nastilyadv.
/ˈnɑːstᵻli/, /ˈnastᵻli/, U.S. /ˈnæstəli/ In a nasty manner; disagreeably, unpleasantly; (originally) spec. †foully, filthily (obsolete).
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adverb]
loathlya1000
foullyOE
loathsomelya1400
fulsomelya1425
foulily1489
obscenely1598
nastily1611
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adverb] > and loathsome
vilelyc1290
nastily1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sordidement, filthily, nastily, naughtily.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxxviii. 701 The Badger.., finding his lodging so nastily beraied, presently..forsakes the place.
1663 L. Womock Aron-bimnucha or Antidote to cure Calamites 68 The Houses of God could not be suffered to lie so Nastily..were the true worship of God observed in them.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 239 I vexed her yesterday, because she talk'd nastily.
1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 53 Foul and crouded gaols..wherein a multitude of people are long, closely and nastily kept.
1775 Mrs. J. Harris Lett. I. 302 He feeds nastily and ferociously, and eats quantities most unthankfully.
1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 24 Jan. in French & Italian Notebks. (1980) i. 51 Streets narrow..and smelling nastily.
1883 R. Broughton Belinda I. i. iv. 68 The gardenias are now the colour of old leather, and smell rather nastily than otherwise.
1914 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 24 186 The nastily animal incidents of human life.
1964 J. Rule Desert of Heart (1986) ix. 235 You might have been involved in the court proceedings, very nastily involved.
1990 ‘A. T. Ellis’ Inn at Edge of World 40 ‘How's Graham?’ he inquired nastily, for he happened to remember that her husband was called John.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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