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gratefully

ADVERB
appreciatively
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
rudely thanklessly unappreciatively ungratefully


Example Sentences

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And if your spouse needs cancer treatment in another city, you might want to relax your boundaries and accept a gift of financial help gratefully.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Your company is worth millions, so you have the luxury of choice, something you are acutely and, it seems, gratefully aware of.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

Munn gratefully reports that she is cancer-free, though with that gratitude, she said, comes a feeling that “I will be looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

They nod gratefully as a Polish humanitarian aid worker calls to them across a stretch of land as wide as a one-lane road and promises to help.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024

I brought him a half a dozen books on Jewish subjects that my father had suggested he read, and he thanked me for them gratefully.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok




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