bleedingly en · ADV
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From bleeding + -ly.
Meanings
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(UK, not-comparable, slang, used as an intensifier) extremely
Fitzsimons has been careful to frame his push for change as not a rejection of the Queen or a denial of Australia’s history as a British colony, but as a bleedingly obvious next step in the life of the nation.
2015 September 6, “The Queen marks a milestone, but Australian republicans are regrouping”, in The Observer: