cancerously
English
Etymology
cancerous + -ly
Adverb
cancerously (comparative more cancerously, superlative most cancerously)
- In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- 2005 Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: a novel, page 323:
- He was motionless for a moment, breathing deeply, and then he separated himself from them, leaning his body away, with a distaste that he could feel growing cancerously.
- 2005 Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: a novel, page 323:
- With cancer.
- cancerously diseased cells