hackingly

comparative more hackingly · superlative most hackingly

1. In a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.

   Magazine illustrations cut hackingly by her tiny, amateur fingers.

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   The furnace protested long and hackingly like the lungs of an old smoker at an early morning cigarette.

   He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.

   1902, Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless”, in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 32; collected in Traffics and Discoveries, 1904, ebook

   “So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”

   1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC