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painfully (17 points)
It's hurtful in a way to give father it in full
When Father is home entirely it's in a 23 across way
P·3+A·1+I·1+N·1+F·4+U·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
painterly (14 points)
Isn't commonly included in unusual reply that's artistic, in a way
P·3+A·1+I·1+N·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
palatably (16 points)
In a palatable manner.
P·3+A·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+A·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
palatally (14 points)
PALATAL the bone of the palate
P·3+A·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
palmately (16 points)
In a palmate manner.
P·3+A·1+L·1+M·3+A·1+T·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
palmistry (16 points)
Reading between the lines!
Handyman's work (wordplay)
Method of fortune-telling
P·3+A·1+L·1+M·3+I·1+S·1+T·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
papillary (16 points)
""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papill\'91; bearing, or covered with, papill\'91; papillose.""
P·3+A·1+P·3+I·1+L·1+L·1+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
parlously (14 points)
PARLOUS dangerous
P·3+A·1+R·1+L·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
partially (14 points)
Unwholly (wordplay)
Not wholly.
I have a bit of a friend around - just a bit
P·3+A·1+R·1+T·1+I·1+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
passively (17 points)
In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.
P·3+A·1+S·1+S·1+I·1+V·4+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
patchouly (19 points)
""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""
P·3+A·1+T·1+C·3+H·4+O·1+U·1+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
pathology (18 points)
Study of hiking choices (wordplay)
Branch of medicine
The study of the sidewalk diseases (wordplay)
P·3+A·1+T·1+H·4+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 18 pts
patiently (14 points)
Best way to wait
Clearly admitting one with forbearance
With unhurried calmness
P·3+A·1+T·1+I·1+E·1+N·1+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
peaceably (18 points)
PEACE to be or become silent
P·3+E·1+A·1+C·3+E·1+A·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
peccantly (18 points)
In a peccant manner.
P·3+E·1+C·3+C·3+A·1+N·1+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
peevishly (20 points)
Model veils hype in a petulant way
With ill temper
Around six, he yelps about in a petulant way
P·3+E·1+E·1+V·4+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 20 pts
pellitory (14 points)
""The common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort. Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.""
P·3+E·1+L·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
pensively (17 points)
In a pensive manner.
P·3+E·1+N·1+S·1+I·1+V·4+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
perfectly (19 points)
How Nadia balanced on the beam
In an ideal way
Completely and without qualification
P·3+E·1+R·1+F·4+E·1+C·3+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
perorally (14 points)
PERORAL occurring through the mouth
P·3+E·1+R·1+O·1+R·1+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
petrology (15 points)
Study of rocks
Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science
P·3+E·1+T·1+R·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 15 pts
pettishly (17 points)
PETTISH {peevish=adj}
P·3+E·1+T·1+T·1+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
petulancy (16 points)
Peevish state
P·3+E·1+T·1+U·1+L·1+A·1+N·1+C·3+Y·4 = 16 pts
phenology (18 points)
""The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.""
P·3+H·4+E·1+N·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 18 pts
philately (17 points)
Donahue's hobby (wordplay)
Hobby of our thirty-second President.
Injured hip not long ago in a pursuit
P·3+H·4+I·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
philology (18 points)
Study of languages
Study of language
Literary study
P·3+H·4+I·1+L·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 18 pts
phonology (18 points)
Study of speech sounds
P·3+H·4+O·1+N·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 18 pts
photoplay (19 points)
Waldo Salt supply
P·3+H·4+O·1+T·1+O·1+P·3+L·1+A·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
phrasally (17 points)
PHRASAL pertaining to a group of two or more associated words
P·3+H·4+R·1+A·1+S·1+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
phycology (23 points)
""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""
P·3+H·4+Y·4+C·3+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 23 pts
phylogeny (21 points)
""The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.""
P·3+H·4+Y·4+L·1+O·1+G·2+E·1+N·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
piggishly (19 points)
PIGGISH greedy or dirty
P·3+I·1+G·2+G·2+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
pinnately (14 points)
In a pinnate manner.
P·3+I·1+N·1+N·1+A·1+T·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
piquantly (23 points)
In a stimulating way.
P·3+I·1+Q·10+U·1+A·1+N·1+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 23 pts
piteously (14 points)
So as to arouse sorrow and compassion
In heart-moving fashion
In a wretched way
P·3+I·1+T·1+E·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
pitifully (17 points)
""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""
P·3+I·1+T·1+I·1+F·4+U·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
pityingly (18 points)
PITYING pity
P·3+I·1+T·1+Y·4+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
pivotally (17 points)
PIVOTAL critically important
P·3+I·1+V·4+O·1+T·1+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
placatory (16 points)
Play-actor trying to be conciliatory
Being conciliatory for play-actor
Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease
P·3+L·1+A·1+C·3+A·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
placidity (17 points)
It's a calm sort of plaid for the city
It's calm to have the plural of being like 3 down
Calmness
P·3+L·1+A·1+C·3+I·1+D·2+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
planarity (14 points)
PLANAR {flat=adj}
P·3+L·1+A·1+N·1+A·1+R·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
planetary (14 points)
Of Mars and Uranus, say
Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.
