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Resignedly

Resignedly \Re*sign"ed*ly\ (r[-e]*z[imac]n"[e^]d*l[y^]), adv. With submission.

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resignedly

adv. With resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner

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resignedly
  1. adv. with resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner; "resignedly, I telegraphed back that it was all right with me if he insisted"

  2. in a hopeless resigned manner; "she shrugged her shoulders abjectly" [syn: abjectly]

Usage examples of "resignedly".

Then the monk glanced back over his shoulder, to see Belster shaking his head resignedly, the barkeep knew what was coming.

So Punch hoisted his rucksack after them, and followed resignedly past four full compartments, and into the fifth, whither Peter beckoned them royally.

I resignedly dug in the freezer for something fast and unfattening and transferred it to the microwave oven, and I poured some red wine and drank it at a gulp.

But then, Caitlin thought resignedly as she pushed open the outer doors, she never was.

Throwing down his silver cloth, Waddy made a little grimace, then waddled resignedly across the room to admit Sizzeroo, Bamboula, Kachewka and a dozen or more courtiers, who had just discovered the Island was moving again.

So did Habby and Byram and Jerby, Habby and Byram resignedly, Jerby in tears.

Patrick Green, his one-time friend, had again invented information against him and delivered him to arrest with an approximation of a Judas kiss, but this time Sandy, with his family safe in England, had made no attempt to raise bail money, choosing instead to wait resignedly behind bars for the date of his trial.

Overheated coffee, overheated flesh, the cheap perfume hovering around a pair of working girls who lounged resignedly on a nearby bench.