grindingly

English

Etymology

grinding +‎ -ly

Adverb

grindingly (comparative more grindingly, superlative most grindingly)

1. With a grinding sound or motion.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 463:

     Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath.

2. With tedious repetition; mechanically.

   It was a grindingly dull lecture.