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painfully
adverb
unpleasantly
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ˈpeɪnfəli
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adverb
unpleasantly
“his ignorance was painfully obvious”
adverb
in or as if in pain
“she moved painfully forward”
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his ignorance was painfully obvious
she moved painfully forward
sorely wounded
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