smashingly
Americanadverb
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impressively or wonderfully; excellently.
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crushingly or devastatingly.
Example Sentences
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He transparently believes he’d have gotten along smashingly with Hitler and Stalin, and it’s a shame he wasn’t around to help defuse World War II and the Cold War.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025
The play is far from perfect, but that’s usually the case when mate is delivered so smashingly in under 30 moves.
From Washington Times • May 23, 2023
And there you have the principal reason this “Carmen Jones” is so smashingly effective.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2018
All through the vast quilt of college football, you run into cases of journeys where it all worked out, though seldom so smashingly as this.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2017
No one should mind if, by spending only a few hours a week thinking about DNA, he helped me solve a smashingly important problem.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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