Unscramble

t 1 h 4 u 1 s 1 l 1 y 4

6 letters · 12 points in Scrabble

Meaning

adverb in the way indicated; ; ; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant)

originFrom 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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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