Inoperably

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In an inoperable manner. not-comparable

    "The cancer returned, this time inoperably, and within a month she was dead."

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"The cancer returned, this time inoperably, and within a month she was dead."

Etymology

From inoperable + -ly.

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