Definition of "tearfully" []

• In a tearful manner. (adverb)

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• "She seems to know how to manipulate him, and after the weekend is over she calls tearfully to say that she has left this or that, which means that he must get his car out of the garage and drive all the way out to the house to bring it to her."
• "With shrill piping voices they called tearfully to a party sailing up the river from church, waved and waved, were answered in kind, and tasted the bitterest cup possible to the"
• "There were no bad foods; a hot fudge sundae, a banana split or a Charlotte Russe a whipped cream and sponge cake concoction resting on a circle of white cardboard is recalled tearfully by those old enough to remember was a foretaste of heaven, not a guaranteed clogging of the arteries."