felly

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Adverb
  • Baseball is a cruelly and wonderfully unpredictable game.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Ultimately, the court found that prosecutors had not met the burden of proof to show the animals were being neglected or cruelly mistreated.
    Hannah Dreyfus, AZCentral.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Joe Garcia spoke bitterly about the decline of governance on both sides of the Straits of Florida.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • At the start of the season, the Braves lost seven in a row, setting the tone for a bitterly disappointing campaign.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Be Ruthless In Your Shoe Edit Shoes are notoriously bulky, but Jones recommends editing mercilessly.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Comedians mercilessly mocked their audiences, and audiences liked to punch back.
    Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Space states like Florida and California, for example—home to NASA’s two biggest centers—jealously guard their share of the federal pie.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The unhappy person is one who looks jealously at other plates or is angry that they are served last.
    Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 25 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Aimee Lou Wood, the British breakout star of The White Lotus season three, said Saturday Night Live has apologized after unkindly parodying her during Saturday night’s show.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2025
  • She was always being driven mad by Kubrick, very unkindly.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
Adverb
  • Few filmmakers have mined their own life as ruthlessly, or as artfully, as Noah Baumbach.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Opera’s traditions highlight the preciousness of that talent and also ruthlessly expose its lack.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There is a troubling suggestion of abuse, implying that Jack might have been ill-treated by his mom (and saved by Helen), rather than heartlessly abandoned.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • While the venue gained significant popularity and an enviously cool reputation, it was also plagued by regulatory troubles in recent years.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Felly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/felly. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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