confoundedly

adv — 3 senses

confoundedly

adv

Etymology From confounded + -ly.

1

In a confounded manner; as if confused or thwarted.

2

Colloquial, Dated Used as a mild oath: damnably.

I have been thinking, George, of changing our travelling dreſſes in the morning. I am grown confoundedly aſhamed of mine.1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. […], London: […] F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 23:

3

Colloquial, Dated Very; terribly.

That's most confoundedly good of you.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

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