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scarily

adv

Etymology

From scary + -ly.

  1. derived from *(s)ker-✻ — “to swing, jump, move”
  2. derived from *skirzijaną✻ — “to shoo, scare off”
  3. derived from skirra — “to frighten; to shrink away from, shun; to prevent, avert”
  4. inherited from scaren
  5. formed as scary — “scare + -y”
  6. formed as scarily — “scary + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a scary manner.

    • He adores his bedtime baseball stories, even at his ripe old age. “It's called 'The Curse.' Wooooooooo!” Sol sings scarily in a trilly, ghostlike, gradually descending soprano.
    • Her loneliness is made much worse by post-natal depression and delusions – which are represented with scarily plausible simplicity.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA