wickedly

Adverb

wickedly (comparative more wickedly, superlative most wickedly)

1. In a wicked manner.
   • [T]he sedate monk's hood lifted its head still higher and looked gloomily and wickedly down on it, while it nodded and kept time to the cuckoo's song, as if it were counting how many days it had to live.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280

   Synonyms:

   immorally, obscenely, wrongly, illicitly, immodestly, improperly, incontinently, indecently, reprehensibly, unchastely

2. (US, slang) very
   • The film was wickedly funny.
   • This wasn’t the first time I held Isaacson’s judgment in low regard. […] Linda Yaccarino, Musk’s almost comically bumbling CEO of X is “wickedly smart”.2023 September 13, Gary Shteyngart, “Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – arrested development”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023

   Synonyms:

   extremely, mightily, wicked, above a bit, absolutely, sorely, widely, horribly, horrendously, bone