Faint-heartedly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of faintheartedly. alt-of, alternative

    "Then once more the crew came on with swords and axes, but faint-heartedly, and the end of it was that they lost some more men dead and wounded and fell back again."

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"Then once more the crew came on with swords and axes, but faint-heartedly, and the end of it was that they lost some more men dead and wounded and fell back again."

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