grindingly

With a grinding sound or motion.

Adverb

  1. With a grinding sound or motion.
    • Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath. - 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy),...
  2. With tedious repetition; mechanically.
    • It was a grindingly dull lecture.

Origin

Etymology tree English grinding Middle English -ly English -ly English grindingly From grinding + -ly.

Forms

more grindingly most grindingly