Words that rhyme with cruelly

• insecurely 3
  adv 1: in a tentative and self-conscious manner; "she always acts very insecurely in the presence of her father" [ant: securely] 2: in a manner involving risk; "our positions here at the university are rather insecurely supported by grant money" [ant: securely]
• bubbly 0
  adj 1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing, spumy] 2: full of or showing high spirits; "bright bubbly children"; "a bubbly personality" n 1: a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there [syn: champagne, bubbly]
• cantabile 0
  adj 1: smooth and flowing [syn: cantabile, singing]
• chirpily 0
  adv 1: in a cheerfully buoyant manner; "we accepted the opportunity buoyantly" [syn: buoyantly, chirpily]
• coolie 0
  n 1: (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer [syn: coolie, cooly]
• coolly 0
  adv 1: in a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher" [syn: coolly, nervelessly, nonchalantly]
• demurely 0
  adv 1: in a demure manner; "the army girl, tall and demurely pretty, threw a quick side-glance at her"
• dourly 0
  adv 1: in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly" [syn: dourly, sullenly, glumly]
• duly 0
  adv 1: at the proper time; "she was duly apprised of the raise" [syn: punctually, duly]
• entirely 0
  adv 1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole] [ant: part, partially, partly] 2: without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him" [syn: entirely, exclusively, solely, alone, only]
• flabbily 0
  adv 1: in a flabby manner; "the old man's muscles were sagging flabbily"
• globally 0
  adv 1: throughout the world; "this is globally significant"
• grubbily 0
  adv 1: in a dingy manner [syn: dingily, grubbily, grungily]
• grumpily 0
  adv 1: in an ill-natured manner; "she looked at her husband crossly" [syn: crossly, grouchily, grumpily]
• guayule 0
  n 1: much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber [syn: guayule, Parthenium argentatum]
• happily 0
  adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly] [ant: unhappily] 2: in an unexpectedly lucky way; "happily he was not injured" [ant: sadly, unhappily]
• hourly 0
  adv 1: every hour; by the hour; "daily, hourly, I grew stronger" adj 1: occurring every hour or payable by the hour; "hourly chimes"; "hourly pay"
• hyperbole 0
  n 1: extravagant exaggeration [syn: hyperbole, exaggeration]
• immaturely 0
  adv 1: in an immature manner; "his teenage son still behaves very immaturely" [syn: immaturely, jejunely] [ant: maturely]
• improperly 0
  adv 1: in an improper way; "he checked whether the wound had healed improperly" [ant: decent, decently, in good order, properly, right, the right way]
• lazuli 0
  n 1: an azure blue semiprecious stone [syn: lapis lazuli, lazuli]
• loyally 0
  adv 1: with loyalty; in a loyal manner; "government will not be efficient unless the people as a whole accept leadership loyally and enthusiastically" [ant: disloyally]
• lubberly 0
  adj 1: clumsy and unskilled; "a big stupid lubberly fellow" 2: inexperienced in seamanship; "of all landlubbers the most lubberly" [syn: lubberly, landlubberly]
• maturely 0
  adv 1: in a mature manner; "she acts very maturely for her age" [ant: immaturely, jejunely]
• monopoly 0
  n 1: (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller; "a monopoly on silver"; "when you have a monopoly you can ask any price you like" 2: exclusive control or possession of something; "They have no monopoly on intelligence" 3: a board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die
• neighbourly 0
  adj 1: exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor [syn: neighborly, neighbourly]
• newly 0
  adv 1: very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes" [syn: newly, freshly, fresh, new]
• obscurely 0
  adv 1: in an obscure manner; "this work is obscurely written"
• patchouli 0
  n 1: small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes [syn: patchouli, patchouly, pachouli, Pogostemon cablin] 2: a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant [syn: patchouli, patchouly, pachouli]
• pebbly 0
  adj 1: abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little beach" [syn: gravelly, pebbly, shingly]
• poorly 0
  adv 1: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill- conceived plan" [syn: ill, badly, poorly] [ant: good, well] adj 1: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]
• prematurely 0
  adv 1: (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation; "the child was born prematurely" 2: too soon; in a premature manner; "I spoke prematurely" [syn: prematurely, untimely]
• principally 0
  adv 1: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies" [syn: chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main]
• properly 0
  adv 1: in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?" [syn: properly, decently, decent, in good order, right, the right way] [ant: improperly] 2: with reason or justice [syn: by rights, properly]
• purely 0
  adv 1: restricted to something; "we talked strictly business" [syn: strictly, purely]
• royally 0
  adv 1: in a royal manner; "they were royally treated" [syn: royally, like kings, like royalty]
• securely 0
