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  • adverb In a mountainous way.

Etymologies

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mountainous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • A big thank you to the people who have made this easier, less mountainously insurmountable!

    Dar Williams: 2011: The Year We Conquer E-Waste! Dar Williams 2011

  • Sarah came over and stood mountainously by the table.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • A big thank you to the people who have made this easier, less mountainously insurmountable!

    Dar Williams: 2011: The Year We Conquer E-Waste! Dar Williams 2011

  • A big thank you to the people who have made this easier, less mountainously insurmountable!

    Dar Williams: 2011: The Year We Conquer E-Waste! Dar Williams 2011

  • A big thank you to the people who have made this easier, less mountainously insurmountable!

    Dar Williams: 2011: The Year We Conquer E-Waste! Dar Williams 2011

  • They gamely offered to take over my cases for a few months, adding on to their already mountainously high workload.

    Long Way Home Laura Caldwell 2010

  • All night, the wall of fear towered mountainously above me and by the morning I had convinced myself that I would never climb it.

    The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

  • It was taped; but, that was 1975 and I was reading about Hazel the Stripper from Victory; and, funnily enough, I was wearing this ankle-length denim jumper and the shoulder straps kept falling down and, if you could see how flat-chested, er, mountainously challenged, I am, you'd understand why "funnily" is exactly what I mean.

    Cri de coeur ... Frank Wilson 2008

  • Their big spaces invite big concepts, and Freud's swaggering nudes of sitters such as the corpulent drag queen Leigh Bowery and the mountainously obese Sue Tilley happen to answer to the demand almost as well as the split sharks of Damien Hirst and the monster puppies of Jeff Koons.

    The Way to All Flesh Bell, Julian 2008

  • But jesus christ on roller skates, man, how mountainously stupid.

    "To quote the titular song, 'You said you was high class/Well, that was just a lie.'" Ann Althouse 2007

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