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Webster 1828 Edition


Painfully

PA'INFULLY

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adv.
With suffering of body; with affliction, uneasiness or distress of mind.
1.
Laboriously; with toil; with laborious effort or diligence.

Definition 2024


painfully

painfully

English

Adverb

painfully (comparative more painfully, superlative most painfully)

  1. In a painful manner; as if in pain.
    That was the most painfully sung rendition of "Fly Me to the Moon" that I've ever heard.

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