Word Meanings - REMISSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.

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• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• REMISSIBLE
  Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• 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
• REMISSFUL
  Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement. Drayton.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• 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
• REMISSION
  A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement. 5. The act of sending back. Stackhouse. 6. Act
• REMISSIBILITY
  The state or quality of being remissible. Jer. Taylor.
• 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
• REMISSNESS
  Quality or state of being remiss.
• 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.
• NEGLIGENT
  Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "Be thou negligent of fame." Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• IRREMISSIVE
  Not remitting; unforgiving.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• IRREMISSION
  Refusal of pardon.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• PREMISS
  Premise. Whately. I. Watts