† lorellyadv.
Obsolete.
Like a ‘lorel’.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adverb]
lorellya1475
knavishly1481
rascally1572
roguishly1611
scoundrelously1681
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adverb]
lorellya1475
knavishly1481
rascally1572
knavelya1593
roguishly1611
scoundrelously1681
queerly1699
rapscallionly1699
scampishly1880
a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 135 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 303 Ne spit not lorely, for no kyn mede, Be-fore no mon of god for drede.
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