faint-heartedly

See also: faintheartedly

English

Etymology

faint-hearted +‎ -ly

Adverb

faint-heartedly (comparative more faint-heartedly, superlative most faint-heartedly)

  1. Alternative form of faintheartedly
    • 2010, H. Rider Haggard, Eric Brighteyes, →ISBN, page 181:
      Thence once more the crew came on with swords and axes, but faint-heartedly, and the end of it was that they lost some more men dead and wounded and fell back again.
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