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English
Etymology
From depthless + -ly.
Adverb
depthlessly (comparative more depthlessly, superlative most depthlessly)
- In a depthless manner.
1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 5, in Look Homeward, Angel:When he met his father little was said by either: behind the hard angry glaze of their eyes, they both looked depthlessly into each other; they knew that they could withhold nothing from each other, that the same sores festered in each, the same hungers and desires, the same crawling appetites polluted their blood.
1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 1 (The Seventh Day):John thought for that moment that his father believed the words had come from him, his eyes were so wild and depthlessly malevolent, and his mouth was twisted into such snarl of pain.
1999, Chang-Rae Lee, chapter 7, in A Gesture Life, New York: Riverhead Books:Liv keeps asking if we should stop and put up the roof of the convertible, as there is a fresh edge to the air, the sky depthlessly clear, but it feels so good to me, the rushing air and the speed of the open car, and the oaty tang of just-cut grass.
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