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- adverb In a manner that
bruises ;violently .
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Examples
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If Jack has learned nothing else from The Doctor, it's to use a bruisingly obvious pseudonym.
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Jamie's hands were locked on my breasts, fingers digging bruisingly into the flesh.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Cheney's speech was nakedly, bruisingly political.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Just launching an investigation will be bruisingly controversial.
What to Do About the Torturers? Cole, David 2009
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Cheney's speech was nakedly, bruisingly political.
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I have been to a couple of concentration camps - Dachau and Buchenwald - and it is certainly a bruisingly emotional experience.
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I have been to a couple of concentration camps - Dachau and Buchenwald - and it is certainly a bruisingly emotional experience.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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He gave him the most bruisingly hard time that it was possible to imagine.
My Career at the BBC 2004
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It would go nowhere, of course; both men were attached to other women, and these particular women were so absurdly and bruisingly young, but there was no harm in the suggestiveness of it all.
The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005
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In Egypte the horses had been small, their buttock-pounding gait bruisingly uncomfortable for a heavy man.
Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005
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