Weakly
['wiːklɪ] or ['wikli]
Definition
(adv.) in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree; 'weakly agreed to a compromise'; 'wheezed weakly'; 'he was weakly attracted to her'.
Editor: Rosanne--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
(superl.) Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.
Editor: Luke
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Feeble, languid, weak, not strong.
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Examples
- I come back sadder and wiser; weakly enough, but not worried. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Only very slowly and weakly did Christianity restore that lost sense of community and teach men to rally about the idea of Christendom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mrs. Gradgrind meekly and weakly hoped that his mother— '_My_ mother? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Porter firmly by the arm and hurried the weakly protesting old gentleman off in the direction of Cape Town, fifteen hundred miles to the south. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But, with a final effort, as I sank weakly to my knees I hurled the nine thought waves at that awful thing before me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Everything went on, now that the strain of the conflict had ceased, rather laxly, rather weakly, and with a gusty and uncertain temper. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Eastward her power extended weakly into regions inhabited almost entirely by Russians; westward she overlapped a German subject population. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After weakly putting it off last night, I was obliged to speak to her this morning of Sir Percival's proposal about the wedding tour. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Old Sedley's quavering voice from the next room at this moment weakly called for Amelia, and the laughing ended. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I was weakly dismayed at the ignorance, the poverty, the coarseness of all I heard and saw round me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Like all other girls--weakly, selfish, shallow! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She did not behave weakly, or make herself in any shape ridiculous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He thinks, said the landlord, a weakly meditative man with a pale eye, who seemed to rely greatly on his Jack,--he thinks they was, what they wasn't. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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