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advantageously
0
adv 1: in a manner affording benefit or advantage; "she married
well"; "The children were settled advantageously in
Seattle" [syn: well, advantageously] [ant: badly,
disadvantageously]
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anxiously
0
adv 1: with anxiety or apprehension; "we watched anxiously"
[syn: anxiously, uneasily, apprehensively]
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atrociously
0
adv 1: in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly" [syn:
terribly, atrociously, awfully, abominably,
abysmally, rottenly]
2: to an extravagant or immoderate degree; "atrociously
expensive" [syn: outrageously, atrociously]
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audaciously
0
adv 1: in an audacious manner; "an idea so daring and yet so
audaciously tempting that a shiver of excitement quivered
through him"
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captiously
0
adv 1: in a captious, carping manner; "he was captiously
pedantic"
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cautiously
0
adv 1: as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact;
"she ventured cautiously downstairs"; "they handled the
incident with kid gloves" [syn: cautiously,
carefully] [ant: carelessly, incautiously]
2: in a conservative manner; "we estimated the number of
demonstrators conservatively at 200,000." [syn:
conservatively, cautiously, guardedly]
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conscientiously
0
adv 1: with extreme conscientiousness; "he came religiously
every morning at 8 o'clock" [syn: scrupulously,
conscientiously, religiously]
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consciously
0
adv 1: with awareness; "she consciously played with the idea of
inviting them" [ant: unconsciously]
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contagiously
0
adv 1: in a contagious manner; "she was contagiously bubbly"
[syn: contagiously, infectiously]
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contumaciously
0
adv 1: in a rebellious manner; "he rejected her words
rebelliously" [syn: rebelliously, contumaciously,
defiantly]
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courageously
0
adv 1: in a courageous manner; "bravely he went into the burning
house" [syn: bravely, courageously]
-
curvaceously
0
adv 1: in a curvaceous way; "his date was curvaceously
beguiling" [syn: curvaceously, buxomly]
-
disputatiously
0
adv 1: in a disputatious manner [syn: disputatiously,
argumentatively]
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efficaciously
0
adv 1: in an effective manner; "these are real problems that can
be dealt with most effectively by rational discussion"
[syn: efficaciously, effectively] [ant:
ineffectively, inefficaciously]
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ferociously
0
adv 1: in a physically fierce manner; "silence broken by dogs
barking ferociously"; "they fought fiercely" [syn:
ferociously, fiercely]
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flirtatiously
0
adv 1: in a flirtatious manner; "she smiled coquettishly" [syn:
coquettishly, flirtatiously]
-
fractiously
0
adv 1: in a peevish manner [syn: peevishly, querulously,
fractiously]
2: in a fractious manner; "the horse was behaving fractiously
and refused to jump"
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gorgeously
0
adv 1: in an impressively beautiful manner; "the Princess was
gorgeously dressed" [syn: gorgeously, splendidly,
resplendently, magnificently]
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graciously
0
adv 1: in a gracious or graceful manner; "he did not have a
chance to grow up graciously" [syn: graciously,
gracefully] [ant: gracelessly, ungracefully,
ungraciously, woodenly]
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incautiously
0
adv 1: without caution or prudence; "one unfortunately sees
historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into
unsympathetic hands" [syn: incautiously, carelessly]
[ant: carefully, cautiously]
-
inefficaciously
0
adv 1: in an ineffective manner; "he dealt with the problem
rather ineffectively" [syn: inefficaciously,
ineffectively] [ant: effectively, efficaciously]
-
infectiously
0
adv 1: in a contagious manner; "she was contagiously bubbly"
[syn: contagiously, infectiously]
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licentiously
0
adv 1: in a licentious and promiscuous manner; "this young girl
has to share a room with her mother who lives
promiscuously" [syn: licentiously, wantonly,
promiscuously]
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loquaciously
0
adv 1: in a chatty loquacious manner; "`When I was young,' she
continued loquaciously, `I used to do all sorts of
naughty things'" [syn: loquaciously, garrulously,
talkatively, talkily]
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lusciously
0
adv 1: so as to produce a delightful taste; "I bought some more
of these deliciously sweet peaches" [syn: lusciously,
deliciously, scrumptiously]
-
mendaciously
0
adv 1: in a mendacious and untruthful manner; "I told him, quite
untruthfully, that I had just returned from leave" [syn:
mendaciously, untruthfully] [ant: truthfully]
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noxiously
0
adv 1: in a detrimental manner [syn: detrimentally,
harmfully, noxiously] [ant: harmlessly]
-
obnoxiously
0
adv 1: in an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more
offensively intellectually arrogant sentences" [syn:
offensively, objectionably, obnoxiously]
-
ostentatiously
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]
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outrageously
0
adv 1: in a very offensive manner; "he behaved outrageously"
2: to an extravagant or immoderate degree; "atrociously
expensive" [syn: outrageously, atrociously]
-
pompously
0
adv 1: in a pompous manner; "he pompously described his
achievements"
-
preciously
0
adv 1: extremely; "there is precious little time left" [syn:
precious, preciously]
-
precociously
0
adv 1: in a precocious manner; "her child behaves precociously"
-
pretentiously
0
adv 1: in a pretentious manner; "this author writes
pretentiously" [ant: unpretentiously]
-
prodigiously
0
adv 1: to a prodigious degree; "the prices of farms rose
prodigiously"
-
pugnaciously
0
adv 1: in a pugnacious manner
-
religiously
0
adv 1: by religion; "religiously inspired art" [syn:
religiously, sacredly]
2: with extreme conscientiousness; "he came religiously every
morning at 8 o'clock" [syn: scrupulously,
conscientiously, religiously]
-
righteously
0
adv 1: in a righteous manner; "righteously indignant" [ant:
unrighteously]
-
sacrilegiously
0
adv 1: in a sacrilegious manner
-
sagaciously
0
adv 1: in a shrewd manner; "he invested his fortune astutely";
"he was acutely insightful" [syn: astutely, shrewdly,
sagaciously, sapiently, acutely]
-
salaciously
0
adv 1: in a lascivious manner [syn: lasciviously,
salaciously]
-
scrumptiously
0
adv 1: so as to produce a delightful taste; "I bought some more
of these deliciously sweet peaches" [syn: lusciously,
deliciously, scrumptiously]
-
sententiously
0
adv 1: in a pithy sententious manner; "she expressed herself
pithily" [syn: pithily, sententiously]
-
subconsciously
0
adv 1: from the subconscious mind; "the image came to him
subconsciously"
-
tenaciously
0
adv 1: with obstinate determination; "he pursued her doggedly"
[syn: doggedly, tenaciously]
-
tendentiously
0
adv 1: in a tendentious manner; "the paper reported rather
tendentiously on the war atrocities"
-
unconsciously
0
adv 1: without awareness; "she jumped up unconsciously when he
entered the room" [ant: consciously]
-
ungraciously
0
adv 1: without grace; rigidly; "they moved woodenly" [syn:
ungraciously, ungracefully, gracelessly,
woodenly] [ant: gracefully, graciously]
-
unpretentiously
0
adv 1: in an unpretentious manner; "she was unpretentiously
dressed even though she was the guest of honor" [ant:
pretentiously]
-
vivaciously
0
adv 1: with vivacity; "he describes his adventures vivaciously"
-
voraciously
0
adv 1: in an eagerly voracious manner; "she reads voraciously"
-
contentiously
0
-
egregiously
0
-
irreligiously
0
-
perspicaciously
0
-
rambunctiously
0
-
veraciously
0
-
hellaciously
0
-
sequaciously
0