damningly
- a word derived from damning.
Example Sentences
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Although there was still plenty of time left for Newcastle to get back into the game, damningly, they never truly looked like equalising.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025
In between is the elusive truth of Elvis and Priscilla’s romance and eventual marriage, the specifics of which Coppola dramatizes with a damningly straight face.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023
They break into the house of Maya’s most solicitous client, engage in a bacchanal at Sonny’s home and, most damningly, Sonny lends Huck some of his family’s money.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Most damningly, and over a longer term, the rate of Americans identifying baseball as their favorite sport was 39 percent in 1948 and had fallen to 9 percent by 2017.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2021
Each candidate, while praising his opponent, wound up with but—and after that conjunction spoke most damningly of his policy.
From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles
