scaresomely

comparative more scaresomely · superlative most scaresomely

1. In a scaresome manner; terribly; frighteningly.

   The fire-dragon was scaresomely burnt, scorched all colours.

   1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 95

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   [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!’

   1990, Richard Kearney, Migrations: The Irish at Home & Abroad, Wolfhound Press, published 1976, page 23