unhonestly
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English unhonestly (“disgracefully”); equivalent to un- + honestly.
Adverb
editunhonestly (comparative more unhonestly, superlative most unhonestly)
- (obsolete) Synonym of dishonestly
- 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 2 Kinges 13:2, page 658:
- […] and was fond on her excedingly, ſo that for the loue of her he was ſicke: becauſe wheras ſhe was a virgin, it ſemed vnto him had hard to doe any thing vnhoneſtly with her.
- 1675 [1647], Henry Hexham, edited by Daniel Manly, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary […] [1], Rotterdam, page 435:
- Vnhoneſtly, oneerbaerlijck, oftefameusſelijck.
- 1898, William Morris, “LIII: They Come to Wethermel, and the Carline Begins a Tale”, in The Sundering Flood[2], Longmans, Green, and Company, →ISBN, page 294:
- Now the Carline remembered the coming of the said merchant, and how he had cast his love on the Maiden unhonestly and lustfully.
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom unhoneste (“dishonourable”) + -ly (adverbial suffix) or un- + honestly.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editunhonestly
Descendants
edit- English: unhonestly
References
edit- “unhonestlī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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