spittingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Through taut mouth-slit, in a very low voice, but spittingly, she said, “Don’t touch me.”[…]Her posture didn’t alter, but her lips arched and the words were spat out: “Why don’t you strap me and stick pins in me? They used to do that.”"
- "‘My God, I was a fool to marry you,’ she spat out.[…]‘There was no need,’ she continued slowly, spittingly, deliberately, ‘to throw my father’s gold cuff-links in the Thames.’"
- "‘Come on then, spit it out!’[…]And he began to speak, spittingly. ‘Dammit, son, you can’t change history, you can’t change the will of God, understand this![…]’"
Etymology
From spitting + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more spittingly (comparative)
most spittingly (superlative)