unheartily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a manner that is not hearty.
Example Sentences
- "He had such care and attention as could be given him, and it was given by no means grudgingly or unheartily."
- ""I know it," she replied, but it was still unheartily."
- "Earl laughed after the others, unheartily but genially."
- "She now laughed, and not unheartily, at Miriam's humorous teasings that the two of them would soon be grandmothers."
Etymology
From un- + hearty + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more unheartily (comparative)
most unheartily (superlative)