unreadilyadv.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 56 (MED) Ech special craft..whanne it is had in moost wise and in moost curraunt and in redi maner, þanne þilk..craft is a ‘wisdom’ in comparisoun..to þe maner in which it was had bifore, rawli and vncurrauntli or vnredili.

c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 24 (MED) I be seche þe lord haue mercy on me þat so vnworthily and vnredily come þer to.

1572 W. Malim tr. N. Martinengo True Rep. Famagosta Ded. sig. Aij^v Men being first enforced to write their actes..in barkes of trees, or otherwise perchaunce as vnreadily.

1664 J. Heath Chron. Late Intestine War (new ed.) ii. 552 The Host seeing the King stand off (as a Servant) said, thou lookst like an honest Fellow, Heres a Health to the King, who unreadily answering it, made the man expostulate with the Col. what Fellow he had brought.

1766 T. Amory Twenty-Two Serm. v. 128 The actions which at first we do difficultly, unreadily, and often mistaking, by repeated trials and performances we are enable to effect with ease.

1871 R. A. Proctor Light Sci. 138 It is astonishing how unreadily two sea-currents exchange their temperatures.

1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood ix. 163 Words came unreadily, but his broken speech was more moving than eloquence.

1995 T. Davis in D. Bell & G. Valentine Mapping Desire xviii. 287 Heterosexism, too, functions as a machine which has unreadily recognisable origins or control.