Adjective: laidly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more laidly |
| Superlative | most laidly |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like laidly
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English laithlie (“ugly”), equivalent to loath+-ly.