salement

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sal.mɑ̃/

Adverb

salement

dirty, dirtily
(slang) Intensitive adverb : very, really. (in a bad way) "J'ai été salement amoché par une crise néphrétique" (Gide, Letters) : "I've been really banged-up by renal crisis"
(slang) Related to the precedent (antiphrasis) : very, really (in a good way) " Faut acheter des sardines [...] C'est salement bon !" (Louis Pergaud, La Guerre des boutons) : "We got to buy sardines [...] It's really good !"

Related terms

sale

Further reading

“salement” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

lamentes

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