单词 | piercingly |
释义 | piercingly (once / 15451 pages) adv WORD FAMILY piercing: piercinger, piercingest, piercingly+/pierce: pierced, pierces, piercing/pierced: unpierced USAGE EXAMPLESThree long-stemmed roses, so piercingly red I wondered if they were plastic, were in the vase. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) In “Old Joy” and “Wendy and Lucy,” the writer-director piercingly captured the despair and isolation of characters dwelling at the margins of contemporary American society. Los Angeles Times(Oct 13, 2016) ‘WINTERREISE’ Last year, the piercingly poignant tenor Mark Padmore sang this classic Schubert song cycle to open Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. New York Times(Sep 16, 2016) 1adv extremely and sharply Syn bitingly, bitter, bitterly 2adv in a shrill voice Syn shrilly |
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