searingly

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English

Etymology

From searing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

searingly (comparative more searingly, superlative most searingly)

  1. In a burning, blistering, hot manner.
  2. (figurative) Harshly; mercilessly.
    a searingly honest appraisal of her career prospects
    • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 23:
      Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.

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