agonizingly

Adverb

(comparative more agonizingly, superlative most agonizingly)

In an agonizing manner; in a way that causes agony.
The hour I waited for the pain medication to take effect dragged on agonizingly.
Friday afternoons always seem to be agonizingly prolonged.

Origin

agonizing +‎ -ly

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Unlike the nightmares, this time it was real and agonizingly slow.
For an agonizingly long moment his gaze drifted from her eyes to her mouth, and then back again.
That affair was the same thing as this soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and always dragging it in one direction.

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