deflatingly
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Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
deflatingly (comparative more deflatingly, superlative most deflatingly)
- (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.”