tearingly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]tearingly (comparative more tearingly, superlative most tearingly)
- With a tearing or ripping motion.
- 1933, John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown:
- The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the hind quarters of a still-squealing little pig.
- 2005, Pippa de Bruyn, Frommer's South Africa, page 376:
- The Zimbabwean telephone exchange is temperamental (make that hair-tearingly frustrating)...