Word Meanings - GRIPINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• GRIPPLE
  A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
• GRIPSACK
  A traveler's handbag.
• GRIPINGLY
  In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• GRIPER
  One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.
• GRIPMAN
  The man who manipulates a grip.
• GRIPPLENESS
  The quality of being gripple.
• OPPRESSIVE
  1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. Macaulay. 2. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands. 3. Heavy; overpowering;
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• GRIPEFUL
  Disposed to gripe; extortionate.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• GRIP CAR
  A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• GRIP
  The griffin.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• GRIPPER
  In printing presses, the fingers or nippers. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, grips or seizes. 2. pl.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• HANDYGRIPE
  Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.
• INOPPRESSIVE
  Not oppressive or burdensome. O. Wolcott.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.