wickedly

C1
US /ˈwɪkɪdli/
adv Freq #46286

Meanings

  1. 1
    adv

    in a wicked evil manner

    act wickedly

  2. 2
    adv

    In a wicked manner.

    [T]he sedate monk's hood lifted its head still higher and looked gloomily and wickedly down on it, while it nodded and kept time to the cuckoo's song, as if it were counting how many days it had to live.

  3. 3
    adv

    very

    The film was wickedly funny.

Etymology

From Middle English wyckedly, wykkedlyche, equivalent to wicked + -ly.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adv · in a wicked evil manner evilly
2 adv · in a wicked manner. illicitlyimmodestlyimmorallyimproperlyincontinentlyindecentlyobscenelyreprehensiblyunchastelyunseemlyunvirtuouslywickedly
3 adv · very above a bitabsolutelyabundantlyall toobut goodcompletelydamneminentlyever soexceedinglyexcessivelyextremely

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