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cancerously en · ADV

Etymology

From cancerous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
   • 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:
2. With cancer.
   • cancerously diseased cells

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