beadily

English

Etymology

From beady +‎ -ly.

Adverb

beadily (comparative more beadily, superlative most beadily)

  1. (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 […], London: Picador, →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.
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