gnawingly

But as with the loss of Gildas father three years earlier, also at age sixty-five, it was a blow that was deeply and gnawingly upsetting without, somehow, being devastating.

A Question of Honour Lord Michael Levy 2008

The whole thing does rather give one a gnawingly ill feeling in the pit of the stomach.

A Critical Glitch « XUP 2008

Although Richie Sambora's struggles with alcohol are well known, possibly stemming from having to balance having the world's most complicated love life with being in the world's most fist-gnawingly awful band, up until now he'd managed to avoid combining getting hammered on booze with bombing around in a car with his own daughter in it.

Police Want Richie Sambora Up For Child Endangerment 2008

The band's seventh and latest studio album isn't "OK Computer," nor is it as gnawingly interesting as Radiohead's sixth release, 2003's "Hail to the Thief," an insistent, highly textured disc that married the band's gift for melody and its need to experiment with sound.

More Than a Marketing Gimmick 2007

Most of Amanda's concern had to do with Lucy, although a disruption, of her own privacy was a gnawingly discomfiting prospect.

Wyoming Territory Merritt, Jackie 1997

That night they ate their very last scraps and crumbs of food; and next morning when they woke the first thing they noticed was that they were still gnawingly hungry, and the next thing was that it was raining and that here and there the drip of it was dropping heavily on the forest floor.

The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938

Marco was by this time rather gnawingly hungry himself.

The Lost Prince 1914

Marco was by this time rather gnawingly hungry himself.

The Lost Prince Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

There is no sorrow that a child can bear, keener and more gnawingly bitter than this.

Daisy 1868

There is no sorrow that a child can bear, keener and more gnawingly bitter than this.

Daisy Susan Warner 1852