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wickedly

adverb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪkɪdli/

adv

Etymology: From Middle English wyckedly, wykkedlyche, equivalent to wicked + -ly.

  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.

  2. 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”.