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weepingly

adverb as in sorrowfully

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Think of the word’s most famous uttering: Rhett Butler’s valedictory line to Scarlett O’Hara after she weepingly pleads: “If you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?”

This was one of their more extravagant performances in that they scored two but, if the perception is that games involving Saracens are weepingly tedious affairs, this did nothing to dispel the notion.

This has caused me to weepingly explain my geographical dissonance to a series of bemused but sympathetic strangers.

On the evening of the 17th of July, therefore, they weepingly escorted him to the gate of the Augustinian cloister within whose dark walls Luther now sought rest and peace for his soul.

My guest did not share my response, but I came home to my husband and weepingly told him about what I had been through watching the play.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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