smart
verb (used without object)
to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
smartingly
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a word derived from
smart.
Example Sentences
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He writes a couple of smartingly satiric scenes and puts together some pretty shrewd pacifist repartee.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Bunyan was a Baptist and "preached what I felt and what I smartingly did feel, even under that which my poor soul did groan and tremble to astonishment."
From Time Magazine Archive
She knew only that she was thrillingly, smartingly alive.
From Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
The bear whirled on his haunches, and struck viciously; but his claws met nothing but empty air, while a stiff wing-tip brushed smartingly across his eyes.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Not snugly in bed, but smartingly; each trying to find a cool place on the sheets, and things very much bedewed by the tears of The Seraph.
From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley
