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Meaning of smartingly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

So as to smart; with a stinging pain.

Examples

“The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even be conscious of all that he had lost.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

smartish smartly smashingly smatteringly smearily smegging

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