zingingly
adverb
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adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English zinging Middle English -ly English -ly English zingingly From zinging + -ly.
- While zinging, or as if making a zinging sound.
“Stooping, he plucked a blade of grass and ran it zingingly through his very white teeth.”
“The six young women of its corps de ballet each extended a leg sideways, not high, but so zingingly as — you realized only in the next millisecond — to reveal the music, which only arrived in time with their feet.”
- To the point of zinging.
“zingingly fresh; zingingly spicy”
“I looked splendid in my dark blue Canali jacket, a zingingly white shirt, a silly colourful tie covered with cartoon men and women in various stages of undress and my soft black leather Gucci shoes.”
- In a very agreeable, favourable or successful way.
“Everyone got on zingingly […]”
“Her mind roams back over the evening. How had it all gone? Quite zingingly, she thinks. Everybody seemed to have enjoyed themselves […]”