killingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

killing +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

killingly (comparative more killingly, superlative most killingly)

  1. So as to kill; fatally.
  2. (figuratively) So as to incapacitate with laughter.
    • 1916, William Dean Howells, Between the Dark and the Daylight, page 152:
      I should not be able to say how killingly droll I found this.
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