Definitions
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- adverb With a
tearing orripping motion.
Etymologies
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Examples
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After spending €49 a month with them for the 8 months previous to that I have to say it was the most hair tearingly frustrating customer experience I've ever had.
December 2007 2007
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After spending €49 a month with them for the 8 months previous to that I have to say it was the most hair tearingly frustrating customer experience I've ever had.
Vodafone Ireland screwing with customers and advertising standards 2007
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But the bad news isn't as bad as you think, because if Charlotte Church really has quit music then hopefully she won't be doing those scalp-tearingly harrowing opera duets with Nelly Furtado at the end of her show any more.
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But he was too busy, too tearingly active in the incoherent race of delirium to observe.
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It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching
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They ducked their heads low and rushed tearingly to the next cover.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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If Eve was not satisfied she consoled herself with the thought that he was tearingly busy and terribly tired.
Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906
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It blew up tearingly from the south and there was menace in it and madness.
Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906
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It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.
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