Painfully - definition, pronunciation, transcription

As a teenager, I was painfully shy.

The road to peace is a painfully slow process.

We are only too painfully aware of the damage his actions have caused.

It was painfully obvious he'd rather not see her again.

Robyn swallowed painfully.

Robert was painfully shy with strangers.

Bilbo bowed. He had no hat to take off, and was painfully conscious of his many missing buttons.

He gave us a painfully honest account of his childhood.

I was painfully shy as a teenager.

...the new kid was really not so aloof as we thought him at first, just painfully shy...

He was painfully sensible of his inferiority in conversation.

Patrick hauled himself painfully up the stairs.

Father Poole walked painfully, with the aid of a stick.

Virginia's heart lurched painfully in her chest.

I scraped my knee painfully on the concrete.