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  • adverb With suffering.

Etymologies

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suffering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Overburdened by politicians as our tiny nation is, I say bulldoze Holyrood at the earliest convenience and get back to supporting a mere 50 odd Westminster MPs - or vice versa - keep the exorbitant and revolting carbuncle and loosen all ties with Westminster - well, certainly the redundant numbers we maintain long-sufferingly at present.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Poet Laureate for Dutch Henry Winery in Napa Valley where she is arduously and long-sufferingly researching the poetry of wine, she has crafted a poetic body of work that is unique for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism.

    ANTHROPOLOGY POETICS 2007

  • She is the Poet Laureate for Dutch Henry Winery in St. Helena, CA where she is arduously and long-sufferingly researching the poetry of wine.

    CITY LIGHTS WITH ANDREW AND GARRETT 2007

  • Poet Laureate for Dutch Henry Winery in Napa Valley where she is arduously and long-sufferingly researching the poetry of wine, she has crafted a poetic body of work that is unique for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • She is the Poet Laureate for Dutch Henry Winery in St. Helena, CA where she is arduously and long-sufferingly researching the poetry of wine.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • This character brings an interesting obstacle to Seldon's irrefutable psychohistoric predictions that barbarism or gradual lack of peace everywhere in the Galaxy will last only for a millennium (with the help of his two secretly established "foundations" on hidden planets at both ends of the Galaxy) instead of a sufferingly long 30,000 years.

    Foundation: The Movie 2003

  • O'BRIEN: The pilot ejected a mile before the plane went down, sufferingly only minor injuries.

    CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2005 2005

  • My driver - 'call me Jim' - long-sufferingly reversed and returned into the town's centre when the double bull's-eye more or less left us both laughing.

    Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

  • Cynthia did not know much about humanity and Lans never said he loved her -- but it came upon the girl all at once one day that she -- she, little Cynthia Walden, was needed, desperately, sufferingly needed by a great-souled man to help in saving Lost Hollow!

    A Son of the Hills

  • The two were staring dumbly, sufferingly, at each other.

    Janet of the Dunes

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