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grindingly

grindingly adverb: with a grinding sound or motion.

Adverb

grindingly (comparative more grindingly, superlative most grindingly)

  1. With a grinding sound or motion.
    • Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 463
  2. With tedious repetition; mechanically.
    • It was a grindingly dull lecture.

Forms of grindingly

comparativemore grindingly
superlativemost grindingly

Origin of grindingly

From grinding + -ly.

Questions about grindingly

What does grindingly mean?
Grindingly means with a grinding sound or motion.
What part of speech is grindingly?
Grindingly is an adverb.

Words near grindingly in the dictionary

  1. grinding stones
  2. grinding the corn
  3. grinding up
  4. grinding wheel
  5. grinding wheels
  6. grindingly
  7. grindings
  8. grindle
  9. grindle-stone
  10. grindle-stones
  11. Grindleford

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