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defeatedly

adv. With an appearance or attitude of defeat.

Usage examples of "defeatedly".

There wasn't anything, by now, that he had wanted to do to girls and hadn't gone ahead and done as Trish Shirt, among others, could defeatedly attest.

Down below them on the ground, a group of teenagers kicked aimlessly at the rubbish that had fallen from a skip, their shoulders hunched defensively, defeatedly, Claudia recognised.