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Definition of "woundily" [wound•i•ly]

  • Greatly; excessively (adverb)

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Use "woundily" in a sentence
  • "So shall only taste of your ale; for the beef was woundily corned."
  • "A person who is used to making sacrifices — Laura, for instance, who had got such a habit of giving up her own pleasure for others — can do the business quite easily; but Pen, unaccustomed as he was to any sort of self-denial, suffered woundily when called on to pay his share, and savagely grumbled at being obliged to forgo anything he liked."
  • "Taking up the tongs, as if to arrange the wood, but rather perhaps to conceal his own confusion, the butler observed, “it was burning clear now, but had smoked woundily in the morning.”"
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