coarsely, adv.
(ˈkɔəslɪ)
[f. coarse + -ly2.]
In a coarse manner, in the various senses of the adj. In 16th c. ‘meanly, slightingly, as of little account’.
| 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John xvii. 105 Men impute me to be very base, and exteme me very courselye. 1565 Jewel Rep. Harding (1611) 338, I maruell it is so coursely answered. 1601 Shakes. All's Well iii. v. 60 There is a Gentleman..Reports but coursely of her. 1678 Wanley Wond. Lit. World v. i. §96. 468/1 He was coursely used..by a company of rude Mechanicks. 1692 Ray Dissol. World 32 Take notice how Coursly not to say Ridiculously, the Stoicks Philosophize. 1711 Steele Spect. No. 75 ¶3 When a Gentleman speaks Coarsly, he has dressed himself Clean to no purpose. 1814 D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. (1867) 428 Dryden was very coarsely satirised. 1886 W. C. Magee in Contemp. Rev. Jan. 13 That hell which the coarsely materialistic religion of his day pictured. |