Definition of "piercingly" [piercingly]

• In a piercing manner. (adverb)

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• "But even as it dropped, before Longstreth could leap, as he surely intended, for the gun, Duane covered him, called piercingly to him:"
• "Yet he is still a great writer, and "Dancing at Lughnasa" is as piercingly, permanently enthralling as ever."
• "What's comical at one moment may suddenly morph into something rueful, farcical, piercingly painful or inexplicably graceful."