confoundedly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From confounded + -ly.
Adverb[edit]
confoundedly (comparative more confoundedly, superlative most confoundedly)
- In a confounded manner; as if confused or thwarted.
- Used as a mild oath: damnably.
- 1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. […], London: […] F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 23:
- I have been thinking, George, of changing our travelling dreſſes in the morning. I am grown confoundedly aſhamed of mine.