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Vinony

scarily

adverb

  1. in a frightening manner
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adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English scary Middle English -ly English -ly English scarily From scary + -ly.

  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.”