woundily
adverb
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adv
Etymology: From woundy + -ly.
- Excessively; greatly.
“Taking up the tongs, as if to arrange the wood, but rather perhaps to conceal his own confusion, the butler observed, “it was burning clear now, but had smoked woundily in the morning.””
“[']Well, at that moment the Frenchman lifted for'ard on a heavy swell, and let drive at us, with all his forecastle guns, fired as it might be with one priming—'" / "That was bad gunnery," growled Tom Sponge, "as it racks a ship woundily."”