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  • adverb In a scalding manner.

Etymologies

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scalding +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • It was scaldingly hot and we kept the front and back doors open to our little townhouse.

    Interview: Lane Robins odysseyworkshop 2010

  • The scaldingly funny George and Martha of "Virginia Woolf" are less emblematic of his output than, say, the miniature house that lights up ominously in the 1966 "Tiny Alice," the marvelously peculiar story of the seduction of a lay Catholic brother by a wealthy matriarch.

    Edward Albee Festival starts at Arena Stage 2011

  • It was scaldingly hot and we kept the front and back doors open to our little townhouse.

    Interview: Lane Robins odysseyworkshop 2010

  • By Western standards, the water temperature is scaldingly hot.

    What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010

  • She ran a scaldingly hot bath—just as she liked them—and happily lowered herself into the deep tub.

    The Lost Children Carolyn Cohagan 2010

  • Moderated by Tracy Morgan (attired in more bling than the Queen at her coronation) and sponsored by Lexus, (the Darker Side of Green series), the mood was amiable enough, with Mr. Bates beginning a grim recitation of statistics, noting the scaldingly high 129F of the recent Pakistani summer -- along with the consensus of opinion amongst scientists, that we are at great peril.

    Spread ArtCulture: Debate: Lord Monckton Argues the Cooler Side of Global Warming... Not Amused, Says Eric Bates 2010

  • No matter how unshockable you like to think you are, I expect you'll jump at least once and probably several times in the course of Profiles Theatre's scaldingly funny revival of

    Deadly Serious Comedy 2010

  • By Western standards, the water temperature is scaldingly hot.

    What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010

  • In their scaldingly rendered throwaway world, they prove to be the ultimate disposables.

    Solas Nua's ‘Johnny Meister and the Stitch': Wasted lives well worth your time 2010

  • She ran a scaldingly hot bath—just as she liked them—and happily lowered herself into the deep tub.

    The Lost Children Carolyn Cohagan 2010

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