Degradedly
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In a degraded manner.
"185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul."
Example
More examples"185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul."
Etymology
From degraded + -ly.
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