painfully adv

1 unpleasantly; "his ignorance was painfully obvious" [syn: distressingly]

2 in or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded" [syn: sorely] [ant: painlessly]

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Adverb

1. In a painful manner; as if in pain.

   That was the most painfully sung rendition of "Fly Me to the Moon" that I've ever heard.

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