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English
Etymology
From curse + -ful + -ly.
Adverb
cursefully (comparative more cursefully, superlative most cursefully)
- (dated, uncommon) Peevishly; while cursing.
1889, George Leonard Cheney, Belief, page 113:Let our heavenly Dante tell how cursefully the miserly and prodigal clash together in business circles here; how the wrathful “boil and bubble” in the Stygian lake of their own making;
1902 December 12, Henry James, “”, in Leon Edel, editor, Letters, volume 4, published 1984, page 252:I really, dear lady, can not again receive any object of value from your hands, of value or even of no value, and I loudly won’t hear of so much as even cursefully growling Thanks at you for those before me.
1922, Frederick William Wallace, The Shack Locker: Yarns of the Deep Sea Fishing Fleets, page 46:At the dock he communicated the interview to the gang, and amid the jeers of the shore workers, they cursefully hoisted sail and headed the vessel back to Port Anthony again.