smartingly
- 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
I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.
From Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles
All the lethargy of the past months disappeared; he was alive again, smartingly alive, face to face with his shame.
From What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
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 Morley, Christopher
