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Definition of "wiltingly" [wiltingly]

  • In a wilting manner. (adverb)

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Use "wiltingly" in a sentence
  • "For starters, it literally takes your breath away, you can't think and can barely converse, and --- something I didn't understand before but do exquisitely now --- since you can't exercise much less move much, you become wiltingly weak."
  • "Lunch menu €58; tasting menus €80, €120 and €150; à la carte €90Since most of Paris's storied brasseries are now owned by corporate chains and serve wiltingly mediocre food, it's a pleasure to head to one of the last remaining independent ones in a quiet corner of the silk-stocking 16th arrondissement for a fine feed of such well-prepared French classics as onion soup, escargots, sole meunière, steak tartare, roast lamb and other Gallic standards."
  • "We don't have to remind you that this summer's been hot — wiltingly so."