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Feebly

Feebly \Fee"bly\, adv. In a feeble manner.

The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart.
--Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
feebly

late 13c., from feeble + -ly (2).

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feebly

adv. In a feeble manner.

WordNet
feebly
  1. adv. in a faint and feeble manner; "the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway"

  2. in a halting and feeble manner; "reform, in fact, is, rather feebly, on the win"

Usage examples of "feebly".

She soon came down with the pretty boarder, who feebly sustained my part in her amorous ecstacies.

The axillary artery was seen lying in the wound, pulsating feebly, but had been efficiently closed by the torsion of the machinery.

As he dances by, feebly whacking the drum, Berel hears Mutterperl hiss.

Mrs Biggs straightened up and went through to the gyp room to make coffee while Zipser shifted feebly in the chair.

It may be doubted, for instance, whether the Australian marsupials, which are divided into groups differing but little from each other, and feebly representing, as Mr.

Under their action, the tone of the system is greatly impaired, and it responds more feebly to the influence of curative agents.

Feebly she tried to help him as he tore at the lilies imprisoning her, finally rewarded when she slipped free of their deadly embrace.

Cleggett, straining to meet Loge, who hung sword to sword with Wilton Barnstable, saw Giuseppe Jones, deserted by his nurses, tumbling feebly over the bow of the Jasper B.

The Nebulons were already doing all they could, as Fourth Adventurer still reported feebly from time to time.

Milo and the chiefs reined up around Mole-Fur who sat beside the still unconscious Beti and snarled at the whimpering Pawl, straining to pull his leg from under his feebly twitching, almost-dead horse.

Those blades bit into the breast and belly of a Melted, who reeled, dropping or feebly hurling his sword, and fell.

Within the cab a smell of mustiness contended feebly with the sickening reek of a cigar which the man was forever refighting and which as often turned cold between his teeth.

He was feebly grappling with a Sevenpenny which he could neither hold nor read.

But then I remembered that it had died of paralysis and I felt that I too was smiling feebly as if to absolve the simoniac of his sin.

But then I remembered that it had died of paralysis and I felt that I too was smiling feebly, as if to absolve the simoniac of his sin.