deadeningly en · ADV
Etymology
From deadening + -ly.
Meanings
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In a deadening manner.
Although it was, on occasion, disturbing to see powerful and complicated emotions and behaviors distilled into deadeningly dull diagnostic phrases […]
1997, Kay Redfield Jamison, An unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness:[…] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.
2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more deadeningly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most deadeningly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |