handwringingly

adv

handwringingly

adv

Etymology From handwringing + -ly.

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In a handwringing manner.

J. M. Ludlow, a contemporary of Dickens, is handwringingly anxious about the possibility of good society's de-evolution in the face of a working-class “flood”: […]2010, Lara Baker Whelan, Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era, Routledge, →ISBN:

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