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Depressingly

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de·press·ing  (d-prsng)
adj.
1. Causing especially emotional depression.
2. Dismal; dreary: a week of rainy, depressing weather.
de·pressing·ly adv.
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Adv.1.depressingly - in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree
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Saxon browsed among Hafler's books, though most of them were depressingly beyond her, while Billy hunted with Hafler's guns.
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