half-tearfully

• a word derived from tearful.
  tearful

  adjective

  full of tears; weeping.

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half-tearfully

The flurry of broken, scattered phrases, half-tearfully, half-smilingly welcoming her back, had spent themselves, and now old Virginie, drawing away, regarded her with bewildered, almost frightened eyes.

From The Lamp of Fate by Margaret Pedler

“Oh, Mr Deering,” she said, half-tearfully, half in anger, “I do wish you would stop in town.”

From The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by A.W. Cooper

And as he half-tearfully dried himself, he felt moved as he rarely had been.

From The Mantooth by Christopher Leadem

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