circumventingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
So as to circumvent.
Example Sentences
- "UNDERMI´NINGLY, circumventingly, […]"
- "[…] whilst the ex-State Rights men, who compose the Clay division of the Whig Party, and wish to delude the people into the belief, that they, too, opposed the “mother of abominations,” and slyly, insidiously and circumventingly employed in promoting, consummating, and perpetually fixing her blasting and monopolizing curse upon the trading and agricultural interests of the South."
- "The Tribune, young Gideon and Saint Lewis ride circumventingly by and cautiously around to the right, while I sagaciously conclude to stick to Howell, as doth the “Y-and-dot.”"
- "Here is another order for protecting the interests of the company:—“If any of the brotherhood have agreed for work, and another brother circumventingly go and offer to take the said work cheaper than the former have agreed for, whether he doth get the said work or not” he shall pay £5."
- "She stood, for the merest fraction of time, on her toes, before she moved towards him circumventingly."
- "Naturally, I have not been everywhere and do not know how universal the cult of vulgarity is, but I have noted that authors possess a paucity of felicity in circumventingly ugly language in very popular books."
Etymology
From circumventing + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more circumventingly (comparative)
most circumventingly (superlative)