Usually means: Inflicting pain or hardship severely.
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  1. punishingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. punishingly: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. punishingly: Wordnik
  5. punishingly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. punishingly: Wiktionary
  7. punishingly: Dictionary.com
  8. punishingly: Rhymezone
  9. punishingly: FreeDictionary.org
  10. punishingly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. punishingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (punishingly)

▸ adverb:  So as to punish.
▸ adverb:  In a way that is tiring or exhausting.

Similar:
reprimandingly, punitively, torturingly, excoriatingly, punishably, scourgingly, unpunishingly, persecutingly, beratingly, enforcingly, more...

Opposite:
rewardingly, leniently, mercifully

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Similar:
reprimandingly, punitively, torturingly, excoriatingly, punishably, scourgingly, unpunishingly, persecutingly, beratingly, enforcingly, more...

Opposite:
rewardingly, leniently, mercifully



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