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piercingly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial piercingly has 2 senses
- piercingly(r = adv.all) bitingly, bitter, bitterly - extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold"
- piercingly(r = adv.all) shrilly - in a shrill voice; "she sang rather shrilly"
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