resignedly


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re·signed

 (rĭ-zīnd′)
adj.
Feeling or marked by resignation; acquiescent: "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do" (Willa Cather).

re·sign′ed·ly (-zī′nĭd-lē) adv.
re·sign′ed·ness n.
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Adv.1.resignedly - with resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner; "resignedly, I telegraphed back that it was all right with me if he insisted"
2.resignedly - in a hopeless resigned mannerresignedly - in a hopeless resigned manner; "she shrugged her shoulders abjectly"
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Translations

resignedly

[rɪˈzaɪnɪdlɪ] ADVcon resignación
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resignedly

advresigniert
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resignedly

[rɪˈzaɪnɪdlɪ] advcon rassegnazione
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References in classic literature ?
Lecount smiled resignedly, and referred to her Draft.
Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie.
With a faint little sigh, Blanche dropped resignedly into one of the comfortable arm-chairs--and asked once more for "some poetry," in a voice that faltered softly, and with a color that was brighter than usual.
"All right," I said resignedly, "let the dream go on; I'm in no hurry."
"You're so used to a house without a baby you don't know how dull it is," sighed Rebecca resignedly, as she moved towards the door; "but at the farm there was always a nice fresh one to play with and cuddle.
As the clock struck two, she was there, and at four she turned resignedly away.
Archer and her son, having set forth their case, waited resignedly for the familiar phrase.
But he only bowed resignedly, with due respect to his wife's uncle, and observed that doubtless the works he mentioned had "served as a resource to a certain order of minds."
"I suppose it's got to be the same thing all over again," he declared resignedly. "You'll talk to me and let me be near you--and make a fool of me all round; and then you'll go away, and heaven knows when I'll see you again.
I learned to play at cricket, to hate rich people, to cure warts, to write Latin verses, to swim, to recite speeches, to cook kidneys on toast, to draw caricatures of the masters, to construe Greek plays, to black boots, and to receive kicks and serious advice resignedly. Who will say that the fashionable public school was of no use to me after that?
Even the officiating priest was only a harmless, humble-looking old man, who went through his duties resignedly, and felt visible rheumatic difficulties every time he bent his knees.
My traveling companion looks at me resignedly, with an expression of mild reproach.