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Obscenely

Obscene \Ob*scene"\, a. [L. obscenus, obscaenus, obscoenus, ill looking, filthy, obscene: cf. F. obsc['e]ne.]

  1. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.

    Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly.
    --I. Watts.

  2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.

    A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire.
    --Dryden (Aeneid, vi. 417).

  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. [1913 Webster] -- Ob*scene"ly, adv. -- Ob*scene"ness, n.

Wiktionary
obscenely

adv. 1 In an obscene manner; vulgarly. 2 In an excessive manner.

WordNet
obscenely
  1. adv. 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]

Usage examples of "obscenely".

A massive pseudopod of amorphous protoplasm rose ten feet into the air, quivered, dropped to the ground, broke free of the mother-body hiding below, and formed itself into an obscenely fat black spider the size of a pony.

He heard the front door slamming and a couple bawling obscenely at each other on the path outside.

The dryad licked her lips obscenely, tongue running over white teeth where she had no lip, and leaned toward Lady Sunshine.

A scream of pure demented pleasure arose from the throats of the lostlings who paraded obscenely in the street.

From inside the car, Lucky Lummy laughed and gestured obscenely at Sarah, who was feeling for bruises and trying to rearrange her soiled clothing.

Some day we may bury ourselves under a mountain of our own ingenious refuse, imperishable and dead, a cosmic paradox in pastel colours, obscenely mute, naked, textureless and perpetual.

He spread his arms and jerked his hips obscenely and my spearmen jeered back, but Valerin ignored their shouted insults.

For a moment he thought the walls boiled, for at dozens of points around the cavern more worms emerged from the ubiquitous perforations, their tips wriggling obscenely, some with eyes and a dress of filaments like slender versions of Hafaz colony, but most naked and blind, glistening wet.

Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new, unknown odor whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage--clung to those bodies and sparkled less voluminously on a smooth part of the accursedly resculptured wall in a series of grouped dots--we understood the quality of cosmic fear to its uttermost depths.

Her cheeks expanded obscenely on the instroke and hollowed on the outstroke, as she labored with mouth and hands.

The whitening bones of a cat, the dry fragments spread obscenely apart by coarse twine looped around the nearest tree trunks.

A man grosser than Souris, he had modelled himself on the Winston Churchill he had once, he alleged, seen painting in Marrakesh, but the baby-scowl sat obscenely on a face bred by centuries of Maghreb dishonesty.

Then Suits could get on with the business of changing the history of the Port of San Francisco, and I could collect my obscenely large fee and get on with the business of attracting a stable of steady clients.

The Skraelings rushed the walls in a massed attack, hooking their talons into the minute cracks in the masonry and gradually clawing their way towards the battlements, their silver eyes gleaming obscenely in the dim light that the torches threw down.

Ichtar, the wraiths making way for their massive and obscenely bulging bodies.