Definitions
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- adverb With a
clawing motion; with a sharp, raking grip.
Etymologies
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clawing + -ly
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Examples
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Sheen, so breezy and appealing as Tony Blair in "The Queen," here slips smoothly into the role of David Frost, the English talk-show host and infotainment personality who, as portrayed in "Frost/Nixon," is a bit of a fop and a bit of a poseur, but clawingly ambitious at his core.
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The tribute money you mention, [19] was not as you would clawingly insinuate for no other purpose, than to shew
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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On the other hand, Coal Black's world is swingin, and perhaps just goes to show how clawingly saccharin 'white' culture really was.
Smashing Telly 2009
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