disastrously

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a way that causes great damage, ruin, or failure

   The campaign was disastrously timed and lost them every key vote.

From disastrous (from Italian disastroso / Old French desastreux) plus -ly; ultimately from disaster, from Italian disastro ('ill-starred event'), from dis- ('bad') plus astro ('star'), from Latin astrum, Greek astron.

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