detestably

comparative more detestably · superlative most detestably

1. In a detestable manner.

   "Let me go!" said Romola, in a deep voice of anger. "God grant you are mad! else you are detestably wicked!"

   1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Romola. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC

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   She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.

   1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers

   In hunting, for instance, the most popular of all field-sports, the pleasant surroundings, the excitement of the “meet,” the beauty of the country, the strength and speed of the horses, and the skill of their riders, make men forget the nature of the detestably barbarous and unmanly business for which they are met.

   1886, Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt, A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays (1886), Chapter 8