Smashingly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a smashing way.

    "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."

Adverb
  1. 1
    with a loud crash wordnet

Synonyms

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smash

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"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."

Etymology

From smashing + -ly.

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