adv. [UN-1 11.]
† 1. a. So as to savor ill. b. Without savor; insipidly. Obs.
14[?]. Langland’s P. Pl., C. XVI. 49 (MS. Laud 656). Here sauce was ouersoured & vnsauerilich ygrounde.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 367/1. Onsaveryly, insipide.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., V. xv. 564. It is no nede forto seie ther of eny thing vnperfitli … and therfore vnsauorili here.
2. In an unpleasant or disagreeable manner.
1611. Cotgr., Mausadement, harshly, vnsauorily.
1641. Milton, Animadv., 60. So often and so unsavourily has it been repeated, that the Reader may well cry, Downe with it.
1647. Trapp, Marrow Gd. Authors, in Comm. Ep., 646. Yea many times most unseasonably and unsavourily … they fell into those absurd disputes.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 21 March, 2/1. Tenanted by myriads of penguins, which nest unsavourily on the steep slopes.
