thusly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈðʌs.li/

Definition of thusly

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (not-comparable, proscribed)thus (in this way).
    “Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem!”
    “His course can only be akkounted for thusly:”
    “He had an attack of catarrh not long ago, and it happened, as J. Billings would say, "thusly:"”
    “Stories never lose anything in the recital, and consequently this one grew thusly.”
    “The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people."”
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adv

  1. (not-comparable, proscribed)thus (in this way).
    “Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem!”
    “His course can only be akkounted for thusly:”
    “He had an attack of catarrh not long ago, and it happened, as J. Billings would say, "thusly:"”
    “Stories never lose anything in the recital, and consequently this one grew thusly.”
    “The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people."”
  2. (not-comparable, proscribed)thus (therefore)
    “Lately, they [the prison authorities] came up with a new excuse. Seems like they consider owning a Gay publication is an expression of a person's sexuality and would thusly identify the person as a homosexual which would then subject him to assault or pressures.”

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Etymology

From thus + -ly, dating from the 19th century, seemingly coined by educated writers to make fun of uneducated persons trying to sound genteel, with a false inference that thus is not an adverb.

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