infernally, adv.
(ɪnˈfɜːnəlɪ)
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In an infernal manner, hellishly, diabolically. Usually colloq. To an ‘infernal’ extent, ‘confoundedly’, detestably.
| 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 275 An act so infernally devillish, that all Persia cursed him. a 1670 Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1693) 211 All this I perceive is infernally false. 1831 Lytton Godolphin 14 You lost infernally last night. 1874 Hatton Clytie (ed. 10) 211 ‘It is infernally lonely here’, whined Ransford. |