In a manner that severely hampers or disables something; in a way that causes lameness or disability.
From crip or cripple + -ing + -ly, creating an adverb describing the manner of causing disability or severe limitation.
Crippingly is a word that modern disability advocates would likely avoid because it treats disability as inherently negative or as something that 'damages' capacity—showing how our vocabulary choices reveal hidden assumptions about disability itself.
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