comparative)
most screechily (superlative)


duochrome

Mark showed his father how you could push down two of the coloured ballpoints at once, and so write duochrome.

2014, Will Self, Will Self's Collected Fiction:


all ends up

(informal, idiomatic) Completely; totally.


temperaturewise

Locations on the equator are a lot hotter than elsewhere temperaturewise.


governingly

A factor is that which affects the whole factory or that which governingly affects or shapes the whole.

2018, Meera Grimes, Aphorisms of Masquism, page 25:


greetingly

Their barking was only an alarm: the moment that they were spoken to, they retired, or came towards us greetingly and kindly.

1813, John Galt, Letters from the Levant, page 297:


grouchingly

grouchingly (comparative more grouchingly, superlative most grouchingly)

more grouchingly (comparative)
most grouchingly (superlative)

The clerk pointed to a sign and grouchingly said, "All sales are final! If you don't like it then you can sew it up yourself."

2013, Mark Bowser, Unlocking the Champion Within: The Keys to Successful Living:


grapewise

That innocence may tread on innocence / And crush it grapewise to a morbid wine

1927, Wallace Bertram Nichols, Prometheus in Piccadilly, page 84:

Grapewise, it [New Zealand] thus behaves much more like northern Europe and, unfettered by tradition, the youthful and tiny wine industry has been able to plant varieties of wine that top the league table on this side of the globe.

It [the wine] was five dollars more expensive than the bottle this Mr. Foley had ordered but grapewise it was along the same lines and Frederick did not honestly think that Mr. Foley would be checking the prices on the bill.

2015, Sean McCabe, Breakfast in Woodside Vol 1, page 122:


unaffrightedly

unaffrightedly (comparative more unaffrightedly, superlative most unaffrightedly)

more unaffrightedly (comparative)
most unaffrightedly (superlative)


But 2morrow I c change / A chance 2 build anew / Built on spirit, intent of heart / and ideals based on truth / And 2morrow I wake with second wind / And strong because of pride / 2 know I fought with all my heart 2 keep my dream alive

1999, Tupac Shakur, “And 2morrow”, in The Rose That Grew From Concrete, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 141:

every 1 should come over 2morrow and weigh in.[…]we have to report for weigh-ins at ur house 2morrow.[…]CU 2morrow for weigh in . . .[…]we r all getting weighed 2morrow 4 the fashion show.[…]just be here 2morrow around 10 a.m. TTYL[…]me 2 rembrandt: gotta work at 4. maybe 2morrow ...

2000, Terry Brown, Nancy Been Peacock, R U 4 Real?, Tommy Nelson, Thomas Nelson:

See u 2morrow![…]US gov test 2morrow.[…]g2g see U 2morrow[…]Can you meet me 2morrow?

2011, Susan J. Korman, Bad Deal, Darby Creek, →ISBN, pages 26, 40, and 41:

lauren comein back 2nite eneyway i try and ring u 2morrow take care we love u ldz n ldz x x x x

2014, John Olsson, June Luchjenbroers, Forensic Linguistics, 3rd edition, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 174:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of tomorrow.


Let’s go to the mall 2day. I want those boots. / Can’t 2day. / Why? / Going 2 Manny’s. / Manny’s can wait. / Not 2day. How about tomorrow?

2011, Monica McKayhan, Ambitious, Kimani Press, →ISBN, pages 105–106:

Took test 2day.

2011, Susan J. Korman, Bad Deal, Darby Creek, →ISBN, page 26:

Me and rachel just been house hunting again 2day, i havent got eney callin credit iv only got free texting but i get joe 2 get some cred 2moz so i can call u. I got my lip done 2day it look nice its only a little stud.[…]Hope ur both o.k what are your plans for 2day x x vick

2day is a nu day my rezo-lushins are 1. personaly to lose w8. shhh dont tell 2. to get better gradz 3. to have more thingz to do & not be BORD / 11:51am / hey zebe i mite go 2 the mall 2day w/nikki.[…]2day i start back to skool.[…]2day i got my prd i wuz so scared i wuz CMEO all the way home.[…]i did not go to skool 2day i wuz 2 scard sum 1 will find out.[…]but if u don’t want to go to skool 2day thats ok.[…]2day it stopped and everything is ok. we have a field trip 2day to visit a working organ farm where they make cheez.[…]2day is the 1st day of summr vacashun.[…]went 2 the playgroun 2day wher moms used to take me wen i wuz lil.[…]went 2 the playgroun agen but 2day ther wuz no 1 ther at first.