  adv 1: in a secure manner; in a manner free from danger; "she held the child securely" [syn: securely, firmly] 2: in a confident and unselfconscious manner; "he acts very securely in front of the camera" [ant: insecurely] 3: in a manner free from fear or risk; "the outcome of expansion in the sixties and seventies will be an academic hierarchy securely supported by scholastic selection" [ant: insecurely] 4: in an invulnerable manner; "the agreed line was to involve at several points the withdrawal of French troops from positions which they had quite securely held"
• shabbily 0
  adv 1: so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated; "a shabbily dressed man" 2: in a mean and ungenerous manner; "the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room"
• showily 0
  adv 1: with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner; "Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly" [syn: ostentatiously, showily] 2: in a fancy colorful manner; "he dresses rather flamboyantly" [syn: flamboyantly, showily, flashily]
• skimpily 0
  adv 1: in a skimpy manner; "a skimpily dressed woman"
• sleepily 0
  adv 1: in a sleepy manner; "the two children who were snuggled sleepily in the back of the car"
• sloppily 0
  adv 1: in a sloppy manner; "this work was done rather sloppily"
• soberly 0
  adv 1: in a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar" [syn: gravely, soberly, staidly]
• sourly 0
  adv 1: in a sour manner; "he complained sourly that the new rules only benefitted the managers"
• stably 0
  adv 1: in a stable solid fixed manner; "the boulder was balanced stably at the edge of the canyon" 2: in a stable unchanging manner; "the death rate in Russia has been stably high"
• stubbly 0
  adj 1: having a short growth of beard; "his stubbled chin" [syn: bestubbled, stubbled, stubbly]
• surely 0
  adv 1: definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" [syn: surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting]
• truly 0
  adv 1: in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" [syn: truly, genuinely, really] 2: by right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime" [syn: rightfully, truly] 3: with sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience" [syn: sincerely, unfeignedly, truly] [ant: insincerely] 4: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" [syn: in truth, really, truly]
• unduly 0
  adv 1: to an undue degree; "she was unduly pessimistic about her future"
• unruly 0
  adj 1: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly] 2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn: disobedient, unruly] 3: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly]
• untruly 0
  adv 1: in a untrue manner; "he silenced the whisperings which connected her, untruly and unfairly, with his separation from his wife"
• verbally 0
  adv 1: as a verb; "he had a habit of using nouns verbally" 2: by means of language; "verbally expressive"
• wobbly 0
  adj 1: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky" [syn: rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky] n 1: a member of the Industrial Workers of the World
• boule 0
  n 1: an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork [syn: boulle, boule, buhl]
• thule 0
  n 1: a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there 2: the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world [syn: Thule, ultima Thule]
• cybele 0
  n 1: great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Roman Ops [syn: Cybele, Dindymene, Great Mother, Magna Mater, Mater Turrita]
• bernoulli 0
  n 1: Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782) [syn: Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli] 2: Swiss mathematician (1667-1748) [syn: Bernoulli, Johann Bernoulli, Jean Bernoulli, John Bernoulli] 3: Swiss mathematician (1654-1705) [syn: Bernoulli, Jakob Bernoulli, Jacques Bernoulli, James Bernoulli]
• tripoli 0
  n 1: a weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing [syn: rottenstone, tripoli] 2: the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC [syn: Tripoli, Tarabulus Al-Gharb, capital of Libya] 3: a port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea [syn: Tarabulus, Tripoli, Tarabulus Ash-Sham, Trablous]
• kimberley 0
  n 1: city in central South Africa; center for diamond mining and diamond marketing
• stoolie 0
  n 1: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary]
• douroucouli 0
  n 1: nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with large eyes and thick fur [syn: douroucouli, Aotus trivirgatus]
• neighborly 0
  adj 1: exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor [syn: neighborly, neighbourly]
• somberly 0
  adv 1: in a somber manner; "`That's sure bad news,' said Dowd, somberly" [syn: somberly, sombrely]
• bumpily 0
• choppily 0
• coulee 0
• dapperly 0
• dimply 0
• direly 0
• dually 0
• dumpily 0
• duopoly 0
• floppily 0
• impurely 0
• snappily 0
• tribally 0
• cooley 0
• rubbly 0
• rumply 0
• hughley 0
• gourlay 0
• bewley 0
• bruley 0
• buley 0
• duley 0
• tuley 0
• cerulli 0
• renzulli 0
• santulli 0
• sciulli 0
• vitulli 0
• benasuli 0
• bianculli 0
• crisafulli 0
• hooley 0
• juli 0
• julie 0
• kewley 0
• newley 0
• ooley 0

See also cruelly definition