Hypertext Webster Gateway: "obscenely"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
A girdle foul with grease b??ds his obscene attire.
--Dryden.
3. Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.] [A Latinism]
At the cheerful light, The groaning ghosts and birds
obscene take flight. --Dryden.
Syn: Impure; immodest; indecent; unchaste; lewd. --
{Ob*scene"ly}, adv. -- {Ob*scene"ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
obscenely
adv 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"
[syn: {lewdly}]
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