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Etymology

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    From accursed + -ly.

    Pronunciation

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    Adverb

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    accursedly (comparative more accursedly, superlative most accursedly)

    1. In an accursed manner.
      • 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness:
        And now, when Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new, unknown odor whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage—clung to those bodies and sparkled less voluminously on a smooth part of the accursedly resculptured wall in a series of grouped dots—we understood the quality of cosmic fear to its uttermost depths
    2. (degree, somewhat dated) Damnably; extremely.