Loathsomely

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a loathsome manner.

  1.  In a manner to excite loathing; disgustingly, foully, repulsively, shockingly.

a. 1425.  Cursor M., 15825 (Trin.). Þei … lugged him loþsumly ouer hilles dale & slowȝe.

1547–64.  Bauldwin, Mor. Philos. (Palfr.), 48. No dead carrion so loathsomely stincketh in the nose of any earthly man, as [etc.].

1577.  Dee, Relat. Spir., I. (1659), 209. Those that are … lothsomely apparelled, may knock long before they enter.

1652.  Gaule, Magastrom., 371. Alexander … rotted lothsomely.

1711.  Shaftesb., Charac., III. 174. Favourites must be now observ’d, little Engines of Power attended on, and loathsomly caress’d.

1868.  Ruskin, Time & Tide, vi. (1891), 35. Our English masks are only stupidly and loathsomely ugly.

  † 2.  With reluctance or hesitation, reluctantly.

1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. 106. Nothing ought to be lothesomly receiued, which [etc.].