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deflatingly

deflatingly adverb: so as to deflate.

Adverb

deflatingly (comparative more deflatingly, superlative most deflatingly)

  1. (figuratively) So as to deflate.
    • Here, the emphasis is somewhat deflatingly on the artifice in “Cymbeline.”2015 August 10, Charles Isherwood, “Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater”, in New York Times

Forms of deflatingly

comparativemore deflatingly
superlativemost deflatingly

Origin of deflatingly

From deflating + -ly.

Questions about deflatingly

What does deflatingly mean?
Deflatingly means so as to deflate.
What part of speech is deflatingly?
Deflatingly is an adverb.

Words near deflatingly in the dictionary

  1. Deflategate
  2. deflater
  3. deflaters
  4. deflates
  5. deflating
  6. deflatingly
  7. deflation
  8. deflational
  9. deflationarily
  10. deflationary
  11. deflationism

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