cruellyadv.
/ˈkruːɪli/ In a cruel manner, with cruelty.† 2. Fiercely, savagely. Obsolete.† 3. Severely, rigorously, sharply. Obsolete.
1. With indifference to or delight in another's suffering.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > hard-heartedness > [adverb]
cruellya1340
unfeelinglyc1374
hard-heartedly1583
callously1756
heartlessly1806
cold-bloodedly1838
unsympathizingly1856
unsympathetically1860
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adverb]
heterlya1225
cruellya1340
despitouslyc1374
cruentlyc1380
harageouslyc1450
despitefully1487
despiteouslya1500
beastly?1518
butcherly?1560
savagely1563
bitterly1611
despitely1619
savagiously1625
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter ix. 31 Cruelly he lokes in þaim.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 98 Þei pursuen more and cruelliere.
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 3957 Absolon toke on boldnesse to slee his brothere cruwelly.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 197 Robbed and brent the Countrie most cruelly.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxii. 77 They were cruelly detained in prison.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 106 These two gentlemen..were cruelly and publickly dragged to the block, and beheaded. View more context for this quotation
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 85 He..was cruelly beaten by the soldiers.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adverb]
grimc893
sternlyc897
bremeOE
bitterlyc1000
etelichec1175
heterlya1225
felonly1303
asperlyc1314
fellc1330
fellyc1330
cruentlyc1380
beastlyc1390
unmanlyc1454
felonmentc1470
cruelly1487
inhumanly1490
unkindfully?1534
boarishlya1563
savagely1563
tiger-like1576
unhumanly1586
inhumanlike1595
inhumanely1598
immanely1612
savagiously1625
wolvishly1628
beastlilya1631
brutisha1645
truculently1654
tigerously1698
brutally1749
tigerishly1878
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adverb]
grimc893
grimly971
bremeOE
reighlyOE
witherc1200
felonly1303
asperlyc1314
fellc1330
fellyc1330
fiercelya1375
sturdilyc1374
wickedlya1375
sternly1398
runishlyc1400
witherlyc1400
felonmentc1470
cruelly1487
blusterously1548
boarishlya1563
tiger-like1576
sternfully1582
mankindly1606
wolvishly1628
truculently1654
tigerously1698
tigerishly1878
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 144 The ynglis men faucht cruelly.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 449 Wallace and his went cruelly thaim agayne.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxvii. 230 They all fought cruelly.
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. i. 3/1 These two Fleets meeting together, fought most cruelly.
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society > authority > strictness > [adverb]
straitlyc1290
cruellyc1430
districtly1570
astrictly1584
strictly1651
stringently1866
ironly1895
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xix. 185 We sende þee..þat..þou hurtle alle þilke so cruelliche [Fr. tres-durement] þat hauen here hoodes wrong turned.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxiv. 17 A greate vengeaunce will I take vpon them, and punysh them cruelly.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 15 The Bayliffe must beware that he deale not to cruelly, nor to gently with them.
4. Painfully, sorely; excessively.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > excessively
cruellyc1385
overa1400
fullc1400
parlouslyc1425
mortalc1440
perilousc1440
spitefulc1450
devilish1560
pestilently1567
spitefully1567
cruel1573
parlous1575
deadly1589
intolerable?1593
fellc1600
perditlya1632
excessively1634
devilishly1635
desperate1636
woundya1639
woundlya1644
desperately1653
wicked1663
killing1672
woundily1706
wounded1753
mortally1759
dreadful1762
intolerably1768
perishing1776
tremendously1776
terrifically1777
diabolically1792
woundedly1794
thundering1809
all-firedly1833
preponderously1835
painfully1839
deadlilya1843
severely1854
furiously1856
diabolish1858
fiendish1861
demonish1867
sinfully1869
fiendishly1879
thunderingly1885
only too1889
nightmarishly1891
God almighty1906
Christ almighty1945
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 340 Thou shalt repenten this So cruelly, that it shal wele be sene.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V v. ii. 200 Sweete Kate, vse me mercifully, Because I loue thee cruelly.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures ii. 4 Their ship being shot through and through..and cruelly battered all over.
1780 F. Burney Let. 28 May in Diary & Lett. (1842) I. 349 Mrs. Montagu we miss cruelly.
1782 F. Burney Lett. Feb. We had waited cruelly for the coach.
1885 Manch. Examiner 6 Apr. 5/2 The weather this Eastertide is bright, but cruelly dry and cold.
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