Definitions
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- adverb In a
devastating manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He had with him one tear-gas grenade — one — which he intended to throw as soon as necessary; he would then use its smoke as a marker to call in devastatingly lethal 40 mm AC-130 gunship fire.
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He had with him one tear-gas grenade — one — which he intended to throw as soon as necessary; he would then use its smoke as a marker to call in devastatingly lethal 40 mm AC-130 gunship fire.
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An epic ethical horror story, told in devastatingly poignant miniature ....
Never Let Me Go: Summary and book reviews of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. 2005
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Harold had always been looked upon as better-looking and more glamorous than Robert, and Shreya Rao is described as devastatingly beautiful.
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Well, I did not see the entire thing, but Dinesh's first comment sums up pretty well why I have to seriously doubt that Hitchens was "devastatingly" thumped.
"I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate...." Ann Althouse 2007
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The festivities took over the entire New York Public Library - cocktail and food stations in almost every room and corner of the building, live bands, caricatures, oysters bars, burlesque dancers dancing in large bird cages, and those grand staircases and devastatingly beautiful reading rooms filled with young New Yorkers dressed for the occasion.
Gastronomista: Manhattan Cocktail Classic Aftermath Gastronomista 2011
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I remember that speech well, and I bet you do too: it was a much-needed call back to arms on what had seemed, at the time, to be a devastatingly and perhaps determinatively bad night.
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 We cut to twenty years later, as a devastatingly pretty young girl sits on the shores of her island home, patiently awaiting her father, the Tiger Warrior.
Review: Immortal Weapons #4 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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And just because the only thing that could make the devastatingly dark Joy Division song "Transmission" any more creepy is if it's performed by Playmobil dolls:
Giffords recovery update; Sudan minister shot; Somali pirates release captives Melissa Bell 2011
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The festivities took over the entire New York Public Library - cocktail and food stations in almost every room and corner of the building, live bands, caricatures, oysters bars, burlesque dancers dancing in large bird cages, and those grand staircases and devastatingly beautiful reading rooms filled with young New Yorkers dressed for the occasion.
Gastronomista: Manhattan Cocktail Classic Aftermath Gastronomista 2011
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