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consumedly

[ kuhn-soo-mid-lee ]

adverb

  1. excessively; extremely:

    a consumedly profound wish.



consumedly

/ °ìÉ™²Ôˈ²õÂá³Ü˳¾Éª»å±ôɪ /

adverb

  1. old-fashioned.
    (intensifier)

    a consumedly fascinating performance

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of consumedly1

First recorded in 1700–10; consumed ( def ) + -ly
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Young's Six Weeks' Tour is most consumedly dull, reeking of turnips, sticky with marl, and the accounts of "the seats of the nobility and gentry, and other objects worthy of notice, by the author of the Farmers' Letters," are very rarely interesting.

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But Thackeray was obliged reluctantly to acknowledge the grace and charm of the Fourth George, and to chronicle some of the kind acts he performed, although at these last he sneered consumedly, because, forsooth, those thus benefited were quite humble persons.

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I am most consumedly in the flat key, Biddulph," said he; "I know not what to do with myself.

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You can't expatiate too much for our entertainment on your impressions, though you make us want consumedly to go over and follow in your footsteps.

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It may be old, but we heard it for the first time the other evening, and it made us "laugh consumedly."

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