How To Use Killingly In A Sentence

Money is one of my favourite books – killingly funny, savage, critical, and stylistically and structurally bent. I’ve torn my rug out getting my head round this
In lowercase they become so killingly matter-of-fact, which is the whole joke. John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes
The story gives us one killingly funny observation after another: ‘Parker and his graduate student colleagues liked to theorize about the real world.’
It seems a strange role for him, very British in its humour and, on the page at least, killingly unfunny.
His "killingly fair-minded and viciously funny" review of the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham's latest book, By Nightfall, has won novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year award. Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award

Adam Mars-Jones's review … was at once erudite, attentive, killingly fair-minded and viciously funny. Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award
The gimmick lets Nolan have three clocks ticking down instead of one which should be killingly suspenseful. 'Inception' A Masterpiece? Only In Someone's Dream
That last sentence – with its statesmanlike tone of advocacy – is killingly brilliant, isn't it? So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse?
The inventories of killingly precise details became sterile — "all knife-flash, no blood," as John Gardner once put it. The Quotidian of Love
The show is killingly funny and the cast rise to the occasions that are presented to them with a panache rarely seen in ensemble playing.
This premise provides the author with the most marvellous springboard on which he launches some killingly funny lines, some serious observations, and some fantastic opportunities for his cast.
To my mind, Alan's film is daring, experimental, ballsy - it's something new, for Christ's sake, new! - and killingly funny.
It is very real, beautiful, wise, and killingly sad. Children's Lit Fabulosity
This should create a healthy sense of urgency - it should prevent critics, in other words, from producing the kind of killingly dull reviews that seem intended for someone trapped in a bus shelter during a giant rainstorm, circa 1953. NYT > Home Page