Adverb
obscenely (comparative more obscenely, superlative most obscenely)
- In an obscene manner; vulgarly.
- (colloquial) In an excessive manner.
1979 February 3, Nancy Walker, “Going Bananas”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 27, page 11:I live in an elderly building in Boston's Back Bay. In summer the place sizzles. In winter, it's hotter (unless, of course, the wind blows. Then there's no heat at all. I suspect our central heating unit is an obscenely large candle that gets blown out when we need it most.)
1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 245:By the year 1765, Richard `Dickie' Tattersall, the absurdly romantic self-styled soldier of fortune and indulged son of an obscenely well-off Yorkshire squire, was brimming with gratitude[.]