Definitions
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- adverb In a
tired manner.
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- adverb in a weary manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kit went to their bikes, leaning tiredly against two pine trees, and retrieved her water bottle.
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He smiled tiredly, noting my fascination with the mace.
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Thermo tiredly shook his head and I suddenly choked.
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Ridge spoke her name in a tone that tiredly appealed to her not to hassle him.
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He sat tiredly listening to singers file into a Glasgow hotel room, the kind of place where contestants still tried out.
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About an early ancestor in the mid-19th century, she says, after imagining that his parents lived in poverty: "The mother sits tiredly at her spinning wheel with a hank of tallowy grayish wool while the father puts on his green felt hat with the little red feather and trudges over to the Rathaus to hear the latest bad news."
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Daydreaming tiredly, I suddenly caught sight of hundreds of motley padlocks - without keys - attached to the wire mesh stretching well above reach and presumably meant to prevent would-be suicides from clambering over the guardrails.
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Daydreaming tiredly, I suddenly caught sight of hundreds of motley padlocks - without keys - attached to the wire mesh stretching well above reach and presumably meant to prevent would-be suicides from clambering over the guardrails.
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About an early ancestor in the mid-19th century, she says, after imagining that his parents lived in poverty: "The mother sits tiredly at her spinning wheel with a hank of tallowy grayish wool while the father puts on his green felt hat with the little red feather and trudges over to the Rathaus to hear the latest bad news."
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Sebastian asked tiredly, plopping onto the couch and stretching his legs.
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