Words that rhyme with constrainedly

  • blandly
    adv 1: in a bland manner; "his blandly incompetent attempts"
  • concernedly
    adv 1: in a manner showing concern; "`Are you all right,' he asked concernedly"
  • designedly
    adv 1: with intention; in an intentional manner; "he used that word intentionally"; "I did this by choice" [syn: intentionally, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, purposely, advisedly, by choice, by design] [ant: accidentally, by chance, circumstantially, unexpectedly, unintentionally]
  • faintly
    adv 1: to a faint degree or weakly perceived; "between him and the dim light a form was outlined faintly"; "stars shining faintly through the overcast"; "could hear his distant shouts only faintly"; "the rumors weren't even faintly true"
  • gamely
    adv 1: in a plucky manner; "he was seen by a shepherd, gamely negotiating a particularly tricky section of the mountain road to San Doloroso"
  • grandly
    adv 1: in a grand manner; "the mansion seemed grandly large by today's standards"
  • lamely
    adv 1: in a weak and unconvincing manner; "`I don't know, Edward,' she answered lamely"
  • learnedly
    adv 1: with erudition; in an erudite manner; "he talked eruditely about Indian mythology" [syn: eruditely, learnedly]
  • mainly
    adv 1: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies" [syn: chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main]
  • manly
    adv 1: in a manful manner; with qualities thought to befit a man; "having said her say Peggy manfully shouldered her burden and prepared to break up yet another home" [syn: manfully, manly] [ant: unmanfully, unmanly] adj 1: possessing qualities befitting a man [syn: manly, manful, manlike] [ant: unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly] 2: characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports" [syn: male, manful, manlike, manly, virile]
  • namely
    adv 1: as follows [syn: namely, viz., that is to say, to wit, videlicet]
  • plainly
    adv 1: unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" [syn: obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain] 2: in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment; "she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply" [syn: plainly, simply]
  • quaintly
    adv 1: in a strange but not unpleasant manner; "the old lady expressed herself somewhat quaintly" 2: in a quaint old-fashioned manner; "the room was quaintly furnished"
  • resignedly
    adv 1: with resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner; "resignedly, I telegraphed back that it was all right with me if he insisted" 2: in a hopeless resigned manner; "she shrugged her shoulders abjectly" [syn: abjectly, resignedly]
  • saintly
    adj 1: marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother" [syn: angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted]
  • sanely
    adv 1: with good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner; "he acted sensibly in the crisis"; "speak more sanely about these affairs"; "acted quite reasonably" [syn: sanely, sensibly, reasonably] [ant: unreasonably] 2: in a sane or lucid manner; "she is behaving rather sanely these days even though we know she is schizophrenic" [ant: crazily, dementedly, insanely, madly]
  • unashamedly
    adv 1: without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it" [syn: unashamedly, shamelessly, barefacedly] [ant: ashamedly]
  • unrestrainedly
    adv 1: in an unrestrained manner
  • vainly
    adv 1: to no avail; "he looked for her in vain"; "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution" [syn: vainly, in vain]
  • spangly
    adj 1: covered with beads or jewels or sequins [syn: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly]
  • stanley
    n 1: United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918) [syn: Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley] 2: Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904) [syn: Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands]
  • restrainedly
  • feignedly
  • sustainedly
  • ingrainedly
  • presumedly

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