Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

handwringingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hand-wring-ing-ly
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a handwringing manner.

Example Sentences

"J. M. Ludlow, a contemporary of Dickens, is handwringingly anxious about the possibility of good society's de-evolution in the face of a working-class “flood”: […]"

Etymology

From handwringing + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more handwringingly (comparative) most handwringingly (superlative) hand-wringingly (alternative)

Questions

What does handwringingly mean?: In a handwringing manner.
Where does handwringingly come from?: From handwringing + -ly.

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