beadily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
in an avaricious or penetrating manner.
Example Sentences
- "Catweazle paused, about to drink from an old baked-bean tin while Touchwood looked on beadily."
- "Finally he began to hover in the open window of the shack, buzzing there with his furious wings, looking at me beadily, then, flash, he was gone."
- "It was a part of his general mischief—he lurched about all day, asked leading questions, rubbed up old scandals and scratched beadily for new ones."
Etymology
From beady + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more beadily (comparative)
most beadily (superlative)