Heartbreakingly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb

1
In a heartbreaking manner
"They lost heartbreakingly, with an own goal in the last minute of the match."

Synonyms

agonizingly distressingly excruciatingly grievously painfully sadly

Example

"They lost heartbreakingly, with an own goal in the last minute of the match."

Etymology

From heartbreaking + -ly.

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