Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With laborious pulling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a tugging manner; with laborious pulling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With
laborious pulling .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
tugging + -ly
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Examples
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It's also tragic, not heart-tuggingly like Ed Wood, but deep in the soul sad.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Fred Perry 2008
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It's also tragic, not heart-tuggingly like Ed Wood, but deep in the soul sad.
Archive 2008-01-01 Fred Perry 2008
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The ad's all so heart tuggingly vague, and doesn't Rick Moranis look like he's aging gracefully.
Archive 2008-09-01 CC 2008
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What is interesting (as a critic) and sort of heart-tuggingly beautiful (as a fan of human excellence) about this is that he has.
Cokemachineglow.com 2010
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