supercolossally
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From supercolossal + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]supercolossally (comparative more supercolossally, superlative most supercolossally)
- In a supercolossal manner.
- 1935, Advertising & Selling, Volume 26, Issues 1-7[1], M.C. Robbins, page 25:
- To apologize supercolossally is the gift of few.
- 1954, Midwest Shipper's Advisory Board, Proceedings[2], page 20:
- Human wants are insatiable, and American wants are supercolossally insatiable.
- 1992, Leopold Damrosch, The Profession of Eighteenth-century Literature: Reflections on an Institution, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 38:
- In his writings he created a special language, which Carey McIntosh in The Choice of Life has called “supercolossally splendid” and a special voice, which McIntosh whimsically describes as "a bardic-pathetic indoctrinating appartus".