Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a gasping manner; with gasps.
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- adverb In a
gasping way.
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Examples
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Big House itself, constituted a sum gaspingly ungraspable to the country-side.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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He mastered everything Im secretly zealous about, writing-wise: every sentence glows, his plots are flawless, descriptions gaspingly real, themesthe sadness of exile, obsessive love, childhood, problems of knowledge and memoryalways relevant.
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It's not that this is so air-gaspingly stupid - it's that she was caught unprepared on so basic, obvious a question ... and thought it was a smart answer.
Robert J. Elisberg: The Sarah Palin-Carrie Prejean Two-for-One Tour 2010
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It's not that this is so air-gaspingly stupid - it's that she was caught unprepared on so basic, obvious a question...and thought it was a smart answer.
Robert J. Elisberg: The Sarah Palin-Carrie Prejean Two-for-One Tour Robert J. Elisberg 2010
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Executive producer-head writer Brad Bell has a horrible habit of casting his young stars for sexiness, rather than acting chops — in fact, some of the kids on this show are achingly, gaspingly bad.
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It's not that this is so air-gaspingly stupid - it's that she was caught unprepared on so basic, obvious a question ... and thought it was a smart answer.
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It's not that this is so air-gaspingly stupid - it's that she was caught unprepared on so basic, obvious a question ... and thought it was a smart answer.
Robert J. Elisberg: The Sarah Palin-Carrie Prejean Two-for-One Tour 2009
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To suppose at this late date that people are rational in anything, but especially in consideration of their own self-interest, is to be painfully, gaspingly ignorant.
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I never said a word to her, but my speechless outrage at what she was mis-teaching an innocent child left me gaspingly silent many times.
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In this draft we has seen earlier ones, the first two paragraphs were gaspingly beautiful, so full of the atmosphere of the Sierra Nevada mountains that I not only to this day picture his opening in my mind as clearly as a movie — I remember it as though I had actually been there.
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