Here is a list of adjectives that
end in -ly and sometimes get mistaken for adverbs:
- Beastly
- Brotherly
- Comely
- Costly
- Cowardly
- Daily (Can also be an adverb)
- Deadly
- Elderly
- Fatherly
- Fortnightly (Can also be an adverb)
- Friendly
- Gentlemanly
- Gentlewomanly
- Ghastly
- Ghostly
- Godly
- Goodly
- Holy
- Homely
- Humanly
- Kingly
- Leisurely
- Likely
- Lively
- Lonely
- Lovely
- Lowly
- Maidenly
- Manly
- Masterly
- Matronly
- Miserly
- Monthly (Can also be an adverb)
- Motherly
- Nightly
- Painterly
- Priestly
- Princely
- Saintly
- Scholarly
- Shapely
- Silly
- Sisterly
- Timely
- Ugly
- Ungainly
- Unruly
- Unsightly
- Unseemly
- Unworldly
- Weekly (Can also be an adverb)
- Womanly
- Worldly
- Yearly (Can also be an adverb)
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