Relating to the earth
P·3+L·1+A·1+N·1+E·1+T·1+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
plangency (17 points)
Expressiveness
Scheme to get the lowdown on some cyclist's reported clanger
P·3+L·1+A·1+N·1+G·2+E·1+N·1+C·3+Y·4 = 17 pts
plasticky (20 points)
PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance
P·3+L·1+A·1+S·1+T·1+I·1+C·3+K·5+Y·4 = 20 pts
plausibly (16 points)
In a believable way
In fun, publish unbound novel with ingratiating words
P·3+L·1+A·1+U·1+S·1+I·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
playfully (20 points)
PLAYFUL full of fun
P·3+L·1+A·1+Y·4+F·4+U·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 20 pts
plurality (14 points)
Numerousness
P·3+L·1+U·1+R·1+A·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
pointedly (15 points)
Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way
P·3+O·1+I·1+N·1+T·1+E·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
polyandry (18 points)
Practice of a woman having many husbands
Custom of having more than one husband
System of having multiple husbands
P·3+O·1+L·1+Y·4+A·1+N·1+D·2+R·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
polymathy (22 points)
The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.
P·3+O·1+L·1+Y·4+M·3+A·1+T·1+H·4+Y·4 = 22 pts
polyphagy (23 points)
The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.
P·3+O·1+L·1+Y·4+P·3+H·4+A·1+G·2+Y·4 = 23 pts
polyphony (22 points)
Music institution once fraudulent
Old college not genuine? Conflicting noises perhaps here (wordplay)
P·3+O·1+L·1+Y·4+P·3+H·4+O·1+N·1+Y·4 = 22 pts
pompously (18 points)
POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance
P·3+O·1+M·3+P·3+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
popularly (16 points)
Among the people
P·3+O·1+P·3+U·1+L·1+A·1+R·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
pouringly (15 points)
POURING the act of pouring
P·3+O·1+U·1+R·1+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
pratingly (15 points)
With idle talk; with loquacity.
P·3+R·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
preachily (19 points)
PREACH to deliver a sermon
P·3+R·1+E·1+A·1+C·3+H·4+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
precisely (16 points)
Abstract, see? Just so!
Following summary, see without a doubt
Exactly, without vagueness
P·3+R·1+E·1+C·3+I·1+S·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
presently (14 points)
Shortly, by way of a gift, perhaps
By and by, by way of a gift (wordplay)
In the near future
P·3+R·1+E·1+S·1+E·1+N·1+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
primality (16 points)
The quality or state of being primal.
P·3+R·1+I·1+M·3+A·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
primarily (16 points)
Chiefly, in the first place
Chiefly, for the most part
In the first place, mainly
P·3+R·1+I·1+M·3+A·1+R·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
privately (17 points)
Not in public.
Trip round museum and cathedral in secret (wordplay)
P·3+R·1+I·1+V·4+A·1+T·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
profanely (17 points)
Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National
P·3+R·1+O·1+F·4+A·1+N·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
profusely (17 points)
A way to apologize or sweat
To a great degree
P·3+R·1+O·1+F·4+U·1+S·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
prolixity (21 points)
Wordiness
P·3+R·1+O·1+L·1+I·1+X·8+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
prolusory (14 points)
""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""
P·3+R·1+O·1+L·1+U·1+S·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
prudently (15 points)
In a cautious way
With penny wisdom.
With discretion.
P·3+R·1+U·1+D·2+E·1+N·1+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
prudishly (18 points)
In a nice-Nelly way
In bluenosed fashion
In a Victorian manner
P·3+R·1+U·1+D·2+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
publicity (18 points)
Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)
Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.
Media 'ink'
P·3+U·1+B·3+L·1+I·1+C·3+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
puckishly (23 points)
In a mischievous manner
P·3+U·1+C·3+K·5+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 23 pts
puerilely (14 points)
In a puerile manner; childishly.
P·3+U·1+E·1+R·1+I·1+L·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
puerility (14 points)
Childishness, infantile state
Childishness
P·3+U·1+E·1+R·1+I·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
pulmonary (16 points)
To do with lungs
(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars
Of or affecting the lungs
P·3+U·1+L·1+M·3+O·1+N·1+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
pungently (15 points)
Make light humor (wordplay)
Joke without malice but with some bite
In a keen manner
P·3+U·1+N·1+G·2+E·1+N·1+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
pupillary (16 points)
Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.
P·3+U·1+P·3+I·1+L·1+L·1+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
purposely (16 points)
Not by accident
Intentionally
Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)
P·3+U·1+R·1+P·3+O·1+S·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
purringly (15 points)
PURRING the sound of a contented cat
P·3+U·1+R·1+R·1+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts

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