smashingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

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"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."

From smashing + -ly.

more smashingly (comparative) most smashingly (superlative)

smash

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