Definitions

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  • adverb In a manner that scares; frighteningly.

Etymologies

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scaring +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • My sisters-in-law have a cute young cat and an old one who looks scaringly like Bimfoodle.

    Cats nathreee 2007

  • So on Friday after work I picked up an exhausted participant from Burundi, a country in Eastern Africa I know scaringly/embarassingly little about.

    A short beer tour to Røros and a guest from Burundi magnio 2009

  • Bottom line: we are scaringly good at this, so watch out you draftsmen!

    Never Forget a Face James Gurney 2008

  • It was indeed a good performance, but imagine how good it would have been with the addition of just one massive, pet-scaringly loud explosion.

    The Guardian World News Peter Robinson 2011

  • The kid scaringly probably knows she has no future under this regime.

    Latest Articles Daily Mail 2010

  • The kid scaringly probably knows she has no future under this regime.

    Latest Articles Daily Mail 2010

  • The kid scaringly probably knows she has no future under this regime.

    Latest Articles Daily Mail 2010

  • Ok, maybe not exactly a real zombie, but scaringly close.

    phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed 2009

  • And polls indicate some Americans (few) are scaringly ignorant.

    WordPress.com News 2008

  • Once I had created an ISO image from the install media, the installation of Server 2008 was scaringly simple.

    dotnet.org.za 2008

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