Synonym: distressingly, sorely. Similar words: disdainfully, painful, painfulness, in full, in full view, in full swing, disdainful, scornfully. Meaning: ['peɪnflɪ] 
adv. 1. unpleasantly 2. in or as if in pain.
adv. 1. unpleasantly 2. in or as if in pain. 
Random good picture Not show
61 He was passing water painfully and he couldn't sleep.
62 He was painfully shy as a teenager.
63 A lonely genius, painfully shy.
64 Muriel watched her father die painfully of cancer.
65 It's all painfully literal, and rather old-fashioned.
66 Statistics aren't necessary to document what is painfully obvious.
67 In practical fact, much work is repetitive, tedious, painfully fatiguing, mentally boring or socially demeaning.
68 But the council got off to a painfully slow start.
69 I am considered to be fairly outgoing but as a teenager I was painfully shy.
70 I made my way rather painfully across the isthmus-a canal there would be a grand benefit to the world!
71 He rose painfully from under a pile of furniture and limped out of the house.
72 The painfully neat clothes bear witness that, depressed as she was, she allowed no chink in her armor.
73 Like every star before her Kylie was painfully aware that her fame and popularity could wane literally overnight.
74 I am painfully aware of the criticism that has been directed at me.
75 He was woken some time later by being kicked in the backside quite painfully.
76 Granted, inflation is painfully hard to cure once it has taken off.
77 She had resented Eline from the first moment and made her hate of Joe Harries painfully obvious.
78 Those who could walk limped painfully home, in some cases so black with gunpowder they passed unrecognized.
79 But some last-minute impulse lowered her aim so that the blow caught him, hard but not painfully, on his chest.
80 Anorexics have a false idea of their own appearance, seeing themselves as fat even when they have become painfully thin.
81 So if a site is painfully slow, try again later and hopefully the traffic will have subsided.
82 Perhaps the most important of those things seems painfully obvious, at least to wine country insiders.
83 At first, Andrews had found it painfully uncomfortable to play in public.
84 For Louis the Pious's following,[Sentencedict] the choice was painfully hard.
85 The risk of denying all of these at once had been painfully clear in 833.
86 In spite of this painfully slow start, today he is a millionaire.
87 Revived by the proximity of his goal, Charles hurried painfully onwards along the road to the familiar white gates.
88 The Pfizer's Thanet Coastal Marathon has painfully earned its reputation of saving the worst until the very end of the race.
89 No effort has been stinted in polishing this painfully derivative picture as if it were a diamond instead of strictly paste.
90 A young policeman in a leather jacket painfully, letter by letter, typed my losses on an ancient machine.
More similar words: disdainfully, painful, painfulness, in full, in full view, in full swing, disdainful, scornfully, pain-free, fully, usefully, awfully, carefully, joyfully, ruefully, fearfully, balefully, hopefully, dutifully, dolefully, forcefully, mindfully, fretfully, wistfully, playfully, pitifully, tactfully, gleefully, skillfully, spitefully.