obscenelyadv.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. i. 142 Most inconie vulgar wit, When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenly as it were, so fit. View more context for this quotation

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 25 The Masoreths..gave us this insuls rule out of their Talmud, That all words which in the Law are writ obscenely, must be chang'd to more civill words.

1710 Tatler No. 259. ⁋3 For speaking obscenely to the Lady Penelope Touchwood.

1740 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid II. xii. 601 Then, on a lofty Beam, the Matron ty'd The Noose dishonest, and obscenely di'd.

1781 H. L. Piozzi Diary 10 Jan. in K. C. Balderston Thraliana (1942) I. 475 Mr. Edmund Burke..was the first man I had ever seen drunk, or heard talk obscænely.

1824 Act 5 George IV c. 83 §4 Every person wilfully, openly, leudly and obscenely exposing his Person in any..place of public resort, with intent to insult any Female..shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond.

1859 J. G. Percival Mind II. 149 Beside them not a few Trailed to the ground like serpent coils, obscenely Dallying with meanest things.

1875 W. J. Linton Pot-pourri 4 By the pure white Parian fountains Lounged the Ghouls obscenely bare.

1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xvii. 190 Other men..would grin at her as Jimmy had done, joke about her obscenely with other men.

1974 Times 9 Apr. 14/3 Broadmoor's forbidding buildings are obscenely overcrowded.

1990 New Age Jrnl. July–Aug. 128/2 He liked to O.D. on raw catnips from our herb garden, jazzing his libido and grinding his pelvis obscenely.

2000 Caterer & Hotelkeeper 25 May 31/2 ‘Flights are obscenely expensive,’ he says.