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- adv. In a heartrending manner.
Examples
“But for the most part, my sentimental journeys across the seas of time have proven heartrendingly unsatisfactory.”
The Wall Street Journal: Tracing My Roots and Coming Up With Dirt
“Quote of the weekAppealing to the government to extend free school meals to those on low incomes, Ofsted reported heartrendingly:”
“There are moments in the end that are just heartrendingly profound.”
Scott Mendelson: 2009 in Review: The Guilty Pleasures, the Surprisingly Good, and the Runners-up
“It's the kind of story I heard repeatedly, heartrendingly when I visited Colombia last month with a delegation of British Parliamentarians and unionists led by the United Steelworkers and Unite the Union, which together last year formed Workers Uniting, the first transatlantic union.”
Fred Redmond: No Evidence Found that Colombia Suddenly FTA-Worthy
“I can't imagine _anything_ more heartrendingly romantic that the Standard Model Lagrangian - however, it still lacks MACHO and WIMP as cake toppers.”
“This looks like it will be absolutely, heartrendingly beautiful and awesome.”
“Something I did not say the other day when you were so heartrendingly frightened was that I had an infection a year ago that spread to my heart and I nearly died and even with that I am okay now.”
“Crowley never forces the readers to choose sides, but instead makes us fall in love with his characters--the old knight and his young wife, the young prince who falls in love with her, the deposed king, locked away in an old mansion and left to his heartrendingly portrayed madness.”
“The Boggart sighed, heartrendingly, and from a scrub oak nearby a barn owl hooted to him in reply.”
“Something warm and alive that looked heartrendingly like hope.”
Gage Butler's Reckoning
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Adverbia
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Reesetee's list Conjunctive Adv...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2243 more...

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