searingly

comparative more searingly · superlative most searingly

1. In a burning, blistering, hot manner.
2. figurativelyHarshly; mercilessly.

   a searingly honest appraisal of her career prospects

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   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.

   2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 23