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crushingly

[ UK /kɹˈʌʃɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a crushing manner
    the team was crushingly defeated

How To Use crushingly In A Sentence

  • These are all lonely, arguably damaged people, and once you get past the silliness it's all rather crushingly sad. TV highlights 10/08/201: Timothy Spall: Back At Sea | The Sopranos | Who Do You Think You Are? | 24 Hours in A&E | Forbidden Love
  • 'That's fairly obvious,' she replied crushingly.
  • I do not find their presence infuriating and they do not find my presence to be soul-crushingly emasculating. 2010 February « paper fruit
  • The page is a young man of color who raps in crushingly artless rhymes.
  • Virgil Thomson wrote crushingly of "Porgy and Bess" that "it is clear, by now, that Gershwin hasn't learned the business of being a serious composer, which one has ­always gathered to be the ­business he wanted to learn," though Thomson spoke more kindly of him off the record. Rhapsody Imbued
  • This mockumentary is either going to be brilliant or crushingly disappointing.
  • It brought the fact crushingly home to her that there was so much he would never see, except from catalogues, or from small salerooms. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • the team was crushingly defeated
  • Klein and Reid's inspiration comes from such far-flung sources as American diner china, antique Asian celadons, and Dutch tulipieres, which inspired their crushingly elegant series of rose bowls and tulip vases.
  • But the lesbian scene can feel crushingly claustrophobic, with people knowing the intimate details of your life before they've even met you.
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