strainingly

comparative more strainingly · superlative most strainingly

1. So as to strain; with a straining action.

   He sat up after a few moments, and threw back his head, listening strainingly for outside sounds.

   1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 36

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   […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.

   2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself