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stupidly, adv.|ˈstjuːpɪdlɪ|
[f. stupid a. + -ly2.]
In a stupid manner.
1. In a condition of stupor. Now rare.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. vii. 62 They that feel it not, are not less sick, but stupidly so. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 149 When ailing he sleeps long and stupidly.
†b. In consequence of stupefaction. Obs.
1667Milton P.L. ix. 465 That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed.
†2. Apathetically, indifferently. Obs.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §127 Their wariness and wisdom could not be great enough to preserve them, if they did not stupidly look on without seeming to understand what they could in no degree control or prevent.
3. With gross lack of intelligence; foolishly; in a manner indicative of stupidity.
c1611Chapman Iliad xiv. 199 Comment., How stupidly soeuer all his interpreters would haue Hector (being strooke into a trembling, and almost dead) turne about like a whirle⁓wind. 1699Bentley Phalaris 250 Would a person of Learning..be..so stupidly negligent as not to examin the Stone-Cutter's Work. 1700Dryden Fables Ded. C 1, There was engraven on it, Plans of Cities, and Maps of Countries, which Ajax could not comprehend, but look'd on them as stupidly as his Fellow-Beast the Lion. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 445 They were all stupidly ignorant as to Matters of Religion. 1743Wesley Jrnl. 27 June, I preach'd at Awkborough, on the Trent-side to a stupidly-attentive congregation. 1819Shelley Peter Bell vii. xxi, And every neighbouring cottager Stupidly yawned upon the other. 1851W. Whewell Let. 26 Jan. in Mrs. Stair Douglas Life (1881) 414 We English are as stupidly servile in looking with reverence on all German philosophy, as we are stupidly conceited about our social institutions and manners. 1865Lecky in Eliz. Lecky Mem. i. (1909) 39 The only printed review I have seen is an exceedingly stupidly written one. 1865E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune I. 259 It stared at her, stupidly, its round, chubby face streaked with tears and dirt. 1885Manch. Exam. 25 Mar. 5/1 Nothing could be more stupidly false than such an impression.
4. Obstinately. dial.
1884Methodist Mag. 52 Moffat stuck stupidly (this last word, in Lancashire, means resolute persistence in either a wise or foolish saying, or course) that he would go and hear Roby. |