depressingly

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de·press·ing

(dĭ-prĕs′ĭng)

adj.

Causing sadness, gloom, or dejection: depressing news; a depressing movie; rainy, depressing weather.

de·press′ing·ly adv.

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Adv.

depressingly - in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree

Translations

pietoso

depressingly

[dɪˈpresɪŋlɪ] ADV [say, reply] → tristemente
Dad had become depressingly weak → era deprimente ver lo débil que se había quedado papá
it all sounded depressingly familiar → me sonaba todo tanto que era deprimente
it was a depressingly familiar story → era una historia tan sabida or oída que resultaba deprimente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

depressingly

[dɪˈprɛsɪŋli] adv
depressingly familiar → terriblement familier/ière

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

depressingly

adv → deprimierend; it all sounded depressingly familiar → es hörte sich alles nur zu vertraut an; depressingly, the costs are too high → deprimierenderweise sind die Kosten zu hoch

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depressingly

[dɪˈprɛsɪŋlɪ] adv → in modo deprimente

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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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He was the owner of another, not quite so "good" - the jolly corner having been, from far back, superlatively extended and consecrated; and the value of the pair represented his main capital, with an income consisting, in these later years, of their respective rents which (thanks precisely to their original excellent type) had never been depressingly low.

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The surrounding country itself was pleasant, as far as fertile fields, flourishing trees, quiet green lanes, and smiling hedges with wild-flowers scattered along their banks, could make it; but it was depressingly flat to one born and nurtured among the rugged hills of -.

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And, sadly and depressingly, a couple of recruits - Steven Holroyd, an idiot from Bradford, and American idiot "J" - seem to have joined up, in part, thanks to the programmes.

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That is very much the message in Brummer's excellent book outlining the depressingly large number of scandals surrounding many of the world's banks over the past few years.