confoundedly

adverb

con·​found·​ed·​ly

kən-ˈfau̇n-dəd-lē, 

(ˌ)kän-, 

ˈkän-ˌfau̇n-

: very, extremely, annoyingly

so confoundedly without a clear moral purpose

—Alfred Kazin

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