2014, Elisabeth Sheffield, Helen Keller Really Lived, The University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, pages 202–208:


still going 2 the movies 2night?[…]r u driving 2 the banquet 2night?[…]c u 2night?[…]what time u working 2night?[…]hey, e, wanna go 2 the movies 2night?[…]no, sorry, kate, not 2night[…]u don’t have 2—u r working l8 2night

2004, Ellen Wittlinger, Heart on My Sleeve, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, pages 12, 52, 77, 105, 122, and 201:

Meet me 2night? Orion wrote, and now Helen was certain that it was Orion on the other end of the thread.[…]U don’t have to jump for joy at the thought of NOT seeing me 2night, u know, she typed testily on her way to lunch.[…]Meet me 2night, Helen texted back.

2012, Josephine Angelini, Dreamless, Macmillan Children’s Books, →ISBN:

Cant make it 2night.[…]Have 2 do something with the fam 2night.

2013, Liz Fichera, Hooked, Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 168:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Tonight.


swimming in the lake, then building a campfire 2nite.

getting worse—she was CRYING 2nite because i accepted michigan instead of oberlin

2004, Ellen Wittlinger, Heart on My Sleeve, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 8:

C u 2nite as planned.

it is pretty windy 2nite[…]lauren comein back 2nite eneyway i try and ring u 2morrow take care we love u ldz n ldz x x x x

2014, John Olsson, June Luchjenbroers, Forensic Linguistics, 3rd edition, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, pages 63 and 174:


unrectifiably

Such that it cannot be rectified or set right.


we can all go 2gether[…]it’s our last chance 2 all b 2gether 4 awhile[…]just got your email, could we get 2gether and talk?[…]you’re finally going 2gether?!?![…]let’s get 2gether again b4 julian comes, ok?

2004, Ellen Wittlinger, Heart on My Sleeve, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, pages 10, 63, 75, 155, and 167:

well I know its not da same ... but at least we’re all maxing 2gether sunday.[…]we could get 2gether at my place.[…]we’re not back 2gether[…]n that = us being back 2gether how?[…]We not back 2gether.

2008, Paula Chase, That’s What’s Up!: A Del Rio Bay Novel, Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing, →ISBN:

I JUST CAN’T B-LIEVE THE 2 OF THEM ARE 2GETHER. OMG. IT’S NOT LIKE I CARE U KNOW? REALLY, IT’S GR8. IF THEY’RE HAPPY 2GETHER THEN I’M HAPPY 4 THEM, RIGHT?

2008, Melissa de la Cruz, The Ashleys, Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, page 244:

This was supposed 2 be a SURPRISE, but the girls got it out of me. ☺ I wanted all of us 2 spend Xmas 2gether. By all, I mean r horses 2. Sooo . . . B, C, G, Z, & D, you have guests waiting @ BC. Zane, Valentino, Scout, Nero, & Polo r there! Now we can ride r horses when we r not volunteering & spend Xmas w them. ☺

2013, Jessica Burkhart, Home for Christmas (Canterwood Crest; Super Special), New York, NY: Aladdin M!X, →ISBN, page 44:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Together.


unsacerdotally

unsacerdotally (comparative more unsacerdotally, superlative most unsacerdotally)

more unsacerdotally (comparative)
most unsacerdotally (superlative)


unrefusingly

I had confessed it all to him; and unrefusingly I placed my lips to his, and spoke his name endearingly.

