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smartingly

adverb

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adv

Etymology: From smarting + -ly.

  1. So as to smart; with a stinging pain.

    “The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even be conscious of all that he had lost.”

smartingly — meaning, definition (adverb) · Vinony