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Vutdoan Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Is there a word for this?

It's like when you have to look at someone whom you really don't like but you have to. is it painfully?
  

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Are you thinking of a sentence like "I looked at him painfully"? That doesn't necessarily make me think that you don't like the other person. Perhaps you could say "I looked at him distastefully" or "I looked at him in/with disgust".

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  • Are you thinking of a sentence like "I looked at him painfully"?
  • That doesn't necessarily make me think that you don't like the other person.
  • Perhaps you could say "I looked at him distastefully" or "I looked at him in/with disgust".
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Are you thinking of a sentence like "I looked at him painfully"? That doesn't necessarily make me think that you don't like the other person.

Perhaps you could say "I looked at him distastefully" or "I looked at him in/with disgust".
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It was painful to look at him.

I found it repugnant to look at him.

I looked at him, but it was painful to do so.
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