clawingly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]clawingly (comparative more clawingly, superlative most clawingly)
- With a clawing motion; with a sharp, raking grip.
- 1970, Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, page 100:
- He held one gigantic hand in front of her eyes so she could see it and smell it, then rammed it clawingly down her dress front.
- 2004, Jennifer Marshall, The Christie Legacy, page 288:
- It was May now and summer was on the ascent, the nights were warm but not yet clawingly humid and the constant South Dakota breeze was strangely absent tonight.