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Definition of Slashingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slashingly
Literary usage of Slashingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nineteenth Century (1889)
"This is the slashingly racy way with which the parting kick is given to some of
the brightest intelligences and best workers ..."
2. Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather (1916)
"He bettered the composition a little, bringing the frame nearer the figure, and
laying the coquettish form more slashingly athwart the oblong. ..."
3. Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather (1916)
"He bettered the composition a little, bringing the frame nearer the figure, and
laying the coquettish form more slashingly athwart the oblong. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"They are all in lorza rima, written without much literary correctness, but
remarkably spirited, pointed, and even brilliant They are slashingly denunciatory ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"They are slashingly denunciatory, and from this point of view too monotonous in
treatment. Rosa here appears as a very severe castigator of all ranks and ..."
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