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CREEPINGLY

Definition: CREEPINGLY

CREEPINGLY

Adverb

1. By creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CREEPINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)


Modern Translation: CREEPINGLY

Language Translations for "CREEPINGLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Korean 

  

느리게 (slowly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eepinglycray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CREEPINGLY"

Words rhyming with "CREEPINGLY" (pronounced 'Creep"ing*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CREEPINGLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-i-l-n-p-r-y"

-1 letter: glycerine.

-2 letters: creeling, creepily, creeping, glycerin, penciler, princely, replying.

-3 letters: cleping, clinger, creping, cringle, generic, glycine, greenly, leering, peeling, peering, preeing, preying, recline, reeling, regency, relying, yelping.

-4 letters: ceiler, celery, cering, clergy, clingy, clypei, creepy, crenel, crepey, cringe, crying, eerily, energy, eyeing, glycin, greeny, gripey, gyrene, lierne, linger, nicely, peeing, pencel, pencil, penile, piecer.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-i-l-n-p-r-y"
 

+3 letters: deprecatingly, electrotyping.

 

+4 letters: depreciatingly, hypervigilance, hypoallergenic.

 

+5 letters: epeirogenically, hypervigilances, paragenetically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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