desolatingly

It is not only the external equipment of our leaders that falls behind the times; our political and administrative services are in the hands of the same desolatingly inadaptable class.

War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906

Scotlands, her Irelands of unforgettable wrongs, kicking, squalling, bawling most desolatingly, for nothing that any one can understand.

Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906

a drab-coloured passage that was not only narrow and dirty but desolatingly empty, and then he opened a door and revealed my aunt sitting at the window with a little sewing-machine on a bamboo occasional table before her, and "work" -- a plum-coloured walking dress

Tono Bungay 1906