harrowingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

harrowing +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

harrowingly (comparative more harrowingly, superlative most harrowingly)

  1. In a way or to an extent that is harrowing
    • 2009 January 13, Michael Brick, “Racing's Last Frontier”, in New York Times[1]:
      There was a time not long ago when this region appeared as some enduring mystification, its citizenry best known for [] devising harrowingly zany methods of chasing one another up and down the storied Iditarod Trail.

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