perishingly

adverb

per·​ish·​ing·​ly

: in a manner or to a degree causing extreme discomfort or hardship : bitterly, extremely, very

perishingly humid in the fall

—Alan Moorehead

a half-a-gale of perishingly cold wind

—Llewellyn Howland

promises all kinds of miracles in his person—and delivers perishingly few of them

—Weston La Barre

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