Definition of "terrifyingly" [terrifyingly]

• In a terrifying manner. (adverb)

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• "Characters brighten into glowing complexity and then, trampled by the “march of time,” are all but extinguished in terrifyingly casual flash-forwards that, within the space of a paragraph, effectively write off all the writing that’s been devoted to them."
• "And in Max Ophüls's masterly "Caught" 1949, Ryan is a terrifyingly narcissistic, piercingly lonely control freak who marries to spite his psychiatrist."
• "If it serves as a wake up call, it should be to the fact that the veneer of civilization can be terrifyingly thin."