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Definition of acutely:

  • (adverb) having a rapid onset | sharply, sharp | sapiently, shrewdly, sagaciously

Sentence Examples:

He was acutely embarrassed.

They were acutely embarrassed.

I was acutely embarrassed.

Exclaimed the girl acutely.

Again he halted, acutely distrustful.

The petals are acutely pointed.

She felt acutely, unreasonably disappointed.

He is acutely gentlemanly and officer-like.

The other voice became acutely embarrassed.

These perplexities I felt very acutely.

Acutely impressionable he was all over.

That it acutely depressed him we know.

He realized his disadvantage acutely, and squirmed.

It is intensely and most acutely annoying.

He became acutely aware of his episcopal livery.

I am suffering acutely; I feel deeply humiliated!

The yearning for sleep became acutely painful.

Trevelyan was acutely conscious of her nearness.

Physically, he was acutely comfortable, blissfully comfortable.

They were both acutely embarrassed and uncomfortable.

All in the room seemed acutely fantastically still.

She was acutely disappointed; unreasonably, furiously angry.

They uttered candidly what they felt acutely.

For her ladyship had proved acutely nipping.

Cromwell was working feverishly, and suffering acutely.

I am acutely uninterested in what happens to him.

The sight of them acutely tickled my curiosity.

His wrists tingled, and his head ached acutely.

Actors who counterfeit insanity must be acutely sane.

All the Europeans suffered acutely from prickly heat.

Acutely conscious of her now, Johnny was embarrassed.

He is evidently acutely sensitive of his present disfigurement.

Aunt Cuckoo's arm immediately began to pain her acutely.

Added to this he stammers and is acutely nervous.

The convivial doctor felt this public scandal acutely.

Valves generally elongated, attenuated, their tips acutely pointed.

White muscular tissue, when inflamed, becomes acutely sensitive.

Personally, I have not felt these scruples very acutely.

Leslie Stephen once opened very acutely, and dismissed too curtly.

Archie, acutely uncomfortable, heard the Governor stifle an exclamation.

This species has heart-shaped, saw-edged leaves which taper acutely.

The fairy-tale is romantic, pathetic, heroic, sometimes acutely tragic.

Here he was made to feel acutely that he was outcast.

The second, that he found the knowledge acutely distasteful.

I hate, I abhor myself for feeling things so acutely.

And poor Herbert too who would acutely feel this ingratitude.

I was acutely conscious of the imperfection of my language.

Yet subconsciously the Quaker was acutely aware of common interests.

Her throat ached acutely with a repressed desire to sob.

Wings triangular; the posterior lengthened and rather acutely tailed.

He looked white and haggard, and seemed to be suffering acutely.

These gifts multiplied my self-reproaches and made me acutely homesick.

The scandal and the impotence of division are more acutely felt.

The head of the large-river subspecies is acutely wedge-shaped in profile.

His brow puckered, and he looked at Madame acutely and suspiciously.

When are we most acutely sensible of the shortness of life?

The thought, implying his bondage to her, irritated him acutely.

In this way, you are made acutely aware of self-destructive thinking habits.

But later this friendless fellow touched my heart more acutely.

Never before had Pierre so acutely realized the derisive futility of Charity.

They were so sunburned that to touch them was acutely painful.

Enoch stood panting at the foot of the trail, listening acutely.

The sensation of going into overdrive was acutely uncomfortable, as always.

The family good looks were acutely accentuated in this young man.

I sometimes see them suffering acutely from shyness before my eyes.

An incursion such as we made seemed to pain her correct soul acutely.

His heightened sensitivity made him acutely aware of what she was.

Acutely conscious of our ineffectual effort, we have, nevertheless, done our best.

The general system always sympathizes acutely with the local derangement.

He pressed his question mercilessly, hating himself acutely, all the while.

Peter, doubtless, must have felt acutely the severity of the chastisement.

His senses were heightened, and he was acutely aware of his hunger.

Lying abed, he was acutely aware of his duty to get up.

She was acutely embarrassed, but did not know how to escape.

The Norman and Early English roofs were high and acutely pointed.

He grew acutely discouraged; his back, shoulders, cramped, ached and burned.

Bud untied the animal, who limped even more acutely than his master.

She was feeling the heat acutely, but was inclined to be talkative.

He was acutely and delightfully conscious of himself, of his own attractiveness.

There were times when Kelvin's mysterious malady caused him to suffer acutely.

Berkeley was acutely critical, and yet he possessed a childlike religious faith.

The skin, which was of a dark red color, was acutely inflamed.

And he deplored the painful terror under which she suffered so acutely.

I was acutely aware of dangers lurking for young girls in big cities.

It suffers keenly from the many shortcomings of which it is acutely sensible.

He certainly did feel acutely the indignity that had been passed upon him.

He was acutely sensitive, to the meaning and worth of an honorable renown.

He was so moved, his face so red, that Linda grew acutely embarrassed.

Listening acutely neither girl heard the sound of approaching footsteps from within.

The parson was acutely moved for the anguish he had not probed.

She bowed to them, acutely conscious of the scab forming on her cheek.

Montaigne glared at him, and he suffered acutely, but he did not wince.

But details remind me too acutely, flash back old anguish too sharply focussed.

Nor was she acutely impressionable to the features and the voice she loved.

They were clad in pajamas, and appeared to be feeling the dressing-gown cord acutely.

The women, especially, as might be expected, soon began to feel their privations acutely.

Shortness of breath we all suffered from, though none other so acutely as myself.

No doubt it is suffering acutely; but these stoics keep their troubles to themselves.

Never had she so acutely realized the position to which he had relegated her.

He was, however, in no sense unmanly and too often suffered acutely in silence.