wearing
adjective
gradually impairing or wasting.
wearingly
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a word derived from
wearing.
Example Sentences
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The novel’s climax comes long before the main events of “The Ramayana,” by which point Kaikeyi has joined the wearingly long list of powerful women whose motivations are questioned but seldom described, yet alone explored.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2022
Leary comes across as wearingly naïve, constantly beholden to others for his protection.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2017
To jolt us into an understanding of how wearingly devoted this Amanda is, the director, Sam Gold, arranges for Field to enter, painstakingly dragging the wheelchair up several steps at the front of the stage.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2017
Then came one those moments of self destructive so wearingly familiar to Sunderland fans.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2015
She scarcely kept the flickering life in her pale little body by the unceasing toil of a pair of bony hands, stitching, stitching, ceaselessly, wearingly, on the bands and pockets of trousers.
From The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
