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diabolically, adv.|daɪəˈbɒlɪkəlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a diabolical manner; devilishly, very wickedly or badly, atrociously.
1599Life Sir T. More in Wordsworth Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 164 If onlie these odious terms maliciouslie, traiterouslie, diabollicallie were put out of the inditement. 1633Prynne Histriom. i. ii. Chorus (R.), So diabolically absurd, so audaciously impious, so desperately prophane. 1681N. N. Rome's Follies 37 By'r Lady the Woman grows Diabollically Impudent. 1756Foote Eng. fr. Paris ii. Wks. 1799 I. 113 You look divinely, child. But..they have dressed you most diabolically. 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. ii. 81 A place as diabolically wicked as it was wealthy.
2. slang. In weakened sense: exceedingly, excessively; often of things bad, but now used as a gen. intensive. Cf. diabolical a. 3 and devilishly adv. 2.
1958L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari (1968) i. 19, I can remember my grandfather saying..‘Yes! he [the Bushman] was clever, diabolically clever.’ 1977Washington Post 29 May a2/3 The whole idea is ‘diabolically simple’, notes Drake. 1981H. Secombe Welsh Fargo iv. 48 The process was diabolically slow and it seemed an eternity before he reached the bushes. 1983Washington Post 22 Aug. b1/1, I see this as diabolically funny. |