dizzily
advEtymology From dizzy + -ly.
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In a dizzy manner.
- I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum.1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Descent into the Maelström:
- The Australians had seen it coming—Singapore's fall and the inevitable sequel, the Japanese air attack on the Australian mainland […]. But it had happened dizzily fast.1942 March 2, “Feeling the Crunch”, in Time:
1 more example
- 1977, Hansard, Scotland and Wales Bill, 15 February, 1977, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/ The Lord President can not avoid our pointing out that the Government's position has shifted dizzily from point to point during these debates.