English edit

Etymology edit

smashing +‎ -ly

Adverb edit

smashingly (comparative more smashingly, superlative most smashingly)

  1. In a smashing way.
    • 2007 January 27, Eric Konigsberg, “On Your Toes, Blokes, 2 Highnesses Coming — Charles and Camilla”, in New York Times[1]:
      It has been just over a year since their Wellington boots last sloshed about on these shores, and it’s not as though that trip — billed as their first official overseas tour since being married in April 2005 — came off so smashingly that they, or an adoring American public, ought to be crying out for another.