painfully

she was painfully thin.

progress was painfully slow.

The old horse was painfully thin.

You are painfully slow with your figures.

an alarmingly forward yet painfully vulnerable child.

Filming was painfully slow.

she knocked her knee painfully on the table.

The shoe pressed painfully against her big toe.

the case of murder in which she had found herself so painfully entangled.

in flagrant disregard of the law. What isglaring is blatantly and painfully manifest:

A television programme consisting largely of all but unwatchable monologues lingered painfully on the airwaves and then died, unlamented.

'Just stand back, ' he growled, as he lifted himself painfully to his feet.

Harry looked at her and the new feeling of pity intensified rather painfully.

As a result, he says, companies use shrinkflation to raise prices " less painfully" .

The scar on his forehead had seared again, more painfully than it had in months.

Contact with members of he lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inadequacy.

The scar on his forehead had seared again, more painfully than it had in weeks.

I found the act of articulating those instinctive truths painfully difficult.

It is now being painfully reminded of it.

I am so painfully attracted to her soul.

We learn painfully. We fall and break limbs.