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  • adverb With a slashing motion.

Etymologies

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slashing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Here, during the interregnum occasioned by the death, or rather inevitable retirement, of Lord Liverpool, Mr. Rigby contrived to scrape up a conviction that the Duke was the winning horse, and in consequence there appeared a series of leading articles in a notorious evening newspaper, in which it was, as Tadpole and Taper declared, most 'slashingly' shown, that the son of an actress could never be tolerated as a Prime Minister of

    Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • People in Minnesota have this reputation for being "nice" that Diablo Cody seems determined to undermine -- which she does in slashingly funny style in Jason Reitman's Young Adult, opening in limited release Friday 12/9/11 before going wide on Dec. 16.

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Young Adult Marshall Fine 2011

  • He was the alien being, astonishingly and thoroughly dim at times, and at others, slashingly incisive and with (what seemed to her then) incredibly penetrating wisdom.

    The Beginning and End of Comedy 2009

  • He was the alien being, astonishingly and thoroughly dim at times, and at others, slashingly incisive and with (what seemed to her then) incredibly penetrating wisdom.

    The Beginning and End of Comedy 2009

  • He does this with remarkable ease, which, if you happen to be a “working” journalist, should be wrist-slashingly uproarious.

    The Western Front 2009

  • While it's a very masculine scent, it's also one that ladies could easy get away with- with a suit and heels it would be slashingly chic.

    You Gotta Have Friends... Marina Geigert 2008

  • While it's a very masculine scent, it's also one that ladies could easy get away with- with a suit and heels it would be slashingly chic.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • This has been compared to Guerlain Derby and it does make that same slashingly chic statement.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • However, both versions seem to me satisfactory on the whole, though the Hayward-Hingley translation (Praeger) is somewhat more forceful and slashingly idiomatic in style.

    House of the Dead? Rahv, Philip 1963

  • Slim Riley had the stick when the first blast of hot oil ripped slashingly across the pilot's window.

    Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Various

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