semisweetly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Let's not and say we did," she said semisweetly— I didn't know her well enough to read her level of sarcasm."
- "Kinsey smiled semisweetly."
- "In this connection, a student of mine once described Catullus as like a lucid drunk: drunk just enough to tell it like it is but semisweetly, maybe bitterly, indeed a bit salty."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more semisweetly (comparative)
most semisweetly (superlative)