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obscenely

[ UK /ɒbsˈiːnli/ ]
[ US /ɑbˈsinəɫi, ɑbˈsinɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. to an obscene degree
    this man is obscenely rich
  2. in a lewd and obscene manner
    he had seen how in their dances the white men and women held one another obscenely

How To Use obscenely In A Sentence

  • When he dunks the ball, he rises obscenely high, rotates his arms in the air as if doing one of those over-the-head medicine ball exercises, and then unleashes upon the basket.
  • Whether it's millions, billions, trillions or bajillions, the dollar figures are so obscenely high that they no longer have any real understandable value.
  • Toss in some truly spine-tingling, horrifying imagery (the monsters are really scary folks, be it in color or the black and white version available on DVD/Blu Ray), plus one of the most obscenely-grim endings in cinema history, and you have the makings of a genuine horror classic. Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years.
  • Moviemaking was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed. Toiling in the Dream Factory
  • While I've argued plenty of times before about the media's irrepressibly giddy lust for slapping the term "epidemic" on any and every problem that effects a large enough group, there are far too many obscenely overweight people across this great land of ours, and if you think it's simply a personal decision that affects no one but them and the Wal-Mart scooters whose suspension systems they push to the point of collapse, think again. Chez Pazienza: Food Fighter: Freedom of Choice vs. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution?
  • I'm a brilliant polymath, a clocked genius breasting the tape as an expert in philosophy, literature, sociology, quantum theory, a virtuoso on all stringed and keyed instruments, a capable visual artist, and an obscenely degenerate chain-smoking drunk! Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
  • The rich are almost obscenely wealthy, while the poor live in shocking conditions.
  • When the lever is pulled, the body twists and shudders violently, cooks and sizzles obscenely, and emits horrible noises from the nose, mouth and anus.
  • What we have now is a short-lived amassment of goods and spectacular high living for the obscenely wealthy, who must be thinking 'Après nous le déluge' [1] if they are thinking at all, which is doubtful. Will Democracy Forever Remain an Illusion?
  • Time had dragged obscenely slowly since he woke up almost a week earlier in the French army hospital.
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