handwringingly

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From handwringing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

handwringingly (comparative more handwringingly, superlative most handwringingly)

  1. In a handwringing manner.
    • 2010, Lara Baker Whelan, Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era, Routledge, →ISBN:
      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”: