If you badly (painfully) want the new Mercedes convertible, only to discover that your neighbor has bought one, it is a substantive psychological question whether you envy her for it.
Washington Post's Hank Stuever was critical about the pilot episode, describing it as "mean-spirited, painfully dumb and badly acted".
Another bereaved and weeping relative, asked angrily: "If they knew the plane was faulty, why did they let it fly?" The mass grief was deepened by the painfully slow process of identifying the badly charred bodies of their loved ones.
And on top of THAT, the team had just lost, badly, and it was painfully obvious how little any of them wanted to be there--no matter how much giddy little boygroom grinned and punched them in their chests.
Done badly, Gothic makeup can look painfully stupid.
Carpenter, an introspective and sometimes painfully candid man, flew only one mission that was badly flawed when he overshot his landing area by 200 miles.
Likewise, every show is inevitably pocked with badly timed banter and strange moments of silence, making it painfully obvious that at least some of the presenters were not available for/interested in actually attending rehearsals.
It was all too easy to see how a side low on imagination and improvisation, and badly missing their best, but currently injured, striker Loïc Rémy, have struggled painfully to score goals of late.
Her flesh started to crust and painfully peel off until, a few months later, the whole mess collapsed like a badly baked cake.
They made it painfully clear during the meeting of the Union of Composers at which he first performed the opus (nervously and badly, it was reliably reported).
