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 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
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 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
