deflatingly

English

Etymology

From deflating +‎ -ly.

Adverb

deflatingly (comparative more deflatingly, superlative most deflatingly)

1. (figurative) So as to deflate.
   • 2015 August 10, Charles Isherwood, “Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Here, the emphasis is somewhat deflatingly on the artifice in “Cymbeline.”