"clingingly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From clinging + -ly.",
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      "form": "more clingingly",
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      "form": "most clingingly",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983 December 31, Kenneth Hale-Wehmann, “The Business of Sex and Affection”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 17:",
          "text": "But how happy can the ending be when two desperate people live clingingly ever after, mostly because they are tired of the lives they have been leading and not because they find each other appealing and want actively to change their lives?",
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        "In a clinging manner; tenaciously or possessively."
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        [
          "cling",
          "cling"
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          "tenacious",
          "tenacious"
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          "possessive",
          "possessive"
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  "word": "clingingly"
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  "etymology_text": "From clinging + -ly.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most clingingly",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      ],
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        "In a clinging manner; tenaciously or possessively."
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          "tenacious",
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