painfully
adv/ˈpeɪnfəli/
Etymology From Middle English peinfully, paynefully, equivalent to painful + -ly.
1
In a painful manner; as if in pain.
- I limped painfully down the stairs.
- The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IX, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, page 193:
2
Informal Badly; poorly.
- That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.