1873, Leonard Kip, The Dead Marquise, page 308:


unorganically

unorganically (comparative more unorganically, superlative most unorganically)

more unorganically (comparative)
most unorganically (superlative)


unmistakedly

In this way only can the unmistakedly characteristic symptoms be sifted out and arranged to fit the drug picture to be found in the Materia Medica.

1892, Minneapolis Homœopathic Magazine, volume 1, page 83:

Forms of the Northern type, such as hr in place of s, are found; but the basis is unmistakedly the Southern, true Persian, type.

1932, Transactions of the Philological Society, page 56:


owwer

owwer (comparative more owwer, superlative most owwer)

more owwer (comparative)
most owwer (superlative)

Nut owwer het
Not overly hot


periworkout

At the time of or closely after or before the workout.


sul tasto

Borrowed from Italian sul tasto (“on the fingerboard”).

bor+

(music, chiefly violin) Bowed near the fingerboard for the duration of a passage


ex copula

(zoology) Not during copulation; not in the copulative state.


in copula

(zoology) During copulation; in the copulative state.


festivally

en-adv

festivally (comparative more festivally, superlative most festivally)

more festivally (comparative)
most festivally (superlative)

These three days of Byram they spend festivally, rejoicing with abundance of illuminations all night, shooting of guns, and fireworks flying in the air; for they reckon that all their sins are now done away, […]

1857, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, page 346:


flashly

flashly (comparative more flashly, superlative most flashly)

more flashly (comparative)
most flashly (superlative)


fishingly

Monk enquired fishingly whether Presbytery, to which he was well inclined on the whole, might not be thought somewhat rigid.

1858, Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, page 285:

But the pen-tongued and compulsive verbalizer / Goes fishingly groping for words

2012, Samuel Whittemore Fowler, Alive! Volume 2, page 96:

In a manner that suggests fishing, such as groping in search of something, or seeking compliments.


fistwise

Suppose that while you are comatose, I use your fist, as if it were a hammer, to shatter the window. It seems quite plausible that, although your atoms arranged fistwise cause the window to shatter, you do not.

2003, Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons, page 153:

Sometimes the heroes were foolhardy enough to try taking on the Mummy fistwise.

1990, Darrell Schweitzer, Weird Tales 296 (Spring 1990), page 57:

Fistwise, Erog was going to beat me.

By means of the fists; by fighting with the fists.


fiendfully

fiendfully (comparative more fiendfully, superlative most fiendfully)

more fiendfully (comparative)
most fiendfully (superlative)


forbearantly

forbearantly (comparative more forbearantly, superlative most forbearantly)

more forbearantly (comparative)
most forbearantly (superlative)


brattishly

brattishly (comparative more brattishly, superlative most brattishly)

more brattishly (comparative)
most brattishly (superlative)


accidentally-on-purpose

accidentally on purpose
accidentally on purpose#English

Alternative form of accidentally on purpose


Leninistically

Leninistically (comparative more Leninistically, superlative most Leninistically)

more Leninistically (comparative)
most Leninistically (superlative)

[…] Catherine A. MacKinnon declares that “radical feminism is feminism,” Leninistically reading liberal feminists out of the party.

1998, Avrom Fleishman, The Condition of English: Literary Studies in a Changing Culture, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 53:

The thesis currently asserted by a number of dissidents — namely, that the system had produced from within itself a ‘counter-society’ — would suggest a potential of selfcriticism even in Leninistically corrupted Marxism.

2015 October 8, Jürgen Habermas, A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

The October revolution, having no immediate socialist aims, was initiated by a weak proletariat with peasant support, and was directed by "Leninistically schooled professional revolutionaries."

2016 September 16, Andrew Arato, From Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory: Essays on the Critical Theory of Soviet-type Societies, Routledge, →ISBN:


disdainly

disdainly (comparative more disdainly, superlative most disdainly)

more disdainly (comparative)
most disdainly (superlative)

O look not so disdainly.

a. 1821, John Keats, Where be ye going, you Devon maid?:


tmrw

Today’s hi was 69 downtown ... tmrw and Sun. we expect 80. Orange county cities’ll get up around 78 tmrw.

