6 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
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