strainingly

English

Etymology

straining +‎ -ly

Adverb

strainingly (comparative more strainingly, superlative most strainingly)

  1. So as to strain; with a straining action.
    • 1902, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 36:
      He sat up after a few moments, and threw back his head, listening strainingly for outside sounds.
    • 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
      […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.
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