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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121 Piecemeal Development Attempting to build a school-to-work system company by company and school by school is painfully slow.
122 As the room fell suddenly, tensely silent, he began to walk, to hobble painfully and with difficulty towards Sabine.
123 Folly was painfully aware that she was acting completely unreasonably.
124 It roots out vines, truffles for lemon trees painfully heated by charcoal to three degrees above freezing.
125 She had kept her neck painfully turned and strained to stare out the window at the street scenes.
126 One afternoon I had seen him painfully sewing on a shirt-button.
127 It was soon painfully obvious who the winner was in this contest.
128 After practice I watch him walk painfully over to the bleachers, wrap up his knee and hobble out.
129 Badly fitting shoes will rub even more painfully if you are not wearing tights.
130 My heart beat violently, almost painfully, and sweat trickled down my face.
131 She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek, and jerked her hand away from her face.
132 She was making deep eye contact with me and a couple of her rings were digging into my fingers rather painfully.
133 Then he opened the rear door and painfully eased himself out to stand, swaying, alongside the car.
134 The door began to swing inwards, but painfully slowly, his weight and the strong breeze hindering its progress.
135 This process makes the long-term costs of decisions painfully clear to the press and the public.
136 I have quoted the passage from which the phrase comes, showing how Wells was painfully aware of our duality.
137 Their captor had instantly pulled them to a stop, his grip tightening painfully on their necks.
138 Painfully, Christine swung her legs to one side until she was in a sitting position.
139 I retreated into my shell, being painfully shy in the first place.
140 Just then he felt the bone pop, then slide painfully free, and he was not grateful but angry now.
141 Major add-on applications you bought yourself, such as offices suites, can be painfully expensive to upgrade.
142 From being a painfully shy, diffident recluse, he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes painfully overbearing extrovert.
143 On the other is a toppled colossus painfully constructing a market economy out of the wreckage of a socialist one.
144 Down came the familiar grip[http://sentencedict.com/painfully.html], the fingers closing painfully around his arm.
145 The painfully slow elevators, whose speed can be measured in millimeters per hour.
146 As she trudged awkwardly up the valley road her feet began to sweat and the toes rubbed painfully against each other.
147 Should the government reduce the actual frequency of tragedies, or should it simply make them less painfully obvious?
148 Jobbernole listened painfully to her remarks, but did not bother to make further enquiries.
149 This penetrating study of a drunken drop-out, yearning for oblivion, is both ridiculously funny and painfully sad.
150 She limped painfully over to a chair and sat down.
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