scarifyingly

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adverb

In a scarifying way.

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Meanings

adverbscarifyingly (comparative more scarifyingly, superlative most scarifyingly)

comparative more scarifyingly · superlative most scarifyingly

  1. In a scarifying way.

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

    2007 January 29, Holland Cotter, “Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage”, in New York Times

Origin

From scarifying + -ly.

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Cite this entry
APA

scarifyingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarifyingly

MLA

“scarifyingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarifyingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scarifyingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarifyingly.

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