Pestiferously

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a pestiferous manner.

    "After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there."

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"After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there."

Etymology

From pestiferous + -ly.

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