hellishly, adv.
(ˈhɛlɪʃlɪ)
[f. hellish a. + -ly2.]
In a hellish manner; infernally, devilishly; execrably. Sometimes merely intensive.
| c 1580 J. Jeffere Bugbears i. ii. 50 in Archiv Stud. Neu. Spr. (1897) XCVIII. 308 Amedeus is so hellishely bent on the muck of this world. 1631 R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xiii. §3. 218 The Divell..horribly yea hellishly disquieting them. 1754 Richardson Grandison (1810) VI. xxxi. 221 If he had not interposed so hellishly as he did..I had been the husband of Miss Byron in two hours. 1778 Learning at a Loss I. 152 A dark Chesnut..gets on hellishly, a remarkable Gift of going. |