adv. [f. FILTHY a. + -LY2.] In a filthy manner.
1552. Huloet, Filthilye, fœde.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., II. (1887), 144. He is slane in the ix ȝeir of his regne, quhilke sa filthilie he had ruled.
1633. Prynne, Histrio-Mastix, I. VI. iii. 366. For the liberty of doing filthily and obscenely, is next to the liberty of speaking filthily and obscenely: therefore obscenities are especially to be exterminated from yong tender mindes, that they neither heare nor speake any such thing.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 31, 21 June, ¶ 1. The ancient Romans would scold, and call Names filthily.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., I. xvii. For hut and palace show like filthily.
