ceilingward
adjEtymology
From ceiling + -ward.
Definitions
Facing or directed toward the ceiling.
- Noble's eyes flashed in a quick ceilingward glance.
- ". . . 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.
- Once again, my little attempt to charm her with humour was met with a ceilingward lifting of the eyebrows in finicky disapproval.
Toward the ceiling.
- Liddell nodded, exhaled a feathery tendril of dirty white smoke ceilingward.
- “Mom!” he said, rolling his eyes ceilingward. “I'm not a kid, you know.”
- Logging off, Alynn stood up and stretched her arms ceilingward, fingers intertwined high above her head.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA