Laceratingly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a manner that lacerates.

    "It occurred to me that if only I could hold up a mirror, we might glimpse in it a vision of ourselves - unexpected, ridiculous, sad, and quite laceratingly amusing."

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"It occurred to me that if only I could hold up a mirror, we might glimpse in it a vision of ourselves - unexpected, ridiculous, sad, and quite laceratingly amusing."

Etymology

From lacerating + -ly.

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