telling
[tel-ing]
- having force or effect; effective; striking: a telling blow.
- revealing; indicative of much otherwise unnoticed: a telling analysis of motivation in business.
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Origin of telling
Synonyms
See more synonyms for telling on Thesaurus.com1. powerful, forceful, potent, weighty.
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Examples from the Web for tellingly
Contemporary Examples
Tellingly, but not coincidentally, the greatest expansion of Medicaid has occurred in Deep Blue America.
Tellingly, Rieux finds common ground with every character except the priest.
Three days after, she retweeted a tellingly simple sentence: “Family is hard.”
Tellingly, both still trail the haul stacked up by The LEGO Movie back in February.
Tellingly, Cantor and Griffin received more financial support from outside their home states than within.
Historical Examples
Readers of his journals and correspondence know how vividly and tellingly he can relate an experience or touch off a character.
Life of John KeatsSidney Colvin
These are tellingly related in that classic volume, "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada."
Your National ParksEnos A. Mills
The slogan, heard so tellingly at Lucknow, is swelling up the glaciers of the Asiatic fatherland to save it from the Scythians!
But Gilian, as he went, busied himself on how he should convey most tellingly the story he brought down the glen.
Gilian The DreamerNeil Munro
Here is where the influence of every fair-minded woman and patriotic man can be tellingly exerted.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural HistoryTheodore Wood
telling
- having a marked effect or impacta telling blow
- revealinga telling smile
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