ceilingward
English
Etymology
Adjective
ceilingward (not comparable)
- Facing or directed toward the ceiling.
- 1971, Eaton K. Goldthwaite, The Marble Forest, Doubleday (1971), page 41:
- Noble's eyes flashed in a quick ceilingward glance.
- 2008, D. M. Cornish, Lamplighter, G. P. Putnam's Sons (2008), →ISBN, page 141:
- ". . . Did you see what she upstairs had delivered today?" one woman huffed with a ceilingward glance and a dripping poke of her thumb in the vague direction of the Snooks.
- 2012, Kathy Lette, The Boy Who Fell to Earth, Bantam (2012), →ISBN, page 59:
- Once again, my little attempt to charm her with humour was met with a ceilingward lifting of the eyebrows in finicky disapproval.
- 1971, Eaton K. Goldthwaite, The Marble Forest, Doubleday (1971), page 41:
Adverb
ceilingward (not comparable)
- Toward the ceiling.
- 1949, Frank Kane, Green Light for Death, Prologue Books (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- Liddell nodded, exhaled a feathery tendril of dirty white smoke ceilingward.
- 1989, Sandra Brown, Long Time Coming, Bantam Dell (2006), →ISBN, page 76:
- “Mom!” he said, rolling his eyes ceilingward. “I'm not a kid, you know.”
- 2002, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Vectors, Bantam Spectra (2002), →ISBN, page 118:
- Logging off, Alynn stood up and stretched her arms ceilingward, fingers intertwined high above her head.
- 1949, Frank Kane, Green Light for Death, Prologue Books (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page: