scaresomely

English

Etymology

From scaresome +‎ -ly.

Adverb

scaresomely (comparative more scaresomely, superlative most scaresomely)

  1. In a scaresome manner; terribly; frighteningly.
    • 1990, Richard Kearney, Migrations: The Irish at Home & Abroad, Wolfhound Press, published 1976, page 23:
      [A] lightly moustached and heftily corseted matron, true blue and scaresomely indigenous, cried out in reply, ‘Not at all, dear. What's Irish about him? He's a British subject living in Ulster!’
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 95:
      The fire-dragon
      was scaresomely burnt, scorched all colours.
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