Painfully
//ˈpeɪnfəli//
"Painfully" in a Sentence (13 examples)
The sudden glare impinged painfully on his eyes.
He was painfully thin.
Your words wound painfully.
She was painfully thin.
He was painfully skinny.
She was painfully skinny.
My Internet connection is painfully slow.
That's painfully true.
When Rafael was studying medicine, he painfully saw how people afflicted by heart diseases died due to lack of adequate medical equipment.
Tom was painfully thin.
I limped painfully down the stairs.
The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.
That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.
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