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  • adverb In a way that is very difficult to say or pronounce.

Etymologies

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jawbreaking +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • As told in President Lee Teng-hui in his jawbreakingly titled PhD thesis, Intersectoral Capital Flows in the Economic Development of Taiwan, 1895-1960, the government read: the Party-state arranged prices between the agricultural sector and industrial sector so that the agricultural paid more for inputs from manufacturing than it got for its inputs to industry.

    "Stress the North, Ignore the South" Michael Turton 2009

  • As told in President Lee Teng-hui in his jawbreakingly titled PhD thesis, Intersectoral Capital Flows in the Economic Development of Taiwan, 1895-1960, the government read: the Party-state arranged prices between the agricultural sector and industrial sector so that the agricultural paid more for inputs from manufacturing than it got for its inputs to industry.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Michael Turton 2009

  • As told in President Lee Teng-hui in his jawbreakingly titled PhD thesis,

    The View from Taiwan 2009

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