cursefully

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English

Etymology

From curse +‎ -ful + -ly.

Adverb

cursefully (comparative more cursefully, superlative most cursefully)

(dated, uncommon) Peevishly; while cursing.
- 1604 (date written), Iohn Marston , Parasitaster, or The Fawne, , London: T P for W C, published 1606, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  Was not thou most curstfully madd to sever thy selfe from such an unequalde rarity?
- 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.

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