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illy, adv.|ˈɪllɪ|
Now chiefly U.S.
[f. ill a. + -ly2.]
In an ill manner; badly; ill.
1549Duke of Somerset Let. Sir T. Hoby 24 Aug. in Strype Eccl. Mem. II. App. EE. 106 In Norfolk, gentlemen, and al serving men for their sakes, are as illy handled as maybe. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits v. (1596) 62 In the morning we learne best..and at the euening illy. 1681R. Knox Hist. Ceylon iv. iv. 133 They might see, how illy they were served. 1785Jefferson Writ. (1894) IV. 100 Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. 1795Southey Joan of Arc viii. 634 Thou dost deem That I have illy spared so large a band. 1848Lowell Fable for Critics 598 He don't sketch their bundles of muscles and thews illy. 1849W. Irving Goldsmith (Tauchn.) 56 Never were two beings more illy assorted than he and Goldsmith. 1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 170 Even the rank poplars bear Illy a rival's air. 1903Atlantic Monthly July 116 Which is far better than if it had rushed into illy considered legislation. 1904Claiborne Old Virginia 268 (Th.), I dropped one of my gauntlets,..which I could illy afford to lose. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. (1926) ii. xlvi. 57 By contrast with Sondra, how illy-dressed in the blue traveling suit..she had equipped herself for this occasion. 1927C. A. & M. R. Beard Rise Amer. Civilization II. 213 To meet a crisis of this kind labor was illy prepared. 1965Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 5 June 28/1 The Blue Hen's Chick is no graceful memoir of a life well or illy spent. |