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- adverb In a
tired manner.
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- adverb in a weary manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kit went to their bikes, leaning tiredly against two pine trees, and retrieved her water bottle.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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He smiled tiredly, noting my fascination with the mace.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Thermo tiredly shook his head and I suddenly choked.
Blonde, Black and Blood Red nathreee 2010
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Ridge spoke her name in a tone that tiredly appealed to her not to hassle him.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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He sat tiredly listening to singers file into a Glasgow hotel room, the kind of place where contestants still tried out.
The Judging of Simon Cowell Amy Chozick 2011
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About an early ancestor in the mid-19th century, she says, after imagining that his parents lived in poverty: "The mother sits tiredly at her spinning wheel with a hank of tallowy grayish wool while the father puts on his green felt hat with the little red feather and trudges over to the Rathaus to hear the latest bad news."
Suzanne Berne's "Missing Lucile," reviewed by Carolyn See Carolyn See 2010
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Daydreaming tiredly, I suddenly caught sight of hundreds of motley padlocks - without keys - attached to the wire mesh stretching well above reach and presumably meant to prevent would-be suicides from clambering over the guardrails.
Cosmic mysteries L. Lee Lowe 2009
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Daydreaming tiredly, I suddenly caught sight of hundreds of motley padlocks - without keys - attached to the wire mesh stretching well above reach and presumably meant to prevent would-be suicides from clambering over the guardrails.
Archive 2009-05-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009
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About an early ancestor in the mid-19th century, she says, after imagining that his parents lived in poverty: "The mother sits tiredly at her spinning wheel with a hank of tallowy grayish wool while the father puts on his green felt hat with the little red feather and trudges over to the Rathaus to hear the latest bad news."
Suzanne Berne's "Missing Lucile," reviewed by Carolyn See Carolyn See 2010
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Sebastian asked tiredly, plopping onto the couch and stretching his legs.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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