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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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
He writes a couple of smartingly satiric scenes and puts together some pretty shrewd pacifist repartee.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked up half vaguely at the sky, clear blue on this still frosty morning, and was conscious of tears that crept smartingly behind his eyes and for a moment dimmed his sight.
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli
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 Charles Dickens
But that as I said, is hard to be discerned by him that thus is sinking, and that has as he now smartingly feels, all God's waves, and his billows rolling over him.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
