Brokenly

adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a broken manner.

    "—Something I said, But faint and brokenly of former days, When in the paths of science and of hope, We walk'd, twin-hearted.—Then there came a peal Of vacant laughter from those bloated lips, And the swoll'n hand with trembling haste was stretch'd For friendship's grasp."

  2. 2
    with gaps between words so that normal flow or fluency is affected, as due to emotion; disjointedly.

    "It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly."

Etymology

From broken + -ly.

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