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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of heartedly¹

hearted ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

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

From Washington Post

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.

From FiveThirtyEight

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg