Scarifyingly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a scarifying way.

    "The performance was scarifyingly funny as a send-up of feminism’s much-maligned sexual “essentialism.”"

Example

More examples

"The performance was scarifyingly funny as a send-up of feminism’s much-maligned sexual “essentialism.”"

Etymology

From scarifying + -ly.

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