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heartedly

[ hahr-tid-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a way that shows a specified feeling, mood, personality trait, or kind of heart (usually used in combination):

    I wholeheartedly agree with your statement.

    They welcomed him warm-heartedly.

    He expressed his love most heartedly.



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Example Sentences

The representational assemblages appear light-hearted, but their cut-and-pasted scraps include text about chronic hunger.

Otherwise, the weary-hearted, long-lived Spofforth simply yearns to die.

Despite being challenged by opposing voices and broken-hearted fans to reconsider her views, Rowling has only redoubled her rhetoric.

From Vox

Thankfully, the pre-debut variety series Treasure Map—which captured everything from light-hearted games to a heartwarming surprise for one member’s high school graduation—offered a way for fans to follow the lives of the 12 members in the meantime.

From Time

Matthew McConaughey’s Jack Lengyel is a joyful and big-hearted but ultimately one-dimensional character.

If the Israel model ban were directed towards disordered eating, Ravin says she would support it whole-heartedly.

“And to see great fashion,” he added half-heartedly, in monotone and with no punctuation.

But—contrary to many reports—Armstrong half-heartedly said he never pressured teammates into doping or fired them if they refused.

I congratulate whole-heartedly my fellow award-winners, but most of all I salute our wounded veterans.

In the work of the British writer Tom McCarthy, symbolism is never done half-heartedly.

She blinked and dragged half-heartedly at the cigarette and then she turned and looked at the marble she was doing.

The King of Prussia now definitely withdrew the propositions which he had half-heartedly made before Wagram.

So she ran upstairs light-heartedly to get the new gown, and in a few minutes returned with it on her arm.

Laughing light-heartedly, they plunged into a labyrinth of dark streets.

"Oh, I used to be pretty fair," he said half-heartedly, plunging into the distant past.

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