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deucedly

[ doo-sid-lee, dyoo- ]

/ ˈdu sɪd li, ˈdyu- /

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adverb Chiefly British.

devilishly; damnably.

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Origin of deucedly

First recorded in 1810–20; deuced + -ly

Words nearby deucedly

detumescence, Deucalion, deuce, deuce court, deuced, deucedly, deuces wild, deunionize, deurbanize, Deurne, Deus

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How to use deucedly in a sentence

I am not fool enough to put my precious Naps in jeopardy, just when I am so deucedly in want of them, too.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Why people, because they are in a steamboat, should get up so deucedly early I cannot understand.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches|William Makepeace Thackeray
George's engagement to Peggy seriously affected the lives of two people who are deucedly well known in society.
A Butterfly on the Wheel|Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
You must know that I am deucedly absentminded, and positively lost without my glass.
Richard Carvel, Complete|Winston Churchill

Du Roy thought that it was "deucedly comfortable" inside there.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6|Guy de Maupassant