Coarsely

adv. [f. COARSE + -LY².] In a coarse manner, in the various senses of the adj. In 16th c. ‘meanly, slightingly, as of little account.’

1548.  Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John, xvii. 105. Men impute me to be very base, and exteme me very courselye.

1565.  Jewel, Rep. Harding (1611), 338. I maruell it is so coursely answered.

1601.  Shaks., All’s Well, III. v. 60. There is a Gentleman … Reports but coursely of her.

1678.  Wanley, Wond. Lit. World, V. i. § 96. 468/1. He was coursely used … by a company of rude Mechanicks.

1692.  Ray, Dissol. World, 32. Take notice how Coursly not to say Ridiculously, the Stoicks Philosophize.

1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 75, ¶ 3. When a Gentleman speaks Coarsly, he has dressed himself Clean to no purpose.

1814.  D’Israeli, Quarrels Auth. (1867), 428. Dryden was very coarsely satirised.

1886.  W. C. Magee, in Contemp. Rev., Jan., 13. That hell which the coarsely materialistic religion of his day pictured.