Messily and Painfully

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Messily adverb - In a messy, untidy manner.

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Painfully and messily are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Painfully" instead an adverb "Messily".

Painfully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.

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Messily and painfully are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Messily" with "Painfully", this adverbs are similar.

Nearby Words: pain, painful, pained

In the Bootleg Disney Games video, the scene with The Great Bootleg messily and painfully vomiting a game for Jon to play is accompanied by a heartfelt piano tune.

Source: Web Video / JonTron
Not to mention his Lovecraftian Superpower, or that he was practically split in half by the monster at the beginning of the game, resulting in the Terror Mask messily and painfully putting him back together.

Source: Body Horror / Video Games
Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan usually doesn't use firearms except for self-defence, but for everything else, there's the (usually) non-lethal bowel disruptor to incapacitate painfully and messily.

Source: When All You Have Is a Hammer

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