pestiferously en · ADV
Etymology
From pestiferous + -ly.
Meanings
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In a pestiferous manner.
After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 24”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most pestiferously | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more pestiferously | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |