execrablyadv.
/ˈɛksɪkrəbli/ In an execrable manner: †(a) so as to deserve execration (obsolete); (b) accursedly, abominably, detestably, atrociously.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adverb]
noughtlyeOE
litherOE
naughtlyOE
litherlya1225
simplya1325
miseaselyc1330
wretchedlyc1340
lewdlyc1386
unhappily1390
miserably?a1425
lodderlyc1425
sorrily1496
singly1548
naughtily1574
sillily1581
lamentably1585
evilly1587
woefully1592
scurvily1616
execrably1633
grievously1742
miscreantly1744
queasily1845
fecklessly1862
God-forsakenly1913
the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adverb] > as everyday imprecation
wickedlya1375
terrible1490
cursedly1570
plaguilya1586
damnably1598
cursefully1606
damnedly1607
lousily1611
damnablea1616
execrably1633
excrementitiously1638
infernally1638
mangilya1640
putidly1654
infamously1695
consumedly1707
damned1757
damnationly1762
shockingly1768
damn1787
deucedly1819
peskily1833
pesky1833
beastly1853
dashedly1888
stinkingly1906
rasted1919
effing1945
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adverb] > wickedly or accursedly
accursedlyc1330
cursedlyc1386
execrably1633
1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. vi. ii. 154 These Playes themselves must certainely be execrably odious to all good Christians.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1362 What act more execrably unclean..? View more context for this quotation
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires i. 14 'Tis Fustian all; 'tis execrably bad.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse i. 12 They [sc. the shoes] pinch me execrably.
1794 V. Knox tr. Erasmus Antipolemus 27 The object of a battle was..sordid lucre, or something still more execrably flagitious.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 41 Bells, execrably rung for some hours every evening.
1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 9 Pictures—execrably bad, in all cases.
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