Definition: 1. Unpleasantly. 2. In or as if in pain.
Use 'painfully' in a sentence:
1. Mary Ann felt painfully inadequate in the crisis.
2. His mother answered painfully in a cry.
3. He swallowed painfully.
4. His head throbbed painfully.
5. This makes some websites painfully slow to use.
6. I painfully regret that I must part with him this way.
7. Clara was painfully surprised and tried to prevent her father from carrying out his plan.
8. He is painfully shy of women.
9. He grew painfully aware that the family was divided in its attitude.
10. I wish my country will go through it less painfully.
11. He walked painfully and it looked as if his legs had no strength to even carry him.
12. He had painfully drawn up a first draft.
13. There are two things you should be painfully aware of right now.
14. It painfully affects my English ear.
15. Culture does not explain this painfully slow response; politics do.
16. His movements were painfully impaired by arthritis.
17. But they were painfully betrayed.
18. But unemployment was still painfully high when his second term began in 1937.
19. The results are painfully clear.
20. Here, progress has been painfully slow.
21. His fingers dug painfully into my arm.
22. My grip on the control bar was painfully tight as I ran down the lip of the dune.
23. The courts still move painfully slowly.
24. Cost reduction is also painfully slow.
25. The old lady made her way painfully slowly towards the door.
26. One painfully obvious answer is: bad enough to have lost his job.
27. They grow, they bulge, they stretch and sometimes they even painfully pull.
28. We know growth is painfully slow, and slowing.
29. He lands painfully in the mud.
30. I am painfully aware that staff have a heavy work schedule.
31. I painfully realized most of my books went unread.
32. Instead of wasting my days sitting around painfully, I began to put my energy into local community service projects.
33. Even better, we aren't so painfully on the make any more.
34. The patient groaned painfully as he was lifted onto the stretcher.
35. In the arcane world of scholarship and science, promotions are seldom speedy and almost always painfully slow.
36. If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring ( possibly painfully) some of his kinetic energyto your own body, or you can approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.
37. The thought of dying slowly and painfully terrified me.
38. Matt limped painfully off the field.
39. Progress has been painfully slow.
40. Things are moving painfully slowly.
41. He banged his knee painfully against the desk.
42. He was painfully aware of his lack of experience.
43. The dog was painfully thin.
44. I believe he is most painfully anxious about Diana.
45. The divorce was painfully public, feeding her dislike of the press.
46. His tooth had started to throb painfully again.
47. Their first album was painfully frank to the point of being confessional.
48. Their son was painfully shy.
49. Painfully shy, he finally summoned up courage to ask her to a game.
