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Mournfully

//ˈmɔɹnfəli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.

    "1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid "Why have not we an immortal soul?" asked the little mermaid mournfully; "I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.""

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a mournful manner wordnet

Etymology

From mournful + -ly.

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