adv. [f. prec. + -LY1.]

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  † 1.  In a perplexed or confused manner. Obs.

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1672.  H. More, Brief Reply, 32. So perplextly and confoundedly does he speak.

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  2.  In a ‘confounded’ manner; cursedly, deucedly, detestably: see prec. 2.

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1694.  Echard, Plautus, 109. Your own Servant has bubl’d ye confoundedly.

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1712.  Budgell, Spect., No. 506, ¶ 14. You talk most confoundedly silly.

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1836.  Marryat, Midsh. Easy (1863), 158. Ned, you are so confoundedly fond of argument.

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1855.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. iii. This is a confoundedly out-of-the-way place.

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