accursingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "No drunkard shall ever accursingly say / That I ever thawrted^([sic]) his soul’s destiny, / For a moment I could not the thought endure / That my life’s habits made his life impure, / If all other actions of mine were so free, / That mainly they each would bear scrutiny, / Yet how could I ever such sad truth abide, / If the drunkard through me from the truth turned aside."
- "They fled at once, and would have escaped undiscovered had not two pet ravens of the murdered Count followed and hovered over them, croaking most accursingly as far as Zurich, where the attention of the citizens was attracted to the unusual sight, and the villains were arrested and finally executed."
- "Mr. Kipling is easily forgiven because of his famous, popular writings; but the fact that his poem was snarlingly and accursingly hurled at us, who knew it not, nor cared to know it, can not be easily forgotten nor forgiven."
- "“Stephen, you go over there and find what he threw away.” The youth climbed the rail fence. His search was brief; the bottle was easily seen against the brown earth of the field. He handed it accursingly to his father."
- "Two heads are said to be better than one, and perhaps seeing oneself in the mirror doubles the the^([sic]) concentration. Either that or the reflection stares accursingly and jolts the mind into arriving at a decision."
- "“How,” I asked accursingly, “have you managed to keep your figure? What’s your secret?”"
Etymology
From accursing + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more accursingly (comparative)
most accursingly (superlative)