The word "scarily" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is frightening or surprising. For example: It was scarily easy to find his bank account details online.
I tried to shake it off but it happened again and again – once, scarily, causing a minor prang on a country road (to the kind man in the Volvo with the labrador in the back: despite your protestations, it was my fault and I'm sorry).
One of the tricks Silver Linings Playbook uses to cloak its formulaic, arthritic bones is a deceptively fresh angle that attempts to render it relevant to the modern-day consciousness, being that of the scarily destructive nature of mental illness.
Scarily, I've now become a "user"; a 'fold junkie.
Even more scarily, the billionaire-turned-politician was elected.
And the consequences would be scarily unpredictable: Europe's single market, and even the European Union itself, might be at risk.Mrs Merkel must know that it is worth paying a lot to avoid all this.
In the past two weeks the share prices and, more scarily, the credit spreads of banks with the lowest-quality tier-one capital have deteriorated sharply.
The cold war seems stable by comparison with a nuclear Middle East and yet America and the Soviet Union were sometimes scarily close to Armageddon.The dream of pre-emptionNo wonder some people want a pre-emptive strike.
Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, is making a concerted bid to seize the mantle as the leader of "the Republican wing of the Republican Party".Mr Romney is a scarily perfect presidential candidate.
She has described "macroeconomic stability" as a "scarily neoliberal" concept.
Amid showers of sparks, articulated mechanical arms nearly the size of telephone poles move sections of partially built vehicles so "scarily fast" that anyone who accidentally ends up in the wrong place is as good as dead, says Rodney Brooks, the boss of Rethink Robotics, a robot-maker based in Boston.
This may explain why Ireland's bank regulators were so complacent about the scarily rapid growth of Anglo Irish, its concentration of lending risk in a single sector and its heavy exposure to a few dozen property developers.In a report on the banking crisis this year Patrick Honohan, head of Ireland's central bank since 2009, wrote of an "unduly deferential" approach to banks by regulators.
