Meanings
comparative more blindingly · superlative most blindingly
- In a blinding manner.
- Extremely.
It is blindingly obvious that we need more money.
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After an inquest's ruling yesterday, it is now official that the newspaper vendor, Ian Tomlinson, was unlawfully killed amid the policing of the G20 protests in 2009. Many who saw the footage the Guardian obtained, which showed PC Simon Harwood striking Mr Tomlinson just before his death, will regard the verdict as a statement of the blindingly obvious.
2011 May 4, Ian Tomlinson, “Unlawfully killed by the law”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2016And finally, Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies – or Gypsy Sun and Rainbows – play their first-ever show, for two hours, and it is blindingly great.
2019 August 5, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2020
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