unillustriously
advEtymology From unillustrious + -ly.
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In a way that is not illustrious.
- Knighted unillustriously among a horde of some three hundred others in the accession honours of 1603, he was subsequently well compensated by being made Baron Verulam[…]1961, A. C. Ward, Illustrated History of English Literature, page 22: