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In blood-curdling style
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scarily
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Word definitions for scarily in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, "timidly;" 1967, "unnervingly," in a positive sense; see scary + -ly (2).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a scary manner.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in an alarming manner; "the disturbing thing about the Minister's behavior is that far from being artificial, it too often rings frighteningly true" [syn: frighteningly ]
Usage examples of scarily.
Kaur and her scientists had already begotten several batches of scarily smart superkids.
The whole woods was so scarily quiet you could almost hear the snowflakes land.
Like sensation in that blind, numb state, far from the horses, when the world seemed so scarily quiet.
To discourage him from lashing out at me, I hired a large and scarily violent felon by the name of Rudy Wismer to watch my back in the yard, at meals, and on the block, paying for his services with a supply of the X-rated Japanese comics that were his sexual candy.
Authority radiated from her, plus this pixie impishness that was both sexual and scarily adult.
Republicans permits only one narrow exception: When not defined by their monumental stupidity, Republicans must be scarily weird.
The far-less-popular scarily weird caricature has been applied, for example, to Nixon, Dole, and Gingrich.
Spook took a sudden series of zigzags down the road, not all-out, now, but scarily fast for so many turns.
This Bee was beginning to sound scarily like someone Ana could have been friends with.
In what the last century referred to as mechanical transport, we were scarily compatible, even after four years.
Zen and yard sale Taoism, his scarily efficient methods for fleecing the flock, Dov still sensed a great emanation of magical power coming from the congregation.
Long, scarily quiet intervals were punctuated by horrendous noise and activity.
We were moving forward by now, in fits and starts, but, scarily, he took his eyes off the road to look at me, testing my understanding.
We had to squeeze our way on temporary walkways around blue-painted screens, scarily close to the unrelenting traffic, while intimidating cranes towered overhead.
WAS, not so long ago, when a dystopic Future was a scarily enticing precinct, to be entered warily and carefully armed, or at least fashionably dressed: think of the methamphetamine dreamscapes of writers like William Gibson, Samuel R.