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English
Etymology
From dizzy + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
dizzily (comparative more dizzily, superlative most dizzily)
- In a dizzy manner.
1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Descent into the Maelström:I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum.
1942 March 2, “Feeling the Crunch”, in Time:The Australians had seen it coming—Singapore's fall and the inevitable sequel, the Japanese air attack on the Australian mainland […] . But it had happened dizzily fast.
- 1977, Hansard, Scotland and Wales Bill, 15 February, 1977,
- The Lord President can not avoid our pointing out that the Government's position has shifted dizzily from point to point during these debates.