adverb
definition
In a painful manner; as if in pain.
example
I limped painfully down the stairs.
definition
Badly; poorly.
example
That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.
Examples of painfully in a Sentence
She crossed her legs painfully and stared down at her sandwich.
Blood rushed painfully up her neck.
Her ankle twisted painfully, forcing a quick cry of pain from her lips.
He did not finish, but gave a painfully unnatural smile.
She caught her breath as the blood lunged painfully up her neck.
Blood pulsed painfully in her throat, and her face grew warm.
She had changed into respectable clothes and looked painfully beautiful.
It was painfully true.
The idea was both exciting and painfully disappointing.
Of course, he wasn't telling her anything she wasn't already painfully aware of.
Her wandering gaze came up to his face and warmth shot painfully up her neck.
The dearth of ability among the generals left in France (Kleber and Desaix were in Egypt) was now painfully apparent.
Yesterday he had been numb with shock, but today his mind had been painfully active.
Her stomach twisted painfully.
Hence, although wages are painfully low, the cost of production to the manufacturer is relatively high; and it is still further increased by the cost of the raw materials, by the heavy rates of transport owing to the distance from the sea, by the dearness of capital and by the scarcity of fuel.
In every direction English influence penetrated, and Englishmen before 1603 might be found in every quarter of the globe, following Drakes lead into the Pacific, painfully breaking the ice in search of a north-east or a north-west passage, hunting for slaves in the wilds of Africa, journeying in caravans across the steppes of Russia into central Asia, bargaining with the Turks on the shores of the Golden Horn, or with the Greeks in the Levant, laying the foundations of the East India Company, or of the colonies of Virginia and Newfoundland.
Natasha's grief began to be overlaid by the impressions of daily life, it ceased to press so painfully on her heart, it gradually faded into the past, and she began to recover physically.
Prince Andrew painfully entreated someone.
The muscles in her legs were contracting painfully.
Blood raced up her neck painfully.
During the struggle that went on in his soul, he began to take note of his psychological state; and this was the first time that he exercised his reason on spiritual things; the experience thus painfully gained he found of great use afterwards in directing others.
When she lay painfully on her deathbed her son Joseph said to her, "You are not at ease," and her last words were the answer, "I am sufficiently at my ease to die."
The hills have a painfully bare appearance from the want of trees.
Even the Prussian government, which favoured Bahrdt, made Semler painfully feel its displeasure at this new but really not inconsistent aspect of his position.
Lisa's heart lurched painfully.
He was evidently distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features.
Princess Mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion.
The previous autumn, the hunting, "Uncle," and the Christmas holidays spent with Nicholas at Otradnoe were what she recalled oftenest and most painfully.
It was now, however, impossible to get back the way he had come; the maid, Aniska, was no longer there, and Pierre with a feeling of pity and disgust pressed the wet, painfully sobbing child to himself as tenderly as he could and ran with her through the garden seeking another way out.
Every muscle complained so painfully that she wished the numbness would return.
We are all painfully familiar with bureaucratic moods, which are often conflated with " policy.
I was painfully conscious that the quality of what I was writing wasn't up to the standard I hoped for.
There was no mistaking his astonishing sincerity, his painfully earnest endeavor to impart to her some rather unusual id.. .
While Western oral hygienists painfully remove this plaque from the neck of the teeth under t.. .
Scientology leaders are now faced with having to concoct a story for their current members explaining the painfully obvious incongruity of their actions.
This may seem painfully obvious but the notion of an arrow of time is important.
My visit to just one of the many orphanages in Kashmir was enough to remind me painfully of the tragic costs of the conflict.
Some people say he's painfully shy, others think he's arrogant.
She was painfully thin, with a pale, almost yellow complexion.
Lee emphasizes this point simply through angles or painfully slow, yet often wistful shots.
I was too young to do more than see and note facts, and thanks to my natural indolence and that passion for the concrete, which is at once the joy and the weakness of artists, I should perhaps always have remained at that stage if my somewhat pedantic critics had not driven me to reflect and painfully search after the ultimate causes of which till then I had only grasped the effects.
Nor does he painfully work up to his master-category, for it is given in the knowledge of Jesus Christ revealed to the community.
By the common methods of discipline, at the expense of many tears and some blood, I purchased the knowledge of the Latin syntax," but manifestly, in his own opinion, the Arabian Nights, Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Virgil, eagerly read, had at this period exercised a much more powerful influence on his intellectual development than Phaedrus and Cornelius Nepos, "painfully construed and darkly understood."
Only on the southern frontier did Archbishop Tomori painfully assemble a fresh army and fleet, and succeed, by incredible efforts, in constructing at Peterwardein, on the right bank of the Danube, a new fortress which served him as a refuge and sally post in his interminable guerilla war with the Turks.
Anatole was sobbing painfully.
Thus his painfully shy, unsuited, and serious-minded younger brother was thrust into his role as King over the anti-fascist period.
Some people say he 's painfully shy, others think he 's arrogant.
Cut free, the added weight dropped them further, painfully tightening the noose on his nether regions.
Dual wielding of weapons is present and correct, as is the painfully pitiful ability to store sod all ammo.
As accurate and acceptible as they may be when describing your kitten's coat, they are also painfully obvious to the observer.