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Foully

Foully \Foul"ly\, v. In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.

I foully wronged him; do forgive me, do.
--Gay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foully

Old English fullice; see foul (adj.) + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
foully

adv. In a foul manner.

WordNet
foully
  1. adv. in an unfair and insulting manner; "this internationally known writer was foully condemned by the Muslim fundamentalists" [syn: insultingly]

  2. in a wicked and shameful manner; "two policemen were foully murdered"

Usage examples of "foully".

In the last month her entire life has been destroyed and her person violated most foully by her previous standards, whilst she learned to adore what once disgusted her.

But little merry were the husbandmen whom they met, either carles or queans, and they were scantily and foully clad, and sullen-faced, if not hunger-pinched.

But the same could not be said of the English nation, which had in his view most foully apostatized from its pure creed, and most perfidiously betrayed the high commission it had received from Heaven.

They traveled slowly, for the underfed horses were deadbeat and the road steep and foully muddy.

Some of the beetles that he caught gave off foully stinking secretions while he was trying to work with them, and the rats, probably out of fear, would shit in the olfactorily sensitive pomades.

Pompey, his damp and stained leather cuirass stinking foully of waterbrash and wine.

The Honourable George gamely rattled some loose coin of the baser sort in his pockets and tried in return for a glare of innocence foully aspersed.

For a third, their first and only true loves—Fafhrd's Vlana and the Mouser's Ivrian—were foully murdered (and bloodily though comfortlessly revenged) the first night the two young men met, and any home without a best-loved woman is a chilly place.

For a third, their first and only true loves -- Fafhrd's Vlana and the Mouser's Ivrian -- were foully murdered (and bloodily though comfortlessly revenged) the first night the two young men met, and any home without a best-loved woman is a chilly place.

For a third, their first and only true loves - Fafhrd's Vlana and the Mouser's Ivrian - were foully murdered (and bloodily though comfortlessly revenged) the first night the two young men met, and any home without a best-loved woman is a chilly place.

Livak’s face was pale and set and I knew just what it must be costing her to come face to face with the Elietimm magic that had tortured her so foully before.

The Vaspura kaner nakharar still led his countrymen and had learned to swear in broken Latin as foully as in his hardly more fluent Videssian.

And as the night grew older, Tip and Beau related their tale—of the skirmish at the mill and the wounded Kingsman and his coin and request and warning ere he was foully slain, of the fire atop Beacontor following the capture and destruction of that signal post and its subsequent recapture, of the track of the Spawn into the Dellin Downs, of the finding of the flag and the muster at Twoforks and of Willoby and Harl's discovery of other slain Kingsmen, of the decision to bear the coin through Drearwood and east to Agron, and of the westward march of the Swarm and of the buccen's subsequent travails, ending with their capture by Vanidor's squad of march-ward Elves ".

Servius Tullius was foully murdered by his son-in-law Tarquinius Superbus, who succeeded him on the throne.