Words that rhyme with contumeliously

• abstrusely 0
  adv 1: in a manner difficult to understand; "the professor's abstrusely reasoned theories were wasted on his students"
• coarsely 0
  adv 1: in coarse pieces; "the surfaces were coarsely granular" [ant: finely]
• concisely 0
  adv 1: in a concise manner; in a few words; "the history is summed up concisely in this book"; "she replied briefly"; "briefly, we have a problem"; "to put it shortly" [syn: concisely, briefly, shortly, in brief, in short]
• crossly 0
  adv 1: in an ill-natured manner; "she looked at her husband crossly" [syn: crossly, grouchily, grumpily]
• expressly 0
  adv 1: with specific intentions; for the express purpose; "she needs the money expressly for her patients"
• grandiosely 0
  adv 1: in a grandiose manner; "the building was bombastically spacious" [syn: bombastically, grandiosely]
• hoarsely 0
  adv 1: in a hoarse or husky voice; "`Excuse me,' he said hoarsely" [syn: hoarsely, huskily]
• imprecisely 0
  adv 1: in an imprecise manner; "he expressed himself imprecisely" [syn: imprecisely, inexactly] [ant: exactly, incisively, precisely]
• loosely 0
  adv 1: in a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely" [syn: loosely, slackly] 2: in a loose manner; "a union of loosely federated states" 3: without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly" [syn: broadly, loosely, broadly speaking, generally] [ant: narrowly] 4: knitted in a loose manner; "loosely knit"
• nicely 0
  adv 1: in a nice way; "a nicely painted house"
• obtusely 0
  adv 1: in a stupid manner; "he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone" [syn: dumbly, densely, obtusely]
• parsley 0
  n 1: annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves [syn: parsley, Petroselinum crispum] 2: aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food
• precisely 0
  adv 1: indicating exactness or preciseness; "he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do"; "it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"; "it has just enough salt" [syn: precisely, exactly, just] 2: in a precise manner; "she always expressed herself precisely" [syn: precisely, incisively, exactly] [ant: imprecisely, inexactly] 3: just as it should be; "`Precisely, my lord,' he said" [syn: precisely, exactly, on the nose, on the dot, on the button]
• scarcely 0
  adv 1: only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats [syn: barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce] 2: almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" [syn: hardly, scarcely]
• sparsely 0
  adv 1: in a sparse manner; "sparsely inhabited"
• sprucely 0
  adv 1: in a stylish manner; "He was smartly dressed" [syn: smartly, modishly, sprucely]
• superciliously 0
  adv 1: with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner; "`I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly" [syn: sneeringly, superciliously, snidely]
• wesley 0
  n 1: English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788) [syn: Wesley, Charles Wesley] 2: English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791) [syn: Wesley, John Wesley]
• choicely 0
• crassly 0

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