English

Adverb

dizzily ‎(comparative more dizzily, superlative most dizzily)

1. 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, "Feeling the Crunch," Time, 2 March, 1942,

     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.