In a villainous manner; in the manner of a villain; evilly.
Dreadfully; awfully.
I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases.
From villainous + -ly.
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