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[ adverb ] under cruel circumstances
Examples "a cruelly bitter winter" Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)But that year was different , for just as the city , in the form of my street clothes , had intruded upon my mountain nights , so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall : Jessica and I , about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or mess-hall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs , had agreed to correspond . |
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