brokenly

English

Etymology

broken +‎ -ly

Adverb

brokenly (comparative more brokenly, superlative most brokenly)

In a broken manner.
(of speech) With spaces between words, especially due to emotion.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
  Upon which, you slink out, bathed in shame and confusion, and Upjohn thanks me brokenly and says if there is anything he can do for me, I have only to name it.

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