squashingly

In a squashing way; belittlingly.

Adverb

  1. In a squashing way; belittlingly.
    • Crooke was allowed to set his own question for his second examination, hut was still, rather squashingly, not approved […] - 2003, Margaret Pelling, Frances White, Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London:

Origin

From squashing + -ly.

Forms

more squashingly most squashingly