Definitions

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  • adverb So as to splinter.

Etymologies

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splintering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The 62-year-old is not so much woman as a force of nature, a rotund, splinteringly shrill, beady-eyed right-winger, impregnable in more than one sense.

    The U.K.'s Most Terrifying Spinster

  • The 62-year-old is not so much woman as a force of nature, a rotund, splinteringly shrill, beady-eyed right-winger, impregnable in more than one sense.

    The U.K.'s Most Terrifying Spinster

  • The 62-year-old is not so much a woman as a force of nature, a rotund, splinteringly shrill, beady-eyed right-winger, impregnable in more than one sense.

    The U.K.'s Most Terrifying Spinster

  • As his dark eyes travelled in a lazy, insolent fashion up and down her body his mouth twisted into a smile that was both cynical and splinteringly sensual.

    The Carides Pregnancy

  • He felt it smash splinteringly against the two other hoods, crushing them against the wall.

    Modesty Blaise

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