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 […], 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.