Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a broken, interrupted manner; without regularity.
- In broken or imperfect language.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
broken manner. - adverb of speech With spaces between words, especially due to emotion.
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Examples
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He made a swift motion toward her, saying her name brokenly in his choked voice, but he crumpled suddenly and slid from his chair to the floor and was still.
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Ovide! "she called brokenly, staring blankly around the room.
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"Here, Polly," he called brokenly, "this is something beyond me.
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For answer, through the din of the elements, a voice called brokenly, sobbingly:
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I shall not be worthy to be called your sister, but, "brokenly," you need not have feared.
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I'm struggling to believe that there are men and women out there who will recoil from an unvajazzled vagina, crying brokenly, "but where are the jewels?"
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The offendor arose brokenly, shook off the detaining hand of his girl, and came over.
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After he left the house she flung herself on the bed and cried heart-brokenly.
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He spent the afternoon in a deck-chair, with closed eyes, dozing brokenly most of the time, and in the evening went early to bed.
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The women screamed softly, crossed themselves, or prayed brokenly, hiding their eyes and peeping through their fingers.
sionnach commented on the word brokenly
"Kenneth was like a brother to me", said Tom brokenly.
October 30, 2007