What does woundingly mean?
Woundingly means In a way that wounds.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
In a way that wounds.
But when the playwright Lynn Nottage spoke the first two words of the title to Congolese women in the refugee camps of Uganda in 2004, she said, they repeated them in such a way that the words became woundingly new.
Use woundingly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Woundingly means In a way that wounds.
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But when the playwright Lynn Nottage spoke the first two words of the title to Congolese women in the refugee camps of Uganda in 2004, she said, they repeated them in such a way that the words became woundingly new.
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