1972, Irving E. Fang, Television News, →ISBN, page 442:

I’ll talk abt this tmrw @ 12:15ET.

2011 December 22, Barack Obama (@ObamaWhiteHouse), Twitter; quoted in Tevi Troy, What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House, Regnery Publishing, 2013, →ISBN, page xv:

I wish I didn’t have 2 go 2 skool tmrw.[…]Talk tmrw x / Tmrw x

2012, Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington, Hurting Too Much: Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

Brielle: Can’t talk 2nite. Tmrw? Ana: Free 2nite! I typed back to both. Lauren: B, no worries! Tmrw 4 sure.[…]C u tmrw.

2012, Jessica Burkhart, Popular, Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, pages 105–206 and 158:

U aren’t really gonna meet me tmrw, r u?

2015, Matthew Fanetti, William O’Donohue, Rachel Fondren-Happel, Kresta [N.] Daly, Forensic Child Psychology: Working in the Courts and Clinic, Wiley, →ISBN, page 126:

Me: Sry! Republic = MAJOR. Can we watch tmrw? Maya: Jazzy’s already on her way. Can’t cancel. Me: OK. Will watch online over my lunch tmrw.

2018, Emily Belden, Hot Mess, Harlequin, →ISBN:

See you tmrw. X He responded quickly. No worries. Until tmrw.

2021, Leesa Cross-Smith, So We Can Glow, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:


doctrinarily

doctrinarily (comparative more doctrinarily, superlative most doctrinarily)

more doctrinarily (comparative)
most doctrinarily (superlative)

In a doctrinary manner or context; in terms of doctrine.


doorwise

a window that opens doorwise


compromisedly

compromisedly (comparative more compromisedly, superlative most compromisedly)

more compromisedly (comparative)
most compromisedly (superlative)

It isn't like those typical English apartment blocks that would like to be high - but have been compromisedly made low - and separated by those awful connecting links.

1977, Architecture: Opportunities, Achievements : a Report of the Annual Conference of the Royal Institute of British Architects Held at the University of Hull, 14 to 17 July 1976, RIBA Publications, →ISBN, page 45:

Sim's progression/regression through the films is from the defeated centrality of Folly to be Wise to more marginal or compromisedly surviving figures.

2002, Bruce Babington, Launder and Gilliat, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 201:

Thus, Caliban is troubling because he is, if compromisedly, human.

2014 April 24, Susan Wiseman, Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550–1700, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 130:


sickerly

From Middle English sikerly; equivalent to sicker + -ly.

My Lord sickerly, / Quoth he, faine would I your pleasure fulfill.

1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe:

Awa awaw, sayn yeou this sickerly, or done you but jaum me?

1634, Richard Brome, Thomas Heywood, The Late Lancashire Witches:

My gentle bleed[…]Right sickerly does plead.

1742, Robert Forbes, Ajax His Speech to the Grecian Knabs:


associationally

associationally (comparative more associationally, superlative most associationally)

more associationally (comparative)
most associationally (superlative)

By no means can we regard this stratum as associationally exclusive, especially with respect to that immediately below; but by the same token the stratum ranked between .335 and .435 is not associationally closed either.

1965, Michael Garfield Smith, Stratification in Grenada, Univ of California Press, page 71:

Furthermore, the control passages written by Walt Whitman were topically oriented and conventionally organized, but his test passages, while topically oriented, were sometimes conventionally organized and sometimes associationally[…]

2013 April 17, Wolfram Keup, Origin and Mechanisms of Hallucinations: Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychiatric Research Association held in New York City, November 14–15, 1969, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:

The duties prescribed for those whose territory, and thus political association, is described as being in the “guest realm” binfu 賓服, are distinct from those in more associationally distant realms, such as the yaofu 要服 or the[…]

2022 February 7, Garret Pagenstecher Olberding, The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China: Shaping the Expanse, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN:


tribalistically

tribalistically (comparative more tribalistically, superlative most tribalistically)

more tribalistically (comparative)
most tribalistically (superlative)


homoglyphically

mentions of cash money homoglyphically stylized as ca$h money

leetspeak is characterized largely by homoglyphically stylized words


strummingly

strummingly (comparative more strummingly, superlative most strummingly)

more strummingly (comparative)
most strummingly (superlative)


reasoningly

reasoningly (comparative more reasoningly, superlative most reasoningly)

more reasoningly (comparative)
most reasoningly (superlative)

Using one's faculty of reason; rationally.


refiningly

Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; […]

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


beam-on

Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.

2015, Duncan Bruce, Tanker Jetty Safety – Management of the Ship/Shore Interface (1st 2015 ed; second ed. January 2022), 1st edition, Witherby Seamanship International, →ISBN, 3.1.2:

"The jetski slewed around and hit the buoy beam-on. A bystander on the dock hastily threw a lifeline, which flew over the swimming jetskier's head and hit our boat beam-on, tangling itself in the shrouds."

(nautical) Coming from a point abeam (neither directly ahead/head-on, nor well before the beam, nor directly astern, nor well abaft the beam/quartering); said of waves or any object moving relative to the vessel.


Marxistically

Marxistically (comparative more Marxistically, superlative most Marxistically)

more Marxistically (comparative)
most Marxistically (superlative)

From Marxistic + -ally. First attested in the 1930s.

Jiang Zemin’s Thought, expressed in 2000, basically meant three things: a) the productive forces – or, Marxistically, the people’s working ability – the knowledge used in production, as well as the machines and tools used in production, and finally infrastructure did not diminish during the construction of Chinese Socialism; […]

2018 February 27, Giancarlo Elia Valori, “Xi Jinping’s political and strategic line”, in Modern Diplomacy, archived from the original on 2022-02-14:

Thus, Soviet Marxists’ increasing emphasis on morality may itself be Marxistically interpreted as a reflection of the economic shambles Soviet society found itself in.

2019 June 27, Mikhail Epstein, The Phoenix of Philosophy: Russian Thought of the Late Soviet Period (1953–1991), Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 57:

In a Marxistic manner; in accordance with Marxism.


whereup

[…] for whom those peaks of snow / Whereup the lungs of man with borrowed breath / Go labouring to a doom I may not feel, / Are but a pearled and roseate plain beneath / My wingèd helmet and my wingèd heel.


wheelwise

The requisite basal conditions are only produced when somebody wants a wheel and therefore goes about the business of making it the case that certain molecules are arranged wheelwise.

2012, Helen Steward, A Metaphysics for Freedom, page 237:


unwordably

unwordably (comparative more unwordably, superlative most unwordably)

more unwordably (comparative)
most unwordably (superlative)

Such that it cannot be expressed in words.


wranglingly

wranglingly (comparative more wranglingly, superlative most wranglingly)

more wranglingly (comparative)
most wranglingly (superlative)


wreathwise

In the manner of a wreath; arranged like a wreath.


longheadedly

longheadedly (comparative more longheadedly, superlative most longheadedly)

more longheadedly (comparative)
most longheadedly (superlative)


cloddily

cloddily (comparative more cloddily, superlative most cloddily)

more cloddily (comparative)
most cloddily (superlative)

If the weather be wet while the turnips are feeding off, the ground breaks up very cloddily: in which case, if the roller does not reduce the clods, it will require to be stirred again and again with the plough […]

1839, James Main, The Young Farmer's Manual, page 64:


chordally

In a chordal manner; in terms of musical chords.


unblasphemously

What they undertake is to explain God's words and works, so as to make His utterances cohere — as if, be it said unblasphemously, He were a human authority.

1962, Gerald Abrahams, The Jewish Mind, Beacon Press, page 79:

As far as political censorship of the drama went, being unblasphemously serious could be more offensive than being blasphemously silly.

2008 April 15, Laurie Maguire, How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 72:

Angelica's instinctive grasp of colour, and her artistic vision generally, seemed to Herder so obviously reflections of God's creation that he could simply regard her as divinely gifted, and unblasphemously call her by sacred names.

