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Killingly

[ kil-ing-lee ]

/ ˈkɪl ɪŋ li /

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noun

a town in NE Connecticut.

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How to use Killingly in a sentence

To Anna that part seemed not so killingly funny or so very interesting, but she was not one of the book's editors.
Kincaid's Battery|George W. Cable
Also the younger and chubbier Draymore youth has offered himself—after a killingly proper interview with me.
The Younger Set|Robert W. Chambers
For instead of undergoing the illusion of the drama, she found it killingly comic as soon as she understood that it was serious.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes|Israel Zangwill
It was just like Nan and her father; no one else would ever have thought up anything so preposterous, so killingly funny.
Otherwise Phyllis|Meredith Nicholson

I should not be able to say how killingly droll I found this.
Years of My Youth|William Dean Howells