cancerously

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English

Etymology

From cancerous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

cancerously (comparative more cancerously, superlative most cancerously)

  1. 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.
  2. With cancer.
    cancerously diseased cells