straw-clutchingly

adv

Etymology

From straw-clutching + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In a manner which involves clutching at straws.

    • In other words, any Scottish supporter who had straw-clutchingly hoped for a fitness crisis in the All Blacks game has been disappointed.
    • However, in those heightened milliseconds of being able to circumnavigate the entire scene of her imminent destruction, Petra knows that her straw-clutchingly pathetic notion is far from the truth.

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