damnably

Etymology

From Middle English dampnablely; equivalent to damnable + -ly.

adv

  1. In a damnable manner.
    The people were in hopes he had killed the lawyers, and were damnably disappointed when they found he had only broke the leg o' the one, and the back of the other. 1759, Charles Macklin, Love a la Mode, act II
    But I am blabbing damnably; come, tell me one little bit of the story, and I shall tell you the rest. 1826, Allan Cunningham, chapter V, in Paul Jones, volume II, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, page 145
    The young man was so damnably full of his experiences, so eager to compare one thing with another, so insistent upon foreign places and changes in England and what we'd all got to do about it. 1918, Hugh Walpole, The Green Mirror, New York: George H. Doran, Book I, Chapter VI, p. 109
    And in his male spirit he felt himself hating her: hating her deeply, damnably. 1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter XVIII, in Aaron's Rod, New York: Thomas Seltzer, page 307

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