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Crushingly meaning
So as to defeat overwhelmingly. | So as to belittle; dishearteningly.
Example sentences (6)
Such crushingly literal-minded dialogue would ring a death knell for any story, but Hool compounds it throughout with hammer-handed direction that makes the film unintentionally comical, a straight version of Woody Allen’s Bananas.
The reviews were scathing as the follow-up was branded ‘lifeless’, ‘dull’, ‘irritatingly smug’, ‘crushingly boring’ and ‘pointless’.
But while there’s no question Maduro is partially culpable, to fully understand how a country blessed with the world’s biggest oil endowment could end up so crushingly poor requires going much further back.
He describes a crushingly familiar scenario: you skim through emails on your phone, and half-read one that stresses you out.
In the context of what is by now a full-blown social crisis, the approach is crushingly timid.
Carter (2002) Finally, and most crushingly, Proust's beloved mother died in September 1905.