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ungenially

ungenially adverb: in an ungenial manner.

Adverb

ungenially (comparative more ungenially, superlative most ungenially)

  1. In an ungenial manner.
    • The sun glared ungenially at that blot upon the waters, breeding infectious disease; the waves flung the hated burden from one to the other, disdainful of her freight of sin; the winds had no commission for fair sailing, but whistled through the rigging crossways, howling in the ears of many in...1851, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Heart
    • Very many thousand times above Dudley Sowerby, Nataly ranked Dartrey Fenellan; and still she looked at him, where he sat beside Nesta, ungenially, critical of the very features, jealously in the interests of Dudley; and recollecting, too, that she had once prayed for one exactly resembling Dartrey...1897, George Meredith, One of Our Conquerors, Complete

Forms of ungenially

comparativemore ungenially
superlativemost ungenially

Origin of ungenially

From ungenial + -ly.

Questions about ungenially

What does ungenially mean?
Ungenially means in an ungenial manner.
What part of speech is ungenially?
Ungenially is an adverb.

Words near ungenially in the dictionary

  1. ungenerous
  2. ungenerously
  3. ungenerousness
  4. ungenial
  5. ungeniality
  6. ungenially
  7. ungenialness
  8. ungenius
  9. ungeniuses
  10. ungenotyped
  11. ungenteel

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