Agonizingly
Agonizingly adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: agonizingly made the decision to have her beloved cat put to sleep
Plaintively and agonizingly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plaintively" instead an adverb "Agonizingly".
Plaintively
Plaintively adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: the man sighed plaintively as it became clear that he was getting nowhere with the officious bureacrat
Agonizingly and plaintively are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Agonizingly" instead an adverb "Plaintively".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hard and agonizingly
- hard and plaintively
- hardly and agonizingly
- hardly and plaintively
- severely and agonizingly
- severely and plaintively
- bitterly and agonizingly
- bitterly and plaintively
- ruefully and agonizingly
- ruefully and plaintively
- distressingly and agonizingly
- distressingly and plaintively
- painfully and agonizingly
- painfully and plaintively
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