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unˈsavourily, adv.
[un-1 11.]
†1.
a. So as to savour ill.
b. Without savour; insipidly. Obs.
14..Langland's P. Pl. C. xvi. 49 (MS. Laud 656), Here sauce was ouersoured & vnsauerilich ygrounde. c1440Promp. Parv. 367/1 Onsaveryly, insipide. c1449Pecock Repr. v. xv. 564 It is no nede forto seie ther of eny thing vnperfitli..and therfore vnsauorili here.
2. In an unpleasant or disagreeable manner.
1611Cotgr., Mausadement, harshly, vnsauorily. 1641Milton Animadv. 60 So often and so unsavourily has it been repeated, that the Reader may well cry, Downe with it. 1647Trapp Marrow Gd. Authors in Comm. Ep. 646 Yea many times most unseasonably and unsavourily..they fell into those absurd disputes. 1899Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 2/1 Tenanted by myriads of penguins, which nest unsavourily on the steep slopes. |