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scarifyingly

scarifyingly adverb: in a scarifying way.

Adverb

scarifyingly (comparative more scarifyingly, superlative most scarifyingly)

  1. In a scarifying way.
    • The performance was scarifyingly funny as a send-up of feminism’s much-maligned sexual “essentialism.”2007 January 29, Holland Cotter, “Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage”, in New York Times

Forms of scarifyingly

comparativemore scarifyingly
superlativemost scarifyingly

Origin of scarifyingly

From scarifying + -ly.

Questions about scarifyingly

What does scarifyingly mean?
Scarifyingly means in a scarifying way.
What part of speech is scarifyingly?
Scarifyingly is an adverb.

Words near scarifyingly in the dictionary

  1. scarifier
  2. scarifiers
  3. scarifies
  4. scarify
  5. scarifying
  6. scarifyingly
  7. scarily
  8. scarin'
  9. scarine
  10. scarines
  11. scariness

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