lacrimosely
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "“One cannot help hoping,” he lacrimosely and charitably adds, “that Mr. [Charles] Dickens, when he wrote these lines really believed what he was writing.”"
- "The several viewers of distinct Berlin character who interrupt the fairy-tale plot represent the ruling critics and taste of the day. Principal among them is Bötticher, in real life Karl August Böttiger, author of the much ridiculed theeatrical treatise Entwicklung des Ifflandischen Spieles in vierzehn Darstellungen auf dem Weimarschen Hoftheater im Aprilmonat 1796 (Leipzig 1797), in which he extols the well-made moralistic, often lacrimosely sentimental, social and family portraits by August Wilhelm Iffland, 1759–1814, the famous actor and playwright who directed the theatre at Mannheim (1785–92) and Berlin, beginning as guest performer (1796 on)."
- "In the Journal du Peuple, also in April [1923], [André] Breton wrote lacrimosely: J’ai quitté mes effets / mes beaux effets de neige. (I’ve stopped all my performances / my beautiful demonstrations in snow.)"
Etymology
From lacrimose + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more lacrimosely (comparative)
most lacrimosely (superlative)