Words that rhyme with shamefacedly

• absurdly 0
  adv 1: in an absurd manner or to an absurd degree; "an absurdly rich young woman"
• advisedly 0
  adv 1: with intention; in an intentional manner; "he used that word intentionally"; "I did this by choice" [syn: intentionally, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, purposely, advisedly, by choice, by design] [ant: accidentally, by chance, circumstantially, unexpectedly, unintentionally]
• allegedly 0
  adv 1: according to what has been alleged; "he was on trial for allegedly murdering his wife"
• assuredly 0
  adv 1: without a doubt; "the grammar schools were assuredly not intended for the gentry alone"
• avidly 0
  adv 1: in an avid manner; "whatever the flavor or color of your local paper, do remember that these are read avidly for local information"
• avowedly 0
  adv 1: by open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders" [syn: avowedly, professedly] 2: as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class" [syn: true, admittedly, avowedly, confessedly]
• awkwardly 0
  adv 1: in an awkward manner; "he bent awkwardly"
• baldly 0
  adv 1: in a bald manner; "this book is, to put it baldly, an uneven work."
• barefacedly 0
  adv 1: without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it" [syn: unashamedly, shamelessly, barefacedly] [ant: ashamedly]
• beastly 0
  adv 1: in a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law" adj 1: very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket" [syn: beastly, hellish, god-awful] 2: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]
• belligerently 0
  adv 1: with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner; "he pushed her against the wall belligerently" [syn: belligerently, hostilely]
• benevolently 0
  adv 1: in a benevolent manner; "she looked on benevolently" [ant: malevolently]
• blandly 0
  adv 1: in a bland manner; "his blandly incompetent attempts"
• blessedly 0
  adv 1: in a blessed manner
• blindly 0
  adv 1: without seeing or looking; "he felt around his desk blindly" 2: without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis; "they bought the car blindly"; "he picked a wife blindly"
• boldly 0
  adv 1: with boldness, in a bold manner; "we must tackle these tasks boldly"
• chastely 0
  adv 1: in a chaste and virtuous manner; "she lived chastely" [syn: chastely, virtuously]
• coherently 0
  adv 1: in a coherent manner; "she could not talk coherently after the accident" [ant: incoherently]
• coldly 0
  adv 1: in a cold unemotional manner; "he killed her in cold blood" [syn: coldly, in cold blood]
• composedly 0
  adv 1: in a self-collected or self-possessed manner; "he announced the death of his father collectedly" [syn: collectedly, composedly]
• concurrently 0
  adv 1: overlapping in duration; "concurrently with the conference an exhibition of things associated with Rutherford was held"; "going to school and holding a job at the same time" [syn: concurrently, at the same time]
• confessedly 0
  adv 1: as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class" [syn: true, admittedly, avowedly, confessedly]
• confusedly 0
  adv 1: in a confused manner; "Queen Augusta wrote him an hysterical letter in which she confusedly sympathised with him"
• consequently 0
  adv 1: (sentence connectors) because of the reason given; "consequently, he didn't do it"; "continued to have severe headaches and accordingly returned to the doctor" [syn: consequently, accordingly] 2: as a consequence; "he had good reason to be grateful for the opportunities which they had made available to him and which consequently led to the good position he now held" [syn: consequently, therefore]
• costly 0
  adj 1: entailing great loss or sacrifice; "a dearly-won victory" [syn: dearly-won, costly] 2: having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant" [syn: costly, dear(p), high-priced, pricey, pricy]
• cursedly 0
  adv 1: in a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!" [syn: damned, damnably, cursedly]
• cussedly 0
  adv 1: in a stubborn unregenerate manner; "she remained stubbornly in the same position" [syn: stubbornly, pig-headedly, obdurately, mulishly, obstinately, cussedly]
• daftly 0
  adv 1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily" [syn: daftly, dottily, balmily, nuttily, wackily]
• deftly 0
  adv 1: with dexterity; in a dexterous manner; "dextrously he untied the knots" [syn: dexterously, dextrously, deftly] 2: in a deft manner; "Lois deftly removed her scarf"
• deservedly 0
  adv 1: as deserved; "he chalked up two goals which deservedly gave Bolton their second victory of the season" [ant: undeservedly]
• deucedly 0
  adv 1: (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" [syn: madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly]
• differently 0
  adv 1: in another and different manner; "very soon you will know differently"; "she thought otherwise"; "there is no way out other than the fire escape"; [syn: differently, otherwise, other than]
• dishonestly 0
  adv 1: in a corrupt and deceitful manner; "he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend" [syn: dishonestly, venally, deceitfully] [ant: aboveboard, honestly]
• downwardly 0
  adv 1: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" [syn: down, downwards, downward, downwardly] [ant: up, upward, upwardly, upwards]
• earnestly 0
  adv 1: in a serious manner; "talking earnestly with his son"; "she started studying snakes in earnest"; "a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce" [syn: seriously, earnestly, in earnest]
