crushingly


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crushingly

(ˈkrʌʃɪŋlɪ)
adv
1. oppressively; intolerably
2. overwhelmingly
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Adv.1.crushingly - in a crushing manner; "the team was crushingly defeated"
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crushingly

[ˈkrʌʃɪŋlɪ] ADV [dull, familiar] → terriblemente
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crushingly

[ˈkrʌʃɪŋli] adv [dull, boring] → terriblement; [defeat] → de manière écrasante
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crushingly

advschrecklich
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"YOUR opinion doesn't matter very much to our family," said Felicity crushingly.
Nevertheless, after I went to bed, this idea of punishment and Purgatory came back on me crushingly. I remembered the account of Dives in torment, and shuddered.
And again the shock came and he was brought crushingly to the ground.
What from the magnitude of the shock might have been a column of water running upright in the dark, butted against the ship, broke short, and fell on her bridge, crushingly, from on high, with a dead burying weight.
And as his gaze continued to follow her across the compound to the tiny grass house, the realization came to him crushingly that Berande and that little grass house was the only place in the world she could call "home."
The haughty drooping glance struck crushingly the carpet at the Assistant Commissioner's feet.
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Regrettably, this is a crushingly dull modern history lesson.
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