Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
CREAKILY
creakily, creakingly, screakily
(adverb) in a creaky manner; “the old boat was moving along creakily”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
creakily (comparative more creakily, superlative most creakily)
In a creaky manner.
Source: Wiktionary
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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