deucedly

[ doo-sid-lee, dyoo- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

, Chiefly British.

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First recorded in 1810–20; deuced + -ly

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I am not fool enough to put my precious Naps in jeopardy, just when I am so deucedly in want of them, too.

Why people, because they are in a steamboat, should get up so deucedly early I cannot understand.

George's engagement to Peggy seriously affected the lives of two people who are deucedly well known in society.

You must know that I am deucedly absentminded, and positively lost without my glass.

Du Roy thought that it was "deucedly comfortable" inside there.

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