adverb
- in an extremely hot manner
- in a harshly critical manner
- extremely; intensely
Usage: informal
Examples
- The desert sun beat down scorchingly on the travelers.
- It was a scorchingly hot summer day.
- The critic reviewed the play scorchingly, calling it a complete failure.
- She spoke scorchingly about the company’s poor treatment of workers.
- The chili peppers were scorchingly spicy.
- He ran scorchingly fast in the final lap.