hungrily
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1.0
- adverb
- /ˈhʌŋɡrɪli/
:
hambrientamente
- After a long day of hiking, we sat down and hungrily devoured our sandwiches.
- kissed him hungrily
- ate hungrily
- devoured it hungrily
Examples
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Some of the drivers kept quiet and ate hungrily, eyes on their plates.
Fiction book (1991) -
Along with everybody else, the house nuns ate hungrily, with both fists.
Fiction book (1992) -
Then the field filled with a hundred and one baby girls, each mewing hungrily for milk.
Fiction book (1997) -
Mr. Lusk looks hungrily at the huge plates of food that folks are carrying by.
Fiction book (1998) -
The others spoke rapidly and ate hungrily, but my appetite had vanished after a first small helping.
Fiction book (1991) -
Derek preferred to eat by himself, hungrily lowering his head to his plate, eating with his fingers.
Fiction book (1998) -
Again and again, her lips claimed his mouth, sometimes softly, sometimes hungrily, sometimes yielding, sometimes demanding.
Fiction book (1994) -
Still, Netta stared, almost hungrily, as if she couldn't get enough of looking.
Fiction book (1993) -
We returned the punt at dusk and hungrily set off homeward.
Academic text (1997) -
Andrea gobbles hungrily on the bread and takes a long gulp from Lena's water glass.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
7
2.7
Wanting a lot in a very selfish way, often food or money
5
5.9
With strong hunger for food or learning
3
6.7
In a very hungry and eager way, like when you eat very fast
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8.0
In a hungry, greedy way showing strong desire to eat
In a way that makes someone eat or drink too much
In a greedy and messy way when eating
How Hungry
5
5.9
7
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hungrily comes from the old English word hunger, which meant 'the need to eat', and from the adjective hungry. So to eat or look hungrily is to show a strong need for food, and sometimes a strong want for something else.