Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With stinging effect.

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  • adverb In a stinging way.

Etymologies

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stinging +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Thought of Mel recalled the stingingly sweet and bitter fact of his love, and of life that called so imperiously.

    The Day of the Beast Zane Grey 1905

  • Some have criticized the United States for "stingingly" giving just 0.16 percent GNI (gross national income) and calling for all countries to give a recommended 0.7 percent.

    Michael's Minute 2009

  • Sanchez had become the personal punching bag of the host and writers of one of the most brilliantly acerbic -- and, more stingingly, most respected -- "news" outlets on television: The Daily Show.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than mere beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • Sanchez had become the personal punching bag of the host and writers of one of the most brilliantly acerbic -- and, more stingingly, most respected -- "news" outlets on television: The Daily Show.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Sanchez had become the personal punching bag of the host and writers of one of the most brilliantly acerbic -- and, more stingingly, most respected -- "news" outlets on television: The Daily Show.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Instead of trumpeting the punch lines, the members of the cast underplay their dialogue, which loses its slickness and becomes as believable—and as stingingly hurtful—as a kitchen-table spat.

    The 'Follies' of Our Dreams Terry Teachout 2011

  • "Shut up, Jesse!" my mother cried, landing the back of her hand stingingly on my mouth.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • Then, stingingly, The president's policies are not only a threat to this economy, so are his appointees a threat.

    Perry's Popping-Off Problem Peggy Noonan 2011

  • Sanchez had become the personal punching bag of the host and writers of one of the most brilliantly acerbic -- and, more stingingly, most respected -- "news" outlets on television: The Daily Show.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

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