tearingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

tearing +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

tearingly (comparative more tearingly, superlative most tearingly)

  1. With a tearing or ripping motion.
    • 1933, John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown:
      The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the hind quarters of a still-squealing little pig.
    • 2005, Pippa de Bruyn, Frommer's South Africa, page 376:
      The Zimbabwean telephone exchange is temperamental (make that hair-tearingly frustrating)...

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