Definitions

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  • adverb With a tearing or ripping motion.

Etymologies

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tearing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • After spending €49 a month with them for the 8 months previous to that I have to say it was the most hair tearingly frustrating customer experience I've ever had.

    December 2007 2007

  • After spending €49 a month with them for the 8 months previous to that I have to say it was the most hair tearingly frustrating customer experience I've ever had.

    Vodafone Ireland screwing with customers and advertising standards 2007

  • But the bad news isn't as bad as you think, because if Charlotte Church really has quit music then hopefully she won't be doing those scalp-tearingly harrowing opera duets with Nelly Furtado at the end of her show any more.

    Charlotte Church Definitely Pregnant With A Baby 2006

  • But he was too busy, too tearingly active in the incoherent race of delirium to observe.

    The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

  • It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • They ducked their heads low and rushed tearingly to the next cover.

    African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

  • If Eve was not satisfied she consoled herself with the thought that he was tearingly busy and terribly tired.

    Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906

  • It blew up tearingly from the south and there was menace in it and madness.

    Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906

  • It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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