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illy

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English

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Etymology

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From ill +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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illy (comparative more illy, superlative most illy)

  1. Badly; poorly.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      The domestic presence of Lucy had begun to produce a remarkable effect upon Pierre. Sometimes, to the covertly watchful eye of Isabel, he would seem to look upon Lucy with an expression illy befitting their singular and so-supposed merely cousinly relation; []
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 132:
      Nor was this less ominous than the rattle of musketry, for it suggested but a single solution to the little band of rescuers—that the illy garrisoned village had already succumbed to the onslaught of a superior force.

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