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damningly
adverb
uk /ˈdæm.ɪŋ.li/ us /ˈdæm.ɪŋ.li/
in a way that includes a lot of criticism or shows clearly that someone is wrong, guilty, or has behaved very badly:
Damningly, more than 80 percent of complaints against the company were upheld.
Most damningly, the report found that prison heads failed to tackle race discrimination.
Damningly, it has been proved that nobody in the government bothered to correct the inaccurate claim.
Most damningly, witnesses said he told them that he intended to steal the money.
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Critical & uncomplimentary
acidulous
aloof
astringency
astringently
barbed
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captious
censorious
derogatory
hypercritical
scarifying
scarifyingly
scathing
scathingly
scorchingly
self-critical
shade
sniffy
uncomplimentary
venomous
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