thumpingly adv.
lit., very aggressively, painfully; fig., exceedingly; to a very great extent.
![]() | Rabelais iii ix 77: If I did not [...] thumpingly bethwack her Gillets. | (trans.)|
![]() | Leeds Intelligencer 23 Feb. 2/2: He was forcibly seized, amnd [...] was pretty thumpingly bumped. | |
![]() | Wells Jrnl 26 Dec. 6/6: If you sound them too thumpingly, persons will only run away from you. | |
![]() | Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Feb. 11/2: Citizen Cochepaille feelingly and thumpingly entered his protest against the tyranny exercised by men of mind. | |
![]() | Brookeville headlight (KS) 25 July 5/4: My face had gone white and my heart was beating thumpingly. | |
![]() | Chambers’s Journal Apr. 211/1: [He] gripped my hand — Shook it thumpingly . | |
![]() | Tampa Trib. (FL) 30 Mar. 17/1: He landed it thumpingly to Carpenter’s ribs. | |
![]() | Morn. Call (Allentown, PA) 5 Oct. 6/6: Fatty Arbuckle [...] still knows that fall, which he is able to execute thumpingly without hurting himself. | |
![]() | Marcshfield News-Herald (WI) 31 Oct. 4/3: Two of his most intimate henchmen [...] were thumpingly licked. | |
![]() | Manchester Guardian Weekly 11 Nov. 3: There was a thumpingly false assumption made about the American farmer . | |
![]() | Sunderland Dly Echo 28 May 7/2: [headline] Prison Board ‘Thumpingly Incompetent’. | |
![]() | Observer (London) 10 Oct. 28/2: Miss O’Brien makes it thumpingly clear that fate or whatever it is stays firmly on the side of men. | |
![]() | Times 17 Feb. 8/5: A book of thumpingly high entertainment value. | |
![]() | N&Q Feb. 85/2: Even the thumpingly main statement of the last couplet of Spenser’s ‘tradefull Merchants’ sonnet can be regarded as a mere gesture. | |
![]() | Rapid City Jrnl (SD) 16 Feb. C5/5: Zwick wanted to do something big, thumpingly big. | |
![]() | Sth Florida Sun Sentinel(Fort Lauderdale, FL) 11 Sept. 9D: Dreamworks SKG, whose first major film was thumpingly biblical. | |
![]() | Detroit Free Press (MI) Music 28 Nov. 5K/1: The Black Eyed Peas are in thumpingly goood form. | |
![]() | Asheville Citizen Times (NC) 13 Mar. B2/5: If [...] Hillary wins big, thumpingly big, your are going to see [etc]. |