deflatingly

English

Etymology

From deflating +‎ -ly.

Adverb

deflatingly (comparative more deflatingly, superlative most deflatingly)

  1. (figurative) So as to deflate.
    • 2015 August 10, Charles Isherwood, “Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Here, the emphasis is somewhat deflatingly on the artifice in “Cymbeline.”
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