stupendously
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Reviewer David Kipen celebrated Wallace’s “stupendously high-toned vocabulary and gleeful low-comedy diction, coupled with a sense of syntax so elongated that he can seem to go for days without surfacing.”
From Los Angeles Times
There she was stupendously sick over the side of the ship.
From Literature
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Whatever the reason turns out to be, once Kate resumes public life this chapter might be regarded as proof that the royals are stupendously awful at branding and image burnishing in the Instagram age.
From Salon
Playing from memory, Kavakos cleared one hazard after another in Shostakovich’s stupendously original score.
From New York Times
The world’s biggest victims are in fact Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, a pair of incredibly rich, stupendously privileged, horribly entitled narcissists.
From New York Times
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