indecently
advEtymology From indecent + -ly.
1
In an indecent manner.
2
To an extreme degree.
- Chloryl fluoride, ClO₂F, was first reported by Schmitz and Schumacher in 1942. It is indecently reactive, and the hardest to keep of all the Cl-O-F compounds, since it apparently dissolves the protective metal fluoride coatings that make the storage of ClF₃ comparatively simple.1972, John Drury Clark, “Halogens and Politics and Deep Space”, in Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 81:
- She didn't actually swing around from the light bulbs, but she was indecently active for her years.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 47: