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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
brokenly
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His body flopped brokenly from one strut to the next, cartwheeling ungainly to crump on the earth.
▪ The water spewed brokenly from its beak.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brokenly

Brokenly \Bro"ken*ly\, adv. In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.

The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal.
--Cudworth.

Wiktionary
brokenly

adv. 1 In a broken manner. 2 (context of speech English) With spaces between words, especially due to emotion.

Usage examples of "brokenly".

He just stared brokenly at the ground, silver whistle hanging from a corner of his mouth.

Jay saw little Robert sitting brokenly on the side of his sleeping-bag, head in his hands, not bothering to get dressed.

Through the night she slept heavily, and brokenly -- that was the bad sign -- but then she would sit up, take her medicine, say unrepeatable things to me and sleep again.

Second Fleet, Raymond Prescott sat still and silent on his flag bridge, eyes burning, as the survivors of Operation Pesthouse limped brokenly back into Centauri.

I have not supposed it would sprawl so brokenly, through villages and suburbs.

Crushed thirty feet upwards, the waters flashed for an instant like heaps of fountains, then brokenly sank in a shower of flakes, leaving the circling surface creamed like new milk round the marble trunk of the whale.