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cursedly, adv.|ˈkɜːsɪdlɪ|
Also curstly.
[f. cursed + -ly2.]
1. In a cursed manner; in a way deserving a curse; wickedly, abominably.
c1386Chaucer Monk's T. 239 Thou that..heriest false goddes cursedly. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon x. 257 Whan bayerd sawe he was so curstly dealed wythall. 1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1641) 61 They judge cursedly the good to bee bad. 1679Bedloe Popish Plot 1 None more cursedly ingenious in inventing.. methods of doing mischief.
2. Used as an intensive with strong expression of reprobation or dislike: In a cursed manner, execrably, detestably, ‘damnably’, ‘confoundedly’.
1570Dee Math. Pref. 20 To be curstly affrayed of his owne shaddow. 1663T. Porter Witty Combat ii. iii, Why, so thou art, insufferably, cursedly drunk. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. xlix. 106 Cursedly down in the mouth. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey v. xv, They voted her ladyship cursedly satirical. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. vi, I can't see why you should be so cursedly particular.
†3. Malignantly; with perverse ill-temper; crossly, severely, harshly, virulently.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxv, Guido..hath delite to speake cursedly Alway of women. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxvi. 232 His procuratours..cursedly and ful slowly serued hym at his nede. 1590Marlowe Edw. II, v. ii. 64 To make him fret the more, Speak curstly to him. 1646E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 3) 74 Father Browne, who would curstly correct his old wife. 1650H. More in Enthus. Triumph. (1656) 106 You..bark and scold..more cursedly and bitterly then any Butter-quean. |