† unsavourlyunsavorlyadv.
Obsolete.
= unsavourily adv.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adverb]
unsavourly1377
unsavourily14..
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
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adverb]
unsavourilyc1440
wallowishly1603
unsavourly1661
insipidly1699
mawkishly1758
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 43 Her sauce was ouer soure & vnsauourely grounde.
a1395 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) ii. xxxii This seeth the soule..not..nakydly and vnsauourly as dooth a clerke that seeth hym by his clergye onely.
a1554 J. Croke tr. Thirteen Psalms (1844) cii. 20 My fode doeth taste vnsavourly.
1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. B4v Our fathers precepts..were most vnsauerly to one of your yeares applied.
1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 38 Without it other things seem to want their taste, or relish out unsavourly.
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