Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a stunning manner; so as to produce a stunning effect.
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- adverb In a
stunning manner. - adverb
extremely
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- adverb in a spectacular manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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On this occasion, it wasn't Healey who bit back on this occasion, but a correspondent named Eugene McCabe, who took issue with the review and turned his ire on the reviewer herself, saying he has taken a ghost story of Battersby's published in the Irish Times, which he calls "stunningly bad", and "used it in a workshop as an example of how to avoid writing 'Shite and onions'."
The Guardian World News David Barnett 2011
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Even so, I imagine that the final result would remain stunningly high. —
When a Pack of Cigarettes Costs $222 - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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It's the landscape architecture of the cosmos in stunningly huge and beautiful images.
Prunings XXXVI 2007
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It's the landscape architecture of the cosmos in stunningly huge and beautiful images.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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No. 23 Virginia ended Miami's 70-year stay at the famed stadium in stunningly one-sided fashion Saturday night - dealing the Hurricanes the biggest shutout loss in Orange Bowl history.
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My colleague Jake Fisher calls the stunningly-fast Infiniti G35 a “four-door Miata.”
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Durham has reimagined this vanished world in stunningly precise detail, and his lucid explanations of the give-and-take of military decision-making help the reader through some dauntingly complicated material.
The Pride of Carthage: Summary and book reviews of The Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham. 2005
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And that is precisely what the Rams did in stunningly inept fashion.
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Karabel calls the stunningly meager number of low-income students enrolled at selective colleges a "national scandal" and prescribes a policy of class based affirmative action to address this national embarrassment.
Matthew Schwieger: Look To Class: A Solution For Affirmative Action 2008
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My colleague Jake Fisher calls the stunningly-fast Infiniti G35 a “four-door Miata.”
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