chokingly
English
Etymology
choking + -ly
Adverb
chokingly (comparative more chokingly, superlative most chokingly)
- While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke
- 1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory:
- Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly.
- 1992 May 15, Effie Mihopoulos, “Silent Messengers”, in Chicago Reader:
- In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces.
- 2007 April 12, Richard Eder, “A Line Divides Art and Life. Erase It at Your Own Risk.”, in New York Times:
- His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct.
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See also
- chokily