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Stunningly

Stunning \Stun"ning\, a.

  1. Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.

  2. Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry. [Slang]
    --C. Kingsley. -- Stun"ning*ly, adv. [Slang]

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stunningly

adv. 1 In a stunning manner. 2 extremely

WordNet
stunningly

adv. in a spectacular manner; "the area was spectacularly scenic" [syn: spectacularly]

Usage examples of "stunningly".

Tania was stunningly attractive with the unfair added ad vantage of a gorgeous figure, she was plainly not the kind of woman who intended to capitalise on her looks, and that she seemed to prefer female company to male.

Two stunningly unscrupulous people with rich but closefisted families could hardly devise a more surefire means of inducing them to hand over a sackful or two.

Even though the day outside was stunningly clear and bright, harsh sunlight spilling across the dark black of the nonskid on the flight deck, there was always the danger of icing as moisture from the air condensed on metal surfaces.

Kelian, a stunningly beautiful woman who spoke softly, with only a trace of an accent that somehow seemed more Bodarkadian than Svanetian, suggested that the interview ought to be conducted in her library, which had not been disturbed or bloodied during the foul play.

She had felt both his love and that of her son wash through her at that moment, and then, stunningly, Caelum spoke in her mind as well, something he had never done before.

For several rooms in sequence we were confronted by questions related to tiling patterns - tessellations - while another sequence tested our understanding of cellular automata: odd chequerboard armies of shapes which obeyed simple rules and yet interacted in stunningly complex ways.

Remembering how stunningly beautiful Polaris had been three centuries ago, he imagined she must resemble a goddess these days.

Rock did remember the day he had faced his father down and—after years of beefing up at the gym, at army boot camp, and on the first and only leave he had used to return home—with one stunningly quick left hook, had set him down on the pavement in front of the Pittsburgh ghetto tenement in which Rock had been brought up.

He'd been following this guy with the stunningly original name of Uptown Brown, brown being the color of the bad heroin he sold in Harlem in order to support a more fashionable existence on Fifth Avenue east of Central Park, brown also being the color of his victims, who shot the stuff and then went into respiratory arrest from whatever it was-Drano, battery acid, whateverhe cut it with.

This was supposed to make look less sordid the fact that we had a house full of rich and powerful men, none of them accompanied by wives or partners, and a rather larger number of stunningly beautiful and allegedly unattached young women all desperate to make a name for themselves in the world of fashion, modelling, glamour photography, acting or, well, almost anything.

In face and form, the Gradi goddess was stunningly beautiful, more perfect than any being the Fox had imagined, but even had she been his size, he would have known no stir of desire for her.

Softer and more feminine fabrics, silk, rep-cloth, and such, often brief and clinging, not only stunningly attractive and aesthetically pleasing, but also indictive of, and reflective of, their subjection to masculine domination, are generally required of them.

She was stunningly beautiful, but with the kind of calculated beauty that is achieved by a team of skilled artists, manicurists, plasterers, corsetiers and dressmakers and three hours' solid work every morning.

Being the man he was, Lapin's interest was focused not on the stunningly beautiful redhaired receptionist sitting behind her glass desk, microskirted legs demurely crossed, nor even on the splendid view to be seen through the picture windows.

When he was a kid walking home from the old library at Lee Circle, he used to go into this big showroom and open the doors of the stunningly beautiful German cars and swoon over them for as long as he could get away with it before a salesman took notice.