Words that rhyme with deadly

• badly 0
  adv 1: to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill" [syn: badly, severely, gravely, seriously] 2: (`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] 3: evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is to act badly" 4: in a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room" [syn: badly, mischievously, naughtily] 5: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" [syn: badly, bad] 6: very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it" [syn: badly, bad] 7: without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly"; "I think he paints very badly" [ant: well] 8: in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them" [syn: badly, disadvantageously] [ant: advantageously, well] 9: unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern" [syn: ill, badly] [ant: well] 10: with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake" [ant: well]
• comradely 0
  adj 1: heartily friendly and congenial [syn: comradely, hail- fellow, hail-fellow-well-met]
• cuddly 0
  adj 1: inviting cuddling or hugging; "a cuddlesome baby"; "a cuddly teddybear" [syn: cuddlesome, cuddly]
• directly 0
  adv 1: without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office" [syn: directly, straight, direct] 2: without anyone or anything intervening; "these two factors are directly related"; "he was directly responsible"; "measured the physical properties directly" 3: without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!" [syn: immediately, instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly, now, right away, at once, forthwith, like a shot] 4: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay" [syn: directly, flat, straight] [ant: indirectly]
• envy 0
  n 1: a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another [syn: envy, enviousness] 2: spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: envy, invidia] v 1: feel envious towards; admire enviously 2: be envious of; set one's heart on [syn: envy, begrudge]
• gladly 0
  adv 1: in a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I would fain do it" [syn: gladly, lief, fain]
• godly 0
  adj 1: showing great reverence for god; "a godly man"; "leading a godly life" [syn: godly, reverent, worshipful] 2: emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review [syn: divine, godly]
• hardly 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]
• idly 0
  adv 1: in an idle manner; "this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people" [syn: idly, lazily]
• lordly 0
  adj 1: of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage" [syn: august, grand, lordly] 2: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
• loudly 0
  adv 1: with relatively high volume; "the band played loudly"; "she spoke loudly and angrily"; "he spoke loud enough for those at the back of the room to hear him"; "cried aloud for help" [syn: loudly, loud, aloud] [ant: quietly, softly] 2: in manner that attracts attention; "obstreperously, he demanded to get service" [syn: obstreperously, loudly, clamorously] 3: used as a direction in music; to be played relatively loudly [syn: forte, loudly] [ant: piano, softly]
• madly 0
  adv 1: in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly" [syn: madly, frantically] 2: in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly" [syn: insanely, crazily, dementedly, madly] [ant: sanely] 3: (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" [syn: madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly]
• medley 0
  n 1: a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources [syn: medley, potpourri, pastiche]
• oddly 0
  adv 1: in a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a curiously husky voice"; "he's behaving rather peculiarly" [syn: curiously, oddly, peculiarly] 2: in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper" [syn: queerly, strangely, oddly, funnily]
• pebbly 0
  adj 1: abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little beach" [syn: gravelly, pebbly, shingly]
• proudly 0
  adv 1: with pride; in a proud manner; "he walked proudly into town"
• staidly 0
  adv 1: in a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar" [syn: gravely, soberly, staidly]
• tiddly 0
  adj 1: slightly intoxicated [syn: potty, tiddly, tipsy]
• ungodly 0
  adj 1: characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts" [syn: iniquitous, sinful, ungodly]
• weirdly 0
  adv 1: in a weird manner; "she was dressed weirdly"
• redly 0
  adv 1: displaying a red color; "the forge belched redly at the sky"-Adria Langley
• bradley 0
  n 1: United States politician who was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles (1917-1998) [syn: Bradley, Thomas Bradley, Tom Bradley] 2: United States general who played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II (1893-1981) [syn: Bradley, Omar Bradley, Omar Nelson Bradley]
• fluidly 0
• freckly 0
• untowardly 0
• puddly 0
• headlee 0
• radley 0
• retrogradely 0
• dudley 0
• studley 0
• bodley 0
• smedley 0
• edley 0
• pedley 0
• redley 0
• headley 0
• hedley 0
• fiddly 0
• dignifiedly 0
• horrifiedly 0

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