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Definition of Painfully
1. Adverb. Unpleasantly. "His ignorance was painfully obvious"
2. Adverb. In or as if in pain. "Sorely wounded"
Definition of Painfully
1. Adverb. In a painful manner; as if in pain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Painfully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Painfully
Literary usage of Painfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Improvement of the Understanding: Ethics and Correspondence of Benedict de by Benedictus de Spinoza (1901)
"He who conceives, that an object of his hatred is painfully affected, ... In so
far as an object of hatred is painfully affected, it is destroyed to an ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Indeed, he was so exquisitely refined in his own feelings, and so painfully
sensitive to any display of questionable taste in others, that he could not help ..."
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