Definition of "killingly" []

• In a killing manner. (adverb)

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• "This should create a healthy sense of urgency - it should prevent critics, in other words, from producing the kind of killingly dull reviews that seem intended for someone trapped in a bus shelter during a giant rainstorm, circa 1953."
• "Adam Mars-Jones's review … was at once erudite, attentive, killingly fair-minded and viciously funny."
• "His "killingly fair-minded and viciously funny" review of the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham's latest book, By Nightfall, has won novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year award."