Forebodingly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a foreboding manner.

    "But there were other nights, wild and stormy, when the moon had gone to another town and every star was dark side down, and when the wind, while she slept, had left the she-oaks by the river to moan forebodingly round the house."

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darkly

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"But there were other nights, wild and stormy, when the moon had gone to another town and every star was dark side down, and when the wind, while she slept, had left the she-oaks by the river to moan forebodingly round the house."

Etymology

From foreboding + -ly.

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