| 单词 |
devastatingly |
| 释义 |
devastatingly, adv.|ˈdɛvəsteɪtɪŋlɪ|
[f. devastating ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a devastating manner; so as to devastate: freq. in trivial or hyperbolical use (cf. prec.).
1905Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 4/6 The devastatingly tidy housemaid. 1915J. C. Powys Visions & Revisions 96 The stripping from human beings of their characteristic ‘outer garments’ makes them so dreadfully, so devastatingly, alike! 1927Observer 15 May 8 A man in whom a natural violence of lust and temper is restrained by the unnaturally strict taboos of his childhood's environment, but breaks loose all the more devastatingly when his inhibitions are removed by drink. Ibid. 21 Aug. 5 The devastatingly betraying sentences of Theodore Parker. 1928Daily Tel. 15 May 8 His conversation..is positive, narrow-minded, egregiously self-satisfied, impregnably commercial, but it is devastatingly entertaining. 1966Listener 20 Oct. 578/3 The final sequence..is devastatingly lovely in its sadness. |
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