damningly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]damningly (comparative more damningly, superlative most damningly)
- In a damning manner, or to an extent that is damning.
- The recordings are damningly explicit.
- 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116:
- In contrast, Kindersley takes an approach that is closer to that of a descriptive linguist and is largely devoid of the superior tone of Goffin: where Kindersley uses the term ‘pleonastic cliché’, Goffin more damningly has ‘phrase-mongering’.