Definitions

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  • adverb In a controlling manner; so as to control.

Etymologies

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controlling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Even bad TV looks good to me now--not just good, but spectacular and mind-controllingly, propagandistically persuasive.

    In Which My New TV Threatens My Livelihood - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006

  • Bailey Girard spoke with confidence, his eyes bent controllingly on

    McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

  • For example: When a few leading members join a neighboring lodge, and make vows to the "strange" brotherhood, how easy for that lodge to interfere secretly but controllingly in its discipline of members, or in its selection or dismission of a pastor!

    Secret Societies David MacDill 1864

  • And it is, if anything, even more insidious, more controllingly divisive, than anything dreamt up during the nuke-armed period of the Cold War.

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  • I have met a lot of people I don't like, but honesty, I've not known somebody with the capacity to act both controllingly and hatefully as Big Sister.

    Chronicle.com - Today's News 2009

  • I have met a lot of people I don't like, but honesty, I've not known somebody with the capacity to act both controllingly and hatefully as Big Sister.

    Chronicle.com - Today's News 2009

  • I have met a lot of people I don't like, but honesty, I've not known somebody with the capacity to act both controllingly and hatefully as Big Sister.

    Chronicle.com - Today's News 2009

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