Agonizingly
accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in or distress:
We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had been serious or not.
Contemporary Examples
Heartsick, depressed, agonizingly lonely, she would disappear for days behind her locked bedroom doors.
New Questions Arise About Mary Richardson Kennedy’s Suicide Nancy Collins May 15, 2013
The latest opinion polls suggest it will be agonizingly close.
Scots Must Choose Heart or Head Nico Hines September 17, 2014
Historical Examples
Were the features against which that frail bit of cambric was agonizingly pressed of a pleasing contour?
Seven Keys to Baldpate Earl Derr Biggers
A muffled sound, faint, but agonizingly definite—a woman’s sobs!
The Secret Witness George Gibbs
He knew by her voice she was ill, and his palpitating heart was wrung so agonizingly that he was constantly in tears.
Rose O’Paradise Grace Miller White
A glance told him it was empty; but he felt with his hands in all the dim corners, agonizingly whispering her name.
Two on the Trail Hulbert Footner
Not able even to stand alone, awkwardly, agonizingly unable to mount his restive horse, his life was yet so strong within him!
Jackanapes Juliana Horatio Ewing
It was as if someone had prodded him in an agonizingly sore place and he reacted instinctively.
The Black Tide Arthur G. Stangland
An agonizingly long time later the faint and disregarded sound of the plane swept back across the heavens.
Operation Terror William Fitzgerald Jenkins
It attempts to live on, indefinitely, agonizingly, no matter how antiquated it might have become.
Mercenary Dallas McCord Reynolds
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