adv. (UN-1 11.)
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 87. How doth Naaman take it? Surely very ill, and unwelcomly.
1718. Taverner, Artful Wife, V. i. 60. The Thought of him intrudes unwelcomely.
1792. Charlotte Smith, Desmond, III. 23. The task of chiding you … falls on me most unwelcomely.
1833. Sir F. B. Head, Bubbles fr. Brunnen, 121. A calculation which very unwelcomely kept forcing itself into my mind.
1882. C. C. Hopley, Snakes, xxvii. 495. A ‘water moccasin’ … had been seen … unwelcomely close to a southern residence.
