ˈstaggeringly, adv.
[f. staggering ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a staggering manner; unsteadily, totteringly; also (rarely) so as to stagger or shock; hence in trivial use, amazingly; exceedingly.
| 1575 Gascoigne Posies, Jocasta iii. i, To stay our state that staggringly doth stand. 1682 Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. xxx. (1716) 36 While we are but staggeringly evil, we are not left without..merciful interventions, to recal us unto our selves. 1878 ‘Ouida’ Friendship ii, Staggeringly and audaciously impossible. 1898 B. Gregory Side Lights 489 We bore up staggeringly against wind and tide. 1976 J. Cooper Harriet xvi. 131 She felt staggeringly untogether... She had a blinding headache. 1979 PN Rev. 9 60/2 It is the mark of staggeringly few of the great pulpiteers. 1979 Guardian 3 Nov. 11/3 What he is going to say in his six lectures..is staggeringly banal. |