emotive
adjective
characterized by or pertaining to emotion.
emotively
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a word derived from
emotive.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes, though, the scribes were a little bit bolder and wrote more emotively about their work.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
Rakitina’s interpretation was one of ambivalent optimism, matched by her contrasting gestures at the podium: an emotively outstretched hand in one moment, a hammering beat in another.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
Controlled by an app on your phone, the little ball rolled about at high speeds, cocked its head emotively, spun around in circles, and inevitably careened into your wall, popping its head right off.
From The Verge ● Dec. 10, 2019
By age 8, he was singing and studying music in the choir of a legendary cantor, Yossele Mandelbaum, who sang so emotively that Rev. Taube still recalls the sobs his singing elicited from the congregation.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2017
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis This historic period is emotively captured in a new documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, made by Stanley Nelson, a long-time chronicler of African American struggles.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2015
