abandonedly

Example Sentences

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I gazed admiringly at her—to see her sink suddenly into a chair and weep abandonedly!

From The Princess Elopes by MacGrath, Harold

And I have absolutely no valid, no sound, excuse to make but that I am like that!—I mean I am an abandonedly bad writer of letters and acknowledger of kindnesses.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

If I hadn’t loved Dinky-Dunk, fondly, foolishly, abandonedly, there would have been no little Dinkie and Poppsy and Pee-Wee.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.

But to be without praise, and therein essay our powers, must we live ill, yea so abandonedly and atrociously, that no one should know without detesting us?

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

In the first days of their love she had been his slave; she had admired him abandonedly.

From O Pioneers! by Cather, Willa Sibert