Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a manner to vex, harass, or embarrass; vexatiously; hence also, humorously, greatly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb colloq. In a plaguing manner; vexatiously; extremely.
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- adverb In a
plaguy way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disagreeable manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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A bed at one corner, with coarse curtains tacked up at the feet to the ceiling; because the curtain-rings were broken off; but a coverlid upon it with a cleanish look, though plaguily in tatters, and the corners tied up in tassels, that the rents in it might go no farther.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The Lord Treasurer defers writing his letter to them, or else they would be plaguily confounded by this time.
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“You shall not be excused”: however, I hope they will forget it; for if it should happen, all the puppies hereabouts will throng to hear me, and expect something wonderful, and be plaguily baulked; for I shall preach plain honest stuff.
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It was to entertain Buys, the Dutch Envoy, who speaks English well enough: he was plaguily politic, telling a thousand lies, of which none passed upon any of us.
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Gad, sir, though to please you I was in a passion, yet my mouth watered plaguily at the gold.
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Pray Heaven that this be Don _Diego_ -- If I shou'd be trick'd now -- Ha! my Heart misgives me plaguily -- within there! stop the Marriage -- Run, Sirrah, call all my
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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I confess the gazettes do but afford a soup-maigre, whip-syllabub sort of narrative, accurate enough, perhaps in the main, but plaguily incommunicative of particulars: for instance, in the recent affair at
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And three a bullet took O! But three times three died plaguily
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Oho, what o 'yon fierce-fingered rogue, good fellows, what o' yon knave -- 'a did twist my yeres plaguily and wring 'em roguishly, 'a did!
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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There was something plaguily odd about this young gentleman's manner.
The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912
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