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beadily

beadily adverb: in an avaricious or penetrating manner.

Adverb

beadily (comparative more beadily, superlative most beadily)

  1. (usually) in an avaricious or penetrating manner.
    • Catweazle paused, about to drink from an old baked-bean tin while Touchwood looked on beadily.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 49
    • Finally he began to hover in the open window of the shack, buzzing there with his furious wings, looking at me beadily, then, flash, he was gone.1976, Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, page 180

Forms of beadily

comparativemore beadily
superlativemost beadily

Origin of beadily

From beady + -ly.

Questions about beadily

What does beadily mean?
Beadily means in an avaricious or penetrating manner.
What part of speech is beadily?
Beadily is an adverb.

Words near beadily in the dictionary

  1. beadhouse
  2. beadhouses
  3. beadier
  4. beadies
  5. beadiest
  6. beadily
  7. beadiness
  8. beading
  9. beadings
  10. beadle
  11. Beadle County

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