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smashingly en · ADV

Etymology

From smashing + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a smashing way.
   • It has been just over a year since their Wellington boots last sloshed about on these shores, and it’s not as though that trip — billed as their first official overseas tour since being married in April 2005 — came off so smashingly that they, or an adoring American public, ought to be crying out for another. 2007 January 27, Eric Konigsberg, “On Your Toes, Blokes, 2 Highnesses Coming — Charles and Camilla”, in New York Times:

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