Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Longingly \Long"ing*ly\, adv.
With longing.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
adv. In a longing manner, with desire, yearningly.
WordNet
adv. in a yearning manner; "he spent the rest of the act gazing longingly over my right shoulder at the illuminated word `Exit'" [syn: with longing, yearningly]
Usage examples of "longingly".
The little incubator had been brought from the roof of our palace at request of Dejah Thoris and now she sat gazing longingly upon the unknown little life that now she would never know.
She hurried to the doorway, where she stopped, turned about, stared longingly at George, blushed, then disappeared into the foyer.
The girl obeyed, but her hand twitched longingly toward her knife as she approached.
Bart, looking longingly at the door through which Melodic had disappeared.
They were preceded by a jeep flying a red flag, and Porta looked at them longingly.
Lewellyn as Stillworth ushered them toward the rear of the vehicle, then looked longingly at the square of daylight far down the length of the garage.
In the stern was Mugambi, and just in front of him squatted Akut, while between Akut and Tarzan the twelve hairy apes sat upon their haunches, blinking dubiously this way and that, and now and then turning their eyes longingly back toward shore.
She thought longingly of the leftover arroz con pollo sitting home in her refrigerator.
And when the plants chattered among themselves, Attalea was always silent, thinking longingly how good it would be to stand under that sky, pallid and sickly though it was.
She thought longingly of La Casita, then remembered that Esskay was there alone.
The writer is an outsider, an observer, the kid peering longingly through the sweetshop window.
Even Jak Lauren, who was not normally a sturdy trencherman so early in the morning, devoured three helpings, wiping grease from his chin and looking longingly at the platter that crackled and spit over the open fire with more eggs.
Leah Brahms was hauled rudely to her feet, and she looked longingly at the soft bed she had just left.
Though Gurgi eyed the dells longingly, sniffing the smoke of cookfires wafting from the cottage chimneys, Taran did not turn from the path he had chosen.
He longingly recalled the charcoal smell of the hibachis and the laughter as the said bottles were passed from sampan to sampan when the fleet met and tied up together for the night.