depthlesslyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

depthlessly (comparative more depthlessly, superlative most depthlessly)

1. In a depthless manner.
   • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, Chapter 5,^[1]

     When he met his father little was said by either: behind the hard angry glaze of their eyes, they both looked depthlessly into each other; they knew that they could withhold nothing from each other, that the same sores festered in each, the same hungers and desires, the same crawling appetites polluted their blood.

   • 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, part 1:

     John thought for that moment that his father believed the words had come from him, his eyes were so wild and depthlessly malevolent, and his mouth was twisted into such snarl of pain.