smartingly

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adverb

So as to smart; with a stinging pain.

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Meanings

adverbsmartingly (comparative more smartingly, superlative most smartingly)

comparative more smartingly · superlative most smartingly

  1. So as to smart; with a stinging pain.

    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.

    1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 124–125

Origin

From smarting + -ly.

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APA

smartingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smartingly

MLA

“smartingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smartingly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “smartingly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smartingly.

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