The popular view condemned Catherine's building schemes as obscenely extravagant. The popular view condemned Catherine's building schemes as obscenely wasteful. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person". If it is not fed, it can screech obscenely and cause the woman tremendous pain. O'Donoghue doesn't give offense by being obscenely funny. Milo Sturgis investigates a double homicide at the site of an unfinished, obscenely large mansion. It may imply a quality of obscenity or obscenely.