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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151 Then each appeared to thrust the arrow slowly and painfully down his own throat as far as indicated.
152 Mira painfully remembers the time he told a stupid joke before a large financial services company.
153 Finally he found his way painfully back to the house, and closed the door.
154 Although painfully slow, it meant he could construct small sentences.
155 He had to beat his wings painfully against obstructions to fight his way out again.
156 While Ionia was slowly beaten down, the question of intervention or non-intervention kept Athens painfully divided.
157 It was still painfully hard for many of the students to sustain a conversation.
158 All the ailments that used to take us too early or too painfully are gone.
159 Mobuto recoiled in horror, stumbling back painfully into the Studebaker's wing mirror.
160 It was becoming painfully obvious that apart from a brief, overpowering lust there was no reciprocation of her fragile feelings.
161 Despite being utterly inevitable, our hero's hesitant romance with the camp nurse takes painfully long to blossom.
162 There is every indication that youth apprenticeships will continue to grow in the United States, but at a painfully slow rate.
163 Her parents were there, sobbing painfully, her younger brother, and older sister.
164 He struggled painfully around into a new foetal position and started work on the back of the back seat.
165 And over it had meshed a concrete slab, which now the lever of the house was painfully and irresistibly easing up.
166 His mouth ached, and his heart thudded painfully from exertion and fear.
167 The smaller Chelonian whirled about and kicked him painfully in the ribs.
168 Painfully little has been done specifically to tackle car crime, which is a major aspect of youth crime.
169 In this hostile ideological jungle, little clearings of socialist culture had to be created painfully.
170 Expressed in terms of individual psychology, the danger was one of dissolution of the painfully acquired superego and corresponding regression in the ego.
171 One of her crutches falls in front of the man; she has to painfully stoop to recover it.
172 It had the desired effect - the gunman tumbled over the top of the fence, landing painfully on his back.
173 Leonora flinched as his head cracked painfully against the lintel.
174 The Celtics let this one slip away slowly,[http://sentencedict.com/painfully.html] painfully and needlessly.
175 Sometimes the pitfalls in not looking at it from all these angles become painfully clear.
176 Badly fitting shoes will rub more painfully if you are not wearing socks.
177 At Pontypool, the collision between a precise, scientific industry and a diffuse, unscientific local suspicion is painfully apparent.
178 For all her cheerfulness it was painfully obvious that she was feeling awful.
179 It was less sharp, bigger, hotter and instead of scratching painfully it felt good.
180 It painfully affects my English ear.
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.