indecently

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English

Etymology

indecent +‎ -ly

Adverb

indecently (comparative more indecently, superlative most indecently)

  1. In an indecent manner.
  2. To an extreme degree.
    • 1972, John Drury Clark, “Halogens and Politics and Deep Space”, in Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 81:
      Chloryl fluoride, ClO2F, was first reported by Schmitz and Schumacher in 1942. It is indecently reactive, and the hardest to keep of all the Cl-O-F compounds, since it apparently dissolves the protective metal fluoride coatings that make the storage of ClF3 comparatively simple.

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