complainingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a complaining manner; peevishly.
Example Sentences
- "A voice answered from within: "tell him I cannot see anyone," it said, complainingly."
- "Tucking into rissoles of rice, bacon, and potatoes served up on fried bread, he said complainingly, "By ginger, Mudgy, you do go off the handle over nothing. I tell you straight, I was damned annoyed with you this afternoon, going pop like that at a man over nothing.""
Etymology
From complaining + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more complainingly (comparative)
most complainingly (superlative)