searingly
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[edit]searingly (comparative more searingly, superlative most searingly)
- In a burning, blistering, hot manner.
- (figurative) Harshly; mercilessly.
- a searingly honest appraisal of her career prospects
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 23:
- Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.