squashingly
English
Etymology
squashing + -ly
Adverb
squashingly (comparative more squashingly, superlative most squashingly)
- 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 […]
- 2003, Margaret Pelling, Frances White, Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London