beadily

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7

Definition of beadily

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (usually)in an avaricious or penetrating manner.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From beady + -ly.

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