thoroughgoingly

English

Etymology

thoroughgoing +‎ -ly

Adverb

thoroughgoingly (comparative more thoroughgoingly, superlative most thoroughgoingly)

1. fully; completely; thoroughly
   • 1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:

     Ted Bundy wasn’t particularly Lynchian, but good old Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victim’s various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian.

   • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 45:

     The thoroughgoingly ironic environmentalist laughs at herself, not just at others.