cursedly, adv.
(ˈkɜːsɪdlɪ)
Also curstly.
[f. cursed + -ly2.]
1. In a cursed manner; in a way deserving a curse; wickedly, abominably.
| c 1386 Chaucer Monk's T. 239 Thou that..heriest false goddes cursedly. c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon x. 257 Whan bayerd sawe he was so curstly dealed wythall. 1549 Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1641) 61 They judge cursedly the good to bee bad. 1679 Bedloe Popish Plot 1 None more cursedly ingenious in inventing.. methods of doing mischief. |
2. Used as an intensive with strong expression of reprobation or dislike: In a cursed manner, execrably, detestably, ‘damnably’, ‘confoundedly’.
| 1570 Dee Math. Pref. 20 To be curstly affrayed of his owne shaddow. 1663 T. Porter Witty Combat ii. iii, Why, so thou art, insufferably, cursedly drunk. 1751 Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. xlix. 106 Cursedly down in the mouth. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey v. xv, They voted her ladyship cursedly satirical. 1861 Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. vi, I can't see why you should be so cursedly particular. |
† 3. Malignantly; with perverse ill-temper; crossly, severely, harshly, virulently.
| 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxv, Guido..hath delite to speake cursedly Alway of women. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxvi. 232 His procuratours..cursedly and ful slowly serued hym at his nede. 1590 Marlowe Edw. II, v. ii. 64 To make him fret the more, Speak curstly to him. 1646 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 3) 74 Father Browne, who would curstly correct his old wife. 1650 H. More in Enthus. Triumph. (1656) 106 You..bark and scold..more cursedly and bitterly then any Butter-quean. |