Words that rhyme with pressley

adv 1: without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him contemptuously" [syn: contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully, contumeliously]

adv 1: in an ill-natured manner; "she looked at her husband crossly" [syn: crossly, grouchily, grumpily]

adv 1: with specific intentions; for the express purpose; "she needs the money expressly for her patients"

adv 1: in a grandiose manner; "the building was bombastically spacious" [syn: bombastically, grandiosely]

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]

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]

adv 1: in a sparse manner; "sparsely inhabited"

adv 1: in a stylish manner; "He was smartly dressed" [syn: smartly, modishly, sprucely]

adv 1: with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner; "`I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly" [syn: sneeringly, superciliously, snidely]

adv 1: without good sense or judgment; "He acted foolishly when he agreed to come" [syn: foolishly, unwisely] [ant: sagely, wisely]

adv 1: in a wise manner; "she acted wisely when she invited her parents" [syn: wisely, sagely] [ant: foolishly, unwisely]

adj 1: (of hair) in small tight curls [syn: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy]

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]

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]