damningly

English

Etymology

damning +‎ -ly

Adverb

damningly (comparative more damningly, superlative most damningly)

1. In a damning manner, or to an extent that is damning.

   The recordings are damningly explicit.

   • 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116:

     In contrast, Kindersley takes an approach that is closer to that of a descriptive linguist and is largely devoid of the superior tone of Goffin: where Kindersley uses the term ‘pleonastic cliché’, Goffin more damningly has ‘phrase-mongering’.