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RASPINGLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does raspingly mean?
• RASPINGLY (adverb)
The adverb RASPINGLY has 1 sense:
1. in a harsh and grating manner
Familiarity information: RASPINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a harsh and grating manner
Synonyms:
Context example:
her voice fell gratingly on our ears
Pertainym:
rasping (unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound)
Context examples
On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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