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hand-wringingly

hand-wringingly is the alternative spelling of handwringingly.

Meaning of handwringingly

Adverb

handwringingly (comparative more handwringingly, superlative most handwringingly)

  1. In a handwringing manner.
    • J. M. Ludlow, a contemporary of Dickens, is handwringingly anxious about the possibility of good society's de-evolution in the face of a working-class “flood”: […]2010, Lara Baker Whelan, Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era, Routledge, →ISBN

Forms of hand-wringingly

comparativemore hand-wringingly
superlativemost hand-wringingly

Questions about hand-wringingly

What is hand-wringingly the alternative spelling of?
Hand-wringingly is the alternative spelling of handwringingly.

Words near hand-wringingly in the dictionary

  1. hand-work
  2. hand-worked
  3. hand-works
  4. hand-woven
  5. hand-wringing
  6. hand-wringingly
  7. hand-wringings
  8. hand-writing
  9. hand-writings
  10. hand-written
  11. Handa

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