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'excruciatingly' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is an adverb, and it is used to describe something that is very painful or difficult to endure. For example: "The throbbing headache was excruciatingly painful."
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excruciatingly
adverb
In a manner causing great pain or anguish; in an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree.
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An excruciatingly difficult search led her through three decades of legal action against police officers, military officers and doctors involved in the "missing grandchildren" cases.
She underwent an excruciatingly painful labour and her baby died in her womb before being removed by an operation with no anaesthetic by a doctor using a razor blade.
She is not, as they say, a woman's woman, but why wasn't Tre quizzed about his childcare arrangements or accused, by an excruciatingly flirty Nick Warnock, of having lips made for sin?
But the tragedies of eroded civil rights are excruciatingly small scale – just one person's liberty at a time … until those rights completely gone, of course.
It's very funny but also excruciatingly exposing.
But insider interests and institutional inertia make reforming an entire country at best excruciatingly slow.
The expense of building a manufacturing facility is excruciatingly high, at around 25% of sales revenues.
The long and excruciatingly public process gave Ms Yellen's supporters and Mr Summers' enemies time and ammunition.It is not just Mr Summers who has been hurt by the process.
But after an excruciatingly long vote count, his Democratic opponent, Mark Begich, the mayor of Anchorage, declared victory on November 18th.In this section The end of the affair To spend or not to spend Inching to 60 Subject: Guantánamo Cooling off Casting out the money-lenders Booming Taking a punt How new a deal?
Yet elsewhere in the region, although recovery may come slowly, it is, after an excruciatingly painful year, at least visible in the distance.
Although much smaller than existing electronic devices, it takes about five minutes for each molecular domino to fall: an excruciatingly slow speed.
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