dirtily, adv.
(ˈdɜːtɪlɪ)
[f. dirty a. + -ly2.]
1. In a dirty manner; foully, filthily.
| 1598 Florio, Sporcamente, filthily, foully..durtily. a 1613 Overbury A Wife (1638) 90 He lookes like his Land, as heavily and durtily. 1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Sp. & Port. xiii, We put up at a Fonda..where we are dirtily lodged. 1789 Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 10 The hounds were always dirtily and ill kept. |
2. In a manner that stains morality or honour; dishonourably, despicably, sordidly.
| a 1631 Donne Elegie xii. (R.), Such gold as that, where⁓withal Almighty chymics.. Are dirtily and desperately gull'd. 1661 R. L'Estrange Interest Mistaken 133 How dirtily..the Presbyterian crew treated his Majesty. 1709 S. Centlivre Gamester v, 'Tis dirtily done of you..to kick a man for nothing. 1796 T. Jefferson in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) IV. 484 An intriguer, dirtily employed in sifting the conversations of my table. |