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crashingly

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English

Etymology

From crashing + -ly.

Adverb

crashingly (comparative more crashingly, superlative most crashingly)

  1. While crashing, or as if crashing
    He stumbled crashingly around the apartment.
  2. Absolutely; terribly
    • 2009 January 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Tilting at Windmills, but Not at Traditions, in Performance From Maryinsky”, in New York Times:
      It is almost 50 years since Western dancers first tried to cure the Russians of this crashingly vulgar habit.
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