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Depressingly

Depressingly \De*press"ing*ly\, adv. In a depressing manner.

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depressingly

adv. In a depressing manner.

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depressingly

adv. in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree

Usage examples of "depressingly".

A few minutes of study gave him a depressingly easy working diagnosis: Donny was suffering from chronic granulomatous disease.

Doubtfully they leased an apartment in an oldish building on the South Side, decent enough but depressingly inferior to their green and silver cottage in Kinnikinick, their canary-yellow flat in Des Moines.

Christmas seemed cheap and depressingly pointless to him this year, its practitioners yuppified and smugly materialistic.

No reason at all, and yet before going downstairs she stared at herself critically in her bedroom mirror and decided depressingly that she was perfectly safe from Silas because no man with any sense of taste could possibly find anything remotely attractive in a five foot-two female dressed in old jeans and a bulky sweatshirt, who wore her hair in a cloud of untidy curls.

An audience, understand, wholly incapable of self-realization or cogent articulation, and thus possessors of depressingly vulgar tastes when not apprised of what they like, if only they knew it.

But Mordecai arrived in Miami to discover a depressingly small number of imprisoned South American drug barons.

Despite being rather depressingly classified as a mature student, she managed to have a pretty wild time in her first year.

Some contained titillation and scandal mongering, but to Bellis they were depressingly parochial.

It seemed depressingly apparent that if the away team was going to escape, it would have to be on foot.