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“While all about me the riders smiled, laughed, grunted porcinely – I was struck down and immersed in the darkness of gloom.”
“Yet I can always pray that I'm completely wrong and that the world isn't as porcinely obtuse as it sincerely appears to me to be.”
“Von Lappus snorted porcinely, shifted his bulk, opened his small blue eyes, fixed Kurt with his stare.”
“Yes, if like pig-weed he mows it down soon as it shoots," porcinely rubbing his stubble-chin against his coon-skins.”
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The Adverb Zoo
List of adverbs that refer to animals and their supposed behaviors or qualities, such as doggedly. Real words please.
doggedly, swinishly, porcinely, piggishly, cattily, foxily, sheepishly, fishily, pussily, mousily, goosily, hennishly and 70 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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The Confidence Man
Words to remember from Melville's "The Confidence Man"
chevalier, hawk, unalloyed, ex-officio, scruple, pertinacity, epithet, gilt, bedizen, embrasure, escritoire, squaw and 278 more...
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hernesheir swinishly, piggishly Apr 25, 2011
hernesheir The effort of every novelist, and the demand of all but the most porcinely voracious of novel readers, is for as true and complete a representation of human nature as the insight and skill of the novelist enable him to compass. -- p. 563 of H.D. Traill's, The Novel of Manners, pp. 561-576 in The Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review, Vol. 18, No. CI, 1885, edited by James Knowles. Apr 25, 2011