clawingly

With a clawing motion; with a sharp, raking grip.

Adverb

  1. With a clawing motion; with a sharp, raking grip.
    • He held one gigantic hand in front of her eyes so she could see it and smell it, then rammed it clawingly down her dress front. - 1970, Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, page 100:
    • It was May now and summer was on the ascent, the nights were warm but not yet clawingly humid and the constant South Dakota breeze was strangely absent tonight. - 2004, Jennifer Marshall, The Christie Legacy, page 288:

Origin

From clawing + -ly.

Forms

more clawingly most clawingly