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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thusly

1865 (in an Artemus Ward dialect humor piece), from thus + -ly (2). A double adverb. Perhaps originally a humorous or mocking over-correction of thus; it has gained some currency but earns frowns for the user.

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thusly

adv. thus (in this way).

WordNet
thusly

adv. in the way indicated; "hold the brush so"; "set up the pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant) [syn: thus, so]

Usage examples of "thusly".

And what had I to balance the scales of trade, to offer in exchange and thusly secure my freedom?

Now, either you build my hall thusly, or you pack your gear and hasten through my gates before you sour my humor further!

Imnak had had us tether them thusly, that they might not be swept away from us and lost in the storm.

This form of Kur is smaller than the dominant or the non-dominant, speaking thusly of the nonreproducing form of Kur.

Even so, it was not in my heart to banter thusly, though I concealed it well enough.

Whether the Serenissimans are right or wrong in seeking your death, to defy them thusly at their own gates is an open act of hostility.

I rested my chin in my palm and listened, amazed to hear my own deeds recounted thusly, if not wholly as I remembered them.

Joscelin advised me thusly, after our escape from slavery in the wilds of Skaldia, and then, as now, I remembered what I so often forgot: that Joscelin was priest as well as warrior.

The Emir would not have bothered to waste a wish thusly, but would have dealt with thy husband by other means.

Emmaline through the night, letting her sleep in the sanctuary of his embrace, and vowed a thousand different ways that he would have her thusly always.

For several days, they continued thusly, with her walking ahead by gut-feeling alone, and Bretuck following faithfully behind.

She danced thusly for close to twenty minutes before the first veil fell.

God was the fire of love kindled in the burning soul that, thusly transpierced with the dart of the assailing Seraphim, thereupon felt the wound with unsurpassable delight, was made radiant by it, was allowed by God at times to manifest that divine sore outwardly.

You begin, sir, said the chancellor, acting on a cue from the dynasts upraised eyebrow, by arranging the pieces thusly.

The Master had an etherealness when seen thusly, which reminded the Student that one's eyes were only one sense of many, and were not the Sense.