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painfully
adverb as in with pain
adverb as in with extreme care
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Example Sentences
Prophet, who’s painfully aware of the fire history of the Palisades, was immediately worried.
The first few weeks of 2025 have made the urgent need for ethics reform at the Supreme Court painfully clear.
As the smoke plumes resembling volcanic eruptions rose to the north, east and south of the San Fernando Valley, it was painfully clear what mattered.
Of all the legacies of Jimmy Carter, his engagement with the Middle East might have been the most complex and consequential — and perhaps the most painfully incomplete.
The limits of American power were painfully apparent during the Iranian hostage crisis a year later, after US embassy staff in Tehran were taken prisoner.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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