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obscenely, adv.|əbˈsiːnlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an obscene manner: a. Repulsively, loathsomely; b. Indecently, lewdly.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. i. 145 Most inconie vulgar wit, When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it were, so fit. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. ii, The masoreths..gave us this insulse rule out of their Talmud, that all words which in the law are writ obscenely, must be changd to more civil words. 1710Tatler No. 259 ⁋3 For speaking obscenely to the Lady Penelope Touchwood. 1740C. Pitt æneid xii. 855 Then on a lofty beam, the matron ty'd The noose dishonest, and obscenely dy'd. 1922F. Scott Fitzgerald Beautiful & Damned ii. i. 157 This cowardice sprang out, became almost obscenely evident, then faded. 1964R. Church Voyage Home viii. 178 In those uncrowded years..England was less obscenely populated. 1974Times 9 Apr. 14/3 Broadmoor's forbidding buildings are obscenely overcrowded. |