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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a tearful manner; with tears.

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  • adverb In a tearful manner.

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  • adverb with tears; in a tearful manner

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Examples

  • She seems to know how to manipulate him, and after the weekend is over she calls tearfully to say that she has left this or that, which means that he must get his car out of the garage and drive all the way out to the house to bring it to her.

    The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

  • With shrill piping voices they called tearfully to a party sailing up the river from church, waved and waved, were answered in kind, and tasted the bitterest cup possible to the

    Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • There were no bad foods; a hot fudge sundae, a banana split or a Charlotte Russe a whipped cream and sponge cake concoction resting on a circle of white cardboard is recalled tearfully by those old enough to remember was a foretaste of heaven, not a guaranteed clogging of the arteries.

    Sherman Yellen: America: The Incredible Shrinking Nation Sherman Yellen 2010

  • There were no bad foods; a hot fudge sundae, a banana split or a Charlotte Russe a whipped cream and sponge cake concoction resting on a circle of white cardboard is recalled tearfully by those old enough to remember was a foretaste of heaven, not a guaranteed clogging of the arteries.

    Sherman Yellen: America: The Incredible Shrinking Nation Sherman Yellen 2010

  • There were no bad foods; a hot fudge sundae, a banana split or a Charlotte Russe a whipped cream and sponge cake concoction resting on a circle of white cardboard is recalled tearfully by those old enough to remember was a foretaste of heaven, not a guaranteed clogging of the arteries.

    Sherman Yellen: America: The Incredible Shrinking Nation Sherman Yellen 2010

  • There were no bad foods; a hot fudge sundae, a banana split or a Charlotte Russe a whipped cream and sponge cake concoction resting on a circle of white cardboard is recalled tearfully by those old enough to remember was a foretaste of heaven, not a guaranteed clogging of the arteries.

    Sherman Yellen: America: The Incredible Shrinking Nation Sherman Yellen 2010

  • There were no bad foods; a hot fudge sundae, a banana split or a Charlotte Russe a whipped cream and sponge cake concoction resting on a circle of white cardboard is recalled tearfully by those old enough to remember was a foretaste of heaven, not a guaranteed clogging of the arteries.

    Sherman Yellen: America: The Incredible Shrinking Nation Sherman Yellen 2010

  • There were no bad foods; a hot fudge sundae, a banana split or a Charlotte Russe a whipped cream and sponge cake concoction resting on a circle of white cardboard is recalled tearfully by those old enough to remember was a foretaste of heaven, not a guaranteed clogging of the arteries.

    Sherman Yellen: America: The Incredible Shrinking Nation Sherman Yellen 2010

  • Whoopi Goldberg had plenty to say and the war of words that followed could only be described as tearfully uncomfortable, especially for "The View ` s" Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

    CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2008 2008

  • The Times-Picayune noted that Maestri made the above comments "tearfully," pleading for help.

    08/31/2005 2005

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