Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "With abruptness ", 15 letters:
unceremoniously

Word definitions for unceremoniously in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In an unceremonious manner, abruptly, without the due formalities.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB dump ▪ Nine hours after she'd been bundled into the room, they unceremoniously dumped Adam in with her. ▪ A long list of Silicon Valley companies were unceremoniously dumped from the Net for several hours Friday. ▪ ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in an unceremonious manner; "he was dismissed unceremoniously" [ant: ceremoniously ]

Usage examples of unceremoniously.

She handed the book to Balt, who unceremoniously heaved it into the pit.

Unceremoniously scooping in her bosom Miss Bombazine went to the window and briskly drew the curtains.

Bridge, CBN weekend anchor Cheeta Ching, nine months, one week, and three days pregnant, and as bloated as a floater freshly fished out of the East River, looked up from her script for the evening broadcast of Eyeball to Eyeball with Cheeta Ching as her door unceremoniously crashed in.

The sun was setting on the lush Columbian landscape as the two women were unceremoniously hauled from the speedboat like bags of potatoes, then roughly shoved along a dock, up some stairs and into a house styled after a Spanish villa.

One of the handlers managed to find a shovel and used it unceremoniously to scoop up five chicks at a time, depositing them back in the wire cage.

Ramel, his pupil unceremoniously neglected, hovered exclamatorily about him, and old Barlow, who had suddenly appeared, quivered in dumb excitement in the background.

With even iller grace than that with which he had gone for the milk, he shoved the long-awaited party invitation unceremoniously into her hand.

Dressed in a loosely fitting toga that came to just below his knees, and armed with only a short sword, Gerry Prost was thrust unceremoniously into the arena.

Paulson unceremoniously cutting the goblin down, then slicing off its ears and putting them in a pouch, pausing only to note that the creature was surprisingly well armed for one of its kind and that it wore an insignia on its leather jerkin, a black emblem of a batlike creature on a light gray background.

Score upon score of gods and goddesses fly backward and land unceremoniously on their immortal asses.

He carried two large empty valises with him to bring home as much of his purchases as possible as baggage, and when he reached the city hotel late in the evening the clerk sized him up as easily and as accurately as if he had known him for ages, and sent him to one of the poorest rooms in the house most unceremoniously.

The English tailor was ruined, the Jew who owned the ring was in despair, and all the silly fellow's servants were turned out of the house in almost a state of nakedness, as the tailor had unceremoniously taken possession of everything in the way of clothes that he could lay his hands on.

Guessing what she wanted, I called on her unceremoniously in a morning coat.

Her leap carried her safely onto the docks, but the unprepared ambassador was dropped unceremoniously into the sea.

Meanwhile I wish to have some conversation concerning damages with the persons who so unceremoniously visited us.