I like the gnawing dissatisfaction I carry home with me.
Every waking moment was filled by a gnawing hunger.
I left the theater with the gnawing sense that a revered Broadway classic may have seen better days.
The moors open up, the narrow, wooded valleys roll away and the gnawing lifestyle envy kicks in.
Most of her subjects took three years to find the work that finally quieted their gnawing sense of discontent.
They both acknowledge a gnawing suspicion Condit knows more than he is saying.
The self-hatred grew into a constant, gnawing pain.
I had to exorcise, once and for all, that gnawing unease.
I suspect both sides have enlisted troops to satisfy gnawing uncertainties.
He can't ignore the gnawing feeling that she was right.
I have a gnawing feeling that it was not particularly accurate.
Here was a little piece of miserable, gnawing confirmation.
But underneath there is a gnawing mourning we must all tolerate.
It felt like a gnawing hunger in the pit of my stomach.
Jealousy gave him respite from gnawing pains of melancholy.
Instead of anticipation, however, what he felt was a gnawing insecurity and jealousy.
OK, it is hard to completely avoid a sense of gnawing unease.
They pull fast ones to get legal prescriptions to alleviate the gnawing need for heroin or crack cocaine.
His breath caught and his chest quivered as he acknowledged the gnawing fear.
What then must be the pangs inflicted by a gnawing conscience in eternity?
Derivatives
gnawingly
adverb
A truly abusive home life is one of grinding cruddiness where the threat of violence is more gnawingly powerful than the beatings themselves.
Example sentencesExamples
There is nothing so gnawingly horrible as the first day of rehearsal.
To play it was mesmerizing in what I felt to be a gnawingly unpleasant way, like taking time and just flushing it down the toilet.
Here one feels only abandonment and the gnawingly desperate hope that it will not always be so empty.
Yet after the initial shoulder slump precipitated by more IDM-inflected digitalis, ‘Limma’ begins to reveal an infectious charm that, whilst nothing new, is gnawingly irresistible.
Definition of gnawing in US English:
gnawing
adjectiveˈnɔɪŋˈnoiNG
Persistently worrying or distressing.
that gnawing pain in her stomach
gnawing doubts
Example sentencesExamples
Every waking moment was filled by a gnawing hunger.
They pull fast ones to get legal prescriptions to alleviate the gnawing need for heroin or crack cocaine.
The moors open up, the narrow, wooded valleys roll away and the gnawing lifestyle envy kicks in.
Here was a little piece of miserable, gnawing confirmation.
I had to exorcise, once and for all, that gnawing unease.
It felt like a gnawing hunger in the pit of my stomach.
His breath caught and his chest quivered as he acknowledged the gnawing fear.
The self-hatred grew into a constant, gnawing pain.
I have a gnawing feeling that it was not particularly accurate.
They both acknowledge a gnawing suspicion Condit knows more than he is saying.
I like the gnawing dissatisfaction I carry home with me.
But underneath there is a gnawing mourning we must all tolerate.
Jealousy gave him respite from gnawing pains of melancholy.
I suspect both sides have enlisted troops to satisfy gnawing uncertainties.
OK, it is hard to completely avoid a sense of gnawing unease.
I left the theater with the gnawing sense that a revered Broadway classic may have seen better days.
What then must be the pangs inflicted by a gnawing conscience in eternity?
He can't ignore the gnawing feeling that she was right.
Most of her subjects took three years to find the work that finally quieted their gnawing sense of discontent.
Instead of anticipation, however, what he felt was a gnawing insecurity and jealousy.