sobbingly
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8.3
- adverb
- /ˈsɑbɪŋli/
:
sollozando
- My first manager eventually broke down one day and sobbingly exclaimed, "We're the people who take all the shit at this company."
Examples
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The steed did not stop there; he reared up again on his hind legs and neighed sobbingly once more, but this neighing was not like that of before.
Fiction book (1996) -
"Don't go any farther, Aunt Maria," Cynthia called, sobbingly, back to her.
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You got your girlfriend drunk at last year's Christmas party and then paid a kid from the mail room to have sex with her while she was passed out just so you could break up with her guilt-free when she sobbingly confessed in the morning.
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Upon tearfully or, in reality, more like sobbingly sharing the news with several people, some of them asked me point-blank: "Why don't you just take care of it?"
Blog text (17) -
You got your girlfriend drunk at last year's Christmas party, and then paid a kid from the mailroom to have sex with her while she was passed out, just so you could break up with her guilt-free when she sobbingly confessed the next morning that she cheated on you.
Fiction book (1999) -
"Mommy fell down," she sobbingly told the person who found her.
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When school officials confronted him with the allegations in October as part of a required in-school investigation, Richardson sobbingly maintained his innocence.
Synonyms
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3.2
With tears to show that someone feels sad
In a way that shows tears and deep sadness
In a way that shows someone is crying
Antonyms
How Tearful
Surface Forms
Morphology
sobbingly = sobbing (transparent) = sobbing + ly
The adverb is formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'sobbing', yielding a literal 'in a sobbing manner'.
Etymology
Sobbingly comes from the simple verb sob, which means 'to cry with short, noisy breaths', and the ending -ly makes the word describe how something is done. So, sobbingly means doing or saying something 'with sobs', as when someone speaks while crying.