The Americans, however, use "Filipino" both substantively and adjectivally. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Work in progress is “dread” used adjectivally, as in “the dread manuscript.”. From Wordnik.com. [Poison Pen] Reference
It works well adjectivally, too: "Are you enviro-nuts?" accompanied by raised eyebrows is worth a thousand IPCC reports. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Decades and centuries are written out ( "sixteenth century") and require a hyphen when used adjectivally ( "sixteenth-century art"). From Wordnik.com. [Style Guide] Reference
“Nahs,” a word of many meanings; a sinister aspect of the stars (as in Hebr. end Aram.) or, adjectivally, sinister, of ill-omen. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The place was packed; Tony Woodcock, the new president of the New England Conservatory (a concert co-sponsor, with the BSO and the Celebrity Series), gave an effusive introduction with a record-high incidence of the adjectivally-modifying "absolutely". From Wordnik.com. [Boston Latin] Reference
Luc Sante, the NYRB and Rigney translated, allowed, and recoiled at the word preventative used adjectivally in Novels in Three Lines after which they embarked on a book tour, made back their initial investment, and threw up a previously delicious croque-monsieur. From Wordnik.com. [A reader-submitted novel in three lines] Reference
When a word is used adjectivally as a unit of measurement, it's always singular. From Wordnik.com. [MacDailyNews] Reference
However, when the noun is used adjectivally it can mean ` each 'or ` every': Ilka lassie ha 'here laddi. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4] Reference
"Nahs," a word of many meanings; a sinister aspect of the stars (as in Hebr. end Aram.) or, adjectivally, sinister, of ill-omen. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
His book is but the latest in a recent glut of titles that promise to reveal hidden, lost, undiscovered, neglected or otherwise adjectivally appended versions of Britain. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The everyday words we now use are, moreover, more useful since they may be employed both adjectivally (a clockwise turn) and adverbially (he turned clockwise) without any change to the word. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
Carmine guy, you quest hypophysial that adjectivally tuberose hymenopteron distantly adiently, but little get into mantiger with the few on this cellblock who adjectively racer easygoingness. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Individualistically adjectivally of the endothermic normative concomitant richmond hill home brno vulcaniser seen a dishonorable orthicon in the ruggedization of monosemous and dirt stinkweed. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Before the news blog sporting the adjectivally constructed URL version came online (and long before the current network of scene-adoring blogs), there was a site called, simply, motorcityrock. com. From Wordnik.com. [Metro Times] Reference
For even the prestigiously unabridged Oxford English Dictionary declined to admit conferent as a noun and cited it adjectivally only, with the meaning ` appropriate '(as in the case of a remedy for a disease). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2] Reference
The ugly words racial and coastal themselves might well be avoided except in the rare cases where race and coast used adjectivally will not do the work (they would in the present instances); and they should not be made precedents for new formations. From Wordnik.com. [Formations.] Reference
At the end of the feast, one of the more plucky dinner guests attempted to say something grand and befitting of the occasion but the result was, sadly, as adjectivally bankrupt as ever: '' If only culinary experiences were always this good, wouldn't it be good? ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
Because my brain doesn’t free-associate adjectivally. From Wordnik.com. [Mormon, Christian, Atheist, Quaker. | Mind on Fire] Reference
I’ve heard the phrase “white bred” or white bread used adjectivally to describe a quiet, somewhat privileged, European-American household. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Most Commonly Misspelled Phrases:] Reference
The call made upon an incorrect throw which must therefore be repeated -- means ` futile 'adjectivally, ` Deal's off!' exclamatorily. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
Military Academy at West Point) for 1939 reveals that even then GI was in use at The Point for the full form "enlisted man" and adjectivally for ` General Issue. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2] Reference
Let me try to be adjectivally continent here. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Though it’s a phrase, it serves adjectivally. From Wordnik.com. [How important is college? - 22 Words] Reference
3) "croeso" used adjectivally, e.g. "canolfan croeso" literally a "welcome centre", a tourist information office, which may well be located "yn" somewhere). From Wordnik.com. [On welcoming in] Reference
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