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								unpleasantly his ignorance was painfully obvious
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								in or as if in pain
 she moved painfully forward
 
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			| The following are synonyms for 'painfully'. Click on any of them to get both Bibliodata's full list of common definitions and a further set of synonyms. 
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			| painful |  
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				| painlessly |  
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