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  • adverb With an itching sensation.

Etymologies

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itching +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I have to fake him a smile every time he'd reply me with that itchingly true answer, wondering how being a son of a you know what must be in his genes and grab that friggen cup of tea.

    Let's Watch Them Die 2009

  • I have to fake him a smile every time he'd reply me with that itchingly true answer, wondering how being a son of a you know what must be in his genes and grab that friggen cup of tea.

    Let's Watch Them Die 2009

  • In the dark she was only a presence, her very shape indeterminate; but Harvey grew itchingly aware that Marie Vance was only inches away, and that they were cut off from the universe until sunrise.

    Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977

  • He felt only a maddening, itchingly bewitching desire to reach up to his coat pocket and draw out that scent-laden page of typed note-paper which had been glorified by its caress of the warm, bare bosom of the wonderful woman who had so mysteriously drifted into the current of his life.

    The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball

  • To George, itchingly aware through all his rasped nerves of Mrs. Herrington's letter in that morning's _Sentinel_ asking him to refute, if he could, an abominable half column of statistics in regard to legislation in the Woman Suffrage States, the furniture dealer was drawling pacifically:

    The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Mary Heaton Vorse 1920

  • The rain splashed up from pools on the worn brick walks and dripped from trees and whipped about buildings, soaking the legs and leaving them itchingly wet and the feet sloshily uncomfortable.

    The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Nothing about him encouraged any hope that he had received his come-upance; on the contrary, the yearners for that stroke of justice must yearn even more itchingly: the gilded youth's manner had become polite, but his politeness was of a kind which democratic people found hard to bear.

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

  • Nothing about him encouraged any hope that he had received his come-upance; on the contrary, the yearners for that stroke of justice must yearn even more itchingly: the gilded youth’s manner had become polite, but his politeness was of a kind which democratic people found hard to bear.

    Chapter 4 1918

  • Rapiers hung balanced at my throat and death looked itchingly at me from many an eye.

    A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • Nothing about him encouraged any hope that he had received his come-upance; on the contrary, the yearners for that stroke of justice must yearn even more itchingly: the gilded youth's manner had become polite, but his politeness was of a kind which democratic people found hard to bear.

    The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 1907

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