villainously

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villainously

adverb more villainously · most villainously

  1. In a villainous manner; in the manner of a villain; evilly.
  2. Dreadfully; awfully. I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases.

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@misc{villainously_2026,
  title = {villainously},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/villainously},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}