cadaverously

adv

cadaverously

adv

Etymology From cadaverous + -ly.

1

In a cadaverous manner; like a cadaver.

It's all on video: me mugging to the camera, the crash of the falling tyre, my initial recoil, then the blood draining from my face as I look down and discover the fingernail gouged out of my flesh just dangling there cadaverously.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 121:

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