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Definition of Damningly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damningly
Literary usage of Damningly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1852)
"Some buy the truth : for conscience liberty, Error's brought in to blind men
damningly. And now before I end, let me tell thee who are like to reap benefite ..."
2. History of the New York Times, 1851-1921 by Elmer Holmes Davis (1921)
"Though for some of President Hayes's policies The Times's praise could be only
damningly faint, it supported him vigorously when it could in his efforts to ..."
3. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"Yet how direly would they contrast with the empty strum-strum and the sweetish
tinkle-tinkle of most of these fossils hardly worthy the damningly negative ..."
4. The Earlier Renaissance by George Saintsbury (1901)
"... but hardly any poem shows the weaknesses of the style itself more damningly.
It is not very long : the hexameters are for the most part, if not always, ..."
5. Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages by Robin Munro (1996)
"Even more damningly, the nutritional status of no fewer than eight of the fourteen
children was explicitly recorded as being either "satisfactory" or ..."
6. America's Foreign Relations by Willis Fletcher Johnson (1916)
"He wrote a bitter protest to Franklin, in a tone of injured innocence that
contrasts damningly with his own previous utterances to Luzerne; ..."
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