obscenely

Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. in a shocking, excessive, or indecent manner

Example Sentences

He was obscenely wealthy, with a mansion and several luxury cars.

The prices at that restaurant are obscenely high.

She was dressed obscenely, with barely any clothes on.

The company's CEO was paid obscenely well.

The movie contained obscenely violent scenes.

The politician was caught in an obscenely corrupt scandal.

The singer's lyrics were deemed obscenely explicit.

The celebrity flaunted his obscenely expensive watch on social media.

The novel described an obscenely decadent lifestyle.

The fashion designer's collection was priced obscenely high.

Real-world Examples

Two famine-stricken dogs were nosing obscenely in the garbage at its door.

Source: Brave New World

His corpse was dragged obscenely through every literary supplement.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

But they've all made each other obscenely rich.

Source: Lost Girl Season 01

Suddenly, John's symbolic moment of catastrophe seems less of a blunder and more obscenely bad celestial luck.

Source: Reel Knowledge Scroll

But, as soon as he appeared, with his compact camera and obscenely truthful language, I was no longer the one composing the scene.

Source: The Guardian (Article Version)

Morgan was already well off from his family wealth and his early career moves, but his involvement with the railroads made him obscenely rich.

Source: Biography of Famous Historical Figures

There's a growing conversation about how much we should trust obscenely wealthy people, and whether or not there should be upper limits placed on human wealth.

Source: Biography of Famous Historical Figures

It is now hopefully easy to see that this is an obscenely difficult problem, and the DeepMind guys just came up with Imagination-Augmented Agents as a solution for it.

Source: Two-Minute Paper

Her perception was intermittent, for this cowardice sprang out, became almost obscenely evident, then faded and vanished as though it had been only a creation of her own mind.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

The phrase " living in the moment" only really made sense to me once I'd found myself chasing a crawling baby, whose obscenely filled nappy hung half off, across a priceless Aubusson rug, while simultaneously trying to stop a four-year-old chasing a traumatized cat.

Source: Still Me (Me Before You #3)

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