Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a decreasing manner; by decrease.
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- adverb In a
decreasing manner.
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Examples
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I sure hope Hersh's editor at The New Yorker, David Remnick, is doing a careful cost-benefit analysis of the decreasingly lucid Hersh's impact on his magazine's reputation.
Sy Hersh's loopy crusade Charles Lane 2011
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Justin Lin, executive of Fast & Furious, has been tasked with reinventing the 1986 anticipation movement moment which spawned the decreasingly sensible film authorization as well as an impossibly dumb TV series.
A Pizza Mind: The 50 Biggest Movies Of 2010 The films most likely ... admin 2009
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As things actually transpired, the team made my money work for them through the next spring, when it graciously game me credit towards increasingly more expensive seats in front of a decreasingly skillful team.
Lita Smith-Mines: Buy Me Some Peanuts and a Piece of the Mets Lita Smith-Mines 2011
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As it became increasingly dangerous for such people to speak up, they were becoming decreasingly visible.
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As things actually transpired, the team made my money work for them through the next spring, when it graciously game me credit towards increasingly more expensive seats in front of a decreasingly skillful team.
Lita Smith-Mines: Buy Me Some Peanuts and a Piece of the Mets Lita Smith-Mines 2011
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For a decade I have witnessed American youth & adults becoming disenchanted, disillusioned, decreasingly hopeful.
Jill Lynne: A Challenge to Dream! Plus Lite & Not-So-Lite Fare: Jill Lynne 2011
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Puss made his debut in "Shrek 2," then did time in the two decreasingly funny sequels.
'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders Joe Morgenstern 2011
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To judge from the scene I witnessed at the Idea Store — and the statistics back this up — books are decreasingly the draw.
Libraries Maxine 2009
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As it became increasingly dangerous for such people to speak up, they were becoming decreasingly visible.
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As things actually transpired, the team made my money work for them through the next spring, when it graciously game me credit towards increasingly more expensive seats in front of a decreasingly skillful team.
Lita Smith-Mines: Buy Me Some Peanuts and a Piece of the Mets Lita Smith-Mines 2011
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