Words that rhyme with persley

adv 1: in an adverse manner; "she was adversely affected by the new regulations"

adv 1: with the terms of the relation reversed; "conversely, not all women are mothers"

adv 1: in an inverse or contrary manner; "inversely related"; "wavelength and frequency are, of course, related reciprocally"- F.A.Geldard [syn: inversely, reciprocally]

adv 1: in a morose manner; "he fell morosely on the bed"

adv 1: without moving; in a motionless manner; "he saw the black-haired man waiting motionlessly behind the opposite side of the platform"

adv 1: in a nebulous and indefinite manner

adv 1: without need; "it would needlessly bring badness into the world"

adv 1: without a sound; "he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door" [syn: noiselessly, soundlessly]

adv 1: without pain; "after the surgery, she could move her arms painlessly" [ant: painfully, sorely]

adv 1: in a dangerous manner; "he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge" [syn: perilously, hazardously, dangerously]

adv 1: deliberately deviant; "his perversely erotic notions" 2: in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely, contrarily, contrariwise]

adv 1: in a reckless manner

adv 1: in a relentless manner; "he worked relentlessly" [syn: relentlessly, unrelentingly]

adv 1: without pity; in a merciless manner; "he was mercilessly trounced by his opponent in the House" [syn: mercilessly, pitilessly, unmercifully, remorselessly]

adv 1: in a restless manner; "he cracked his knuckles restlessly"

adv 1: so as to arouse or deserve laughter; "her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well" [syn: laughably, ridiculously, ludicrously, preposterously]

adv 1: in a ruthless manner; "the government has been urged to take immediate action to deal ruthlessly with the strikers"

adv 1: with extreme conscientiousness; "he came religiously every morning at 8 o'clock" [syn: scrupulously, conscientiously, religiously]

adv 1: in an altruistic manner; "he acted selflessly when he helped the old lady in distress" [syn: altruistically, selflessly]

adv 1: in a meaningless and purposeless manner; "these innocent bystanders were senselessly killed" 2: in an unreasonably senseless manner; "these temples were mindlessly destroyed by the Red Guards" [syn: mindlessly, senselessly]

adv 1: without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it" [syn: unashamedly, shamelessly, barefacedly] [ant: ashamedly]

adv 1: in a shapeless manner; "the dress hung shapelessly on her thin body"

adv 1: without sleep; in a sleepless manner; "he was lying in bed sleeplessly"

adv 1: in a soulless manner; "they were soullessly grubbing for profit"

adv 1: in a short and concise manner; "a particular bird, exactly and tersely described in the book of birds" [syn: telegraphically, tersely]