squashingly

English

Etymology

squashing +‎ -ly

Adverb

squashingly (comparative more squashingly, superlative most squashingly)

  1. In a squashing way; belittlingly.
    • 2003, Margaret Pelling; Frances White, Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London:
      Crooke was allowed to set his own question for his second examination, hut was still, rather squashingly, not approved […]
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