Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a melancholy way.
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- adverb In a
melancholic manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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She doesn't explicitly mention the stabbing, but she melancholically recalls her mother as "a perfect gentlewoman."
Carolyn Vega: Mary Lamb's Not-So-Gentle Madness Carolyn Vega 2011
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She doesn't explicitly mention the stabbing, but she melancholically recalls her mother as "a perfect gentlewoman."
Carolyn Vega: Mary Lamb's Not-So-Gentle Madness Carolyn Vega 2011
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"Well, that just about did it," his producer Wald said melancholically.
Pugnacious Piers Morgan chats up Oprah for his CNN debut Lisa de Moraes 2011
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The subjects of "No Sleep" turned out to be "the last un-plastic mattresses," Ms. Kang said melancholically.
Lying Down on the Job Lizzie Simon 2011
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She doesn't explicitly mention the stabbing, but she melancholically recalls her mother as "a perfect gentlewoman."
Carolyn Vega: Mary Lamb's Not-So-Gentle Madness Carolyn Vega 2011
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She doesn't explicitly mention the stabbing, but she melancholically recalls her mother as "a perfect gentlewoman."
Carolyn Vega: Mary Lamb's Not-So-Gentle Madness Carolyn Vega 2011
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"But even if it's not reinventing the wheel, Visioneers still manages to be insightful, intelligent, and melancholically funny."
Worth Watching - June 24: Zach Galifianakis' Visioneers Trailer « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Or rather, he says that love is the opposite of orthodox tyranny, but the poem forces him to experience love as simply another and more complex kind of orthodox tyranny: the tyranny of that very tradition which he claims cannot "enthrall" the heart but which in killing Leila has melancholically bound him more firmly to it than it ever could have were she alive.
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Despite his move up in the world of small mammalian dwellings, he remains unfulfilled, melancholically contemplating his increasing age (helpfully translated into both human and fox years).
Cara Parks: Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson and the Capers of Middle Age 2009
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The genius of the passage is that the more the tone of address seems wayward, random, uncommitted, the closer it gets to the goat cut free from wherever he was chained but still dragging himself melancholically about, not unlike the book's hero, Watt, who, now freed from his duties at Mr. Knott's house, asks for a train ticket to "the end of the line" and when asked which end replied, "the nearest end."
Beckett: Still Stirring Parks, Tim 2006
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