damning
adjective
causing incrimination.
damningly
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a word derived from
damning.
Example Sentences
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“The prevailing narrative is that inflation remains damningly high, but 2.5% is not that far from the Fed’s 2% goal,” said Bob Edwards, chief investment officer at Edwards Asset Management.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
Perhaps most damningly, Posobiec listed a Maryland address—the same one he and his wife show in social media posts—more than a dozen times in his 2024 political contributions, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2025
The bandmates dressed in secondhand suits that made them look posh to some and, perhaps more damningly, refused to flatten their class identity into something easily legible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
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 Miles Franklin
