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Definition of Desolatingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desolatingly
Literary usage of Desolatingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"BOOKS ABROAD compounded a story as desolatingly dark within as it is brilliantly
polished without. His elegant mockery, his cruel aptness of phrase, ..."
2. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"Unhappily, every stroke that is at all delicate, or rare, or precious is multiplied,
and repeated, and obtruded, usually on the limbs of some desolatingly ..."
3. Italy, France and Britain at War by Herbert George Wells (1917)
"... the external equipment of our leaders that falls behind the times; our political
and administrative services are in the hands of the same desolatingly ..."
4. Italy, France and Britain at War by Herbert George Wells (1917)
"... the external equipment of our leaders that falls behind the times; our political
and administrative services are in the hands of the same desolatingly ..."
5. Italy, France and Britain at War by Herbert George Wells (1917)
"... the external equipment of our leaders that falls behind the times; our political
and administrative services are in the hands of the same desolatingly ..."
6. The French Revolution of 1789 as Viewed in the Light of Republican Institutions by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1887)
"... more desolatingly. It is true that in many other countries of Europe the state
of affairs was equally bad, if not worse. ..."
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