2011 November 15, Susan Marie Smith, Christian Ritualizing and the Baptismal Process: Liturgical Explorations toward a Realized Baptismal Ecclesiology, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 182:


naïfly

naïfly (comparative more naïfly, superlative most naïfly)

more naïfly (comparative)
most naïfly (superlative)

Lord Camell rattled constantly across—it preying excessively upon his fancies, that Emile should so let the “saison” slip-by—naïf'''ly expounding, “there was a time for all things”—stoutly asseverating, an occasional “scurry with the D⸺s” must eminently brace the moral tone of the understanding—and plighting himself to wholly forswear hunting, till gratified by the comradeship of his ancient brother of the chase.

1846, Social Influences: or Villiers, volume III, London: T. C. Newby, page 228:

Not the least curious incident connected with this Nizam matter is the naïf and naïfly expressed vexation of the Irish Nationalist papers.

1887 October 1, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 64, number 1,666, page 443:

There was a strong element of the child in this wild-looking fellow; and now he appeared most naïfly surprised and pleased to find that he was so clever as to be able to help in surveying-work.

1911, Walter Larden, Argentine Plains and Andine Glaciers: Life on an Estancia, and an Expedition Into the Andes, page 234:

Most of them are nonsense or mare’s nests, but now and then a profound secret slips out as naïfly as a child sometimes reveals a family skeleton.

1915, Woodrow Wilson, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: July 21-September 30, 1915, published 1980, page 17:

Nevertheless, all this merited respect for an industrious and inoffensive man is bound, soon or late, to yield to a critical examination of the artist within, and that examination, I fear, will have its bitter moments for those who naïfly accept the current Howells legend.

1917 January, H. L. Mencken, “Suffering among Books”, in The Smart Set, volume LI, number 1, page 266:

They stood looking at each other for a moment. Curt Franklin’s eyes naïfly revealing his pleasure, and Gertrude consciously enjoying that revelation.

1925, Inez Haynes Irwin, Gertrude Haviland’s Divorce, page 243:

Harold was pertinacious if not determined in this doubtful enterprise, so naïfly undertaken.

‘For the Common Good of Ireland, and more especially of the Adventurers and Planters’, is a naïfly characteristic specimen of Parliamentary cant.

1926, Sotheran’s Price Current of Literature, page 27:

This “poem” is a storm brewed amongst sodden Typhoo-tips, in the dregs of a cracked Woolworth tea-cup, by an incorrigible moral charlatan, simpleton, or bore,—who has become immune from self-criticism through the public acceptance, nem con., of a piously truistic diffuseness which easily flatters and cozens the naĭfly self-regarding morale of a society in part too simple, in part intolerably smug.

1929, I. A. Richards, Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment, New York, N.Y.: Harvest Books, Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 170:

For nothing is easier than to make one naïfly formed Morality the vantage point from which others are criticised.

1943, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, page 66:

He was almost naïfly delighted that Pat Conway had sent him a birthday card.

1943 May 12, Claude Fredericks, The Journal of Claude Fredericks, volume three, part one (Cambridge (1943)), Xlibris, published 2011, page 591:

That first summer we were quite isolated and undisturbed, as no publicity had attended my buying and living at Jacob’s Pillow up to that time (I, naïfly, thinking it would always be used as a “retreat”).

1947, Ted Shawn, How Beautiful Upon the Mountain: A History of Jacob’s Pillow, page 10:

To this day I am unable to think of M. de Charlus as anything but a man I should have loathed or to refrain from rejoicing naïfly in his discomfiture chez les Verdurins.

1972, Adam International Review, page 53:

[…]Starbuck who joins the Communist party in his youth, but instead of dramatically changing the way society operates economically or socially, sends his best friend to jail when he naïfly names him as a known communist before Nixon’s Congressional Investigating Committee.

1991, Hungarian Studies in English, page 111:


horizontically

Has sulphuret of iron disposed both horizontically and vertically.

1858, Joseph Granville Norwood, Abstract of a Report on Illinois Coals, page 41:


out of square

out of square (comparative more out of square, superlative most out of square)

more out of square (comparative)
most out of square (superlative)

Don't be building out of square and then expect the prehung doors and windows to slip right in.

