legendarily

Adverb

legendarily (comparative more legendarily, superlative most legendarily)

1. In the manner of something legendary.
   • The school had taken the first four places and won seven of the twelve exhibitions. The teacher’s notes and private lessons, legendarily virtuous, had triumphed once again.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4
   • Touring with Ninja was nothing like legendarily scabrous Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods: forget coke and groupies, Ninja artists struggled instead with their debilitating addictions to vinyl.2010 September 21, Stevie Chick, “Ninja Tune Week: An Extract from Stevie Chick’s 20 Years of Beats and Pieces”, in The Quietus
2. According to legend.
   • Amongst one-eyed people we have the Arimaspians and the Cyclops. The former were a race in Scythia, and were legendarily supposed to be in constant war with the gryphons […]1886, F. Edward Hulme, chapter 2, in Myth-Land
   • In his earlier career as a lawyer and U.S. congressman, Scott McInnis’s mustache seemingly gave him the power, like Samson’s hair legendarily gave him, to achieve anything—and so it seemed like an omen when he shaved it off in advance of his gubernatorial run this fall.2011 February 4, Jef Otte, “The ten most glorious and iconic mustaches of all time”, in Westword