Definitions

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  • adverb While crashing, or as if crashing
  • adverb Absolutely; terribly

Etymologies

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crashing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • It seems kind of crashingly obvious that if there was no choice - if you lived in area A and had to send your child to school A, without the options of schools B, C, and D - then the social mix would improve dramatically, nowhere would become any kind of ghetto, and all those eager-beaver middle-class parents could colonise the school associations and the governors 'board and instil the kinds of improvements that would be welcomed by everyone.

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

  • This may be more crashingly obvious for a writer who doesn't write front to back.

    mrissa: Story going wrong panel addendum mrissa 2010

  • Most impressively, he does a good job of projecting his voice over the crashingly loud arrangements that seem to be the norm tonight.

    'American Idol' 2011: Top 13 perform 2011

  • I think it should be crashingly obvious, but I want to say it anyway: the goal of a story is not to get to the end.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2010

  • I think it should be crashingly obvious, but I want to say it anyway: the goal of a story is not to get to the end.

    mrissa: Story going wrong panel addendum mrissa 2010

  • This may be more crashingly obvious for a writer who doesn't write front to back.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2010

  • But the producers, who had been so ahead of our game 10 years ago, sucking us in and manipulating subtly, somehow didn't hear these chats, any of them, and kept stuffing in some of the most dysfunctional people in Britain, ramping it up, manipulating with anything but subtlety, like a magician dropping the palmed coin and backing crashingly into the mirrors.

    Rewind TV: Big Brother; The X Factor; Dispatches 2010

  • In the late 1950s, Lexie Sinclair arrives in London, falls crashingly in love with magazine editor Innes Kent, and plunges into a vivid, vital world of art, sex, G&Ts and late nights spent poring over page proofs.

    The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell 2010

  • Every now and then, I come across a film that is so crashingly awful that I find myself numb from shock when considering that seemingly intelligent adults spent their time and energy (not to mention someone else’s money) to create a monstrosity.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008

  • As atool for evaluating players it appears somewhere between crashingly obvious and the most frightful rot.

    Hilarity rates high on Capello Index 2010

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