Gnawingly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a manner that chafes or worries.

    "Somehow seeing that small streak of blood made the way she felt inside seem less out of control, less desperate, less awkwardly, gnawingly painful."

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"Somehow seeing that small streak of blood made the way she felt inside seem less out of control, less desperate, less awkwardly, gnawingly painful."

Etymology

From gnawing + -ly.

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