Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a consuming manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a consuming manner.
Examples
“That also goes a long way ensuring that future upgrades can be installed without painfully and time-consumingly merging code changes with the upgrade.”
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“As we established back in the Sonia Sotomayor days, none of us is consumingly fascinated with these kinds of confirmation hearings.”
“It's because I love these so ardently, so consumingly, that I feel about the visual arts some of Socrates's iconoclastic distrust.”
“Which is why, as a constantly, effortfully, expensively and very time-consumingly 'slim, toned, well groomed & dressed woman (who is prepared at the very least to feign interest in sex)'I don't think I'm asking such an awful lot of the world wanting a man with a half decent job (I gave up aspiring to the tall, dark, handsome thing in my middle teens...)”
“But the fact remains that I must have got the highest ratio of long, carefully-composed, time-consumingly written blog posts to actual readers in the entire blogosphere.”
“Fery tricky problem well, if time consumingly, handled.”
“I've never loved anyone like this, so all-consumingly, with the feeling that she is just part of me, and to have that person reject me so bluntly just kills me.”
“Things are so blastedly, wondrously, and all-consumingly baffling and overwhelming at this point, that I'm not entirely sure what to say.”
“Never before had the beast overcome him so completely, so consumingly.”
Ascendance
“It was as though the complex history of resentfully recorded Scott politics that sparked or fuelled their frequent inter-sibling atrocities made the notion of extra-familial violence seem a pointless frivolity, like casual sex when you're in a consumingly passionate long-term relationship.”
Boiling a Frog
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone has to list them.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about adverbs here.
Reesetee's list Conjunctive Adv...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2243 more...

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