unsavourilyunsavorilyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈseɪv(ə)rᵻli/, U.S. /ˌənˈseɪv(ə)rəli/ a. So as to savour ill. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adverb]
unsavourly1377
unsavourily14..
14.. Langland's P. Pl. C. xvi. 49 (Laud 656) Here sauce was ouersoured & vnsauerilich ygrounde.
b. Without savour; insipidly. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adverb]
unsavourilyc1440
wallowishly1603
unsavourly1661
insipidly1699
mawkishly1758
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 367/1 Onsaveryly, insipide.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 564 It is no nede forto seie ther of eny thing vnperfitli..and therfore vnsauorili here.
2. In an unpleasant or disagreeable manner.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adverb] > in unpleasant manner
illa1275
unsavourly1377
unlovelyc1400
sour?a1513
beastly?1518
unfaringly1519
unpleasantly1542
ill-favouredly1545
uncomfortably1548
offensively1576
ungratefullya1586
adversely1593
unpleasingly1597
displeasantly1607
unsavourily1611
distastefully1631
unwelcomely1642
displeasurably1648
disagreeably1656
disgustfully1731
displeasingly1731
unpalatably1741
poisonously1746
undelightfully1749
awfully1815
unpleasurably1823
objectionably1825
unagreeably1850
disgustingly1856
undesirably1890
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adverb] > insipidly
waterishly1571
unsavouredly1603
unsavourily1611
wershly1633
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mausadement, harshly, vnsauorily.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 60 So often and so unsavourily has it been repeated, that the Reader may well cry, Downe with it.
1647 J. Trapp Mellificium Theol. in Comm. Epist. & Rev. 646 Yea many times most unseasonably and unsavourily..they fell into those absurd disputes.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 2/1 Tenanted by myriads of penguins, which nest unsavourily on the steep slopes.
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