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UK
/pɹˈɒmɪsɪŋli/
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ADVERB
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in an auspicious manner
the afternoon had begun so promisingly
How To Use promisingly In A Sentence
- Fueled by supremacist and puritan theological creeds their symbolic acts of power become uncompromisingly fanatic and violent.
- An evening meal began promisingly with a bruschetta topped with chopped spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, pesto and feta cheese.
- The upwardly moral children of the bourgeoisie are obsequiously, uncompromisingly virtuous. Enough About Me. Now, About My Kids...
- Burdekin plum (PLEIOGYNIUM SOLANDRI), and all sorts of unpromisingly tough and apparently indigestible, innutritious woodeny nuts and drupes. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
- The day began promisingly with bright sunshine.
- What begins so promisingly as a satire or perhaps even comic romp leaves an uneasily nasty after-taste.
- It all started so promisingly when Speed scored a tremendous first goal.
- I came armed with a pair of stout histories and a promisingly thick archaeological field-guide.
- I have no qualms about talented straight actors portraying gay characters as long as they play the role completely and uncompromisingly.
- If you were to have stumbled into Red Medicine this winter, maybe late after a movie, maybe with a reservation you booked two weeks early on OpenTable, you might have encountered a dish called "early season roots and legumes," unpromisingly enough, an appetizer that sounds like something more often served at a Tarzana vegan café than at an advanced fleshpot of cuisine. JGold Reviews Red Medicine