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Etymology edit

deflating +‎ -ly

Adverb edit

deflatingly (comparative more deflatingly, superlative most deflatingly)

  1. (figurative) So as to deflate.
    • 2015 August 10, Charles Isherwood, “Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater”, in New York Times[1]:
      Here, the emphasis is somewhat deflatingly on the artifice in “Cymbeline.”