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damningly

adverb

damningly is spelled D-A-M-N-I-N-G-L-Y: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, damningly means “In a damning manner, or to an extent that is damning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in damningly?

Letters9: D-A-M-N-I-N-G-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 58 million words; the 237,177th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is damningly?

Damningly appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of damningly

  • more damningly comparative
  • most damningly superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does damningly mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

  1. 1

    In a damning manner, or to an extent that is damning.

    The recordings are damningly explicit.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does damningly come from?

From damning + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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