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loomingly en · ADV

Etymology

From looming + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to loom.
   • (It seems to me now, many years later, that I was expressing early on a chronic depressive’s wish to stay home, on the inside, instead of taking on the outside, loomingly hostile world in the form of classmates and teachers.) 2009 May 10, Daphne Merkin, “A Journey Through Darkness”, in New York Times:

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