emulously, adv. with desire of equaling or excelling.
- At the top of page 596 of my 1968 Unabridged, Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Dictionary I found the word emulously, which I never knew before, but felt it's adverbialness to my bones.
- Though dashboards are nouns and sit and look pretty, the metrics, also nouns, are set to emulously improve them.
- Does opening a Word document or taping a blank piece of watercolor paper to a board imply emulously producing a masterpiece?
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p.s., Why is there only one L in equaling and two in excelling? A one l lama is a priest, a two l llama is a beast, a three l llama does not exist. (Ogden Nash)
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