half-tearfully
- a word derived from tearful.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 Pedler, Margaret
“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 Cooper, A.W.
And as he half-tearfully dried himself, he felt moved as he rarely had been.
From The Mantooth by Leadem, Christopher
