smashing
impressive or wonderful: a smashing display.
crushing or devastating: a smashing defeat.
Origin of smashing
1Other words from smashing
- smash·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use smashing in a sentence
This doesn’t, of course, excuse any form of violence that took place over the weekend, but it does cast the smashing of onsite ATMs and plundering of merch in a different light.
Netflix’s Woodstock ’99 Doc Trainwreck Is Secretly an Origin Story for the War Between Millennials and Boomers | Judy Berman | August 4, 2022 | TimeIf button-smashing is more your beat, check out beyerdynamic’s gaming headphones.
Save up to $250 on beyerdynamic headphones with this bonkers big deal | Amanda Reed | August 2, 2022 | Popular-ScienceTwo mysterious galaxies, devoid of dark matter, could have a smashing origin story.
A galactic smashup might explain galaxies without dark matter | Emily Conover | May 18, 2022 | Science NewsGoyer describes it as more of a remix than a direct adaptation, and to my taste, it is a smashing success in storytelling.
Review: More remix than adaptation, Foundation is top-notch storytelling | Jennifer Ouellette | September 24, 2021 | Ars TechnicaThe spreading, smashing and plunging of tectonic plates shapes far more than just geography.
Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life | Howard Lee | March 25, 2021 | Quanta Magazine
Will he go for the schoolteacher and abandon the family, leaving behind his smashing dinner suits?
Check: “This atom smashing business is going to herald the final victory of the machine.”
Mailer’s Letters Pack a Punch and a Surprising Degree of Sweetness | Ronald K. Fried | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen I was growing up they called Green Day and Nirvana and smashing Pumpkins “alternative pop.”
The Rise of Jack Antonoff, the Taylor Swift Whisperer | Kevin Fallon | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThose who claim to speak for a vengeful Allah take great delight in smashing idols wherever and whenever they can get to them.
ISIS Is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq | Christopher Dickey | July 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis weekend should have been a smashing success for Johnny Depp.
Why Are All of Johnny Depp’s Movies Bombing at the Box Office? | Tricia Romano | April 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf she had had "some smashing love affair," as the more romantic Flora suggested, so much the better.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonOnce even a blue bean (a bullet) made sad work with my head, and my fist has got a deuce of a smashing.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.I gathered that he thought something of the boy, and was heating up to the door-smashing stage.
Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown FyfeNow good-natured Alfaretta was nothing if not helpful, and quite human enough to enjoy smashing something.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondJim took a few pulls at the strong, black tobacco, and began to reconsider his notion about smashing up the service.
The Chequers | James Runciman
British Dictionary definitions for smashing
/ (ˈsmæʃɪŋ) /
informal, mainly British excellent or first-rate; wonderful: we had a smashing time
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