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toothachingly

toothachingly adverb: so as to cause toothache.

Adverb

toothachingly (comparative more toothachingly, superlative most toothachingly)

  1. So as to cause toothache.
    • Sweeter still — almost toothachingly so — are chongos zamoranos, a curious confection invented in Zamora in which milk, sugar and spices are boiled for about five days then laid away in syrup.1972, R. B. Read, Gastronomic Tour of Mexico
    • While this last could be eliminated for my taste, the overall effect is not as toothachingly sweet as some of these cereals can get.1974, New York Magazine
  2. Overly in possession of an otherwise positive trait.
    • A college teacher (that makes the heart sink to begin with), he has a literary reputation about which he is agreeably modest (toothachingly), and, since Seymour committed suicide in 1948, Buddy is, at forty, the eldest Glass child.1962, The New Republic
    • 1991: The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks, by Donald C. Farber and Robert Viagas
      The critics complained that the show was toothachingly darling, though the consensus among its creators is that the show was removed from its open-stage concept and placed in a traditional proscenium environment...
  3. Painfully, irritatingly.
    • Have you ever wondered how it is possible for someone to drive a motorised vehicle so toothachingly, nerverenderingly slow?2009, Ben Jeapes, Jeapes Japes

Examples of toothachingly in a sentence

  • I recall the taste of the rain, sweet and toothachingly cold; the tiny blows of drops striking my eyelids; my halfbrother's laughter rippling in my ears.2004, Kij Johnson, Fudoki:
  • It's why McDonald's finally downsized its portions, why you can now bake a gluten-free version of the same Betty Crocker toothachingly sweet cake mix you enjoyed as a child.2015, Jax Peters Lowell, The Gluten-Free Revolution:

Forms of toothachingly

comparativemore toothachingly
superlativemost toothachingly

Origin of toothachingly

From toothaching + -ly.

Questions about toothachingly

What does toothachingly mean?
Toothachingly means so as to cause toothache.
How do you use toothachingly in a sentence?
I recall the taste of the rain, sweet and toothachingly cold; the tiny blows of drops striking my eyelids; my halfbrother's laughter rippling in my ears.
What part of speech is toothachingly?
Toothachingly is an adverb.

Words near toothachingly in the dictionary

  1. toothache tree
  2. toothache trees
  3. toothaches
  4. toothachey
  5. toothaching
  6. toothachingly
  7. toothachy
  8. toothake
  9. Toothaker
  10. Toothakers
  11. toothakes

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