Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a consuming manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a consuming manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
consuming manner; so as toconsume .
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That also goes a long way ensuring that future upgrades can be installed without painfully and time-consumingly merging code changes with the upgrade.
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It's because I love these so ardently, so consumingly, that I feel about the visual arts some of Socrates's iconoclastic distrust.
Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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It's because I love these so ardently, so consumingly, that I feel about the visual arts some of Socrates's iconoclastic distrust.
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As we established back in the Sonia Sotomayor days, none of us is consumingly fascinated with these kinds of confirmation hearings.
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But the fact remains that I must have got the highest ratio of long, carefully-composed, time-consumingly written blog posts to actual readers in the entire blogosphere.
Archive 2009-05-01 juliette 2009
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Which is why, as a constantly, effortfully, expensively and very time-consumingly 'slim, toned, well groomed & dressed woman (who is prepared at the very least to feign interest in sex)'I don't think I'm asking such an awful lot of the world wanting a man with a half decent job (I gave up aspiring to the tall, dark, handsome thing in my middle teens...)
What Men Want - The Skinny juliette 2009
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But the fact remains that I must have got the highest ratio of long, carefully-composed, time-consumingly written blog posts to actual readers in the entire blogosphere.
Meh, She Wrote juliette 2009
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Fery tricky problem well, if time consumingly, handled.
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I've never loved anyone like this, so all-consumingly, with the feeling that she is just part of me, and to have that person reject me so bluntly just kills me.
Father's Night kittenpie 2006
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Things are so blastedly, wondrously, and all-consumingly baffling and overwhelming at this point, that I'm not entirely sure what to say.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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