counteringly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "Round 3. Both men came up cautiously and sparred for wind. Morris landed on the other man’s jaw, Hornbacher counteringly heavily on the body."
- "PSYCHOLOGY TESTS which may determine whether you get or keep a job in today’s computerized employment market are counteringly termed an essential hiring tool and an invasion of privacy."
- "He heard the mewling moans of passion coming from the throats of both women, and counteringly there were also the more muted sounds of moistly moving tongues and lips."
- "No doubt my aesthetic reflections are partly crippled from my being an habitual inmate of libraries and museums, and fettered with the intellectual’s defensive irony. Hence I self-skeptically make no totalizing claim for any anarchist aesthetic, which may well find other freedoms than mine. But one can, I libertarianly hope, also counteringly learn. Artful play is where you find and live it, like the bird against the contrary winds."
- "The problem was, he wasn’t allowing her to make anything sound final. His patience with her extended itself deftly, counteringly, before any move she thought to make."
- "Noah, symptomatically, speaks of chaos, ‘madness and constant troubled confusions’. Nathaniel agrees, but, counteringly, invokes the music of Ironwood, the jazz and blues of the ‘wounded … blind bard warrior’ as offering black spiritual harmonizations amid all the disorder."
Etymology
From countering + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more counteringly (comparative)
most counteringly (superlative)