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mischievously, adv.|ˈmɪstʃɪvəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a mischievous manner.
†1. Unfortunately, disastrously, miserably. Obs.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14107 Mescheuously þen fel such cas þat sire Wawayn slayn þer was. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 387 Þer schuld no man haue be mischeuously nedy. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas iv. xxiii. heading, Duke Brennus delighting to rob and steale, mischievouslye ended. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 182 Except ze mend,..ȝe sall end all mischeuouslie. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 166 The same judgment is to be given upon him, who mischievously ended his life with pain.
†2. Wickedly. (Cf. mischief n. 6.) Obs.
1470–85Malory Arthur x. vii. 424 His squyers they said hit was foul done, and meschyeuously.
3. In such a manner as to produce injury or damage; with injurious effect, result, or intention.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxiv. 17 Sic deidlie dwawmes so mischeifaislie..hes my hairt ouirpast. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 20 Preamble, The said..myschevously disposed persons. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 6 To dispense with them that shall thus mischieuouslye behaue themselues. a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 74 Not likely to write any thing in jest mischieuously interpretable. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iv. §154 The King was very mischievously advised. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 339 By mischievously endeavouring to foment a civil war. 1839Thirlwall Greece xi. II. 76 Though it was often mischievously abused, it may be questioned whether it was not a salutary precaution. 1885Truth 28 May 839/2 Lord Beaconsfield never exercised his patronage so mischievously as when he raised Dr. Ryle to the Bench.
4. With playful maliciousness.
1730W. Harte Ess. Sat. 8 The Verse..nicely pointed in th' Horatian way Wounds keen, like Syrens mischievously gay. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1883) 89, I had rather his teeth should mischievously press my finger than the richest ring of the imperial treasure. 1803Lamb Let. to Coleridge 13 Apr., I mischievously wished that by some inauspicious jolt the whole contents might be shaken.
Add:5. Playfully, teasingly, impishly.
1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 228 A shrewd old gentleman, who stood listening by with a mischievously equivocal look. 1869L. M. Alcott Little Women xiii. 202 He had..frightened the maidservants half out of their wits, by mischievously hinting that one of his dogs was going mad. 1907G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island iii. 72 He goes, chuckling mischievously. 1982J. Simms Unsolicited Gift i. 45 She grinned, and mischievously spun her ring at me in her old manner. 1991Highlife (Brit. Airways) May 24/1 Some years ago innovatory landscape designer Alex Dingwall Main mischievously depicted lawnmowers of rival companies competing in his fanciful garden plan. |