Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As one under a curse; miserably.
- ; abominably; execrably: used in malediction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Low In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
cursed manner;miserably
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a damnable manner
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Examples
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“Poor Madison got so cursedly frightened in Virginia” during the ratifying convention, Morris wrote to a friend, “that I believe he has dreamed of amendments ever since.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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“Poor Madison got so cursedly frightened in Virginia” during the ratifying convention, Morris wrote to a friend, “that I believe he has dreamed of amendments ever since.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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In June he told Deane, “We are so cursedly hampered with the Numerous Cruizers along our coast, that remittances are precarious & very difficult to be got out.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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In June he told Deane, “We are so cursedly hampered with the Numerous Cruizers along our coast, that remittances are precarious & very difficult to be got out.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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‘Why, I would bear no malice about that — only he is so cursedly high and saucy,’ said Ewart.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Mean time you will observe that a bad cause gives a man great disadvantages: for I myself thing that the interrogatories put to me with so much spirit by the Colonel made me look cursedly mean; at the same time that it gave him a superiority which I know not how to allow to the best man in Europe.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Madam, said I, let me tell you; and was advancing towards her with a fierce aspect, most cursedly vexed, and ashamed too — —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The thing itself is cursedly ugly, and the worst of it is that I shall have to face so much more that is ugly before that.
A Doll's House 2006
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The thing itself is cursedly ugly, and the worst of it is that I shall have to face so much more that is ugly before that.
A Doll's House 2006
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I was so cursedly in debt that I was OBLIGED to have the money, you know.
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