0 in a way that is extreme and difficult to bear: --
excruciatingly embarrassing/boring/funny
excruciatingly painful/uncomfortable
Progress has been excruciatingly slow.
However, to refer back to her joke, the trouble with practice is that it is excruciatingly boring.
I could not think of anything more excruciatingly boring or incomprehensive.
If it does, that will change the entire calculation and it will become excruciatingly difficult.
As we all know, finding employment for the disabled is excruciatingly difficult throughtout their entire would-be working lives.
Anyone who has been subjected to an audit of any sort finds that it is thoroughly, fiendishly and excruciatingly inconvenient.
But it must be excruciatingly difficult to maintain an intelligent and interesting debate when nearly everybody approaches the problem from the same point of view.
He had been speaking excruciatingly tediously for three hours.
Its politics were excruciatingly complex.
