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.
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91 We were still going slowly and painfully round the room when Estella brought in the relations who had been waiting downstairs.
92 I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham.
93 Progress may be painfully fast or slow, and will be full of contradictions.
94 Still, too many of them, like too many people throughout the division, remained painfully slow in taking action.
95 Almost painfully avant-garde in style, it nevertheless remains a landmark in post-Soviet literature.
96 She felt as if some one had squeezed her heart hard and painfully.
97 In shorts and a short-sleeved shirt, he looked almost painfully thin.
98 An elderly man is walking slowly and painfully close to the wall, using it as support.
99 Like her brother she was painfully thin, but otherwise they seemed utterly unlike, despite being twins.
100 But the limits of his approach to the job have become painfully apparent.
101 The school building program -.. is creeping along at a painfully slow clip.
102 I am painfully aware of how we get caught up in our times and become contaminated by our own hypocrisy.
103 Joints have to fit exactly and surfaces are planed to the millimetre or the defects are painfully audible.
104 He was painfully shy in public, but completely different at home with his family.
105 She was beautiful - painfully thin, but beautiful, even with the ravages of drug abuse drawing her face.
106 It was soon painfully evident that the fears of the University Council regarding a minority plot to unseat them were justified.
107 The government sponsored Meadowell Initiative makes noises in the north of the estate - but does pitifully little, painfully slowly.
108 He answered the door himself, and she was painfully aware that once again his eyes seemed to study every part of her.
109 Painfully and in the open she had to make all the running.
110 During that long hospital stay, it became painfully clear that I had two choices.
111 Chapman was painfully aware that he had underestimated the task at Walsall.
112 She was painfully thin and there was an insubstantiality about her.
113 And as he drew nearer, Cornelius became painfully aware of a curious buzzing sound in his ears.
114 It is becoming painfully clear, however, that students at Stirling University can no longer afford to take their Association for granted.
114 Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
115 My hearing is painfully acute, and my sense of touch and smell quite profound.
116 Painfully she wallows down on her knees and without diffidence soaps and rinses me all over.
117 Stephen lurched and pushed against her, bumping painfully on her, grinding his pelvis into the delicate skin of her crutch.
118 As you are painfully aware, when it comes to being handy, I can barely work a shower curtain.
119 Her head spun and her left arm tingled painfully with pins and needles.
120 Often he is resignedly mutilated by sour aldermen, by painfully fat lord mayors, by put-upon railway porters.
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.