Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the manner of a cancer.

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  • adverb In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
  • adverb With cancer.

Etymologies

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cancerous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Taxpayers ultimately put up $180 billion to bail out AIG, which was cancerously interconnected to other financial institutions through its $2 trillion derivatives portfolio.

    Clearinghouses Are the Answer Gary Gensler 2010

  • That the history of Japanese mythology is not so cancerously distorted is perhaps the reason they are far more open to the design and productions of robots than

    The Robot Proletariat 2009

  • More indirectly still (although cancerously effective) is the systemic destruction of American education.

    All that's missing are the uniforms! 2008

  • Everything we know about terrorism tells us that it is nothing like fascism in its method of organization, that it has no one leader, that its cancerously-proliferating cells operate largely on their own.

    James Heffernan: When are we Going to Learn that War is the Worst Possible Way to Fight Terrorism? 2008

  • We have described how a system of checks and balances, in the trial process, grew almost cancerously.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • When a field of law becomes cancerously intricate, some fundamental conflict of interest, some fundamental tension between opposing values, must lie at the root of the problem.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • When a field of law becomes cancerously intricate, some fundamental conflict of interest, some fundamental tension between opposing values, must lie at the root of the problem.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • We have described how a system of checks and balances, in the trial process, grew almost cancerously.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • We have described how a system of checks and balances, in the trial process, grew almost cancerously.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • When a field of law becomes cancerously intricate, some fundamental conflict of interest, some fundamental tension between opposing values, must lie at the root of the problem.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

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