In a way that's not producing square results.


theeward

No hint of mine may hence
To theeward fly: to thy locked sense
 Explain none can
 Life's pending plan

1902, Thomas Hardy, “To an Unborn Pauper Child”, in Poems of the Past and the Present, New York: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 112:


whensoëver

But otherwiſe whenſoëver 10 Merchant-Ships ſhall bee ready at Gothemburg to bee convoyed, they ſhall do it without regarding the time.

1653, Christina, A Declaration of Her Sacred Majestie of Sweden, Concerning the Setling of Convoys about Gothemburg, London: […] W. D., page 5:

But the truth indeed is, that partly with the ſhame and ſorrow ſhee took of her father’s faultineſs, partly with the fear, that the hate I conceived againſt him, would utterly diſgrace her in my opinion, whenſoëver I ſhould know her, ſo vehemently perplexed her, that her fair color decayed, and daily and haſtily grew into the very extreme working of ſorrowfullneſs:[…]

1655, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, the tenth edition, London: […] William Du-Gard, page 186:

So many Kings as Vaſſals, to bee readie alwaies to aſsiſt with their Forces, whenſoëver they ſhould bee required, both by Sea and Land.

1663, John Selden, [Marchamont Nedham, transl.], edited by J[ames] H[owell], Mare Clausum; The Right and Dominion of the Sea in Two Books, London: […] Andrew Kembe and Edward Thomas, page 258:

[…]; whomſoëver and whenſoëver God juſtifieth, hee alſo ſanctifieth:[…]

1753, Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms, London: […] J. Payne, page 33:


Abbreviation of thirdly. Obsolete form of 3rdly.


2ᵈˡʸ

Abbreviation of secondly. Obsolete form of 2ndly.


lumbersomely

lumbersomely (comparative more lumbersomely, superlative most lumbersomely)

more lumbersomely (comparative)
most lumbersomely (superlative)


ladyly

ladyly (comparative more ladyly, superlative most ladyly)

more ladyly (comparative)
most ladyly (superlative)

I will be careful not to poison Flushie. He is growing so fine-ladyly delicate, that he expects, I believe, to be nourished upon macaroons & dews, or some such fairy dieting.

1842 February 10, The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836-1854, published 1983, page 349:

On my asking if she did not admire the melody of his versification, she replied, very ladyly, that she did in all that she had read of his, which was only a few stray songs that had fallen in her way.

1869, Franklin Fox, editor, Memoir of Mrs Eliza Fox. To Which Extracts Are Added from the Journals and Letters of Her Husband, the Late W. J. Fox M.P. for Oldham., London: N. Trübner & Co., page 90:

In short, it was a real folk-song, the work of the people, and the burden was either older, or was a corruption of “Dance over ladyly” (i.e., “dance forward gracefully”).

Riding their bicycles aflash ladies were ladyly abashed when frocks bob-bobbed and, ducking the breeze, went rippling back from their glossy knees.


gentlemanlikely

gentlemanlikely (comparative more gentlemanlikely, superlative most gentlemanlikely)

more gentlemanlikely (comparative)
most gentlemanlikely (superlative)

But lo! at twelve o’clock, or thereabouts, after Windham had spoken against the pension, tho’ very gentlemanlikely, and nobody (as I thought) had spoken well for it—what should I do but get up and make such a speech as quite surprized my own self, and seemed to carry the whole House with it?

1810 February 17, Canning, letter to his wife; quoted in A. Aspinall, editor, The Later Correspondence of George III, volume V, Cambridge: at the University Press, 1970, →ISBN, page 516:

And thus we hope and trust to find, no thank indeed, but excuse or silent, perhaps even gentlemanlikely smiling indifference or contempt, much more tolerable and desirable, however, than the unjudicious chitchat of dullness and ignorance alas too obvious in this sphere.

1835, Adolphus Wagner, “Introduction”, in The Works of Robert Burns, with Selected Notes of Allan Cunningham, a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and a Comparative Etymological Glossary to the Poet, Leipsic: […] Frederick Fleischer, page XXVIII:

I would like to discharge myself of it gentlemanlikely

It does not prevent the exhibition at the St. James’s Theatre of sensational sexuality, brutality, drunkenness, and murder; but it takes care that all these things shall end happily, charmingly, respectably, prettily, lady-and-gentlemanlikely for all parties concerned.

1898 April 23, G. B. S., “The Drama Purified”, in The Saturday Review, volume 85, number 2217, page 554:

Nevertheless, your people who grown up in the natured social surroundings had treated us gentlemanlikely regarding our individual rights enough, though wondering of our ferocity.

1947, John Morris, The Phoenix Cup: Some Notes on Japan in 1946, London: The Cresset Press, page 145:

Aberdeen was forced to demand reparation, and Guizot, ever ready to sacrifice the appearance to the reality and who realised that Pritchard, who had been imprisoned for six days, should have been treated “more gentlemanlikely”, was prepared to make them.

1988, H. A. C. Collingham, edited by R. S. Alexander, The July Monarchy: A Political History of France, 1830–1848, London, New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, page 321:


ladily

ladily (comparative more ladily, superlative most ladily)

more ladily (comparative)
most ladily (superlative)

From Middle English ladyly, ladily; equivalent to lady + -ly.

[…]a lady at the table talked so ladily of the Poets that I drank off my glass very often almost without knowing[…]

1829 January 3, John Clare, edited by J. W. and Anne Tibble, The Letters of John Clare, Routledge & Kegan Paul, published 1951, →ISBN, page 222:

Ladies in English legend have been known to turn into foxes; but do so ladily, in a properly lady-like manner.

To see the moon so silver going west, / So ladily serene because so dead, / So closely tailed by her consort of stars, / So far above the feverish, shivering / Nightwatchman pressed against the falling glass.

1974, L. E. Sissman, “December 27, 1966”, in The New Yorker, page 42:


gentlemanlily

gentlemanlily (comparative more gentlemanlily, superlative most gentlemanlily)

more gentlemanlily (comparative)
most gentlemanlily (superlative)

He put it very gentlemanlily and with restraint.

1905–1924, Joseph Conrad, “Appendix B: The Old Story”, in Jeremy Hawthorn, editor, The Inheritors and The Nature of a Crime (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad), Cambridge University Press, published 2022, →ISBN, page 293:

So I got cigarettes & the Papers & had a nice talk with Mr French who was so well & gentlemanlily dressed!

1934–5, John Cowper Powys, The Dorset Year: The Diary of John Cowper Powys, June 1934-July 1935, The Powys Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 178:

And what was worse, the other man had made his point so subtly, even gentlemanlily, without a change of tone or a revealing expression;

2004 spring, L. A. Nemrow, “John Rupert”, in Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, volume 6, number 2, pages 163–170:


neighborlily

neighborlily (comparative more neighborlily, superlative most neighborlily)

more neighborlily (comparative)
most neighborlily (superlative)

Old Toby rises from his mat, / Sniffs neighborlily at the cat, / And yawns, (a trifle wide at that,) / With an old friend’s audacity;

1906, A Key to Puzzledom; or, Complete Handbook of the Enigmatic Art, page 104:

The Sloan and Padgway places adjoined neighborlily.

1922 July, Ida M. Evans, “His Wife’s Money”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXIII, number 1, page 72:

The highway skirted the front, and the lake with its great family of wavelets ran in neighborlily at the back.

1931 April, Margaret C. Moloney, “Leave It to Mike”, in The Catholic World, volume CXXXIII, number 793, page 62:

Both men greeted and nodded neighborlily at each other.

1933, Albert Halper, Union Square, published 1990, page 42:

David stepped up the tempo of the talk as surely, as neighborlily, as ever.

1952, Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 279:

[…]; and it was an act of charity and neighbourliness, ‘in living, walking and neighbourlily accompanying one another, with reconciling of differences at that time, if they be any’.

2008, Adam Nicolson, Earls of Paradise, HarperPress, →ISBN, page 44: