smartingly
English
Etymology
smarting + -ly
Adverb
smartingly (comparative more smartingly, superlative most smartingly)
- So as to smart; with a stinging pain.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even be conscious of all that he had lost.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde