Definition of "constrainedly" [con•strain•ed•ly]

• In a constrained manner, showing constraint (adverb)

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• "With an abashed kind of idea that it might have already joined himself to something he had never seen, he said constrainedly: “Just so.”"
• "Again the metaphysical fine detail is less important that the fact that we get by most of the time with constrainedly inexact similarity."
• "‘Mrs. Barnet was very well when I left home,’ the other answered constrainedly, exchanging his meditative regard of the horse for one of self-consciousness."