Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an excruciating manner.
- Extremely: as, excruciatingly polite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing greatpain oranguish . - adverb In a very
intense orextreme manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a very painful manner
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Examples
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It's the way the American ending makes the title excruciatingly literal that's funniest.
unknown title 2009
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After working what he calls excruciatingly long days as a pharmacist and store owner, Sussman's wife suggested he do something more fun.
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She did not enjoy the drama, which she called "excruciatingly painful" and "horrible" and "not a wonderful experience like everybody thinks."
NYT > Home Page By GREG BISHOP 2011
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"Abu Zubayda's 'hard time' began when he was locked into the tiny coffin for hours on end, which he described as excruciatingly painful.
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We’re seeing this play out in excruciatingly agonizing detail with tomorrow’s appearance in Congress of General Petraeus.
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Since he was a very private man, he found the idea excruciatingly painful-almost as painful as missing Jodie.
The Man Means Business Broadrick, Annette 2006
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Coach John Anderson went as far to say that it is not safe to assume Kari Lehtonen will be the number one goaltender for the season thesportsbank. net 4 days ago - By Paul M. Banks Following an off-season that even the most optimistic person would describe as excruciatingly disastrous, Patrick Kane has something extremely positive to look forward to.
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9. Organfam spent some time with the second season of the Muppet Show this past weekend and marveled how memory works – how is that we failed to recall the excruciatingly awful skits, which make up a large part of the shows, and instead only recalled the really good bits?
Ten Things Tuesday: Absurdity « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2007
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Heart and respiratory rates, as well as cortisol levels of babies undergoing circumcision point to the unambiguous conclusion that circumcision is excruciatingly painful to any baby.
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
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I do not have the emotional ability to grasp how a grown adult would be able to conscionably spray this toxic and excruciatingly painful substance into the faces of these young people, who were peacefully and responsibly expressing their concerns for the world they find themselves growing up in.
Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity Heather McCloskey Beck 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word excruciatingly
DUKE. I began, at last, to think that man was born bent at an angle of forty-five degrees! Great heavens, what is there to adulate in me? Am I particularly intelligent, or remarkably studious, or excruciatingly witty, or unusually accomplished, or exceptionally virtuous?
soldiers begin to titter as DUKE speaks, gradually giggling, laughing, and roaring outright at his final words
-- W.S. Gilbert, Patience
August 21, 2008
dailyword commented on the word excruciatingly
Anne used this word when she was talking to Gilbert about not dancing with her at Christmas.
June 11, 2012