deflatingly

adv

deflatingly

adv

Etymology From deflating + -ly.

1

Figuratively So as to deflate.

Here, the emphasis is somewhat deflatingly on the artifice in “Cymbeline.”2015 August 10, Charles Isherwood, “Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater”, in New York Times:

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