| Page 19 - Selective Adverbs Having Mostly Negative Connotations | |||
| Word | Modifies | Used in a Sentence | Definitions |
| 289. sorrowfully | verb | She sorrowfully admitted her error. | affected with causing sorrow |
| 290. sourly | verb | He sourly chastised his son. | bad-tempered or morose; peevish |
| 291. spasmodically | adject | He twitched with spasmodically sharp tremors. | happening intermittently; fitful |
| 292. spinelessly | verb | He spinelessly blamed everyone else. | lacking courage or willpower |
| 293. spitefully | verb | He spitefully accused her of his mistake. | deliberately harmful; malicious |
| 294. speculatively | adjective | He acted on speculatively unproven facts. | using reasoning based on inconclusive evidence |
| 295. squalidly | adjective | She lived in a squalidly small shack. | dirty and wretched; sordid; morally repulsive |
| 296. stubbornly | verb | She stubbornly refused to listen to reason. | unreasonably, often perversely unyielding |
| 297. stupidly | verb | He stupidly repeated his obvious lies. | slow to learn or understand; lacking intelligence |
| 298. sullenly | verb | She sullenly refused to answer their accusation. | brooding ill humor or silent resentment |
| 299. surly | verb | He uttered a surly short reply. | sullenly ill-tempered; gruff; |
| 300. surreptitiously | verb | He surreptitiously obtained wealth by stealing. | obtained, done by stealthy means; |
| 301. suspiciously | verb | It looks suspiciously like trouble to me. | tending to be suspect; distrustful |
| 302. tediously | verb | He tediously spent all day working. | tiresome by reason of length, slowness or dullness |
| 303. temperamentally | adjective | It was a temperamentally unreliable engine. | excessively sensitive or irritable; moody |
| 304. tempestuously | adjective | They had a tempestuously unruly marriage. | turbulent; stormy; wild |
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