killingly
English
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editkillingly (comparative more killingly, superlative most killingly)
- So as to kill; fatally.
- (figuratively) So as to incapacitate with laughter.
- 1916, William Dean Howells, Between the Dark and the Daylight, page 152:
- I should not be able to say how killingly droll I found this.