handwringingly

English

Alternative forms

• hand-wringingly

Etymology

handwringing +‎ -ly

Adverb

handwringingly (comparative more handwringingly, superlative most handwringingly)

1. In a handwringing manner.
   • 2010, Lara Baker Whelan, Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN:

     J. M. Ludlow, a contemporary of Dickens, is handwringingly anxious about the possibility of good society's de-evolution in the face of a working-class “flood”: […]