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Discover LudwigThe phrase "which painfully" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or action that causes pain or discomfort, either physically or emotionally. Example: "The memories of that day lingered in her mind, which painfully reminded her of the loss she had endured."
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His strategy to reform Barclays has a name – Transform – which, painfully, means Turnaround, Return Acceptable Numbers and Sustain Forward Momentum.
"What if I had to care for my obese sibling?" yielded "Big Brother" (2012), a fictional playing-out of an autobiographical scenario which, painfully, never came to pass in actual life; Shriver's older brother died from complications related to obesity, in 2009.
In one of the film's most cathartic (and disturbing) scenes, Ripley torches a lab full of failed Ripley clones, one of which painfully begs her for death.
Her single back then, "Gimme More," includes the lines, "Feels like the crowd is saying / Gimme, gimme more," which, painfully, could not have been further from reality.
Triggers are certain names, places, and events which painfully remind you of the time your spouse was having an affair or relationship.
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Both had huge housing bubbles, which burst painfully.
Underneath the water were huge, slippery rocks which we painfully managed to get across.
There is a brilliant literary prize scene which was painfully familiar to me.
But she had both a clear message and the personality to project it, something which he painfully lacks.
Religion and science often collide, but politics is the arena in which, however painfully, they must coexist.
Connolly's love of period detail can have a dragging effect on the narrative, which becomes painfully slow at times.
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