• eloquently 0
  adv 1: with eloquence; "he expressed his ideas eloquently" [syn: eloquently, articulately] [ant: inarticulately, ineloquently] 2: in an articulate manner; "he argued articulately for his plan" [syn: articulately, eloquently] [ant: inarticulately]
• excellently 0
  adv 1: extremely well; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got along famously" [syn: excellently, magnificently, splendidly, famously]
• exuberantly 0
  adv 1: in an exuberant manner; "the exuberantly baroque decoration of the church" [syn: exuberantly, riotously] 2: in an ebullient manner; "Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression" [syn: ebulliently, exuberantly, expansively]
• fervidly 0
  adv 1: with passionate fervor; "both those for and against are fervently convinced they speak for the great majority of the people"; "a fierily opinionated book" [syn: fierily, fervently, fervidly]
• firstly 0
  adv 1: before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake" [syn: first, firstly, foremost, first of all, first off]
• fixedly 0
  adv 1: in a fixed manner; "he stared at me fixedly"
• flagrantly 0
  adv 1: in a flagrant manner; "he is flagrantly disregarding the law"
• floridly 0
  adv 1: in a florid manner; "floridly figurative prose"
• fondly 0
  adv 1: with fondness; with love; "she spoke to her children fondly" [syn: fondly, lovingly]
• fraudulently 0
  adv 1: in a dishonest and fraudulent manner; "this money was fraudulently obtained"
• frenziedly 0
  adv 1: in a frenzied manner; "we rehearsed frenziedly the last few days before the premiere" [syn: frenziedly, hectically]
• friendly 0
  adj 1: characteristic of or befitting a friend; "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess" [ant: unfriendly] 2: inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile; "a government friendly to our interests"; "an amicable agreement" [syn: friendly, favorable, well-disposed] 3: easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel" [ant: unfriendly] 4: of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally; "in friendly territory"; "he was accidentally killed by friendly fire" [ant: hostile] n 1: troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces; "friendlies came to their rescue" [ant: hostile]
• frigidly 0
  adv 1: without warmth or enthusiasm; "`Come in if you have to,' he said frostily" [syn: frostily, frigidly]
• gallantly 0
  adv 1: in a gallant manner; "he gallantly offered to take her home" [syn: gallantly, chivalrously] [ant: unchivalrously]
• ghastly 0
  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] 2: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" [syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral]
• ghostly 0
  adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]
• grandiloquently 0
  adv 1: in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner; "the orator spoke magniloquently" [syn: grandiloquently, magniloquently]
• grandly 0
  adv 1: in a grand manner; "the mansion seemed grandly large by today's standards"
• haphazardly 0
  adv 1: in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn: randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy- nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way] 2: without care; in a slapdash manner; "the Prime Minister was wearing a grey suit and a white shirt with a soft collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard" [syn: haphazard, haphazardly]
• honestly 0
  adv 1: (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience"; "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" [syn: honestly, candidly, frankly] 2: in an honest manner; "in he can't get it honestly, he is willing to steal it"; "was known for dealing aboveboard in everything" [syn: honestly, aboveboard] [ant: deceitfully, dishonestly, venally]
• horridly 0
  adv 1: in a hideous manner; "her face was hideously disfigured after the accident" [syn: hideously, horridly, monstrously]
• hurriedly 0
  adv 1: in a hurried or hasty manner; "the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful"; "hastily, he scanned the headlines"; "sold in haste and at a sacrifice" [syn: hurriedly, hastily, in haste] [ant: unhurriedly]
• husbandly 0
  adj 1: befitting or characteristic of a husband [ant: uxorial, wifelike, wifely] 2: related to or suited to a husband; "assumed husbandly duties like mowing the lawn"
• ignorantly 0
  adv 1: in ignorance; in an ignorant manner; "they lived ignorantly in their own small world"
• incoherently 0
  adv 1: in an incoherent manner; "he talked incoherently when he drank too much" [ant: coherently]
• inconsequently 0
  adv 1: lacking consequence; "`You're so beautifully dressed,' she said and added quite inconsequentially, `Can you stay the night?'" [syn: inconsequentially, inconsequently] [ant: consequentially]
• indifferently 0
  adv 1: with indifference; in an indifferent manner; "she shrugged indifferently"
• indolently 0
  adv 1: in an indolent manner; "he lives indolently with his relatives"
• infrequently 0
  adv 1: not many times; "in your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room" [ant: frequently, oft, often, oftentimes, ofttimes]
• inherently 0
  adv 1: in an inherent manner; "the subject matter is sexual activity of any overt kind, which is depicted as inherently desirable and exciting"
• insolently 0
  adv 1: in an insolent manner; "he had replied insolently to his superiors"
