Meaning & use
Obscenely
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In a manner that is offensive to accepted standards of decency, or used informally to mean 'to an extreme or excessive degree.'
See it in a sentence
He was obscenely rude to the waiter for no reason.
The mansion was obscenely large for a family of three.
A note on using this word
In casual use, 'obscenely' often loses its connection to indecency and simply intensifies an adjective, much like 'ridiculously' or 'insanely.'
Words with a similar meaning
indecentlyexcessively
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Words with an opposite meaning
modestly
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