thumpingly
English
Etymology
thumping + -ly
Adverb
thumpingly (comparative more thumpingly, superlative most thumpingly)
- With thumping noises.
- He walked thumpingly up the stairs in his boots.
- (informal) Extremely.
- 1994, Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, page 169:
- It was a thumpingly tall ladder.
- 2016 March 24, Sebastian Shakespeare, “'No-one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim': Moment Burma democracy heroine Suu Kyi lost her cool with BBC's Mishal Husain after being quizzed over violence towards Muslim minority”, in Daily Mail:
- But while often seen as a symbol of the BBC’s commitment to diversity, she is, herself, thumpingly posh.
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