OBSCENELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obscenely mean? 

• OBSCENELY (adverb)
  The adverb OBSCENELY has 2 senses:

1. to an obscene degree

2. in a lewd and obscene manner

  Familiarity information: OBSCENELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBSCENELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an obscene degree

Context example:

this man is obscenely rich

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a lewd and obscene manner

Synonyms:

lewdly; obscenely

Context example:

he had seen how in their dances the white men and women held one another obscenely

Pertainym:

obscene (designed to incite to indecency or lust)

 Context examples 

The hunters were laughing at a fresh story of Smoke’s; the men pulling and hauling, and two of them climbing aloft; Wolf Larsen was studying the clouding sky to windward; and the dead man, dying obscenely, buried sordidly, and sinking down, down—

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)