Agonizingly
Agonizingly adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: agonizingly made the decision to have her beloved cat put to sleep
Ruefully and agonizingly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ruefully" instead an adverb "Agonizingly".
Ruefully
Ruefully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: ruefully accepted the fact that the drunk driver would never adequately pay for his crime
Agonizingly and ruefully are semantically related. You can use "Agonizingly" instead an adverb "Ruefully".
Nearby Words: rueful, ruefulness
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hard and agonizingly
- hard and ruefully
- hardly and agonizingly
- hardly and ruefully
- bitterly and agonizingly
- bitterly and ruefully
- distressingly and agonizingly
- distressingly and ruefully
- painfully and agonizingly
- painfully and ruefully
- dejectedly and agonizingly
- dejectedly and ruefully
- sadly and agonizingly
- sadly and ruefully
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