painfully

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adverb

Comparative

more painfully

Superlative

most painfully

1.
In a painful manner; as if in pain.
I limped painfully down the stairs.
2.
(informal)Badly; poorly.
That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.

Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English peinfully, paynefully, equivalent to painful + -ly. ine-pro