Adjective
Facing or directed toward the ceiling.
Usage- not-comparable
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Noble's eyes flashed in a quick ceilingward glance.
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". . . 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.
Adverb
Toward the ceiling.
Usage- not-comparable
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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.”
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Logging off, Alynn stood up and stretched her arms ceilingward, fingers intertwined high above her head.