squashingly

English

Etymology

squashing +‎ -ly

Adverb

squashingly (comparative more squashingly, superlative most squashingly)

1. In a squashing way; belittlingly.
   • 2003, Margaret Pelling, Frances White, Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London:

     Crooke was allowed to set his own question for his second examination, hut was still, rather squashingly, not approved […]