2. Adverb. (figuratively) In a way that desperately demands attention. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cryingly
1. cry [adv] - See also: cry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryingly
Literary usage of Cryingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"... and a young woman without father, or brother, or husband, to defend her, is
cryingly a weak one, therefore inviting to such an order of heroes. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... and, looking to the moral government of the world, was there ever a time when
the sins of this kingdom called more cryingly for chastisement ? ..."
3. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1829)
"... and looking to the moral government of the world, was there ever a time when
the sins of this kingdom called more cryingly for chastisement ? ..."
4. The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading: With a Review of the History of by Edmund Burke Huey (1908)
"... and is cryingly needed. Of other requirements we can now be certain, and these
should be enforced rigorously, in the printing of schoolbooks and ..."
5. Life and Times of Stein, Or, Germany and Prussia in the Napoleonic Age by John Robert Seeley (1879)
"In the condition of Prussia there was nothing that was so cryingly unjust or wrong.
Her downfall was easily explicable and opened no new question. ..."
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