Words that rhyme with perniciously

  • ambitiously
    adv 1: with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner; "she pursued her goals ambitiously" [syn: ambitiously, determinedly] [ant: unambitiously]
  • auspiciously
    adv 1: in an auspicious manner; "he started his new job auspiciously on his birthday" [syn: auspiciously, propitiously] [ant: inauspiciously, unpropitiously]
  • avariciously
    adv 1: in a greedy manner [syn: avariciously, covetously, greedily]
  • capriciously
    adv 1: unpredictably; "the weather has been freakishly variable" [syn: capriciously, freakishly] 2: in a capricious manner; "there were Turk's head lilies and patches of iris , islands of brilliant blue set capriciously in the green sea"
  • conspicuously
    adv 1: in a manner tending to attract attention; "there have been plenty of general declarations about willingness to meet and talk, but conspicuously no mention of time and place" [ant: inconspicuously] 2: in a prominent way; "the new car was prominently displayed in the driveway" [syn: prominently, conspicuously]
  • deliriously
    adv 1: as if in a delirium; "he was talking deliriously" 2: in a delirious manner; "her answer made him deliriously happy"
  • expeditiously
    adv 1: with efficiency; in an efficient manner; "he functions efficiently" [syn: efficiently, expeditiously] [ant: inefficiently]
  • facetiously
    adv 1: not seriously; "I meant it facetiously" [syn: facetiously, jokingly, tongue-in-cheek]
  • fictitiously
    adv 1: in a false manner intended to mislead 2: in a fictional manner (created by the imagination)
  • graciously
    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]
  • inauspiciously
    adv 1: in an inauspicious manner; "he started his new job inauspiciously on Friday the 13th" [syn: inauspiciously, unpropitiously] [ant: auspiciously, propitiously]
  • injudiciously
    adv 1: in an injudicious manner; "these intelligence tests were used injudiciously for many years" [ant: judiciously]
  • judiciously
    adv 1: in a judicious manner; "let's use these intelligence tests judiciously" [ant: injudiciously]
  • maliciously
    adv 1: with malice; in a malicious manner; "she answered maliciously"
  • meretriciously
    adv 1: in a meretricious manner; "the boat is meretriciously decorated" [syn: meretriciously, flashily]
  • mischievously
    adv 1: 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]
  • nervously
    adv 1: in an anxiously nervous manner; "we watched the stock market nervously" 2: with nervous excitement; "our bodies jumped nervously away at the slightest touch"
  • officiously
    adv 1: in an officious manner; "nothing so fatal as to strive too officiously for an abstract quality like beauty"
  • pompously
    adv 1: in a pompous manner; "he pompously described his achievements"
  • propitiously
    adv 1: in an auspicious manner; "he started his new job auspiciously on his birthday" [syn: auspiciously, propitiously] [ant: inauspiciously, unpropitiously]
  • rapaciously
    adv 1: in a rapacious manner
  • spaciously
    adv 1: with ample room; "the furniture was spaciously spread out" [syn: roomily, spaciously]
  • speciously
    adv 1: in a specious manner
  • superstitiously
    adv 1: in a superstitious manner; "superstitiously he refused to travel on Friday the 13th"
  • surreptitiously
    adv 1: in a surreptitious manner; "he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby" [syn: surreptitiously, sneakily]
  • suspiciously
    adv 1: with suspicion; "she regarded the food suspiciously"
  • viciously
    adv 1: in a vicious manner; "he was viciously attacked" [syn: viciously, brutally, savagely]
  • adventitiously
  • capaciously
  • factitiously
  • flagitiously
  • nutritiously
  • repetitiously
  • seditiously

See also perniciously definition and perniciously synonyms