vertiginous
adjective
whirling; spinning; rotary.
vertiginously
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a word derived from
vertiginous.
Example Sentences
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“Floor Scrapers,” a personal favorite, assumes an intimate vantage point of looking down toward the workmen’s vigorous labor, which results in a floor that appears vertiginously tilted up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
The feelings it touches on suggest the sort of wisdom an adult might look to pass on to a child to prepare her for a world that is vertiginously beautiful as well as disappointing.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2021
If you climb the black-carpeted steps toward the threshold of the illuminated wall, your sense of where you are teeters vertiginously.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
We shuffled vertiginously to one door, then another, then another, before finding the real exit and escaping to a lobby.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
A few Islamic banks were in the habit of offering vertiginously high "profits".
From Crime and Corruption by Samuel Vaknin
