arrestingly
advEtymology From arresting + -ly.
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In a way or to an extent that is arresting; so as to catch the attention suddenly.
- She was arrestingly beautiful.
- The tag still fits the arrestingly paradoxical presence of this performance artist[…2009 January 14, Ben Brantley, Jason Zinoman, “In Festival, Biography, Beckett and Blues”, in New York Times:
- Synonyms
- strikingly