pestiferously

English

Etymology

From pestiferous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

pestiferously (comparative more pestiferously, superlative most pestiferously)

1. In a pestiferous manner.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 24”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.

References

• “pestiferously”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.