The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confoundedly \Con*found"ed*ly\, adv.
Extremely; odiously; detestably. [Colloq.] ``Confoundedly
sick.''
--Goldsmith.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 damnably; used as a mild oath 2 In a confounded manner; as if thwarted or confused.
WordNet
adv. in a perplexed manner; "he looked at his professor perplexedly" [syn: perplexedly]
Usage examples of "confoundedly".
Either the fellow had fancied that he knew her or he had behaved in a confoundedly impertinent way.
The thing was confoundedly inconvenient, but I had no choice about it.
I was so confoundedly nervous that even 'a harmless, necessary cat' appalled me, and I clapped my door, as if against an evil spirit.
The fact is, I suppose, he was confoundedly nervous, dyspeptic, or whatever else it might be, and the heat and glare were too much for him.
He could not imagine such a chap (who must be confoundedly clever after all to get hold of the natives like that) refusing a help that would do away with the necessity for slow, cautious, risky cheating, that imposed itself as the only possible line of conduct for a single-handed man.
I'm glad it so happened, too, and that the ice is broken between you, for Van Berg is a good friend of mine, and it would be confoundedly disagreeable to have you two lowering at each other across a bloody chasm of dark, revengeful thoughts.
There was no reason why he should go out of his way to back up a shiftless party like me, yet he did, and made many things easy and safe that would have been confoundedly hard and dangerous if I 'd been left to myself.
Of course he escapes all bother with dogs, but it is confoundedly tedious to walk there alone, staring at nothing.
Well, Bjaaland would not have been in any serious danger if he had fallen into the crevasse, as he was roped to Hassel, but it would have been confoundedly unpleasant all the same.
She couldn't help it if his visit to the restaurant had been a shade too opportune, his account of himself too confoundedly pat.
It lifted readily, without tearing, its gum was wet and more abundant than usual--in fact, it felt confoundedly like library paste, a pot of which, in an ornamental holder, was among the fittings of the escritoire.
She contrived to leave it confoundedly indistinct, and that is what I complain of.
I see now why it hurts so confoundedly when you grab a dorbug and he grabs back again.
After all, nature was not silent in the poor fellow, and his vertebral column, confoundedly twisted as it was, nevertheless thrilled like any other.