The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agonizingly \Ag"o*ni`zing*ly\, adv. With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
Wiktionary
adv. In an agonizing manner; in a way that causes agony.
WordNet
adv. in a very painful manner; "the progress was agonizingly slow" [syn: excruciatingly, torturously]
Usage examples of "agonizingly".
And at the same time I was often agonizingly distressed by my obdurate coldness toward poor Mother.
She pulled her foot back, and began the agonizingly slow progress down.
The world moved slowly, trancelike, as Asteria agonizingly raised her thin arms to ward off the blow and I involuntarily did the same, even though distant from the blade by many yards, by a lifetime.
While Joro fumed and seethed and wished she would drop dead on the spot, preferably of something agonizingly painful that would turn her into an entirely repulsive corpse.
Painfully, agonizingly, he was moving little flecks of sharkskin pepper and kunai seed about on the table, moving them with mental anguish but not touching them except with his mind.
Then, if chance favors, the simple laboratory technique for determining codon assignments, the leverage so agonizingly close that he can close his eyes and see it in the phosphene tracers on his lids.
When they reached the hexagonal courtyard, which Marlowe could now see was, in fact, a wide expanse of white marble, two elderly women in white medical kimonos took an agonizingly slow stroll, watched from a distance by a pair of orderlies in what appeared to be the standard sealsuit.
It had been two agonizingly long years, and as he reached for his wife now, he felt her suddenly shrink from him and begin to tremble.
When he displeased her, carpets had a way of sliding away under him, crockery flew of its own accord and the bathwater was wont to become suddenly and agonizingly cold.
Reptiles, too, had been catalogued, venomous spiders the size of dinner plates, and invertebrates, exuding oily substances which stung agonizingly.
Getting the last in theater had been agonizingly slow, but finally they were here, and they were the Ace of Diamonds Bondarenko had facedown on the card table.
Slowly, agonizingly, the apple rose, still wobbling, but now doing so in midair.
The cobalt chloride would do it, very slowly and agonizingly, unless the digitalis managed it first.
Mansus's room a very scared domestic servant, voluble, tearful and agonizingly penitent.
Silver wires formed double helixes around both arching ovipositors, an agonizingly long task at which her brother and friends had helped.