scarily

English

Etymology

From scary +‎ -ly.

Adverb

scarily (comparative more scarily, superlative most scarily)

1. In a scary manner.
   • 2009, Bob Mitchell, Once Upon a Fastball:

     He adores his bedtime baseball stories, even at his ripe old age. “It's called 'The Curse.' Wooooooooo!” Sol sings scarily in a trilly, ghostlike, gradually descending soprano.

   • 2021 July 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Three Floors review – Nanni Moretti melodrama lacks profundity”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Her loneliness is made much worse by post-natal depression and delusions – which are represented with scarily plausible simplicity.