Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a vertiginous manner; with a whirling or giddiness.
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- adverb In a
vertiginous manner.
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Examples
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Vogue outrageously declares that these "vertiginously high heels" possess a "highly wearable, walkable sensibility."
Leora Tanenbaum: How to Wear High-Heeled Shoes and Walk at the Same Time Leora Tanenbaum 2011
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Ms. Buck resembled a modern trophy wife in a black cocktail dress and vertiginously high heels.
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It is the right whining. markgritter is out in California for his last trip with Sun, and my mom's taken the dogbeast for most of the week so that I don't have to haul her vertiginously through the snow, bend over nearly on my head to wipe off muddy paws, etc.etc. et-dogly-c.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2008
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But they have transposed formerly dank sonic aggression into something that vertiginously heeled 20-nothing girls can prance about to.
Tinchy Stryder; Magnetic Man – review Kitty Empire 2010
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THE PRICE opens vertiginously above the hospital, "like a frozen spider buried in the snow."
It Only Happens Once 2008
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Annie heads back to Sri Lanka with her former lover/rogue agent Ben Mercer, and after lots of complicated shenanigans and high action in a vertiginously high tower, their escape via copter is thwarted when Ben takes several bullets in the back.
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Obama ` s queasily messianic speeches turned me off but it was his vertiginously high VCI that cemented the prejudice.
VCI Studies -An Academic Post Newmania 2008
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But the psychological impact on such places will be all the more acute: communities that have barely known joblessness in the last decade now find it rising, and vertiginously so.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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And yet the heart of the thing (for even vertiginously epic tales need a center around which to spin) is quite simple: a Japanese woman named Hiroko Tanaka who, in the wartime atmosphere of distrust and air raid sirens, happens to fall in love.
Adrienne Celt: War and Pieces: A Review of Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows 2009
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In Turkey, only 11 percent of respondents think so, while in neighboring Armenia the rate soars vertiginously to 47 percent.
Stuart Whatley: American Plutocracy: Corruption Is in the Eye of the Beholder 2009
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