What does tearily mean?
Tearily means In a teary manner..
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/ˈtɪəɹɪli/ · adverb
In a teary manner..
When Danna Walker left the second-floor conference room and returned tearily to her desk — where someone had already deposited a packing box for her belongings — her first thought was not of the 14 years she had worked for DHL or the loss of her $37,000-a-year salary.
That's so funny. The cop up there, [the] border patrol officer, like, tearily recounting the incident, y'know? How he nearly died? God, that's funny.
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Tearily means In a teary manner..
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When Danna Walker left the second-floor conference room and returned tearily to her desk — where someone had already deposited a packing box for her belongings — her first thought was not of the 14 years she had worked for DHL or the loss of her $37,000-a-year salary.
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