villainouslyadv.
/ˈvɪlənəsli/, U.S. /ˈvɪlənəsli/ In a villainous manner, in senses of the adjective; atrociously, vilely, detestably.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adverb]
noughtlyeOE
wrothec888
unrighteouslyeOE
foullyOE
naughtlyOE
wrothlyc1200
litherlya1225
unwraste?c1225
illc1275
vilelyc1290
shrewdly13..
felonly1303
unwrastlyc1320
viciouslya1325
diverselyc1325
wickly1338
lewdlyc1384
badlyc1405
foula1425
mischievouslyc1426
felonously1436
felonmentc1470
wickedfullyc1480
villainously1484
meschantlya1492
sinisterly1491
noughtily1528
naughtily?1529
perniciously1533
illy1549
naught1549
bad1575
evilly1581
nefariously1599
scelerately1632
improbously1657
piggishly1756
iniquitously1796
pervertedly1804
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adverb]
hokerly?c1225
caitiflyc1425
contemptiblya1438
villainously1484
scabbedly1548
sneakishly1560
miserably1585
contemnedly1594
pitifully1601
dirtilya1631
worthlessly1637
mangilya1640
projectedly1660
despicablya1691
shabbily1755
unsolidly1755
worm-like1814
scrubbily1891
motherfucking1966
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adverb]
wrothec888
litherlyc1050
foulOE
sinfullyc1175
quedelya1250
amissc1275
shrewdly13..
felonly1303
wickedly1303
wickc1330
wickly1338
lewdlyc1384
wickeda1400
mischievouslyc1426
felonously1436
felonmentc1470
wickedfullyc1480
villainously1484
meschantlya1492
sinisterly1491
naughtily?1529
perniciously1533
naughtly1575
unsela1583
nefariously1599
scelerately1632
improbously1657
queerly1699
α.
β. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos Prol. 10 For a thynge more noble is to dye than vylanously to be subdued.1533 T. More Apol. ix, in Wks. 865/2 Agaynste the beste,..these blasphemous heretiques in theyr vngracyouse bookes so vilanouslye ieste and rayle.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 355 They set nothing by them, but hated and spake shamefully, and vilanously of them.a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. ii. 71 Maria. Hee's in yellow stockings. Sir Toby. And crosse garter'd? Maria. Most villanously . View more context for this quotation1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §60. 296 They had Villanously entreated the Ambassadors..sent unto them.1853 Cobbett's Rural Rides (rev. ed.) 66 Verily the most villanously ugly spot I ever saw in England.1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 436 I have been living villanously since the death of my nags.1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope ix Better is to lyue in pouerte than to deye vylaynously and oppressyd of the ryche.
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) vi. 26 Her true louer, þe whiche..ye haue betrayd & wounded vylaynously.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 27v Howe vylely, vylaynously, and violently, he had byn vsed of owre men.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xx. 25 They were thus villainously intreted, lying along the ground as halfe desperate.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xvii. 137 His sonne was villainously strangled by Alexius Ducas.
1689 London Gaz. No. 2443/3 On Sunday last Sir George Lockhart..was Villaniously [sic] Assassinated by one Cheeseley, who Shot him through the Back.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. xi. 271 The Man whose Ruin he hath so villainously contrived. View more context for this quotation
1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 5 His Verses were what one may call most villainously bad.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. iii. 44 He had a villainously formed head.
1892 A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus I. 725 The drainage of the town was villainously bad.
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