Meaning of punishingly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. So as to punish.
2. In a way that is tiring or exhausting.

Examples

“punishingly hot weather”

“Bill Clinton was elected on an untenable premise: that it is the job of the President to manage the economy. Yes, that is what we have come to expect of Presidents; but this expectation, the author argues, is punishingly at variance with anything any President can credibly deliver[.]”

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