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  • adverb In a depressed manner.

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depressed +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Three black women sat heavily, depressedly, with blood-threaded eyes and bruised stares.

    The Town Chuck Hogan 2004

  • I said depressedly, 'I banked so much on his giving us some really vital information.'

    Slay Ride Francis, Dick, 1920- 1974

  • "I didn't understand that," said Joe, depressedly.

    Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

  • He reeled, and then depressedly accommodated himself to conditions on the moon.

    Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935

  • Noting how thin the Professor's ash-coloured hair seemed to be, over the crown of his head, in comparison with Dahlia's luxuriant and elaborately dressed chestnut locks, I felt depressedly that the disparity in age was more marked than is often seen.

    A Court of Inquiry 1912

  • Still, "he added depressedly," I must arrange to earn something, I suppose, since my father's assistance is so problematical.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • Colonel Boucher singing the bass of "A few more years shall roll," felt his mind instinctively wandering to the cock-fight the evening before, and depressedly recollecting that a considerable number of years had rolled already.

    Queen Lucia 1903

  • The volunteer cadet-corps fell in next Monday, depressedly, with a face of shame.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • This lady has affairs of great pith and moment to convey to the maids, who make timidly respectful suggestions, which evidently carry small comfort, for the lady retires depressedly.

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

  • They are burned a dark red; their brown mustaches look white by contrast, theirs are the same faces you have met with in Piccadilly, which you see across the tables of the Savoy restaurant, which gaze depressedly from the windows of White's and the Bachelors 'Club.

    Notes of a War Correspondent Richard Harding Davis 1890

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