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tearingly

  • a word derived from tearing.
    tearing
    adjective
    shedding tears.

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But he was too busy, too tearingly active in the incoherent race of delirium to observe.

From The Prussian Officer by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

They ducked their heads low and rushed tearingly to the next cover.

From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White

It blew up tearingly from the south and there was menace in it and madness.

From Mistress Anne by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson

If Eve was not satisfied she consoled herself with the thought that he was tearingly busy and terribly tired.

From Mistress Anne by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson