breath-catchingly

English

Etymology

breath-catching +‎ -ly

Adverb

breath-catchingly (comparative more breath-catchingly, superlative most breath-catchingly)

1. shockingly; so as to make one catch one's breath
   • 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):

     Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.