[dragonwriter]

> I was taught in (american) school adverbs are a lazy and informal form of expression.

I've certainly (in the same place) heard that heavy adverb use is a “writing smell” in much that way, but the point of that was very much not to substitute the use of adjectives serving as if they were adverbs for actual adverbs.

[guiambros]

Off-topic, but I love Stephen King's comments [1] regarding adverbs.

[1] https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/03/13/stephen-king-on-adv...

[drb91]

True. "blazing-fast" sounds almost like a pidgin variant to me.