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[ adverb ] in a horrifying manner

Examples

"he laughed horrifyingly"

Used in print

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

At_the_same_time the multiple transvestitism involved - the fat man as girl and as baby , as coquette pretending to be a baby - touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby 's , upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life .

Related terms

atrocious atrocious

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