craving
noun
great or eager desire; yearning.
cravingly
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a word derived from
craving.
Example Sentences
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"Oh, mamma, don't speak so!" cried Gertrude, almost ready to cry; for she admired her mother as well as loved her, and was cravingly desirous to win her good opinion.
From A Little Country Girl by Susan Coolidge
I never knew a man so radical in some of his viewpoints, so versatile and yet so wholly, intentionally and cravingly, immersed in the usual as Peter.
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
The men and women in the carriages were the bait; the men and women on the street sniffed it, cravingly, enviously.
From The Web of Life by Robert Herrick
I was cravingly hungry by this time, for the first time 199 since I had left my home, and everything here reminded me of eating.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
