painfully

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painfully (comparative more painfully, superlative most painfully)

In a painful manner; as if in pain.
I limped painfully down the stairs.
- 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IX, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, page 193:
  The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.
(informal) Badly; poorly.
That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.

Some adjectives commonly collocating with painfully:

in a painful manner