painfully
/ˈpeɪnfəli/ adverb B2- In a painful manner; as if in pain. · I limped painfully down the stairs.
- Badly; poorly. · That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.
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The kitchen at Green Gables was a cheerful apartment--or would have been cheerful if it had not been so painfully clean as to give it something of the appearance of an unused parlor.
The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness.
She felt a lump coming up in her throat and her eyes smarted painfully.
It gave me a chance of listening to your racy conversation which would have been painfully constrained had you been aware of my presence."
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