Afflictingly

Emily replied, therefore, to Valancourt, that she would see him, and then exerted herself in endeavours to attain fortitude and composure, to bear her through the approaching scene — a scene so afflictingly the reverse of any, to which she had looked forward! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Their decisions are most afflictingly slow, when everything calls for the utmost ardor and dispatch. ❋ Unknown (1924)

And when a fortunate gentleman, desiring to be still more fortunate, would display the winning amiability of his character, distension of one cheek gives him an afflictingly false look of sweetness. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

She thought of him till she could have reproached him for not returning and helping her to get away from the fever of other thoughts: -- this anguish twisting about her parents, and the dreadful trammels of gratitude to a man afflictingly generous, the frown of congregated people. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Songs, 'which have become so afflictingly common of late years. ❋ Various (1840)

Emily replied, therefore, to Valancourt, that she would see him, and then exerted herself in endeavours to attain fortitude and composure, to bear her through the approaching scene -- a scene so afflictingly the reverse of any, to which she had looked forward! ❋ Ann Ward Radcliffe (1793)

My greatest oppression is a correspondence afflictingly laborious, the extent of which have been long endeavoring to curtail. ❋ Unknown (1760)