Brokenly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Brokenly is an adverb meaning In a broken manner.
Meaning
In a broken manner.
More Meanings
- (Of speech) with gaps between words so that normal flow or fluency is affected, as due to emotion; disjointedly.
Example Sentences
It split and melted and splayed its contents brokenly.
It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly.
Upon which, you slink out, bathed in shame and confusion, and Upjohn thanks me brokenly and says if there is anything he can do for me, I have only to name it.
—Something I said, But faint and brokenly of former days, When in the paths of science and of hope, We walk'd, twin-hearted.—Then there came a peal Of vacant laughter from those bloated lips, And the swoll'n hand with trembling haste was stretch'd For friendship's grasp.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include breakly, breakably, crackedly, brokenheartedly, brittlely, fragilely.
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