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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
in a clinching manner, in a manner which serves to clinch something.
She waited, till with quickened breath She spoke, as one who banisheth Reserves that lovecraft heeds so well, To ease some mighty wish to tell: “’Twas I,” said she, “Who wrote thus clinchingly.
“I wouldn't be at all surprised if he drank a lot,” said Lady Partridge, with a hint of solidarity. ¶ “And then, of course,” said Nick clinchingly, but with a sad loll of the head, “he jumped off a bridge into the Mississippi.”
These circumstances are clinchingly against the appellant.
Use clinchingly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clinchingly means in a clinching manner, in a manner which serves to clinch something.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She waited, till with quickened breath She spoke, as one who banisheth Reserves that lovecraft heeds so well, To ease some mighty wish to tell: “’Twas I,” said she, “Who wrote thus clinchingly.
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