adv. Sc. [f. WERSH a.] Insipidly; without animation or cordiality.
1633. W. Struther, True Happiness, 101. The Scribes spake warshly, as men doing some other businesse; or as Boyes in the Schoole, rehearsing other mens inventions.
1676. Row, Suppl. Blairs Autobiog., xi. (1848), 364. The Moderator thanked him as slenderly and wershlie as before.