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Definition of Stingingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stingingly
Literary usage of Stingingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"Well, it's been л stingingly painful one to me. I don't like the exposure of it ;
and, of course, you found out the sort of people we are at once. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1864)
"... they came hardly and stingingly to one who so seldom wept ; and at the sight
of them her son was greatly moved. Stooping before her, he kissed one hand ..."
3. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"If AJ was not callous to all that would affect gentlemen generally, he would feel
this rebuke stingingly. But since he has betrayed the men who elected him ..."
4. The American Dramatist by Montrose Jonas Moses (1911)
"There is something stingingly true in Burke's utterance, put in the mouth of his
Rip Van Winkle: " Are we so soon ..."
5. The American Dramatist by Montrose Jonas Moses (1917)
"There is something stingingly true in Burke's utterance, put in the mouth of his
Rip Van Winkle: "Are we so soon forgot when we are gone? ..."
6. The American Dramatist by Montrose Jonas Moses (1917)
"... something stingingly true in Burke's utterance, put in the mouth of his Rip
Van Winkle: " Are we so soon forgot when we are gone? ..."
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