cancerously

English

Etymology

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