starvingly

English

Etymology

starving +‎ -ly

Adverb

starvingly (comparative more starvingly, superlative most starvingly)

  1. While, or as if, starving; very hungrily.
    • 1885, Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, volume 53, page 762:
      She raised her head and looked at him, with her soul in her great gray eyes. Back to her side he strode, and, taking her in his arms, looked long and starvingly in her face.
  2. So as to cause starvation.
    a starvingly low salary
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