Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an obscene manner; in a manner offensive to modesty or purity; indecently; lewdly.
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- adverb In an
obscene manner;vulgarly . - adverb In an
excessive manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a lewd and obscene manner
- adverb to an obscene degree
Etymologies
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Examples
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These days, even Legal Sea Foods owner Roger Berkowitz says he is "nauseated" by what he calls the "obscenely thick" chowders that dominate the marketplace and chowder competitions.
Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis Steven Pearlstein 2011
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AND you’d be forced to two-year commitment in obscenely over*priced AT&T plans.
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David Letterman described as "obscenely brutal, and those are mild words."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Supreme Court candidates spend $923,021 on race MONTGOMERY - In a state where Supreme Court races have been called obscenely expensive, the only Supreme Court race on the Nov. 4 ballot is neither the least nor the most expensive in the last seven races.
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MONTGOMERY - In a state where Supreme Court races have been called obscenely expensive, the only Supreme Court race on the Nov. 4 ballot is neither the least nor the most expensive in the last seven races.
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It's not every day I get to be called obscenely young; isn't 27 old for the tech world?
The Marketing Mix | official blog of the Marketing Mentor community Colleen Wainwright 2008
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I know it's uncool to admit that a writer doesn't know everything the second they emerge from the womb with a contract in each hand, naturlich and that even after their first novel, even after their second, they still have a lot to learn, especially if, like me, they're kind of obscenely young when they start on all this craziness.
Out of the Mud and Into New Jersey yuki_onna 2006
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Power Line Explains Tea-bagging; It's an Inside the Gay Subculture Thing determines how it is that the Tea Party protesters have ( "obscenely") come to be referred to as "tea-baggers."
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Power Line Explains Tea-bagging; It's an Inside the Gay Subculture Thing determines how it is that the Tea Party protesters have ( "obscenely") come to be referred to as "tea-baggers."
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Power Line Explains Tea-bagging; It's an Inside the Gay Subculture Thing determines how it is that the Tea Party protesters have ( "obscenely") come to be referred to as "tea-baggers."
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