cursefully

curse +‎ -ful +‎ -ly

cursefully (comparative more cursefully, superlative most cursefully)

1. (dated, uncommon) Peevishly; while cursing.
   • 1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Was not thou most curstfully madd to sever thy selfe from such an unequalde rarity?

   • 1889, George Leonard Cheney, Belief, page 113:

     Let our heavenly Dante tell how cursefully the miserly and prodigal clash together in business circles here; how the wrathful “boil and bubble” in the Stygian lake of their own making; […]

   • 1902 December 12, Henry James, “[Letter to Jessie Allen]”, in Leon Edel, editor, Letters, volume 4, published 1984, page 252:

     I really, dear lady, can not again receive any object of value from your hands, of value or even of no value, and I loudly won’t hear of so much as even cursefully growling Thanks at you for those before me.

   • 1922, Frederick William Wallace, The Shack Locker: Yarns of the Deep Sea Fishing Fleets‎, page 46:

     At the dock he communicated the interview to the gang, and amid the jeers of the shore workers, they cursefully hoisted sail and headed the vessel back to Port Anthony again.