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  • adverb In a wilting manner.

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Examples

  • Lunch menu €58; tasting menus €80, €120 and €150; à la carte €90Since most of Paris's storied brasseries are now owned by corporate chains and serve wiltingly mediocre food, it's a pleasure to head to one of the last remaining independent ones in a quiet corner of the silk-stocking 16th arrondissement for a fine feed of such well-prepared French classics as onion soup, escargots, sole meunière, steak tartare, roast lamb and other Gallic standards.

    10 of the best restaurants in Paris 2011

  • For starters, it literally takes your breath away, you can't think and can barely converse, and --- something I didn't understand before but do exquisitely now --- since you can't exercise much less move much, you become wiltingly weak.

    Carla Seaquist: A Trek Through Cancer Carla Seaquist 2010

  • We don't have to remind you that this summer's been hot—wiltingly so.

    Zen and the art of mower maintenance 2010

  • We don't have to remind you that this summer's been hot — wiltingly so.

    Zen and the art of mower maintenance 2010

  • He fixed me with a stare and said wiltingly something very much like, perhaps you should actually understand it before you do a little one-line take-down.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Efficient Market Hypothesis, a Bleg: 2009

  • If I'd had this in my collection this past summer when Los Angeles was suffering under a wiltingly humid July I'd have happily doused myself in it.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • She turned on me a flatteringly protracted but a wiltingly disapproving gaze, and then went inside, humming a light song to indicate the value she placed upon my existence.

    Options O. Henry 1886

  • In this wiltingly beautiful aria, she remembers the good old days, when the Count was a truly devoted husband.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • In this wiltingly beautiful aria, she remembers the good old days, when the Count was a truly devoted husband.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • In this wiltingly beautiful aria, she remembers the good old days, when the Count was a truly devoted husband.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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