loathsomely, adv.
(ˈləʊðsəmlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a loathsome manner.
1. In a manner to excite loathing; disgustingly, foully, repulsively, shockingly.
| a 1425 Cursor M. 15825 (Trin.) Þei..lugged him loþsumly ouer hilles dale & slowȝe. 1547–64 Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 48 No dead carrion so loathsomely stincketh in the nose of any earthly man, as [etc.]. 1577 Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 209 Those that are..lothsomely apparelled, may knock long before they enter. 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 371 Alexander..rotted lothsomely. 1711 Shaftesbury Charac. III. 174 Favourites must be now observ'd, little Engines of Power attended on, and loathsomly caress'd. 1868 Ruskin Time & Tide vi. (1891) 35 Our English masks are only stupidly and loathsomely ugly. |
† 2. With reluctance or hesitation, reluctantly.
| 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. 106 Nothing ought to be lothesomly receiued, which [etc.]. |