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wickedly, adv.|ˈwɪkɪdlɪ| [f. as prec. + -ly2.] In a wicked manner, in various senses of the adj. 1. In the way of wilful wrong-doing; iniquitously, immorally.
a1300Cursor M. 4376 Leuer es me be pour and lele Þan wikudli at win catell. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1203 Wykkedlyche al þat gode he dyspendyþ. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxiii. (George) 414 Þu dois nocht anerly Wrang til ws, bot als wykitly Callis oure godis al dewilis. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1918 Ariadne, But wikkedely he quitte hire kyndenesse. c1386― Clerk's T. 667 He wikkedly..Hath mordred bothe his children. a1400–50Wars Alex. 2425 Ȝe at wickid ere within ay wickidly ȝe thinke. 1535Coverdale Gen. xix. 7 O brethren, do not so wickedly. ― Prov. x. 2 Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profit nothinge. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 338 b, Scipio Africane the seconde..was wekedly slaine in his bedde. 1562Winȝet Cert. Tractates §66. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 116 An hæretik denyand wickitlie the Father, the Sone, and the Haly Gaist. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 365 Into the chamber wickedlie he stalkes. 1611B. Jonson Catiline iv. K 2, No man Could be so wickedly, or fondly stupide. 1734Pope Ess. Man iv. 231 Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. 1808M. T. Kemble Day after Wedding 31 Somebody has deceived you, wickedly deceived you. 2. Harmfully, injuriously; fiercely, savagely, severely, cruelly; terribly, disastrously; in later use (chiefly jocular), very badly, abominably, execrably, vilely, ‘horridly’.
13..Cursor M. 15840 (Gött.) Quilis þai him war þus handland wikidli als þai moght. c1350Will. Palerne 1218 Þey wiþ fyn force for-barred his strokes, & woundede him wikkedly. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 13149 Him and euery another prince That haue died here thus wickedly. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula etc. 86 Þis puluis bigileþ neuer þe paciente ne þe cirurgene, for it doþ not wickedly. c1440Engl. Conq. Irel. 53 Some thay vndide and bettyn vickydly. 1556in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 245 A great number..did run to see him go so wickedly to his death. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1860) 32 A Iewes letter scrible scrable ouer the Copurtenaunce of a mans countenaunce will dash a body wickedly. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 54 Ladies..most wickedly be-painted. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy V. xv, Do you know whether my fiddle's in tune or no?.. 'Tis wickedly strung. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1871) I. 4 The night was now setting in, wickedly black and dreary. 3. Mischievously, maliciously, roguishly.
1848Dickens Dombey xxiii, A glowering visage, with its thin lips parted wickedly. 1853― Bleak Ho. v, His cat looked so wickedly at me, as if I were a blood-relation of the birds upstairs. 1880Mrs. Forrester Roy & V. iii, ‘I thought you would be tremendously obliged to me’, whispered Netta wickedly. |