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adverbtearingly (comparative more tearingly, superlative most tearingly)
comparative more tearingly · superlative most tearingly
- With a tearing or ripping motion.
The Zimbabwean telephone exchange is temperamental (make that hair-tearingly frustrating)...
2005, Pippa de Bruyn, Frommer's South Africa, page 3761 more example
The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the hind quarters of a still-squealing little pig.
1933, John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
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