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execratively

execratively adverb: in an execrative manner.

Adverb

execratively (comparative more execratively, superlative most execratively)

  1. In an execrative manner.
    • But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other horrid sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowing formulas’ as the French now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book I (September), page 5

Forms of execratively

comparativemore execratively
superlativemost execratively

Origin of execratively

From execrative + -ly.

Questions about execratively

What does execratively mean?
Execratively means in an execrative manner.
What part of speech is execratively?
Execratively is an adverb.

Words near execratively in the dictionary

  1. execrates
  2. execrating
  3. execration
  4. execrations
  5. execrative
  6. execratively
  7. execratives
  8. execrator
  9. execrators
  10. execratory
  11. execs

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