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.