rankly
/ˈræŋkli/
adverb
- In a way that is very obvious and unpleasant, especially in terms of smell or taste.
- The cheese was rankly pungent, filling the whole kitchen with its odor.
- The swamp water tasted rankly of mud and rotting vegetation.
- The garbage had been left in the sun and now smelled rankly of decay.
- In an extreme or excessive manner; outright.
- He was rankly ambitious, never hiding his desire for power.
- The proposal was rankly unfair to the smaller businesses.
- The movie was rankly sentimental, with every emotional scene pushed to the limit.
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