Meanings
comparative more damningly · superlative most damningly
- In a damning manner, or to an extent that is damning.
The recordings are damningly explicit.
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In contrast, Kindersley takes an approach that is closer to that of a descriptive linguist and is largely devoid of the superior tone of Goffin: where Kindersley uses the term ‘pleonastic cliché’, Goffin more damningly has ‘phrase-mongering’.
2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116
Origin
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