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
Director Bartlett Sher locates in Ambrose and Harry Hadden-Paton — the smashingly immature Henry of this exhilarating Lincoln Center Theater revival — a matchup that reveals the ecstatic extent of Eliza’s development.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2018
And good palo cortado, along the lines of the F. de Castilla Antique or Valdespino Calle Ponce, is smashingly good with a silky, slightly smoky soup made with roasted delicata squash, apples and cream.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
He’s fully aware that fellow NFL owners have done smashingly well over the last 10 years and he’s anxious for his turn at the trough.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2016
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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