Villainously

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a villainous manner; in the manner of a villain; evilly.
  2. 2
    Dreadfully; awfully.

    "I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases."

Synonyms

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badlyinfamouslyvillainly

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"I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases."

Etymology

From villainous + -ly.

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