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US
/dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋɫi/
]
[ UK /dɪpɹˈɛsɪŋli/ ]
[ UK /dɪpɹˈɛsɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
- in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree
How To Use depressingly In A Sentence
- But there is depressingly little sign that this will happen soon.
- His incendiary rhetoric will be depressingly familiar to the CalMac ferry staff awaiting a resolution to their own increasingly acrimonious pay dispute.
- Neville's actions set in motion a chain of events that have become depressingly familiar these days.
- Depressingly, this is still the standard format - and similarly unenlightening for the intellectually curious viewer. Times, Sunday Times
- That sounds awfully dramatic, but it's actually quite depressingly trivial and unimportant.
- Yet that perception exists in the popular imagination, as our poll so depressingly illustrates.
- This is where we come in, the pros you see seated behind the tables in the hotel conference rooms, facing the serried ranks of either depressingly empty or intimidatingly full chairs set out in rows before us. Pros at Cons at SF Novelists
- New British civic buildings with the architectural panache that continental Europeans take for granted have proved depressingly elusive for a generation. Times, Sunday Times
- The homely cardie, unfortunately, is a necessary evil in our depressingly cold and damp northern climate.
- My score was depressingly low.