gnawingly

adv

gnawingly

adv

Etymology From gnawing + -ly.

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.2007, Steven James, The Pawn, page 121:

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