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WEARILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a weary manner
Example:
he walked around tiredly
Synonyms:
tiredly; wearily
Classified under:
Pertainym:
weary (physically and mentally fatigued)
Context examples:
“I have told you all that happened, Mr. Hopkins,” she said, wearily.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had spent the day wearily over books, and, simply to keep my mind occupied, went over some of the matters I had been examined in at Lincoln's Inn.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Twice she thrust forward at it, and twice she drew back, until at last, giving up in despair, she sat herself down by the brink and wrung her hands wearily.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was still a sick man, and I more than once observed him creeping painfully aloft to a topsail, or drooping wearily as he stood at the wheel.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But no one stopped it, and he was glad, punching on wearily and endlessly with his one arm, battering away at a bloody something before him that was not a face but a horror, an oscillating, hideous, gibbering, nameless thing that persisted before his wavering vision and would not go away.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Then, with a sunken head and a heavy heart, he plodded wearily down the other path, wroth with himself for the rude and uncouth tongue which had given offence where so little was intended.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
