I'm willing to be convinced. Let's see a sentence using the word "greenly" that doesn't suck.

I disagree, Arch, for I hate the foul adverb. Stephanie whosit gave it a bit more substance rather than just saying Noun Verbed Adverbly, but she loses points automatically for making an adjective an adverb.

Even still I could have at least dismissed it if it was 'light' instead of 'air.' Who the fuck is her editor?

EDIT: God damn it, Shortpacked has been 100% the entire time. Nobody does satire quite as well as him.

"The light shone through the stained glass window greenly," the author wrote before pausing to wonder if greenly was even a real word.

Do I win?

I think that this is a better example:

"Even the air filtered down greenly through the leaves." the author wrote not giving a damn whether or not greenly was even a real word.

Good thing I'm not willing to convince you, because I'm not sure I can write a sentence that doesn't suck even without using the word "greenly."

Also, if someone has been nursing some adverbigotry, it's kind of a foregone conclusion that everything with "greenly" in it will suck to them.

The example I had in mind wasn't some kind of magical bit of wordsmithing, just any passage that needs to note the optical effect of green objects on light coming down while downplaying it. It would still have been a cliché with an adverb stuck in it. But the fun was just kind of sucked out of the demonstration. Goddamn vampires. Anyway, the feat in a context like that would be to avoid the use the adjective, get the desired effect and have it not suck.

Greenly Dreaming Dexter would still have been a bad title, though.

The problem with greenly as an adverb is that you're describing the "green-ness" of an action. Outside of the relatively limited area of using the word in its figurative sense to indicate inexperience, I can't think of a circumstance where that would ever really apply.

It's not a problem with adverbs in general, just that in this specific case it doesn't work as one.

Dude, this is basically Ulysses. Maybe we just don't understand her genius.

It works if the action is something light "does."

That should have been Greenly Gleaming Gexter, really.