peskilyadv.
/ˈpɛskᵻli/, U.S. /ˈpɛskəli/ colloquial (chiefly U.S.).
Annoyingly, irritatingly; confoundedly.
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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
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adverb] > in annoying or vexatious manner
noyfully1395
annoyously?c1400
noyously1483
troublously1538
uncommodiously1545
wretchedly1546
irksomely1549
incommodiously1551
troublesomely1591
vexingly1599
cumbersomely1611
vexatiously1642
discomfortably1653
importunely1658
gratingly1683
mortifyingly1748
distressingly1786
gallingly1802
annoyingly1806
peskily1833
pesky1833
tryingly1841
discomfortingly1869
balls-achingly1972
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > specifically of something bad
sorea1300
grievously1340
terrible1490
beastly?1518
shrewdlyc1533
arrantly?1548
murrainly?1548
abominablea1550
pestilence1567
pestilently1567
cursedly1570
pestiferously1570
murrain1575
plaguey1584
plaguilya1586
grievous1598
scandalously1602
horridly1603
terribly1604
monstrously1611
hellish1614
dreadfullya1616
horrid1615
pestilenta1616
infernally1638
preposterously1661
woeful1684
confoundedly1694
confounded1709
glaringly1709
cursed1719
flagrantly1756
weary1790
disgustingly1804
filthy1827
blamed1833
peskily1833
pesky1833
blame1843
blasted1854
wickedly1858
blatantly1878
shamelessly1885
disgracefully1893
ruddy1913
bastarda1935
pissing1951
sodding1954
pissingly1971
1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing lvi. 193 This nettled Mr Van Buren peskily.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. v. 153 When a feller is so peskilly sleepy as I be.
1877 Atlantic Monthly July 77/2 It does rile him peskily.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 June f1 Mottram..kept fighting back peskily—which is not usually his forte.
2002 Evening Post (Wellington) (Nexis) 25 Mar. 9 New Zealand is known as the South Pacific country that peskily went anti-nuclear in the 1980s but is otherwise a reliable friend.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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