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- adverb In a manner that
bruises ;violently .
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Examples
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If Jack has learned nothing else from The Doctor, it's to use a bruisingly obvious pseudonym.
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Jamie's hands were locked on my breasts, fingers digging bruisingly into the flesh.
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Cheney's speech was nakedly, bruisingly political.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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Just launching an investigation will be bruisingly controversial.
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Cheney's speech was nakedly, bruisingly political.
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I have been to a couple of concentration camps - Dachau and Buchenwald - and it is certainly a bruisingly emotional experience.
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I have been to a couple of concentration camps - Dachau and Buchenwald - and it is certainly a bruisingly emotional experience.
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He gave him the most bruisingly hard time that it was possible to imagine.
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It would go nowhere, of course; both men were attached to other women, and these particular women were so absurdly and bruisingly young, but there was no harm in the suggestiveness of it all.
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In Egypte the horses had been small, their buttock-pounding gait bruisingly uncomfortable for a heavy man.
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