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villainously, adv.|ˈvɪlənəslɪ|
Forms: (see prec.).
[f. prec.]
In a villainous manner, in senses of the adj.; atrociously, vilely, detestably.
α1484Caxton Fables of Auian ix, Better is to lyue in pouerte than to deye vylaynously and oppressyd of the ryche. c1489― Blanchardyn vi. 26 Her true louer, þe whiche..ye haue betrayd & wounded vylaynously. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 86 Howe vylely, vylaynously, and violently he had byn vsed of owre men. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xx. 25 They were thus villainously intreted, lying along the ground as halfe desperate. 1639Fuller Holy War iii. xvii. 137 His sonne was villainously strangled by Alexius Ducas. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2443/3 On Sunday last Sir George Lockhart..was Villaniously [sic] Assassinated by one Cheeseley, who Shot him through the Back. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xviii. xi, The Man whose Ruin he hath so villainously contrived. 1758L. Temple Sketches (ed. 2) 5 His Verses were what one may call most villainously bad. 1842Borrow Bible in Spain xl, He had a villainously formed head. 1892A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus I. 725 The drainage of the town was villainously bad.
β1490Caxton Eneydos Prol. 10 For a thynge more noble is to dye than vylanously to be subdued. 1533More Apol. ix. Wks. 865/2 Agaynste the beste,..these blasphemous heretiques in theyr vngracyouse bookes so vilanouslye ieste and rayle. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 355 They set nothing by them, but hated and spake shamefully, and vilanously of them. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. ii. 80 Maria. Hee's in yellow stockings. Sir Toby. And crosse garter'd? Maria. Most villanously. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §60. 296 They had Villanously entreated the Ambassadors..sent unto them. 1825Cobbett Rur. Rides 66 Verily the most villanously ugly spot I ever saw in England. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 436, I have been living villanously since the death of my nags. |