Words that rhyme with parsley

  • abstrusely
    adv 1: in a manner difficult to understand; "the professor's abstrusely reasoned theories were wasted on his students"
  • coarsely
    adv 1: in coarse pieces; "the surfaces were coarsely granular" [ant: finely]
  • concisely
    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]
  • contumeliously
    adv 1: without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him contemptuously" [syn: contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully, contumeliously]
  • crossly
    adv 1: in an ill-natured manner; "she looked at her husband crossly" [syn: crossly, grouchily, grumpily]
  • expressly
    adv 1: with specific intentions; for the express purpose; "she needs the money expressly for her patients"
  • fiercely
    adv 1: in a physically fierce manner; "silence broken by dogs barking ferociously"; "they fought fiercely" [syn: ferociously, fiercely] 2: in an emotionally fierce manner; "she was fiercely proud of her children"
  • grandiosely
    adv 1: in a grandiose manner; "the building was bombastically spacious" [syn: bombastically, grandiosely]
  • grisly
    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]
  • grizzly
    adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired] n 1: powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America [syn: grizzly, grizzly bear, silvertip, silver-tip, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos horribilis]
  • hoarsely
    adv 1: in a hoarse or husky voice; "`Excuse me,' he said hoarsely" [syn: hoarsely, huskily]
  • imprecisely
    adv 1: in an imprecise manner; "he expressed himself imprecisely" [syn: imprecisely, inexactly] [ant: exactly, incisively, precisely]
  • loosely
    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"
  • measly
    adj 1: contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" [syn: measly, miserable, paltry]
  • muesli
    n 1: mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits
  • nicely
    adv 1: in a nice way; "a nicely painted house"
  • obtusely
    adv 1: in a stupid manner; "he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone" [syn: dumbly, densely, obtusely]
  • paisley
    n 1: a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes
  • precisely
    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
    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
    adv 1: in a sparse manner; "sparsely inhabited"
  • sprucely
    adv 1: in a stylish manner; "He was smartly dressed" [syn: smartly, modishly, sprucely]
  • superciliously
    adv 1: with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner; "`I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly" [syn: sneeringly, superciliously, snidely]
  • unwisely
    adv 1: without good sense or judgment; "He acted foolishly when he agreed to come" [syn: foolishly, unwisely] [ant: sagely, wisely]
  • wisely
    adv 1: in a wise manner; "she acted wisely when she invited her parents" [syn: wisely, sagely] [ant: foolishly, unwisely]
  • frizzly
    adj 1: (of hair) in small tight curls [syn: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy]
  • presley
    n 1: United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977) [syn: Presley, Elvis Presley, Elvis Aron Presley]
  • wesley
    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]
  • bellicosely
  • choicely
  • crassly
  • lachrymosely
  • worsley
  • ausley
  • wasley
  • beardsley
  • beasley
  • sisley
  • lesley
  • leslie
  • tinsley
  • hensley
  • moseley
  • mosley
  • wellesley
  • comatosely

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