damningly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a damning manner, or to an extent that is damning.
Example Sentences
- "The recordings are damningly explicit."
- "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’."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more damningly (comparative)
most damningly (superlative)