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Tearingly vs Teasingly - What's the difference?

tearingly | teasingly |

As adverbs the difference between tearingly and teasingly

is that tearingly is with a tearing or ripping motion while teasingly is in a teasing way or manner.

tearingly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • With a tearing or ripping motion.
  • * 1933 , John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
    • The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the hind quarters of a still-squealing little pig.
  • * 2005 , Pippa de Bruyn, Frommer's South Africa (page 376)
    • The Zimbabwean telephone exchange is temperamental (make that hair-tearingly frustrating)...

    teasingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in a teasing way or manner.