• intolerantly 0
  adv 1: in an intolerant manner [ant: tolerantly] 2: in a narrow-minded manner; "his illiberally biased way of thinking" [syn: intolerantly, illiberally]
• inwardly 0
  adv 1: with respect to private feelings; "inwardly, she was raging" [syn: inwardly, inside] [ant: outwardly]
• irreverently 0
  adv 1: without respect; "the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence" [ant: reverentially, reverently] 2: in an irreverent manner; "in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used"
• jubilantly 0
  adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly] [ant: unhappily]
• justly 0
  adv 1: with honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time" [syn: rightly, justly, justifiedly] [ant: unjustly] 2: in accordance with moral or social standards; "that serves him right"; "do right by him" [syn: justly, right]
• kindly 0
  adv 1: in a kind manner or out of kindness; "He spoke kindly to the boy"; "she kindly overlooked the mistake" [ant: unkindly] adj 1: showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity; "was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words"; "a large-hearted mentor" [syn: charitable, benevolent, kindly, sympathetic, good-hearted, openhearted, large-hearted] 2: pleasant and agreeable; "a kindly climate"; "kindly breeze"
• languidly 0
  adv 1: in a languid and lethargic manner; "the men languidly put on their jackets"
• lastly 0
  adv 1: the item at the end; "last, I'll discuss family values" [syn: last, lastly, in conclusion, finally]
• lucidly 0
  adv 1: in a clear and lucid manner; "this is a lucidly written book" [syn: lucidly, pellucidly, limpidly, perspicuously]
• luridly 0
  adv 1: in a lurid manner; "it was luridly described in the book as the place where mystics took refuge"
• malevolently 0
  adv 1: in a malevolent manner; "she gossips malevolently" [ant: benevolently]
• manifestly 0
  adv 1: unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" [syn: obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain]
• mildly 0
  adv 1: to a moderate degree; "he was mildly interested" 2: in a gentle manner; "he talked gently to the injured animal" [syn: gently, mildly]
• modestly 0
  adv 1: with modesty; in a modest manner; "the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'" [ant: immodestly]
• moistly 0
  adv 1: in a damp manner; "a scarf was tied round her head but the rebellious curl had escaped and hung damply over her left eye" [syn: damply, moistly]
• mostly 0
  adv 1: in large part; mainly or chiefly; "These accounts are largely inactive" [syn: largely, mostly, for the most part] 2: usually; as a rule; "by and large it doesn't rain much here" [syn: by and large, generally, more often than not, mostly]
• nonchalantly 0
  adv 1: in a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher" [syn: coolly, nervelessly, nonchalantly] 2: in an unconcerned manner; "glanced casually at the headlines" [syn: casually, nonchalantly]
• opulently 0
  adv 1: in a sumptuous and opulent manner; "this government building is sumptuously appointed" [syn: sumptuously, opulently]
• outwardly 0
  adv 1: with respect to the outside; "outwardly, the figure is smooth" [syn: outwardly, externally] 2: in outward appearance; "outwardly, she appeared composed" [ant: inside, inwardly]
• perplexedly 0
  adv 1: in a perplexed manner; "he looked at his professor perplexedly" [syn: perplexedly, confoundedly]
• petulantly 0
  adv 1: in a petulant manner; "he said testily; `Go away!'" [syn: testily, irritably, petulantly, pettishly]
• placidly 0
  adv 1: in a quiet and tranquil manner; "the sea now shimmered placidly before our eyes" 2: in a placid and good-natured manner; "I put the questions, and she answered them placidly"
• poignantly 0
  adv 1: in a poignant or touching manner; "she spoke poignantly" [syn: affectingly, poignantly, touchingly]
• preponderantly 0
  adv 1: much greater in number or influence; "the patients are predominantly indigenous" [syn: predominantly, preponderantly]
• priestly 0
  adj 1: associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures" [syn: priestly, hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal] 2: befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood; "priestly dedication to the people of his parish" [syn: priestly, priestlike] [ant: unpriestly]
• professedly 0
  adv 1: with pretense or intention to deceive; "is only professedly poor" 2: by open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders" [syn: avowedly, professedly]
• profoundly 0
  adv 1: to a great depth psychologically; "They felt the loss deeply" [syn: profoundly, deeply]
• recurrently 0
  adv 1: in a recurrent manner
• repellently 0
  adv 1: in a repellent manner; "repellently fat" [syn: repellently, repellingly]
• reservedly 0
  adv 1: with reserve; in a reserved manner
• reverently 0
  adv 1: with reverence; in a reverent manner; "he gazed reverently at the handiwork" [syn: reverentially, reverently] [ant: irreverently]
• rigidly 0
  adv 1: in a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright" [syn: rigidly, stiffly, bolt]
• roundly 0
  adv 1: in a round manner; "she was roundly slim" 2: in a blunt direct manner; "he spoke bluntly"; "he stated his opinion flat-out"; "he was criticized roundly" [syn: bluffly, bluntly, brusquely, flat out, roundly]
• sacredly 0
  adv 1: by religion; "religiously inspired art" [syn: religiously, sacredly]

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