indecently

comparative more indecently · superlative most indecently

1. In an indecent manner.

   Synonyms: immorally, improperly, unseemly, illicitly, immodestly, immorally, improperly, incontinently

2. To an extreme degree.

   She didn't actually swing around from the light bulbs, but she was indecently active for her years.

   1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 47

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   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.

   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

   Synonyms: exceedingly, insanely, terribly, acutely, awfully, almighty, badly, seriously