beadily
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beadily (comparative more beadily, superlative most beadily)
- (usually of a look) in an avaricious or penetrating manner.
- 1976, Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, page 180:
- Finally he began to hover in the open window of the shack, buzzing there with his furious wings, looking at me beadily, then, flash, he was gone.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- It was a part of his general mischief—he lurched about all day, asked leading questions, rubbed up old scandals and scratched beadily for new ones.