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beadily en · ADV

Etymology

From beady + -ly.

Meanings

1. (of a look, usually) in an avaricious or penetrating manner.
   • 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. 1976, Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, page 180:
   • 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. 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
   • Catweazle paused, about to drink from an old baked-bean tin while Touchwood looked on beadily. 1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 49:

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