Word Meanings - STARCHLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a starched or starch manner.

Related words: (words related to STARCHLY)

• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• STARCHED
  1. Stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.
• 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
• STARCHLY
  In a starched or starch manner.
• STARCHNESS
  Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.
• STARCHWORT
  The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.
• STARCHEDNESS
  The quality or state of being starched; stiffness in manners; formality.
• 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
• STARCHY
  Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.
• STARCH
  Stiff; precise; rigid. Killingbeck.
• 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
• 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.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ARISTARCH
  A severe critic. Knowles.
• ARISTARCHIAN
  Severely critical.
• CLEARSTARCH
  To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
• CLEARSTARCHER
  One who clearstarches.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• XYSTARCH
  An office Dr. W. Smith.
• ARISTARCHY
  Severely criticism.