Words that rhyme with costley

adv 1: in a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law" adj 1: very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket" [syn: beastly, hellish, god-awful] 2: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]

adv 1: with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner; "he pushed her against the wall belligerently" [syn: belligerently, hostilely]

adv 1: in a benevolent manner; "she looked on benevolently" [ant: malevolently]

adv 1: in a chaste and virtuous manner; "she lived chastely" [syn: chastely, virtuously]

adv 1: in a coherent manner; "she could not talk coherently after the accident" [ant: incoherently]

adv 1: overlapping in duration; "concurrently with the conference an exhibition of things associated with Rutherford was held"; "going to school and holding a job at the same time" [syn: concurrently, at the same time]

adv 1: (sentence connectors) because of the reason given; "consequently, he didn't do it"; "continued to have severe headaches and accordingly returned to the doctor" [syn: consequently, accordingly] 2: as a consequence; "he had good reason to be grateful for the opportunities which they had made available to him and which consequently led to the good position he now held" [syn: consequently, therefore]

adj 1: entailing great loss or sacrifice; "a dearly-won victory" [syn: dearly-won, costly] 2: having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant" [syn: costly, dear(p), high-priced, pricey, pricy]

adv 1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily" [syn: daftly, dottily, balmily, nuttily, wackily]

adv 1: with dexterity; in a dexterous manner; "dextrously he untied the knots" [syn: dexterously, dextrously, deftly] 2: in a deft manner; "Lois deftly removed her scarf"

adv 1: in another and different manner; "very soon you will know differently"; "she thought otherwise"; "there is no way out other than the fire escape"; [syn: differently, otherwise, other than]

adv 1: in a corrupt and deceitful manner; "he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend" [syn: dishonestly, venally, deceitfully] [ant: aboveboard, honestly]

adv 1: before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake" [syn: first, firstly, foremost, first of all, first off]

adj 1: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick] 2: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" [syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral]

adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]

adv 1: with honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time" [syn: rightly, justly, justifiedly] [ant: unjustly] 2: in accordance with moral or social standards; "that serves him right"; "do right by him" [syn: justly, right]

adv 1: the item at the end; "last, I'll discuss family values" [syn: last, lastly, in conclusion, finally]

adv 1: in a damp manner; "a scarf was tied round her head but the rebellious curl had escaped and hung damply over her left eye" [syn: damply, moistly]

adv 1: in large part; mainly or chiefly; "These accounts are largely inactive" [syn: largely, mostly, for the most part] 2: usually; as a rule; "by and large it doesn't rain much here" [syn: by and large, generally, more often than not, mostly]

adv 1: in a sumptuous and opulent manner; "this government building is sumptuously appointed" [syn: sumptuously, opulently]

adj 1: associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures" [syn: priestly, hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal] 2: befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood; "priestly dedication to the people of his parish" [syn: priestly, priestlike] [ant: unpriestly]

adv 1: with low volume; "speak softly but carry a big stick"; "she spoke quietly to the child"; "the radio was playing softly" [syn: softly, quietly] [ant: aloud, loud, loudly] 2: in a manner that is pleasing to the senses; "she smiled softly" 3: with little weight or force; "she kissed him lightly on the forehead" [syn: lightly, softly, gently] 4: used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly [syn: piano, softly] [ant: forte, loudly]

adv 1: in a swift manner; "she moved swiftly" [syn: swiftly, fleetly]

adv 1: to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator" [syn: vastly, immensely]

adj 1: resembling or showing the spirit of Christ [syn: christlike, christly]